Yannick's Coaching Lab

WELCOME TO YANNICK'S COACHING LAB!

Be a fly on the wall for a live 45min coaching demo, followed by a debrief, Q&A and conversations with the coach and client, and a chance to practice and experiment in triads in breakout rooms afterwards. You'll get to learn from interesting and experienced practitioners, connect with other coaches and generally have some fun and experiment in a safe and confidential environment.

FEATURED COACH

I've had the privilege to hear Ade reflect on his coaching work on a number of occasions, and each time I was struck by his awareness, care, professionalism, and ability to notice things that others are often blind to. His way of being is inspiring, his style is memorable, and I'm excited to finally get to see him live with a client. I hope you can join us!

BIO & APPROACH

Adé Adeniji is an Executive Coach, Group Facilitator, and Organisation Consultant known for his presence-based, systemic, and deeply human approach to transformation. He is an EMCC Senior Practitioner, Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator (Brené Brown), and trained in Family Constellations. With over 25 years’ experience in human resources and leadership development, Adé brings a blend of strategic insight, relational intelligence, and embodied practice. His clients span a wide range of organisations, including BBC, Wellcome Trust, Criminal Justice Alliance, eHealth Africa, PwC, Siemens, and Netflix. Adé has an academic background in law, an MSc in Human Resources, and Diplomas in Group Facilitation, Counselling Skills and Conflict Resolution. He trained as a mediator and is a Chartered Member of the CIPD and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
As a practitioner, Adé adopts a holistic and integrative approach, working with individuals, teams, and organisations to surface unspoken dynamics and cultivate conscious, courageous conversations. His work attends to the personal, relational, and systemic dimensions of human experience, making the implicit explicit in service of clarity, connection, and repair. He integrates mindfulness, embodied centering, creativity, and systemic mapping into his practice, supporting clients to navigate complexity with groundedness and compassion.
Deeply committed to the principles of healing justice, Adé advocates for individual and collective healing as essential to social transformation. He is known for creating spaces that honour thresholds and transitions — the bittersweetness of growth.

WELCOME TO YANNICK'S COACHING LAB!

Be a fly on the wall for a live 45min coaching demo, followed by a debrief, Q&A and conversations with the coach and client, and a chance to practice and experiment in triads in breakout rooms afterwards. You'll get to learn from interesting and experienced practitioners, connect with other coaches and generally have some fun and experiment in a safe and confidential environment.

FEATURED COACH

I'm a big fan of Nelly as a person. I came to be inspired often by the way she engages coaching as a practice. And when I first heard her talk about "Coaching with speculative fiction", knowing her love for metaphor, literature, science fiction, and all sorts of high level nerdiness, I knew I wanted to see this in the Lab. In our October Lab we finally get to see her in action, and I can't wait to be a fly on the wall! In her words: "What if the worlds we love, like Star Trek, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, or X-Men, could become more than stories we consume? What if they could become mirrors, metaphors, and uncharted space for how we make meaning, imagine radically new possibilities, explore and express our values, take on new roles, or face our fears in an utterly safe space?" If this resonates with you, you will not want to miss this Lab!

BIO & APPROACH

Dr. Nelly Nguyen, PCC, is a learning design and innovation strategist. She partners with organizations, teams, leaders, and communities to create safe, playful, and reflective spaces that cultivate the systems, processes, practices, mindsets, and literacies required for the paradigm shift toward sustainable collective flourishing.
As a gifted polymath and systems thinker, Nell works particularly with visionary leaders, gifted individuals, multipotentialites, Third Culture Kids, and others who sense that conventional frameworks do not fully capture their complex and layered processing style and who thrive in creative, purpose-driven environments.
Drawing on her academic background and senior leadership experience across industry and education, her work integrates patterns across the sciences, wisdom traditions, and business innovation. Her interventions are informed by learning science, positive psychology, sports analogies, universal wisdom, and play.
She is known for her inclusive, interdisciplinary work; her exceptional ability to facilitate creativity and innovation at a strategic level; her ICF-accredited Science to Skill Coach Training program; and her pioneering “coaching with speculative fiction” approach.
She is the founder of Applied Life, a network of professionals bridging science into meaningful practice for systemic change. She creates impact through consulting, executive education, learning design, coaching, and writing. She is the author of the forthcoming books The Lotus of Thriving (with Prof. Dr. Christian van Nieuwerburgh and Dr. Diego Hangartner) and Science-Fiction Saved My Soul. Her Good Life Dojo invites others to approach ethical and wise living through the lightness of play.

More about Coaching with Speculative Fiction:
Coaching with speculative fiction is a creative, story-based approach that combines the imaginative freedom of the arts with the meaning-making power of narrative. Rather than treating science fiction or fantasy as escapism, it invites clients to step into a safe, playful distance from everyday constraints and ask, “What if…?”
Coaching becomes the bridge that helps clients move from being bystanders or consumers of stories to becoming creators of the journeys ahead. In this reflective space, imagined worlds function as a contained environment for exploration, where ideas can be tested, narratives reshaped, and alternative futures envisioned with intention.
Coaching with speculative fiction can transcend dualistic thinking and biases more easily than conventional cognitive methods. It strengthens mental flexibility, critical and systems thinking, creativity, and perspective-taking. It opens space for bold ideas, especially for executives navigating complexity and for marginalised or underrepresented individuals to experience positive mirroring and self-actualisation.
Through metaphor, narrative exploration, guided reflection, and original “worldplay,” clients access intuitive resources and rediscover what remains uniquely human even as AI advances: the capacity to imagine, make meaning, wrestle with ethical questions, and consciously shape the future they want to create.