Date: May 19, 2026
Time: 12:00-1:30pm PT

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Many executive coaches leverage assessments to kick off, enhance, or accelerate an engagement. They’re expected, or even required, by coaching buyers on behalf of organizations investing in their personnel. However, ICF competencies focus on how coaching is conducted (ethics, presence, and conversation), not on specific tools or frameworks. In this panel, established executive coaches will share how they thoughtfully balance the art of coaching with the judicious use of assessment tools during organization-sponsored coaching engagements.

You’ll leave with:

- Wider perspectives on why and how assessments are used in executive coaching contexts
- Greater comfort with nuance, tradeoffs, and navigating inherited norms
- Less fear around choosing "the right assessment"
- Inspiration to try different approaches, assessments, and conversations
- More confidence in assessing which assessments suit you, your client, and the context

This is a live, moderated panel discussion featuring established executive coaches, with time for audience Q&A.

While expert-led, this is not a training, certification, or comprehensive assessment overview. Panelists will share personal experience and professional judgment, not prescriptions or endorsements.

About Your Speaker

Frankie Berkoben (she/her) is a PhD dropout and leadership coach with a background in ADHD coaching and engineering consulting. She works with gifted (and/or otherwise neurodivergent) leaders in tech to build lives that work WITH their brains and to level up without burning out. 

She is a sought-after speaker providing keynotes and workshops on neurodiversity and professional development. Recent appearances have included Fortune500 ERGs, top management consulting firms, Nobel-prize-winning research labs and conferences including Women in Product, the International Conference on ADHD (4 years running) and the Stanford Neurodiversity Summit, as well as coaching-specific organizations such as the ADHD Coaches Organization and ICF.

In addition to 1:1 coaching, she contracts with workplaces to deliver the “Building Your Authentic ADHD Life” group coaching series, applying iterative development and design thinking to self-advocacy: building rich support ecosystems for all.

www.linkedin.com/in/frankieberkoben
www.franklyquiteadhd.com