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Let’s Play, Coach! How to Leverage Games for Enhanced Self-Awareness and Reflection

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Thursday, January 22, 2026, 12:00 PM until 1:30 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) (UTC-05:00)

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Let's Play, Coach! How to Leverage Games for Enhanced Self-Awareness and Reflection
Presented by Alexandra Suchman

Learning & Development Strands: Professional Development

Program Description:

Self awareness is a key ingredient for any type of personal, professional, and relational growth. The role of a coach is often helping a client see themselves as they are, and identify ways to help them in their journey to grow and evolve into who they hope to become. Play is a highly effective yet underutilized tool for sparking reflections around self awareness and catalyzing insights for making change.

This highly interactive session will share ways to use games for a more experiential coaching approach. Specifically, we’ll explore games that highlight different communication and information processing styles, reveal critical insights about attitudes toward risk and change, explore values and priorities, and offer opportunities to practice different ways of showing up and leading. By the end of the session, you’ll have tools to incorporate games into your coaching practice to further engage clients and facilitate meaningful and sustainable progress.

Learning Objectives: 

-Learn the principles of game-based experiential learning and its benefits in coaching.
-Explore how to integrate games into individual and group coaching.
-Practice using games to address communication skills, values, identity, and overcoming barriers.

About the Presenter:
Alexandra (Alex) Suchman is a sought-after speaker, facilitator, and expert in workplace culture, engagement, and team dynamics. As CEO and co-founder of Barometer XP, she helps organizations unlock the power of play—not just as a fun activity, but as a research-backed tool that makes teamwork effortless, strengthens psychological safety, and drives performance at the individual, team, and company levels. Her work removes the unspoken pressures that block team cohesion, allowing people to engage naturally, be themselves, and contribute their best. She is a go-to speaker for major organizations like SHRM, PMI, and ATD. Barometer XP was a finalist for the 2024 ATD DC awards in the category of Innovative Learning, and was named to the Story Exchange’s list of 12 Brilliant Business Ideas in 2023. She has also been featured in Forbes. Alex holds an MPP in Health Policy from The George Washington University, a BA in psychology from Colby College, and certifications as a Project Management in Professional (PMP) and DISC coach. She currently serves on the boards of SEAF and NASAGA. Alex lives Washington, DC, with her husband and their beagle, Willow, who firmly believes that all “play” should involve treats.

Credit Information: 

Core Competencies: 1.0
Resource Development: 0.5
**Real-time participation is required to earn CCEUs**

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