Breaking the Inertia of Success: Learning Before the Loss
This new six‑part series, Sustained Excellence through Adaptive Leaders, equips coaches to work with clients who are navigating constant change, heightened expectations, and the pressure to perform without a pause. Each session builds on the last, giving ICF‑credentialed and credential‑track coaches a clear developmental arc they can follow across the season.
We’re opening the series with a skill that meets the moment: a Core Competency‑aligned capability you can use with a client this week. Because Core Competency CCEs are the hardest to find, this event gives coaches—ACC, PCC, MCC, and those on the path—an immediate, high‑value opportunity to strengthen their practice while supporting leaders who must adapt faster than the environments around them.
This is the starting point for a season designed to help coaches cultivate resilience, agility, and sustained excellence in the people they serve.
Session 1: Sustained Excellence through Adaptive Leaders: Principles for Everyday Coaching Practice
The steady state is gone. AI is compressing the clock on whole industries, policy is shifting at every level, and the ground moves under a decision before it is finished being made. The leaders our members coach can no longer settle into a stable place to lead from, and the ones who get comfortable are the ones a faster competitor passes while they settle in. This session teaches a coaching skill built for exactly that pressure: helping a leader stay alert to weak signals precisely when things are going well, before success quietly narrows their attention. Grounded in high-reliability research and delivered as everyday coaching practice, the hour centers on a live coaching demonstration and hands-on practice you can use with a client the same week. It opens a six-part series, Sustained Excellence through Adaptive Leaders.
Learning objectives
1. Evoke awareness by forming questions that surface weak signals at the edges of a client’s operational environment, before they become problems. (Core Competency: Evokes Awareness)
2. Maintain presence and listen for a client’s internal signals, the felt cues experience has trained them to explain away. (Core Competency: Maintains Presence; Listens Actively)
3. Help a client convert a recent near-miss into transferable learning while it is still fresh. (Core Competency: Facilitates Client Growth)
4. Apply a coaching mindset that treats client success as a prompt for deeper inquiry rather than reduced scrutiny. (Core Competency: Embodies a Coaching Mindset)
Earn CCEUS: .75 Core & .25 RD
Pricing: Free for all members, $20 for non-members
Meet the Host
Scott Drexler, PhD, ACC
Scott is a pracademic, an award-winning researcher and leadership coach working at the intersection of coaching, high-reliability organization (HRO) science, and extreme-context leadership. A retired U.S. Navy SEAL and a Federal Internal Coach, he has spent his career leading under pressure most organizations never face, from the battlefield to directing national-scale federal emergency response, and now coaches leaders who operate in that same permanent instability. He holds a PhD in organizational leadership, publishes on coaching in high-stakes environments, is the founder of Spearpoint Performance Institute, and serves on the ICF Georgia board.
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