CPD Skills Development Day

Future-Ready Marketing: Using AI to Boost Your Business

Jenn Donovan

AI is changing the way we work, market and run our businesses, but you don’t need to be a tech expert to make it work for you.

In this practical and engaging session, marketing strategist Jenn Donovan will show you how AI can become an incredibly useful tool in your health coaching business. Discover how to use it to create and repurpose content, generate ideas, tackle those jobs that have been sitting on your to-do list, better understand your audience and make marketing feel a whole lot easier.

We’ll also explore the important stuff: confidentiality, trust, professional responsibility and where the human touch still matters most.

Expect practical examples, useful tools and plenty of ideas you can put to work straight away, whether you’re already using AI or still wondering what all the fuss is about.

Regional and global trends for Health Coaches

Linda Funnell-Milner

HCANZA - Opening doors through collaboration and coalitions.

Messaging 3 Ways

Melanie White

Crafting 3 versions of a pitch for different contexts includes a follow up activity where you will commit to testing out your pitch.

Group Coaching: Increase Your Impact & Income Through Group Coaching

Christine Boucher

How can you move beyond coaching one person at a time to increase your impact, reach more people and create new income opportunities in your health coaching business?

Join Christine Boucher for a practical, interactive live group coaching session. This is not a traditional presentation; you’ll see, hear and experience what group coaching looks and feels like in practice, while picking up the skills and techniques behind effective group coaching.

Explore how to create a safe, supportive and engaging group environment and move participants from insight to action and accountability.

You’ll leave with practical skills, ideas and a simple framework you can start applying in your health coaching business straight away.

Being Clinic Ready 1 hr

Vaishali Sumbly & Juliana Lawerance, Tamaki Health

What it means to be clinic ready?

A clinic-ready Health Coach can provide safe, brief, person-centred Health Coaching independently within a primary care team, maintain model fidelity and professional boundaries, respond appropriately to risk, document effectively, and collaborate confidently with the clinic team to support patient’s wellbeing.

Being clinic ready means Health Coaches have a clear understanding of their scope of practice, their role within the integrated primary care team, and the added value they bring to the clinic population. Health Coaches need to be seen as collaborative peers within the team, working alongside clinic team members to support better outcomes for patients rather than being viewed as competitors or as duplicating existing roles.

Vaishali and Juliana will share their knowledge and practical experiences of working within a high-needs primary care clinic, including how Health Coaching can strengthen access, engagement, self-management and overall wellbeing for the population served.

Cultural Competency 1 hr

Vaishali Sumbly & Juliana Lawerance, Tamaki Health

Being culturally competent does not mean being an expert in a culture but is to be willing to learn, practice and adapt. A culturally competent Health Coach is someone who works with cultural humility, respects the identity and worldview of the patient, adapts their approach to meet individual and whānau needs, recognises inequities, and supports mana, choice and self-determination throughout the Health Coaching relationship.

Vaishali and Juliana will draw on their own cultural knowledge, professional experiences, and practical adaptations within Health Coaching to share examples of culturally responsive practice and create opportunities for shared learning, reflection, and discussion.

Beyond the Diet Wars: Carb-Appropriate Nutrition in Health Coaching Practice 2 hrs

Dr Cliff Harvey

High-Carb, Low-Carb, Vegan, Carnivore... is there common ground? In this interactive session, Dr. Cliff Harvey cuts through the noise to explore when different carbohydrate spectrums are indicated—and why the debate itself often misses the point. You will learn how to safely navigate scope-of-practice boundaries while delivering confident, safe, and effective non-prescriptive nutrition guidance that gets real-world client results.

Confidently Coaching Midlife Women in their Menopause Transition

Dr Wendy Sweet (PhD)

Helping you make a difference right away with your midlife clients in their menopause transition.

Canva Beginners 30 mins

Sabina Ziolkowski

A beginner-friendly walkthrough of Canva’s essentials (templates, text and images) for coaches wanting to create professional materials with confidence.

Canva Advanced 30 mins

Sabina Ziolkowski

A session on using Canva’s brand kit and templates to create consistent, on-brand marketing materials with less effort, ideal for those already comfortable with the basics.

Men, Health and Engagement. Practical Tools for Health Coaches.

Sam McBride

Getting men to engage with health and wellbeing can be an uphill struggle. In this session, Sam shares some of the practical lessons she has learned from working with rural men. What gets them through the door, what keeps them engaged, and how we can make health coaching feel relevant, practical and worth their time. Drawing on her experience as a Health Coach, rural business owner and PhD candidate, she’ll explore the importance of language, environment, connection and giving men practical tools they can actually use.

Health Coaching and Disability: Building Autonomy, Self-Efficacy, and Lasting Change

Karina Morris

People living with disability are often surrounded by support, yet can still have limited opportunity to take ownership of their own health. In this session, Karina Morris explores the powerful role Health and Wellness Coaches can play in changing that.

Drawing on more than 20 years of experience in disability and grounded in biomedical science, Karina will unpack how Health and Wellness Coaches can support meaningful behaviour change while staying clearly within scope, working appropriately alongside other health professionals, and understanding the unique considerations of the disability sector.

The session will explore how Health Coaching can strengthen self-efficacy, independence, and participation, why this work can be profoundly rewarding, and the growing opportunities for Health and Wellness Coaches to contribute within the NDIS and broader disability sector. Karina will also introduce the Disability Inclusive Practices Foundations training module, designed to equip Health and Wellness Coaches with the knowledge, frameworks, and confidence to work effectively and responsibly with people living with disability.