Coaching Voices: The Association for Coaching Podcast

Sai Blackbyrn, founder of the Coach Foundation and multi-time bestselling author, joins our host Rob Lawrence, for another in-depth marketing conversation. In today's episode Sai shares how it is pain, not desire, that drives action and how your empathy as a coach is your greatest marketing tool. Learn a coach's greatest fear when it comes to marketing, why your philosophical beliefs matter and ho...

Smaranda Dochia, Rob Lawrence, Miranda Woodhouse, and Darren Robson join Maxine Bell to celebrate our 100 th podcast episode! Together we are the complete podcast team involved in the vision and creation of our great quality weekly episodes. Join us, to hear more about the values, ethos, and processes we use to create each episode. Enjoy listening to the passion behind the purposeful playfulness,...

Pamela Slim, business coach, entrepreneur and award-winning author, joins our host, Rob Lawrence to bring a fresh and human perspective to marketing your coaching business. She encourages coaches to do the foundational work based on self-reflection, authenticity, and integrity, rather than tactics. Pamela encourages coaches to experiment, test, try and refine their ideas. Learn how to ethically 'w...

Dr Christine Li,  the 'Procrastination Coach' and psychologist, joins our host Rob Lawrence, to share her insights on dealing with procrastination that might be slowing down your marketing efforts. She will inspire you to connect with your current audience and future clients in a way that aligns with your way of being and working. Learn about her 4F model for boosting productivity in any area and...

Jeremy Lazarus, Master Coach and NLP Master Trainer, joins our host, Rob Lawrence, to discuss how having a sales mindset helps you focus on serving your clients and translates into creating a marketing strategy for your coaching business. In this podcast, learn how to create powerful habits, including better time management and prioritization, as well as the importance of shifting your limiting be...

Donald Stojack, Entrepreneur and Business Strategist, joins our host Rob Lawrence for this insightful and inspiring conversation about developing the right attitude about your marketing, focusing on strategic planning and engaging your ideal clients in a way that gets them moving towards you. Donald shares that growing your business requires good marketing mindsets, insights, foresight and actions...

Kim Arnold, Business and Marketing Consultant, joins host Rob Lawrence in a wonderfully practical conversation for coaching on the myths and truths about marketing your coaching business. Kim provides many handy tips and advice on what not to do and what to do to market your coaching business. She directly challenges the idea that marketing is 'hard' while demonstrating how essential it is to take...

Geoffrey Matthews, HR Strategist and Coach joins host Sylvain Newton, for our first ever AC DACH region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) podcast to discuss what employee engagement is, how it differs from motivation and the role coaches play. The 'Great Resignation' underlines how people are looking for more than just money when choosing a job, want purpose and meaning and how workplace culture...

Andréa Watts, Stephen Brown, Beth Clare McManus and Pearl Jordan, join our host Maxine Bell for the final episode of our "Let's Make Coaching Creative" podcast series in a beautiful, thought-provoking panel discussion. Together, they discuss the challenges they have faced in their coaching journey. They also share strong evidence that using creative tools and a creative approach has led to powerfu...

Elaine Patterson and Karyn Prentice, Senior Faculty at the Coaching Supervision Academy International Ltd, join our host Maxine Bell to explore what it means and what it takes to be creative in a noisy world that needs creativity more than ever! They believe we are all naturally creative.  Creating our own preconditions for our creativity to flourish is now mission-critical because it is how we pu...

Pearl Jordan, Personal Development and Wellbeing Coach, joins our host Maxine Bell to share her inspiring personal story of suppression, discrimination, tenacity and resilience that brought her to use movement and dance with coaching, by creating The Rhythmic Remedy®. Her own personal story explains why she is so passionate about what she does and how it is that she created and now uses The Rhythm...

Andréa Watts, Coach and creator of the Collage Coaching Technique™, joins our host, Maxine Bell, to discuss coaching creatively with collage.   Andréa describes the neuroscience behind the art of her technique - a three-stage process she's developed to support clients surface their unconscious intuitive knowing to conscious knowledge, thus shifting behaviours and mindsets.   In this engaging conve...

Auriel Majumdar, a creative coach, educator, supervisor and poet, and Stephen Brown, coach, consultant and re-emerging music composer, join our host Maxine Bell to share their collaboration of music and poetry, created to reflect the coaching journey.  This podcast episode is full of thought-provoking insights and personal experiences that demonstrate creativity's ability to provide more data for...

Lorlett Hudson FRSA, Executive Leadership, Transition Coach and CEO of One Hand Can't Clap, joins host Maxine Bell, to talk about her multi award winning, 52 card set of proverbs, "What Mama Used to Say," designed to facilitate change, alter perceptions, break down barriers and develop high performing leaders and teams. She talks about her work with African Caribbean leaders and entrepreneurs, the...

Beth Clare McManus, a coaching psychologist and illustrator, joins our host, Maxine Bell, for this rich and fascinating episode where she shares her experiments with creativity in her coaching practice, the impact on clients and the results of her MSc research into 'Music and Mark-Making in Coaching Supervision.'   Beth advocates that all coaching is creative by its very nature, explaining the dif...

Charmaine Pollard, coach, counsellor, poetry therapist, and author, joins host, Maxine Bell, to share her insights and knowledge on the transformative power of words, poetry and creativity when used with coaching. Charmaine runs therapeutic writing workshops for a variety of client groups, including survivors of domestic abuse and male prisoners. In this podcast, learn about some of the poetry and...

Anna Sheather, Executive Coach, Supervisor and Author of "Coaching Beyond Words", joins our host, Maxine Bell, to explore an art-based coaching practice and why it is such a powerful and important approach for coaching today. Anna shares her extensive research into neuroscience, person-centred art therapy and art as a communication tool, as well as debunking many myths of our 'art stories' that bl...

Listen to this bonus episode from our archives, where Loshni Manikam, leadership coach, consultant, facilitator, and winner of the Fonterra Dairy Woman of the Year 2018, joins host, Sue Stockdale, to talk about health and wellbeing issues for women in the dairy industry in New Zealand. Loshni shares her personal trials as a wife, mother and partner in a dairy farm and the brave transition she made...

Listen to this bonus episode from our archives, as Dr Cath Bishop, a triple Olympian rower, former diplomat, leadership coach and author of "The Long Win", joins our host Sue Stockdale to discuss the broader meaning of success and the significance for coaches supporting teams to shift organizational cultures where every diverse voice is heard and appreciated. Learn how, as coaches, we can support...

Listen to this bonus episode from our archives, as Sharron McPherson, Co-founder and Director of the Centre for Disruptive Technologies and social impact entrepreneur, joins our host Sue Stockdale, to discuss how human capacity, ingenuity and transformation are the key elements of technological disruption for emerging market growth and development, future work and the disruption of education. This...

Jonathan Passmore, Senior Vice-President at CoachHub, professor at Henley Business School, global thought leader, author and researcher, joins our host Claudia Day for the final episode in this podcast series. They discuss the great pivot point that coaching was going through that was then tipped by the arrival of the pandemic. Listen and learn how coaching science and technology came together muc...

Welcome back to part two of our stimulating, important conversation with Adina Tarry, Nicky Terblanche and Rebecca Rutschmann where they discuss their unique views on the need to adopt technology in coaching and the ethical issues that need to be considered to maintain good professional standards. Sharing their knowledge, research, and experiences, they discuss the common fears around ethics, data...

Adina Tarry, Nicky Terblanche and Rebecca Rutschmann join us for a two part stimulating and important conversation on the need to adopt technology in coaching and the ethical issues that need to be considered to maintain good professional standards. Adina Tarry, Nicky Terblanche and Rebecca Rutschmann join us for a stimulating and valuable conversation on the need to adopt technology in coaching a...

Professor Peter Hawkins, leading global thought leader in leadership development, systemic coaching and systemic team coaching and Tom Marsden, CEO of Saberr, join our host, Claudia Day, to discuss the wider, systemic impact team coaches can have by using the right technology in the right way. Having collaborated over the last few years, Tom and Peter bring a breadth of knowledge and experience to...

Alexander Caillet, organizational psychologist, lecturer, team coaching pioneer and CEO of Corentus, and Kimberley Lewis Parsons, master coach, facilitator, and Chief Solutions Officer at Corentus, join our host Claudia Day for a rich conversation on how the shift to virtual working has impacted team development and team coaching. They discuss the changing dynamics in team development, the shifts...