Brenda Baird, MCC and former ICFTN Chapter President, joins the podcast to talk about her path from organizational development into a decade-plus career as an executive leadership coach.

Brenda shares how a cut budget for external coaches led her to IPEC in 2015, and how that training changed the way she worked through stress in her corporate role. She talks about the milestones that shifted her focus from individual clients to building the next generation of coaches: earning her MCC, serving as chapter president, and directing education at the University of Tennessee's coach training program.

We also get into the current disruption in coaching, especially around AI, and why Brenda sees the ICF community as central to helping coaches adapt without losing what makes the work valuable. She reflects on her time leading ICFTN, including t ...