International Coaching Week 2026
with Viviana Cervantes, MCC & Meredith Kimmel, PCC
Date: Friday, May 15, 2026 • 12:00 PM
The Challenge of Coaching in Another Language: Building Confidence and Presence Across Languages
Many skilled coaches experience self-doubt or a shift in presence when working in a second language. Even when they are powerful, intuitive, and fully themselves in their native language, something changes in English attention splits, confidence dips, and the natural flow of coaching feels harder to access.
This experience is far more common than most coaches admit. Overthinking English can pull attention away from the client, reduce connection, and make even experienced professionals feel less fully themselves or less capable than they truly are. It’s not a language ability; it’s a presence, confidence and self-trust challenge.
This offering was created to support coaches who want to feel grounded, authentic, and fully themselves when coaching or engaging professionally in English. Through practice, reflection, and psychologically safe spaces, coaches can reconnect with their natural coaching voice, reduce self-doubt, and strengthen the confidence that already exists within them.
The experience integrates ICF Core Competencies such as maintaining presence, cultivating trust and safety, and listening actively, while also developing emotional intelligence skills like self-awareness, empathy, and resilience. The focus is not performance or perfection it’s experimentation, growth, and learning through experience.
This space welcomes coaches who are fluent but overthink, coaches who are capable but feel less confident in English, and coaches who are preparing for greater visibility or professional conversations. It also welcomes those who are just beginning to coach in English and want a supportive environment to take that step.
At its heart, this work is about helping coaches show up fully confident, present, and connected, regardless of the language they use.
About the Speaker: Viviana Cervantes, MCC
Viviana Cervantes, MCC, a Master Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation (ICF), a global member since 2012 and an active member of ICF South Florida since 2021, brings together deep corporate experience and professional coaching to help leaders expand their perspective, strengthen emotional awareness, and lead with greater intention and impact.
With 22 years of corporate leadership experience across a variety of industries and 14 years as an executive coach, she partners with leaders, executives, professionals, and entrepreneurs to increase self-awareness and develop emotional competencies, enabling them to align their authentic selves with their actions.
Certified in EQ-i 2.0, and Collaborative Conversations with Dr. Humberto Maturana, among others, she is passionate about transformation. Her mission is to empower professionals, teams, and organizations to maximize their potential and achieve meaningful success, well-being, and fulfillment.
A content creator and learning designer, she develops programs that enhance leadership and emotional intelligence. In 2013, she founded Dynamic Perspective, an international consulting firm focused on human and organizational development. She also collaborates with global digital coaching platforms, expanding her international impact and supporting leadership development across organizations and cultures.
About the Speaker: Meredith Kimmel, PCC
Meredith Kimmel, PCC, is a career development and leadership coach who guides professionals to take ownership of their careers, lead with confidence, and create lives they truly love. Known for her grounded wisdom and strategic insight, Meredith supports clients through career transitions, leadership growth, and personal reinvention.
Her coaching draws from her own lived experience: overcoming burnout, navigating major life transitions, and redefining success on her own terms. She works with clients to clarify their values, set meaningful goals, and move forward with clarity and purpose.
Meredith serves on the leadership team of ICF South Florida as a Board Coach. In this role, she supports fellow leaders in strengthening their impact and confidence. In addition to her private coaching practice, she leads workshops and speaks to organizations across industries, always focused on practical strategies that spark real change.
Learn more at www.meredithkimmel.com.