Inside CORAL

An Executive Coach Corner session on the two things a coaching practice runs on, and why you need both. The group named it directly: being genuinely great at the craft of coaching but shaky on the business side, the sales and marketing of it, is like pedaling with one pedal. You can be excellent in the room and still stall if the practice around it never gets built. Along the way the group traded...

A special live guest workshop hosted inside Coral: “Becoming World-Class Connectors,” led by Jon Moorehart of Praxis. Some people collect contacts; a rare few build genuine connection — the kind that opens doors, moves ideas across the world, and turns a room of strangers into a community. This hands-on session was about becoming the second kind of person. About the guest: Jon Moorehart is a Partn...

A show-and-tell session from Coral's Tech & AI Corner, where members walked through the AI systems they're actually building right now — and traded honest notes on what's working and what isn't. A few of the builds that came up: an autonomous setup that checks a creator's social channels every morning and emails a performance report each week; using AI to stand up a nonprofit pitch website in...

A summary of a recent Executive Coach Corner session with a different format: one member volunteered for the hot seat, coaching the group live while everyone observed and then delivered structured feedback. First comes a genuinely useful framework for giving feedback that sticks — ask permission, align it to the person's vision, be specific, keep it subjective ("here's how it occurred to me"), inv...

A summary of a recent Executive Coach Corner session — a practical masterclass on how coaches actually create clients. It starts by widening the lens: "clients are created from powerful conversations" is one useful paradigm, but there are others, and the real move for anyone with a network that already trusts them is to flip years of generous conversations into a clear invitation — the harvest is...

A summary of a recent Executive Coach Corner session that runs on a single thread: curiosity beats judgment and assumption. It starts practical — how the slow summer season scatters everyone's focus, why the move is to keep planting seeds for the fall rather than drift, and the reminder that while the world naps, the one who stays awake gets further. Then it hits a trap of mastery: being so loaded...

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A summary of a recent Executive Coach Corner session on the fear that shows up the moment you start charging real money — and how to coach through it. It opens with a familiar terror: pricing a new offer and immediately deciding you've charged "too much," which, as the room points out, usually says more about your inner world than the number does. From there it turns to the high-ticket sales conve...

A summary of a recent Executive Coach Corner session on coaching the high performer who's flying high — and keeping them from crashing on the way down. The centerpiece is a memorable framing: a rocket that goes up has to plan its splashdown. NASA doesn't just get astronauts to space; it builds re-entry protocols to bring them home safely — physically and emotionally, through the disorientation of...

A summary of a recent Social Media Corner workshop — a guided tour of how Instagram (and Meta) actually work in practice, and where the people getting results are really spending their attention. The big shift: the home feed isn't the engine anymore. Explore has become the new search engine, so discovery happens there, in Reels, and in carousels — which now out-engage Reels and are the format the...

A summary of a recent Social Media Corner workshop on running your business like a media company in the age of "interest-driven media." Led by a guest who's built content engines for major brands, the session starts where everything should: a ruthlessly specific audience persona — not where you like to post, but where the person you're trying to reach actually spends their time. You'll hear how to...

A summary of a recent Executive Coach Corner session on what separates great coaches in a crisis — the triage moments when a client's business is sliding and everyone's panicking. You'll hear why so many coaches fumble here (they get shook, worried they're the "luxury" about to be cut, and start performing instead of serving) and what to do instead: slow things down, become the steady presence, an...

A summary of a recent Executive Coach Corner session on the front end of business development — getting the right people into your world and building a pipeline that actually pulls. The conversation reframes cold outreach as an invitation or a generous offer rather than an ask: lead with "easy yeses," connect people to people, and let the insecure, transactional contacts self-select out. You'll he...

A summary of a recent Executive Coach Corner session on why most people quietly aim too low — and how to get them to play bigger. The conversation centers on a single ruthless question: on a scale of one (changes nothing) to ten (changes everything — for you, your family, your community, the world), where does this goal really land? You'll hear how that question makes sandbagging impossible to hid...

A summary of a recent Executive Coach Corner session on a quiet discipline most coaches get wrong: rescuing people too fast. The conversation makes the case that growth happens in the struggle — that "I don't know" is just a client setting the weight down, and your job is to let the silence do the heavy lifting instead of rushing in with another question or an answer. You'll hear why coming from s...

A summary of a recent Executive Coach Corner session on the identity shift required to charge what you're worth and step into a bigger room. The conversation centers on reintroducing yourself to a network that knew an older version of you — same person, new container — and on "going pro," where people respond not to what you've done but to who you've decided to become. You'll hear how to belong in...

A summary of a recent Executive Coach Corner session on how to coach a client who's already thriving — the tricky moment when everything's working and you're not sure what's left to do. The conversation lands on a counterintuitive move: stop carrying the weight of generating new content yourself and instead enroll the client in deciding what would be most valuable. You'll hear the three-legged sto...

A summary of a recent Executive Coach Corner session on what to do when a client is stuck in a victim story — the running narrative that nothing works, everyone's against them, and none of it is their fault. The conversation unpacks a deceptively simple intervention: asking "what's the purpose of this communication?" to help someone notice the story they're telling and how committed they are to be...

A summary of a recent Executive Coach Corner session on what actually makes mentorship work — the quiet mechanics most people never name. The conversation digs into how real mentoring differs from friendship or therapy: staying steady and objective while still caring, resisting the pull into pure empathy, and keeping the focus on moving someone forward rather than dwelling in the past. You'll hear...

A summary of a recent Executive Coach Corner session, in two parts. First, creative pricing through donation models — using suggested-donation offers and donation-based workshops as both a way to give back and a genuine top-of-funnel for attracting high-value clients (one approach: "I'll coach anyone for an hour for a donation of any amount"). Then, coaching through a massive vision-reality gap: w...

A summary of a recent Executive Coach Corner session on what actually keeps capable people stuck: not hard choices, but indecision. The group digs into why we avoid decisions — usually because we're dodging the second- and third-order effects we can't quite see — and a simple coaching move (the "and then what?" cascade) that makes those effects visible so you can finally choose. Plus why most deci...

A summary of a recent Executive Coach Corner session, in two parts. First, a real-world look at pricing and structuring a premium consulting proposal — what to charge for high-value work, how to package add-ons, and how to avoid underselling yourself when a big opportunity lands in your lap. Then, a practical framework for giving feedback that actually works: why anonymous 360-style reviews often...

A summary of a recent CORAL event. In this AI Corner session, a guest expert breaks down what "AI agents" actually are: how they're different from the chatbots you already know, where they're genuinely useful right now, and what to watch as they start doing real work. A clear, hype-free primer — and one example of the kind of practitioner-led workshop CORAL runs for its members. CORAL is a curated...