Core Competencies Spring Summit 2026
with Dana Benarroch & Katy Cuartas
Date: Friday, April 10, 2026 | 12:00 PM
Leader Wellbeing as a Systemic Lever for Organizational Health: An Integral Coaching Perspective
This session explores how leaders’ integral wellbeing functions as a key lever for organizational health and sustainability. The conversation focuses on leadership as a vital part of the system and on how a leader’s internal and external balance influences decision-making, relationships, team dynamics, and organizational culture.
From an integral and systemic coaching perspective, the session examines how leaders’ physical, emotional, relational, intellectual, and spiritual wellbeing shapes the way they lead in complex and demanding contexts. Through real observations and recurring patterns identified in coaching work, participants will reflect on the tensions leaders face when trying to sustain their performance while caring for themselves and others.
Earn 1.0 Core Competency & 0.5 Resource Development CCEUs
Learning Objectives tied to Core Competencies:
- The panel will cover well-being for executive coaching in organizations.
- This coach-specific panel explores how coaches bring an integral and systemic perspective to wellbeing in their practice, fostering awareness, ethical presence, and sustainable impact for the clients and systems they support, all grounded in ICF Core Competencies.
About the Speaker: Katy Cuartas
Katy is a coach with advanced ICF-approved Mastery in Coaching training and educator with over 18 years of experience in wellbeing and human development. She works with individuals through coaching and educational spaces, supporting them in cultivating sustainable ways of living and leading across personal and professional contexts. She also teaches in a university-certified program on Leadership from Happiness.
Her work is grounded in an integral and systemic perspective, emphasizing the interconnection between individual wellbeing and leadership influence across the contexts people lead. Katy supports her coachees in developing awareness, authenticity, and responsibility within the complexity of real-life systems.
Certified as a Happiness Trainer by the Happiness Studies Academy and trained in collaborative conversations in Cultural Biology, she brings rigor, depth, and a deeply human approach to her work. Having lived and worked in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, and the United States, Katy offers a global and culturally sensitive perspective. Known for her reflective and grounded coaching style, she invites coaches to deepen their presence, expand systemic awareness, and engage ethically with the human experience of leadership.
About the Speaker: Dana Benarroch
Dana Benarroch is a Happiness and Wellbeing Specialist with over 16 years of experience dedicated to advancing human flourishing in organizational, educational and individual contexts. She is the Cofounder and CEO of Contacto Humano Organizacional (CHO), a consulting firm established in 2009 that supports organizations in developing leadership grounded in wellbeing, happiness and human-centered practices.
Dana is also the Cofounder and CEO of the HCO – Happiness Certification for Organizations, developed in collaboration with the Happiness Studies Academy (HSA) and Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar, helping organizations systematically integrate happiness and wellbeing into culture and leadership systems. She serves as creator, academic coordinator and faculty member of a university-level Certificate Program on happiness and leadership at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Colombia.
Her work integrates positive psychology, neuroscience, purpose and conscious leadership, translating scientific knowledge into practical and culturally relevant applications. Dana has worked with large, medium and small organizations, and is a frequent keynote speaker at national and international conferences on happiness, wellbeing and leadership.
Driven by a strong sense of contribution, Dana’s mission is to help organizations become kinder, healthier and more meaningful places to work — where success is achieved without sacrificing health, relationships or quality of life.