Core Competencies Fall Summit 2026
with Adriana Rodríguez, MCC, ESIA MS/MA
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2026 • 12:00 PM
Beyond Emotional Awareness: From Emotional Regulation to Conscious Leadership and Collective Wellbeing
Recognizing emotions is essential—but awareness alone does not transform leadership.
What happens when leaders understand their emotions yet continue reacting under pressure in ways that affect trust, communication, and collaboration?
Join Adriana Rodríguez, MCC, for an interactive exploration of the transition from emotional awareness to intentional regulation, conscious leadership, and collective wellbeing.
Drawing on emotional intelligence, systemic thinking, and professional coaching principles, this session explores how emotional patterns shape leadership behavior and influence the people around us.
Participants will discover how coaching conversations can help clients recognize automatic reactions, expand their capacity for intentional choice, and develop more constructive ways of engaging with others.
Through practical examples and reflective inquiry, coaches will gain new perspectives on supporting emotional awareness, conscious leadership, and sustainable behavioral change.
Learning Objectives tied to Core Competencies
By the end of this 60-minute educational webinar, participants will be able to:
- Differentiate emotional awareness from emotional regulation and identify how both can be explored within professional coaching.
- Recognize patterns of emotional reactivity and examine how these patterns may influence leadership behavior, communication, and relationships.
- Demonstrate coaching questions that help clients explore the space between emotional triggers, automatic responses, and intentional choices.
- Apply a systemic perspective to explore the relationship between a leader's emotional responses, interpersonal dynamics, and collective wellbeing.
- Partner with clients to design self-directed behavioral experiments and reflective practices that support sustainable leadership development.
Specific Subjects Covered
- Emotional awareness versus emotional regulation: recognizing feelings, understanding emotional patterns, and expanding response options.
- Emotional triggers and automatic leadership reactions under pressure.
- Conscious leadership: moving from emotional reactivity toward intentional choices.
- The relational and systemic impact of leadership behaviors.
- Coaching approaches that support emotional awareness, client autonomy, and sustainable behavioral change.
ICF Core Competencies Applied
- CC2 — Embodies a Coaching Mindset: Practicing self-awareness, emotional reflection, and openness.
- CC4 — Cultivates Trust and Safety: Creating conditions for clients to explore emotions without judgment.
- CC5 — Maintains Presence: Remaining grounded and responsive during emotionally charged conversations.
- CC6 — Listens Actively: Attending to emotional expressions, patterns, and relational context.
- CC7 — Evokes Awareness: Helping clients examine assumptions, automatic reactions, and alternative perspectives.
- CC8 — Facilitates Client Growth: Partnering with clients to translate emotional insights into intentional behavior and learning.
Coach-Specific Training and Skill Development
- Participants will engage in coaching case analysis, reflective exercises, and practical demonstrations of inquiry that support emotional awareness and client-led choices.
- The session will emphasize the distinction between observing emotional patterns and interpreting or diagnosing them. Coaches will practice developing questions that foster awareness, explore relational consequences, and support client-defined actions.
- The training strengthens the application of ICF Core Competencies in leadership coaching while maintaining appropriate boundaries between coaching, emotional skills education, and therapeutic interventions.
About the Speaker: Adriana Rodríguez, MCC, ESIA MS/MA
Adriana Rodríguez, MCC, ESIA MS/MA is an executive coach, conscious leadership expert, and organizational transformation partner at Unity Grow.
With over three decades of experience advising senior executives and leadership teams, Adriana specializes in conscious leadership development, systemic transformation, and organizational wellbeing.
She holds a Master's degree in Organizational Human Development, the International Coaching Federation's Master Certified Coach (MCC) credential, and a specialization in Positive Psychology.
Adriana has designed and implemented systemic change initiatives for multinational corporations and governmental organizations, supporting large-scale cultural transformations across Latin America and Europe.
Her approach combines executive coaching, emotional intelligence, systemic thinking, and conscious leadership to strengthen self-awareness, emotional regulation, accountability, and organizational alignment.
She is passionate about helping leaders translate awareness into intentional action, fostering trust, healthier relationships, collective wellbeing, and sustainable organizational performance.