Coaches on Zoom Drinking Coffee

Executive Coach, development activist, and entrepreneur Nankhonde Kasonde-Van Den Broek shares her vision of the future of coaching in Africa. In this episode, Nankhonde explains why the pathway to achieving results with a coaching client looks different on the African continent. Nankhonde also talks about the cultural complexity around how people work and live there, believing it’s necessary to u...

Hal Gregersen, bestselling author and Senior Lecturer in Innovation and Leadership at MIT, joins our CEO Alex Pascal to explain why he believes asking questions to be the key when it comes to tapping into our inquisitive creativity.  Could questions be the answer? Hal certainly thinks so. In this episode, he explains why the most effective global leaders are more likely to be asking questions than...

Raven Solomon - global diversity, equity, and inclusion thought leader - is this week’s guest. She’s also an author, podcaster, educator, consultant, and keynote speaker.  Raven joins our CEO Alex Pascal to share insights from her extensive expertise with the coaching community. In their conversation, they discuss the advantages and challenges that a diverse workforce can represent, focusing on th...

Learn from the insights of Tendayi Viki, Associate Partner at Strategyzer and an award-winning innovator in his own right. As coaches, we hear a lot about innovation from our executive clients. In this episode, Tendayi explains how innovation interacts with long term value creation - and the implications this has for the coaching industry. Tendayi understands what’s required to achieve a successfu...

A flavorful conversation with Mort Aaronson: surely the only Fortune 200 CEO who has both transitioned into coaching and written his own cookbook? In this episode, Mort, who is now a renowned coach mentor, offers insights from his long and varied career, explaining both how and why he has followed such a unique path to success. Mort explains how he discovered a drive to coach when the human side o...

Guy Winch, internationally renowned psychologist and popular TED speaker, joins our CEO Alex Pascal for a dynamic discussion focusing on the intersection of wellbeing and the workplace and considering what coaches can do to help promote emotional health. Terms like emotional health and mental health are often used interchangeably, but here, Guy explains why they shouldn’t be. He outlines their dis...

In this episode of Coaches on Zoom Drinking Coffee, CEO Alex Pascal discusses human development theory and the future of leadership with bestselling author Jeff Hull. During their conversation, Jeff shares his motivation for writing Flex: The Art and Science of Leadership in a Changing World as well as some of the key takeaways from his research process. As a leadership expert, Jeff has informed o...

In this episode of Coaches on Zoom Drinking Coffee, Coaching.com CEO Alex Pascal takes a deep dive into the concept of resilience with international resilience expert Taryn Stejskal.  Through her work as the Founder and Chief Resilience Officer of the Resilience Leadership Institute, Taryn helps leaders integrate vulnerability and emotional strength and connection into their professional life. Dur...

In this episode of Coaches on Zoom Drinking Coffee, Coaching.com CEO Alex Pascal welcomes Magda Mook - CEO and Executive Director of the International Coach Federation - as his guest. During their conversation, Magda explains how she came into this role and gives her unique perspective on what the ICF represents in 2022. Having been with the ICF for 17 years, Magda has observed radical changes in...

In this episode of Coaches on Zoom Drinking Coffee, Coaching.com CEO Alex Pascal sits down with Ruth Gotian, Chief Learning Officer at Weill Cornell Medicine and the author of The Success Factor: Developing the Mindset and Skillset for Peak Business Performance. As research for her book, Ruth has spent time studying the highest of high achievers across diverse fields, from Nobel Prize-winning scie...

In this episode of Coaches on Zoom Drinking Coffee, Coaching.com CEO Alex Pascal sits down with Dr. David Drake, the Founder of The Moment Institute in Portland, Oregon and a Thought Leader for the Institute of Coaching at Harvard University. Dr. David Drake has used his work to support the transformation of coaching initiatives in 70 organizations, including Dropbox, Google, Logitech, Nike, PWC,...

In this episode of Coaches on Zoom Drinking Coffee, Coaching.com CEO Alex Pascal caught up with Des Dearlove, cofounder of Thinkers50. Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading business and management ideas of our age. During their discussion, Alex asks Des to explain the entrepreneurial journey of Thinkers50. Des shares how and why he has ma...

In this installment of Coaches on Zoom Drinking Coffee, Coaching.com CEO Alex Pascal discusses adult development theory with  Leadership and Executive Coach Todd Iarussi. In his work with Rhinomind, Todd helps leaders develop agility and adaptability to thrive in a climate of constant change.  Todd’s work has been influenced by Buddhist theory, and he is interested in raising the collective consci...

In this episode of Coaches on Zoom Drinking Coffee, Coaching.com CEO Alex Pascal is joined by Heidi Hanna, the Chief Energy Officer of Synergy Brain Fitness, a company providing brain-based health and performance programs to individuals and organizations. Heidi is also a Founding Partner of the Academy for Brain Health and Performance and a Fellow and Advisory Board Member for the American Institu...

In this episode of Coaches on Zoom Drinking Coffee, Coaching.com CEO Alex Pascal sits down with Laura Gassner Otting, executive coach, media personality, and the author of Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life. You may already recognize Laura as a repeat TED-talker, but through this conversation, you’ll get to know her at a much deeper level. She takes ti...

In this episode of Coaches on Zoom Drinking Coffee, Coaching.com CEO Alex Pascal deep dives into AI and other imminent coaching technology with Fluxify’s Jonathan Reitz.  The discussion around AI and coaching continues to heat up, and as a member of the International Coaching Federation’s AI standards work group, Jonathan has unique insights to offer on this topic.  Here, he talks through the diff...

In this episode of Coaches on Zoom Drinking Coffee, Coaching.com CEO Alex Pascal hosts guest Marcia Reynolds: bestselling author, president of Covisioning LLC, and the creator of Breakthrough Coaching. Marcia’s work focuses on helping coaches to find a balance between structure and flow in their coaching sessions. During this conversation, she explains the role of emotions in coaching and the risk...

In this episode of Coaches on Zoom Drinking Coffee, Coaching.com CEO Alex Pascal discusses the Hero’s Journey, handling complexity, and navigating client intersectionalities with Vernice Jones, director and Faculty of Adult Development at Georgetown University’s Institute for Transformational Leadership.  During their conversation, Vernice recounts her experiences as an African American woman coac...

How can you unite your work life and your “real life” and show up as your authentic self at all times? How can we use tools like mindfulness to transform work from the inside out? These are questions that Coaching.com CEO Alex Pascal discusses with Scott Shute in this episode of Coaches on Zoom Drinking Coffee. Scott is the author of The Full Body Yes: Change Your Work and Your World from the Insi...

In the latest episode of Coaches on Zoom Drinking Coffee, Coaching.com CEO Alex Pascal discusses one of his favorite topics - the intersection of coaching and technology - with an established expert on the subject, Sam Isaacson.  Sam is the author of How to Thrive as a Coach in a Digital World: Coaching with Technology, and his focus is the risks posed and opportunities offered by technological in...

In this episode of Coaches on Zoom Drinking Coffee, Coaching.com CEO talks about science and spirituality with internationally recognized, award-winning psychiatrist, author, and executive coach Anna Yusim.  You can expect some of life’s most profound questions to be analyzed in this philosophical episode. Anna brings her unique perspective as a self-confessed “math nerd” from the hyper-rational w...

In this episode of Coaches on Zoom Drinking Coffee, Coaching.com Founder & Executive Chair Alex Pascal gets to the heart of Red Team Thinking alongside his long-term friend Bryce Hoffman, who has recently been named one of the top 100 leadership speakers by Inc magazine.  Bryce is a former journalist and an accomplished author turned business consultant, who you may have seen appear on nationa...

This episode of Coaches on Zoom Drinking Coffee sees Coaching.com CEO Alex Pascal dive deep into the topic of happiness with Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar, a bestselling author and happiness educator who lectures internationally on topics such as leadership, education, and ethics. In this episode, Tal explains how life as a child athlete, a young man in the military, and a dissatisfied computer science stude...

In this episode of Coaches on Zoom Drinking Coffee, Coaching.com CEO Alex Pascal chats with Rebecca Heiss, evolutionary biologist, best-selling author, entrepreneur, and world-class thought leader.  During this conversation, Rebecca explains how evolutionary hardwiring means our brains aren’t designed for our modern times of relative abundance. That’s why we have to actively train them to thrive i...

Do you coach or work in a team environment? Do you ever have to deal with conflict in the workplace? Listen as New York Time's Best Selling Author, Liane Davey joins Alex to discuss all the complexities of teams in both the physical and virtual world. Liane opens up about how she came up with her ideas for her top management books: The Good Life: Use Productive Conflict to Get Your Team and O...