Coaching Voices: The Association for Coaching Podcast

Sam Isaacson, coach, author, Chair of Coaching Professional apprenticeship trailblazer group and in his new role as Global Director of Consulting at CoachHub, talks to our host, Claudia Day, about various cutting-edge tools that can enhance and grow our creativity as coaches. Sam speaks about the wide variety of technological tools he uses in his coaching, ranging from PowerPoint to Virtual Realit...

Carol Braddick, Executive coach, author, and member of the Future of Coaching Collaboration: a group taking a multi-stakeholder view of the coaching market and the impact of technology, joins our host Claudia Day to discuss technology in coaching, both for the sceptics and enthusiasts amongst us.    Carol asks us to examine our attitudes to tech and how these influence our appetites for learning a...

Alex Haitoglou, a tech entrepreneur and business leader and co-founder of Ovida, joins our host Claudia Day to share his mission to use AI in the service of coaching, training and developing coaches, assist mentoring and supervision and help clients grow.    Listen to the second part of this interview where Alex discusses why most coaching has shifted online and the challenges and opportunities wh...

Alex Haitoglou, a tech entrepreneur and business leader and co-founder of Ovida, joins our host Claudia Day to share his mission to use AI in the service of coaching, training and developing coaches, assist mentoring and supervision and help clients grow. Alex discusses why most coaching have shifted online and the challenges and opportunities when delivering great coaching, including the focus on...

Rebecca Rutschmann, a tech entrepreneur, business coach and co-founder of Evoach: a self-coaching chatbot, joins our host, Claudia Day, to share her experiences using AI technology with coaching. She encourages us all to be curious about AI, coaching chatbots and other technology that can support our coaching practice. Rebecca discusses how AI can enlarge the coaching market through greater access...

Dr Nicky Terblanche, an executive coach, researcher and senior lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch, joins our host, Claudia Day, in this insightful conversation about AI and Coaching. With a background as a software engineer, Nicky gives an overview of AI, his collaborative research into coaching using chatbots, both text and voice and the creation of coach Vici: a chatbot based on the GROW...

David Clutterbuck, a coaching pioneer, author of over 70 books and a co-founder of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council,  joins Claudia Day in this fascinating conversation about using the ever-evolving technology in coaching. David highlights the fun and serious aspects of using technology, such as VR for coaching, the emerging ethical issues and what an effective partnership with AI might...

In this special one-off episode, we are proud to unite our podcast hosts in a rich, reflective, insightful and celebratory conversation about their experiences as hosts and the topics tackled in our 2021 podcast series.   Discover how hosting and interviewing our amazing guests impacted the hosts, what they learnt and remember most. Listen to this episode to gain real food for thought about the ma...

Shalini Sequeira, Executive Coach and part of the leadership team at ''She Leads Change", joins Dr Alexandra Morgan to reflect on inequity and lack of diversity in coaching. Shalini shares her personal experiences of inequity and how this has set her on a mission to challenge racism and inequalities at all levels and sectors of the coaching industry, assisting those previously marginalized to ente...

Jenny Plaister-Ten, Accredited Master Coach and Coaching Supervisor, joins Dr. Alexandra Morgan in a podcast about the impact of culture in coaching. Jenny argues that values are formed in our culture of origin; however, coaches are not trained to identify cultural values. Some coaches work at the level of values, yet, how our values are formed is often overlooked. Therefore, in a complex context...

Toby Mildon, one of the UK's leading Diversity and Inclusion Architects and an Executive Coach, joins Dr. Alexandra Morgan to talk about his tried and tested framework for embedding a diverse workforce and inclusive culture into the DNA of any business. Using his Inclusive Growth Culture programme, Toby helps companies see that sustainable business growth is enabled, rather than stunted, by Divers...

Jannine Perryman, MA PGCE, Founder of ADHD WISE and CEO of Neurodiversity Networks CIC, joins Dr. Alexandra Morgan in a podcast reflecting on over a thousand hours of solution-focused ADHD & neurodiversity coaching. Jannine leads a team of coaches to move clients into a place of acceptance, removing barriers and focusing on positive outcomes. She explains their approach, why it is so important, an...

Pippa Simou, ADHD specialist, coach, academic, and founder of ADD-Vantage, joins Dr. Alexandra Morgan in a podcast about what ADHD is and how the condition affects gender differently. Pippa discusses the characteristics, vulnerabilities, and challenges faced and how her toolkit helps girls and women to flourish with ADHD. "Accepting who you actually are and letting go of who you thought you should...

We are pleased to have Adrian Green, Mark Edwards, and Dr. Stacie Graham in a conversation with Dr. Alexandra Morgan about creating a 'belonging culture' in the workplace. Part Two of this podcast revisits questions such as: What is belonging? When do we feel as though we belong? What role does the leadership team play in creating and facilitating a belonging culture?

We are pleased to have Adrian Green, Mark Edwards, and Dr. Stacie Graham in a conversation with Dr. Alexandra Morgan about creating a 'belonging culture' in the workplace. Part One of this podcast tackles questions such as: What is belonging? When do we feel as though we belong? What role does the leadership team play in creating and facilitating a belonging culture?

"What needs to change in the world of coaching for it to take an anti-racist approach?" Drawing on the research report on Racial Justice, Equity and Belonging in Coaching, our guest for this episode, Charmaine Roche, argues that we need to move beyond diversity and inclusion to anti-oppression, liberation, and freedom. She asks, "What if people do not like the table you are inviting them to sit at...

Charlie Stainforth, Co-Founder and CEO of Circl, a leadership development programme with inclusion at its core, talks with Dr. Alexandra Morgan about building inclusive environments. Charlie explains Circl's unique approach, why the programme is both accessible and inclusive, and how this practical approach brings diversity to the forefront of leadership development. "Diversity without inclusion i...

Sunil Jindal, business transformation leader and European Regional Head at Diversio, joins Dr. Alex Morgan in a podcast on measuring, tracking, and improving diversity and inclusion in the workplace and helping organizations become more inclusive. "It is the unique combination of technology and human expertise that allows us to make a meaningful impact with hundreds of organizations globally and a...

Nick Basannavar, Head of Consulting at Included , an impact-led consultancy, joins Dr. Alexandra Morgan in a podcast about implementing strategically embedded inclusion. Nick shares their Maturity Model and explains how inclusion can be used as a methodology to support organizational purpose and ambition. Learn how to practice coaching with inclusivity.

Greg Baker, Executive and Paralympic Coach, joins Dr. Alexandra Morgan in a podcast interview about his coaching journey. Greg explains how he took his high-performance sports experience into executive coaching and the impact this had on coaching leaders and creating robust, high-performance teams.

Julie Scanlon, executive coach, consultant, and training facilitator, joins Dr. Alexandra Morgan in the first episode of our new series, Diversity and Inclusion in Coaching. The word privilege can provoke a defensive response in some people, often hearing it almost as an accusation or a suggestion that life overall is easy for those with privilege. Julia begins by asking, "What is privilege?" and...

"The ecology is still in the room; we are just not paying attention to it." Professor Peter Hawkins, leading global thought leader, joins George Warren in an inspiring episode drawing our climate coaching series to a close. Peter shares his thoughts on the challenges the world faces and how coaching needs to change to be future-fit and positively contribute to the ecological and social crises.

"Who we are is how we coach." Jackie Arnold, executive & wellbeing coach and Lydia Stevens, executive coach, join George Warren in this contemplative episode on emerging from the global pandemic at different speeds worldwide. This showed how interconnected and vulnerable we are to the things outside of our control and how the pandemic is an early warning of what is present in the world - an unstab...

Mark Jacobs, Managing Director of SEED Madagascar, an award-winning British charity leading on a wide range of sustainable developments and conservation projects spanning 21 years, joins George Warren for an engaging interview. Mark's passion and dedication show up in this conversation about the work of SEED and the effects of climate change on the island's impoverished communities, and how coachi...

"Bringing worlds together and recognizing that nature can be found everywhere". Elizabeth Wainwright, coach, writer, consultant, and Catriona Horey, leadership coach, join George Warren in this nature-inspired episode. Elizabeth and Catriona share the value they find in approaching individual and collective realities through the lens of the natural world.