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An interactive MasterClass exploring how evidence from Positive Psychology can deepen executive coaching, expand awareness and choice, and support sustainable leadership change. The session combines evidence-based insights, practical application, reflection, and a live coaching demonstration.

What transforms a good coaching conversation into one that creates meaningful, sustainable change?

In this interactive MasterClass, Katherina Capra, MCC, explores how evidence from Positive Psychology can deepen executive coaching and strengthen the conditions for lasting leadership growth.

Moving beyond simply adding more tools to the coaching toolkit, participants will explore how evidence-based principles can help coaches deepen awareness, expand choice, and translate insight into meaningful action and impact.

Through practical applications, executive coaching examples, reflection, and a live coaching demonstration, participants will experience how these principles come alive in the coaching conversation.

Designed for coaches who want to elevate both the depth and impact of their practice, this session bridges science and coaching mastery—inviting participants to consider not only what works, but when, why, and how an intervention can support sustainable change.

Earn 1.25 Core Competency & 0.25 Resource Development CCEU

By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Identify evidence-based Positive Psychology principles that can enhance executive and leadership coaching without becoming prescriptive or shifting from coaching into advising.

• Apply strengths-based and resource-oriented approaches to deepen client awareness, broaden perspective, and uncover possibilities while maintaining client autonomy.

• Recognize when an intervention, question, reflection, or intentional pause may deepen the coaching conversation—and when not intervening may better serve the client.

• Practice listening beyond the presenting issue to notice patterns, strengths, emotions, assumptions, values, and emerging possibilities.

• Explore how awareness can be translated into intentional choice, meaningful action, and sustainable client growth.

The session will combine evidence-based concepts, executive coaching examples, participant reflection, practical application, and a live coaching demonstration followed by a facilitated debrief.

ICF Core Competencies Applied

The session will primarily support development in:

4. Cultivates Trust and Safety — creating conditions that enable openness, exploration, and client autonomy.

5. Maintains Presence — remaining responsive, curious, and flexible rather than relying mechanically on tools or predetermined interventions.

6. Listens Actively — attending to the client’s words, emotions, values, beliefs, patterns, strengths, and shifts in energy.

7. Evokes Awareness — using questions, observations, reflections, and evidence-informed approaches to invite new perspectives, insights, and possibilities.

8. Facilitates Client Growth — partnering with clients to transform awareness and insight into personally meaningful choices, actions, and sustainable change.

Throughout the session, Positive Psychology will be presented as an evidence-informed lens that can support coaching mastery—not as a prescriptive set of solutions—while maintaining the client-centered nature of the coaching relationship.

About the Speaker: Katherina Capra, MSc, MCC

Katherina Capra, MSc, MCC, is an Executive and Team Coach, leadership development expert, and Positive Psychology practitioner with more than 4,000 hours of coaching experience.

She works with senior leaders and executives across global organizations, including Fortune 100/500 companies, supporting leadership growth, organizational transformation, executive presence, resilience, and sustainable performance. Her experience spans technology, financial services, healthcare, consulting, and other complex global environments.

With a background in economics, business leadership, and organizational development, Katherina brings a distinctive combination of evidence-based practice, business perspective, and human-centered coaching to her work.

She is the Founder of Unity Grow and serves as Vice President of Wellbeing for ICF South Florida. Her work focuses on translating evidence from Positive Psychology and behavioral science into practical approaches that deepen awareness, expand choice, and create meaningful leadership impact.