# Creative Teams, Real Risks: Coaching Teams for Courageous Innovation

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**Date:** March 17, 2026 · 10:00 PM  
**Location:** Hilton Austin Downtown / Room 412  
**Format:** Core Conversation  
**Track:** Culture  
**Reviews:** 0

## Speakers

- **Sandy Schwan, ACC** — Business Alliance Director
- **Wendy Irwin** — ICF Austin Community Outreach Director

Innovation in tech isn't just shipped features—it's the everyday risks teams either
take or avoid when AI, data, and customers are all moving at once. This session
shows how ICF-credentialed team coaching helps product, engineering, and
innovation teams talk honestly about those risks, use conflict productively, and
turn uncertainty around AI and new tech into small, testable experiments instead
of stalemates. Gain a realistic view of what blocks team courage, practical
language for your teams, and a simple structure to support braver, more creative
decisions in high-stakes work.

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