Core Competencies Summit with Katya Talavera de Ward, PCC, ACTC

Beyond 1:1: Bringing the ICF Core to Team Coaching

This session offers a practical, systemic perspective on using the 8 ICF Core Competencies in team coaching—where the client is the team. We’ll show how the Core shows up with teams and clarify what the Team Coaching Competencies add: multi-stakeholder agreements, a team alliance, systemic listening, in-the-moment pattern work, supervision, and the role of a co-coach. We’ll also explore when and why to work with a co-coach—expanded system sensing, parallel processing, stronger psychological safety, real-time bias-checking, and clearer boundary calls—so the team owns its learning and results.

We’ll close with an at-a-glance view of the ACTC credential—and share the simple preparation approach I used, so you can adapt it to your context.

Learning Objectives tied to Core Competencies:
Describe how the 8 ICF Core Competencies apply when the client is the team.
Describe and begin to identify three core TCC distinctions—(1) all-party contracting and the team alliance, (2) systemic listening, and (3) naming patterns in the moment—and specify where to practice each next in your work.
Make a basic boundary call (coaching vs facilitation/training/consulting) and re-center on coaching.
Outline first steps toward ACTC readiness using Katya’s preparation approach.

Specific Subjects Covered (coach behaviors & skills)
Core?Team overview for all 8 Core Competencies (what stays the same / what changes).
TCC highlights: all-party contracting & team alliance, systemic listening, in-the-moment pattern work, supervision, co-coach roles/advantages.
Boundary management: naming non-coaching moves and returning to the coaching spine.
ACTC starter pack: evidence, application paths at a glance, exam focus, starter plan.
Brief reflective exercise (5–7 minutes) to spot one Core?Team move and one TCC distinction.
ICF Core Competencies Applied (alignment evidence)

Ethical Practice: multi-stakeholder confidentiality; data/visibility agreements.
Coaching Mindset: reflective practice; use of supervision.
Establishes & Maintains Agreements: all-party contracting; team alliance & decision rights.
Cultivates Trust & Safety: conditions for every voice; co-designed repair norms.
Maintains Presence: working in/above dialogue; pausing to name patterns.
Listens Actively: systemic listening for roles/alliances/history/identity.
Evokes Awareness: mirroring team patterns; brief in-the-moment retrospectives.
Facilitates Client Growth: team-owned actions and cadence; sponsor alignment.
Evidence This Training Meets ICF Criteria

Coach-specific: All content targets coaching behaviors in team contexts; no leadership training or consulting frameworks are taught.
Related to the Core: Every segment explicitly maps to the 8 ICF Core Competencies and notes TCC additions.
Skill development: Participants complete one brief reflective exercise to begin applying the Core?Team lens; as an introductory session, practice is limited to awareness-building and identifying next steps.

About the Speaker: Katya Talavera de Ward, PCC, ACTC

Katya Talavera de Ward, PCC, ACTC — Talent Strategist • Headhunter • Leadership Coach • Systemic Team Coach

Katya brings a systemic lens to coaching, where the client is the team and purpose guides performance. A clinical psychologist, who also holds master’s degrees in Organizational Change, Human Talent Management, and an MBA. With 30+ years of experience—and 21 leading Talavera & Asociados—she helps organizations align culture with strategy to build teams that add value.

Her corporate background includes leadership roles in Oil & Gas in Bolivia and the UK, partnering with HR and External Affairs on stakeholder engagement and culture change in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.

She holds ICF PCC and ACTC credentials; completed Breakthrough Coaching (Levels 1–3) with Marcia Reynolds; and three levels of Systemic Team Coaching with Peter Hawkins, earning Senior Practitioner (Level 3). Katya is faculty with Renewal Associates (with Coaching.com) and is currently preparing for her MCC.

In “Beyond 1:1: Bringing the ICF Core to Team Coaching,” she maps the 8 ICF Core Competencies to team practice, clarifies what the Team Coaching Competencies add—including the value of a co-coach—and shares a practical path to ACTC based on her own preparation.