
AC UAE Conference Performance. Culture. Mastery.
7 September 2023 | Fairmont Bab Al Bahr, Abu Dhabi
Join us for the Association for Coaching’s (AC) first Coaching in the Workplace conference in the UAE.
Learn and experience the latest approach to leadership from one of the world’s largest coaching professional bodies.
Register nowThe Association for Coaching (AC) brings you our UAE Leadership and Coaching Conference connecting business leaders, Internal Coaches, HR, and Talent Professionals, and Executive and Team Coaches to enable greater performance, engagement, and mastery through leading-edge workplace coaching.
Abu Dhabi
Leadership Excellence at your fingertips
The event will inspire and promote increased business performance through the power of coaching, bringing you the latest thinking and best practice around high quality coaching to drive culture and equip leaders and their teams to thrive.

100+
delegates

9 exciting sessions
across three conference themes

8+ hours
of Continuous Professional Development

The premier leadership coaching event of 2023
In today’s world, coaching in the workplace has a key role to play. The AC is the leading, not-for-profit, global professional coaching body, bringing you this relevant and insightful workplace conference of 2023, to demonstrate the impact of how coaching can have a greater rippling effect in business and society.

Debbie Simister
Global Vice President Talent Management – Sofitel, MGallery & Emblems at Accor

Dr. Caroline Richardson
Executive Coach, Mediator, Consultant Surgeon

Jonathan Griffin
Consultant Health Coach & Lifestyle Medicine Professional

Katherine Tulpa
Global CEO, The Association for Coaching & Executive Director, Wisdom8

Alex Verlek
Mastercoach, CPCC, Facilitator

Maryam AL Zaabi
Career Coach for Young Emiratis

Paul Berry
Leadership Experience Lead at Emirates

1st Lt. Alia Waheed Alsarkal
Director of Learning Branch, Sharjah Police

Abdulsattar Aboulola
Executive Vice President Business Development at DNA GCC, Executive Trainer, Coach, & Business Consultant

Leading with a Coach Approach
- What does it mean to take a ‘coach approach’ in your organization?
- Leader Coach Fireside Chat - Interview Panel
- Leading with a Coach Approach: Embed coaching into your leadership style

Building Coaching Capability & Culture
- Developing and enhancing coaching capabilities: Creating an internal coaching network
- Case Study: Building and integrating coaching cultures
- Coaching for Wellbeing: Coaching in the workplace and how this is impacted by lifestyle and cultural differences

Executive Coaching - Excellence & Mastery
- Coaching for Excellence in the workplace
- Developing your Executive Coaching practice
- Coaching Mastery and Professional Reflective Practice
The Association for Coaching (AC) is a leading non-profit, international professional body dedicated to excellence, mastery and ethics in coaching. Our vision is to advance the knowledge and practice of coaching, and promote the coach approach in business so that coaching ‘ripples’ as a key enabler for greater performance, responsibility and success.
With members in over 85 countries, our vibrant, diverse community is made up of professional coaches, leader coaches, executive & team coaches, training and service providers, educators, coach supervisors, internal coaches and organizations building coaching cultures. In today’s virtual world, we believe coaching has a key role to play to ignite greater dialogue, compassion and human connection in the workplace, and society.