Coaches Rising

In this conversation with leadership consultant Peter Hawkins we explore the changing landscape of coaching, how coaches and organizations create value, the expression of nested systems, listening for culture and emergence through beauty. Peter Hawkins is Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School University of Reading UK and Emeritus Chairman of Bath Consultancy Group, where for the last 2...

In this conversation with Bebe Hansen we explore the edges of trauma-informed coaching, the role of coaching when trauma presents, identifying signs of trauma, how coaching is evolving and the breadth of competencies, ICF guidelines in relation to trauma and coaching. Bebe Hansen is a leadership coach, consultant and trainer and the Principal of Presence-Based® Coaching. Bebe stepped into the role...

In this conversation with Leon VanderPol we explore the nature of transformational coaching, the path of healing through to radical transformation, the highest levels of intelligence and where most great thinkers get stuck, and the deep waters of collapse and emergence. Leon VanderPol is an internationally recognized leader, spirit-based teacher, and author in the field of transformational coachin...

In this conversation with Paul Lawrence and Suzi Skinner we dive into their new book, The Wise Leader, and explore how coaching can foster wise leaders, the heart of reflective learning, how effective leaders think differently, multiplicity theory and self-transcendence, power dynamics and connectivity, and the art of dialogue. Dr Paul Lawrence is a consultant, executive coach, facilitator, writer...

In this conversation with senior leadership strategist Amy Elizabeth Fox we explore the power and practice of opening to a wider field of love, harnessing love as a transformational tool, three stages of practitioner development and the key shift for organizations of the future. Amy Elizabeth Fox is a senior leadership strategist with experience consulting to senior leadership on issues related to...

In this conversation with Nicholas Janni we explore the emergent edge of coaching, what it means to be awake, helping leaders transform their approach to problem-solving, being with not knowing and coaching from attunement.   Nicholas Janni has spent 30 years researching ‘the zone’ of peak performance and studying multiple mind/body disciplines. Over the last 15 years he has gained an internationa...

In this episode we speak with Adrian Wagner about his research using Dave Snowden’s Sensemaker tool with Thomas Huebl’s collective trauma work, the resonances between Dave and Thomas’ work, the intelligence of unprocessed trauma, enabling versus governing constraints, and further questions for Dave and Thomas. Adrian Wagner is a researcher at the Pocket Project and a coach for organizational trans...

In this second part of our conversation with Shai Tubali we dive into his Expansion Methodology and explore how to work with trauma through expansion, the power of “positive traumas”, moving from mind to consciousness and embracing our humanity. Shai Tubali is an international author, thinker and speaker. He is a leading authority in the field of self-development and self-empowerment and has devel...

In this conversation with Shai Tubali we explore accessing our limitless nature, understanding selfhood and transformation, the intelligence of the chakra system and working with trauma. Shai Tubali is an international author, thinker and speaker. He is a leading authority in the field of self-development and self-empowerment and has developed several meditation-based therapeutic methods. In his w...

In this conversation with Ralf Marzen we explore the intersection between awakening and trauma healing, how we move through stages and states of awakening and trauma release, the bi-directionality of awakening, fostering wellbeing, and residing in the heart of being. Ralf Marzen is a clinical psychologist and trauma therapist with over 20 years of experience working with individuals and groups. He...

In this conversation with Natasja Pelgrom we explore the role of plant medicine in this time of cultural transition, shifting to the WE perspective, creating sacred spaces, working with grounded spirituality and the relationship between authenticity and insight.  Natasja Pelgrom is the founder of Awaken The Medicine Within, running retreats and programs supporting people with psycho-spiritual appr...

In this conversation with Patrick Connor we explore living in the awareness of the magic of reality, the two key pillars of this process and some of the main features of the path of awakening to a conscious, enchanted life.  Patrick Connor is a spiritual teacher, healer, entrepreneur, yogi, educator, and guide to leaders and groups. He has become a catalyst and guide for the fullest awakening of t...

In this short episode, Joel speaks about the approach of master coach Steve March, the paradigm behind his coaching and the impact his work has had on Joel. Steve March is a senior faculty member of New Ventures West, and founder of the Aletheia school of integral development. He specializes in coaching leaders stepping into new and/or expanded roles and leaders who are burned out (or on the way t...

In this conversation with David Drake we explore the distinction between mastery and maturity, between having more knowledge and fostering the ability to be deeply present and in service to the moment and the person in front of you. David B Drake, PhD, is the founder and CEO of the Moment Institute in the San Francisco Bay Area, whose mission is to reinvent learning & development for practitio...

In this conversation with Dr Paul Lawrence we dive into the complexities of team coaching, common dilemmas in team coaching, stage perspectives, contracting and the 4 P’s model. Paul Lawrence is a coach, facilitator, writer, and researcher. His primary interest lies in helping organisations effect change, building holistic solutions, integrating change efforts with other OD interventions such as c...

In this conversation with David Whyte we explore the breadth and depth of conversational leadership through the lens of Dante’s inferno and the soul-shaping that happens through life’s challenges.  David Whyte is a poet and philosopher and an associate fellow at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corpo...

In this conversation with Bob Anderson we explore the power of intuition and how it can guide our lives and our leadership, tuning into the field of information, becoming a vessel, leading with energetic awareness and the devotional gateway to non-dual experience. Bob Anderson is the founder, Chairman and Chief Development Officer of The Leadership Circle and the Full Circle Group. Over the past 3...

In this third episode of our AI & Coaching Series we speak with Dr. Nicky Terblanche about the potential of AI coaching for the Global South, moving beyond chatbots, a stratified approach to coaching, ethical concerns with generative AI and upleveling the coaching industry.  Dr. Nicky Terblanche is a senior lecturer and research supervisor on the MBA, MPhil Coaching and PhD programmes at the U...

In this conversation with Meg Price we explore how AI coaching platforms like Noa Coach are revolutionizing the coaching industry, how we are moving towards a blend of AI and human coaching, the dangers of AI relationships and platform ethics, the impact of AI on human relationships and how we can update our mindsets around AI coaching. Meg Price has over 30 years in the fields of HR, L&D, exe...

In this conversation with Valerie Pisano we explore the fast-evolving world of AI, the practical and ethical dilemmas it raises and its implications for coaching. Valerie Pisano is President and CEO of Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute. Founded by Professor Yoshua Bengio, Mila is recognized as a global leader in scientific advances that inspires innovation and the development of AI f...

In this conversation with Elizabeth Oldfield we explore the role Christian values and practice can play in helping us move more gracefully through these times of divisiveness and polarization, and how to build spiritual core strength and transformation through community. Elizabeth Oldfield is an experienced leader, writer, consultant and podcast host with a passion for intelligent public engagemen...

In this short episode of the podcast, host Joel Monk reflects on two Substack articles by Peter Limberg that critique the coaching industry, and opens the conversation around what it means to be a coach as the occupation evolves in our fast-changing times.

In this very special conversation with Alexander Love we speak about the transformative experience of his father’s murder and how it shaped his life and his teachings, the process of restorative justice that Alexander participated in, seeing the virtue in the “other” and how turning towards our pain and acknowledging the unbroken dimension of being is the prerequisite for forgiveness. Alexander Lo...

In this conversation with Vivian Dittmar we explore the conscious release process, the relationship between emotional work and transpersonal self, how emotional release happens, transpersonal ways of knowing, and midwifing an evolutionary crisis. Vivian Dittmar is an author, wisdom teacher and founder of the Be the Change Foundation. Born in Germany, Vivian spent her childhood and youth on three c...

In this conversation with Bonnitta Roy we explore the mentality of crisis, the ledger function of the mind, our cultural habit of categorizing by splitting, the shift to “lyric culture”, the art of disclosure and abstraction and wholeness. Bonnitta Roy teaches insight practices for individuals who are developing meta-cognitive skills, and hosts collective insight retreats for groups interested in...