About AC Fellow Pop-up Sessions

AC Fellow Pop-up Sessions provide a rich and flexible platform for Fellow Members to connect around shared curiosities and exchange dialogue relating to a core question.

Each Fellow Pop-up Session is free from selling, self-promotion, and lecture-style presentations and are facilitated by an AC Fellow Guest from the AC Fellow Membership community, they provide an opportunity for:

• Knowledge exchange and creation
• Fellow global network development
• Growing and inspiring the Fellow community as well as your own coaching practice
• Shared leadership approach, using complex adaptive systems such as emergence, interconnectedness and growth
• Other initiatives from discussions.
  

Core Question for this AC Fellow Pop-up Session

What is a coaching philosophy and why might we want to have one?

AC Fellow Guest

Geoffrey Abbott, is the AC APAC Fellow Lead, Director at InterCoach and Adjunct Professor at the QUT Graduate School of Business

Geoff is an experienced international coach, educator, speaker, and writer. Known for his energy-based approach to coaching, Geoff helps leaders and teams navigate complexity and embrace paradoxical thinking. He’s currently developing the VIBE integrated coaching system. His preferred coaching mode is ‘serious play’.

With extensive experience across sectors like government, automotive, mining, education, defense, and media, Geoff’s academic focus is on helping people flourish in messy organizational contexts. As an Adjunct Professor at the QUT Graduate School of Business, he teaches leadership, systems thinking, team dynamics, and personal development—essentially, how to survive and thrive in the real world. His pioneering doctoral research on intercultural coaching continues to inform his work.

Geoff is a Lead Fellow of the Association for Coaching, a member of the Editorial Board of Coaching Perspectives, and serves on the editorial boards of two academic coaching journals. He splits his time between Brisbane and Panama, where he enjoys cycling, golf, travel, and improving his Spanish. 

How to Book

This core question will runover two sessions, with the first taking place in July and the second taking place in August, please book on individually for each session. Please login to your AC account and follow the registration process. AC Fellow Pop-up Sessions are open to AC Fellow Members only and are complimentary sessions. You will be sent the zoom link within your registration. 

Interested in being an AC Fellow Guest?

If you are an AC Fellow Member and have a core question or emergent theme you would like to discuss with the global Fellow Community or have attended a Pop-up Session and have a spin-off Pop-up session idea please email us Fellow@associationforcoaching.com

Not a Member of the AC yet?  Please click on here to find out more.

For any questions about this event, please contact: Fellow Coordinator, Fellow@associationforcoaching.com