In a world where disruption has become the norm, the coaching profession stands at a critical juncture. This workshop explores an underutilized concept: Productive Uncertainty—the deliberate harnessing of ambiguity and self-doubt as tools for transformative change. Rather than seeking safety in certainty or trying to “overcome” impostor syndrome, this session invites both coaches and clients to inhabit the discomfort of the unknown, recognizing it as fertile ground for innovation and deep personal growth.
We’ll examine the paradoxical power of uncertainty: how it dismantles our illusions of control, challenges the comfort of familiar norms, and invites us to confront our deepest vulnerabilities. Within this space, coaches and clients have the opportunity to break through limiting beliefs, transcend habitual thought patterns, and embrace new perspectives. Through guided facilitation, participants will explore advanced techniques for navigating these disruptions, learning how to convert the fear of the unknown into a strategic advantage and a wellspring of creativity. This session is designed for those ready to move beyond surface-level solutions and engage in a coaching practice that embraces complexity, builds resilience, and ignites true transformation.
Tangible Takeaways
Reframing Uncertainty as Opportunity Participants will engage with frameworks that reframe uncertainty—from something to be feared into a powerful catalyst for creative problem-solving and personal evolution. Transforming Impostor Syndrome This workshop offers a radical approach to impostor syndrome, seeing it not as a barrier to overcome, but as a mirror that reflects deeper truths about our potential and limitations. This approach prompts genuine self-inquiry and growth, shifting the perspective on self-doubt. Advanced Disruption Techniques Coaches will leave with advanced strategies for disrupting entrenched thought patterns in their clients, fostering a coaching environment that challenges the status quo and enables profound transformation.
Transformational & Personal Development Coaching: This session empowers coaches to push beyond surface-level techniques, facilitating profound, lasting change by transforming clients’ relationships with uncertainty and impostor syndrome. By embracing these challenges as opportunities for self-discovery and growth, coaches can guide clients through profound personal transformation.
Leadership & Executive Coaching: Equip leaders with the skills to navigate and thrive in disruptive, uncertain environments. By redefining their relationship with self-doubt and ambiguity, leaders can turn these elements into strategic advantages, driving innovation and resilience within their organizations.
High-Performance & Team Coaching: This approach fosters resilience and creativity in individuals and teams operating in high-stakes, high-uncertainty environments. It cultivates an adaptive mindset, allowing teams and high performers to not only cope with disruption but also leverage it as a constant source of growth and innovation.
How the workshop addresses the checked ICF Core Competencies Addressed: Maintains Presence: This workshop emphasizes the importance of staying fully engaged and present during coaching sessions, particularly when navigating the complexities of uncertainty and impostor syndrome. Coaches will learn techniques to maintain their presence even when both they and their clients face discomfort and ambiguity, turning these challenges into moments of potential.
Cultivates Trust and Safety: By addressing deep-seated issues like impostor syndrome and embracing uncertainty, the session provides coaches with the tools to create a safe and trusting environment. This competency is vital as clients must feel secure in expressing their vulnerabilities, which is essential for transformative growth.
Evokes Awareness: The workshop focuses on helping coaches evoke a deeper awareness in their clients by exploring the intersection of uncertainty and self-doubt. Coaches will gain strategies to help clients recognize and understand their limiting beliefs, leading to more profound insights and breakthroughs.
Facilitates Client Growth: By reframing uncertainty and impostor syndrome as catalysts for growth, this session equips coaches with the ability to help clients turn these challenges into opportunities for significant personal and professional development. This competency is key in ensuring that the coaching process leads to tangible, transformative outcomes for clients.
About Divya and Vahbiz:
Divya Parekh is a credentialed global executive and leadership coach with over 20 years of experience in academia, the biopharmaceutical industry, and corporate organizations. She is dedicated to helping professionals and organizations uncover their "Why" and achieve transformational leadership. Drawing from her extensive background, including managing multi-million-dollar contracts and working with startups, Fortune 500, and Fortune 50 companies, Divya has mastered the art of guiding individuals, teams, and organizations through complex challenges.
Her coaching focuses on cultivating mutual trust, fostering connectivity, and aligning stakeholders to achieve impactful results. Divya’s approach centers on authenticity, neuro-leadership, mindfulness, and storytelling, helping leaders and organizations create value-based differentiators, grow beyond their limitations, and gain visibility as trusted, influential figures.
She regularly contributes to Forbes and CEO World Magazine and is the bestselling author of many leadership books, including Expert to Influencer, Leadership and Influence, Stress Management, and Mindfulness Mastery. In 2024, Thinkers50 recognized Divya as one of the top 50 coaches in the world.
Featured among the Top 20 coaches in North Carolina, Vahbiz is an internationally credentialed leadership coach, facilitator, and career consultant for healthcare and STEM industries. Her coaching philosophy is fueled by a deep commitment to nurturing self-awareness, fostering a growth mindset, and driving sustainable results for individuals and organizations.
As a former biomedical research professional and now, the founder of Living Your Best Coaching, LLC, Vahbiz brings a wealth of expertise from her research, business and organizational development experience to help her clients live their best lives, personally and professionally.
Vahbiz has served on the Board of Directors for the International Coaching Federation (ICF) Raleigh Area Chapter and contributes to the global ICF leadership community. She is also a coach trainer and an ICF mentor coach.
Vahbiz is an avid practitioner of yoga and martial arts. She loves making new connections, exploring new hobbies and constantly learning.