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Send us Fan Mail In this interview, we talk with Michelle Chambers about her article, Is Team Coaching a Fit for Me? How to Decide If Teams Are In Your Future Leadership teams are facing a number of key challenges in their current operating environments, including: working in a VUCA environment; managing expectations of different stakeholders; running the business and transforming it; being member...

Send us Fan Mail In this interview, we talk with Julian Humphreys about his article, Let Down ~ Coaching teams through disappointment. Disappointment is often a visceral experience that can feel like the wind has been taken out of your sails, and it can have a long-term impact on the motivation, trust and commitment of a team. Team coaches have an important role to play in helping teams process th...

Send us Fan Mail Judgment has become judgmental, which weaponizes one of our most valuable human capabilities. The gift of judgment is discernment, the power to see what’s unknown on the surface because it has not yet emerged from within. When combined with the life themes that construct a holistic and systemic experience to explore our interconnected relationships, we liberate the power of courag...

Send us Fan Mail In this interview, we talk with Judy Feld about her article, A Call for Transformation ~ Coaching the new leader in the new workplace. A significant number of employees want to continue working from home. On the other hand, many organizations seem committed in getting people to return to the office. There is a disconnect that leaders need to resolve. It is time for leaders to wake...

Send us Fan Mail In this interview, we talk with Elaine Taylor-Klaus about her article A Brave New World ~ Neurodiversity inclusion in coach training. The brain does not discriminate; neurodiversity is a universal human phenomenon that crosses all racial, ethnic, gender, socioeconomic and/or religious boundaries. Neurodiversity-inclusion in coaching invites coaches to dance with the brain’s role i...

Send us Fan Mail In this interview, we talk with Kyle Elliott about his article, Mindful Pricing: Four Questions to Ask When Pricing Your Coaching Services. Few topics bring coaches more stress, anxiety and confusion than deciding how to charge their clients for a coaching engagement. There are also few topics less frequently discussed than how to price one’s coaching services strategically and in...

Send us Fan Mail In this interview, we talk with Kristie Kennedy about her article, Call to Leadership ~ The audacity to lead in times of uncertainty. The willingness to answer the call of leadership is one of the greatest paths to self-discovery, self-discipline and self-denial up which we will ever embark.  The moment you say "Yes" to leadership, the necessity of remaining in a state o...

Send us Fan Mail Archetypal education offers an experiential opportunity to discover the human patterns that define our lives. Those patterns hold the answers for how to navigate our increasingly disruptive economic, political, environmental, and societal experience. Many people ask others to practice civility as a solution for our social divisions, yet this often leads to silencing each other rat...

Send us Fan Mail In this interview, we talk with DJ Mitsch about her article, The Universe Winks ~ Creating out of strategic intent Strategic intent, as defined by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahald, is the "reason of existence of an organization and the ends it wants to achieve."  While this is a solid definition, what is missing in this statement is that a strategic intent also harnesses a la...

Send us Fan Mail In this interview, we talk with Marty Wightman about his article, The Leadership Debate ~ How can coaching support the prediction of upcoming changes in leadership trends? We have learned so much from the last two years and many people have shifted what is important to them in terms of life and work view.  In the coming year, we will see many trends continue and emerge in our own...

Send us Fan Mail In this interview, we talk with Veronica Munro about her article, Get off to a Great Start...and Achieve Great Results! The first steps we take at the beginning of our coaching are so very impactful, as we are engaging not just with the person in front of us, but with multiple hidden layers of the person inside; a person who wants to receive validation, hope and support. A success...

Send us Fan Mail In this interview, we talk with Joseph O'Connor about his article, Value Yourself First - The impact of coaching on the coach. A coaching session is a co-creation between coach and client. Both learn something, both grow as a result. Coaching can be stressful so we need to be aware of the signals of stress from our own body and mind.  Clients can trigger you. They may have is...

Send us Fan Mail In this interview, we talk with Michelle Chambers and Evelina Rog about their article, ROI: The Big Question - Demonstrating the true value and impact of team coaching. Team coaching is still considered a newer and evolving field, and how best to evaluate and demonstrate its impact continues to evolve. We see the purpose of measurement in team coaching as not only to demonstrate i...

Send us Fan Mail In this interview, we talk with Alice Ackerman and Peter Demarest about Alice's article entitled "Coach the Cure, Not the Symptoms. A physician's perspective on assessments and a paradigm-shifting science for coaching." Dr. Alice Ackerman is an Executive and Leadership Coach focused on individuals in healthcare settings as well as individuals undergoing transit...

Send us Fan Mail In this interview, we talk with Pam Boney about her article Coaching Design 3.0 ~ Six ways to redesign your coaching for a new era. Pam Boney is a senior executive coach, a tech startup founder, and an innovator in personality development. She brings decades of professional experience in leading, advising, and coaching individuals and teams to achieve exceptional performance. As d...

Send us Fan Mail In this interview, we talk with Reshma Aziz Khan about her article "Rediscovering the Outdoors - Strengthening the connections to the earth for coaches and clients."  Join us as we discuss how the ability to go back into green spaces - to take a simple walk outdoors- is something we can no longer take for granted.  Our time in nature is becoming a stronger source of insp...

Send us Fan Mail Your presence touches everything, without doing anything in particular, and ripples out toward many people, including some you will never know. Terrifying and exciting, knowing this makes being more deliberate a change worth cultivating. Open to ways that provoke your perspective about being conscious with each action. Learn to be authentic and generative so you may choose to live...

Send us Fan Mail In this interview, we talk with Michelle Chambers & Carissa Bub about their article "Coaching for the Future of Work".  Team coaches support teams within a "systems" context and every team has had to deal with new challenges and opportunities, including restructuring, impact of supply chain distribution challenges, growth or decline in services and supporti...

Send us Fan Mail In this interview, we talk with Peter Scott and Pierre Dussault about their article "Futureproofing - Prepare yourself and your clients for constant change." We will discuss the fourth industrial revolution and how coaches are uniquely positioned to make a difference in this new era.  Why coaches do not need to learn the technology but being able to understand what is ha...

Send us Fan Mail Beyond empty posturing and campaign rhetoric that often maintains the societal status quo, practice social transformation that brings adversaries into dialogue through their common humanness. Challenging status quo is first a personal process and always occur within each person’s context and identity. Learn to talk about a potentially divisive issue without dividing, to state cont...

Send us Fan Mail In this interview, we talk with Paul Crick about his article "Tipping Point. The opportunity for reinvention." We will discuss how our relationship to work is changing as a result of the pandemic.  The enforced pause has provided many of us with the opportunity to become more aware of how we spend out time and energy, to question the nature of our ingrained habits and ro...

Send us Fan Mail Join Janet, Garry, and her dear friend, colleague, and global leader, Dr. Josie McLean, Ph. D,. and Co-Founder of the Climate Coaching Alliance, as we explore this context for COURAGE, the mental and moral strength to meet the world as it is with life-affirming compassion. Access FREE resources from Josie: https://the-partnership.com.au/vanguard-conversations/ To effect transforma...

Send us Fan Mail In this interview, we talk with Jennifer Britton about her article Reinventing the Business of Coaching. In this article, we look at how the layers of change have impacted, and continue to impact, the coaching profession. We explore the ongoing evolution from the landscape of technology, industry, business, skills, our client, digitalization and virtualization. Jennifer’s work in...

Send us Fan Mail DeBorah "Sunni" Smith provides transformational executive coaching and consulting around organizational imperatives like leadership development, change management, Conversational Intelligence®, conflict resolution, workplace harassment, cultural competency and "DEI and B" principles.  She functions as an adjunct coach and consultant with the Center of Creative...

Send us Fan Mail Jeb is an executive coach and leadership development consultant based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  He is the Chief Experience Officer of ThoughtAction, a firm focused on bringing the unique, transformative Results System coaching process to clients and coaches. Jeb focuses on helping organization, teams, and individuals to create the results they desire professionally and persona...