Dear colleagues,
If you are interested in professional development, effective communication, transformative learning, and workplace wellbeing - join us for the PDW on storytelling in coaching!
Storytelling in Coaching: Communicating Challenges in Professional Settings (#12783)
Date: Saturday, August 1, 2026,
Time: 8:30AM - 10:00AM ET
Place: Convention Center, Level 100, Room 105A
This PDW explores deeper questions about the importance and use of stories in the workplace to invite self-expression and address constraining norms and perspectives. We will focus on how coaches work with narratives to help professionals navigate difficult, emotionally challenging, and personal issues. We hope that you'll leave with insights, fresh ideas, and coaching tools for your research, teaching, and professional practice.
Highlights
- Gain insights from research on storytelling in coaching
- Analyze a video-recorded transformative conversation
- Learn from leading coaching scholars-practitioners
Panelists
Angela M. Passarelli
Associate Professor of the Practice, Duke University. Founding Fellow of the Coaching Research Lab at Case Western Reserve University; Former Chair of the Scientific Advisory Council at the Institute of Coaching (McLean/Harvard Medical School); Board-Certified Coach.
Scott N. Taylor
Professor of Organizational Behavior and Arthur M. Blank Endowed Chair for Values-Based Leadership, Babson College; Research Fellow with the Coaching Research Lab at Case Western Reserve University; core member of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations (CREIO).
Ellen B. Van Oosten
Professor of Organizational Behavior and Faculty Director of Executive Education, Case Western Reserve University; Director of the Coaching Research Lab, Board Certified Coach (BCC) and Associate Certified Coach (ICF-ACC).
Organizers
Olga Abreu Fernandes, S.R.Aurora, and Xandra Okori
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
No registration is required (but please let us know if you are coming through the AOM 2026 program, Session # 12783).
Welcome!
Summer greetings,
Olga
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Olga Abreu Fernandes
Postdoctoral researcher
Department of Management
Robert C. Vackar College of Business and Entrepreneurship
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
olga.fernandes@utrgv.edu
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Olga Abreu Fernandes
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
McAllen TX
(+1)9832084667
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