The Edge of Coaching

Jo Birch a highly respected supervisor, author, and long-standing contributor to the development of supervision in coaching and helping professions.  Jo has worked for many years at the intersection of practice, ethics, and professional standards, supporting supervisors and practitioners to think more deeply about their work and their responsibility within it.  She is widely known for her writing...

Helen Sieroda is an APECS-accredited Master Executive Coach with over 30 years’ experience coaching and mentoring senior leaders. She is founder and director of Wise Goose School of Coaching, a certified B Corp delivering executive coaching and accredited coach training. Helen’s work is shaped by a lifelong commitment to inclusion, sustainability, and ethical leadership. Formerly a UKCP-registered...

Aubyn Howard is the co-founder of Psychosynthesis Coaching Limited and author of Psychosynthesis Leadership Coaching - a psychology of being for a time of crisis (2020). Aubyn holds an MA in Psychosynthesis Psychology with the London Institute of Psychosynthesis and an MSc in Change Agent Skills and Strategies with the HPRG at Surrey University. He draws upon more than 30 years’ experience as an o...

Simon Western is a leading academic and practitioner in coaching and leadership, and the author of several books and many academic papers. He is the host of the popular Edgy Ideas Podcast and blogs on Re-enchanting Our Worlds , Substack. Simon brings an unusual depth of experience to the field of coaching and leadership. He has led Masters courses at leading universities, including tenure as Direc...

Ed Rowland is Founder of The Whole Partnership and a leadership catalyst and senior executive and team coach. A leading Systemic Coach and Constellations practitioner for both personal and organisational systems, he has delighted in co-pioneering this way of working in a leadership and work context for the last 20 years. He learned the work in the early 2000s from its 1st generation pioneers, nota...

Anthony Eldridge-Rogers is an executive coach, trainer and organisational consultant working at the intersection of wellbeing, recovery and leadership.  Founder of FRC Worldwide, he developed the Meaning Centred Coaching™ model and has championed coaching as a powerful yet underused resource for behavioural health and human flourishing. Anthony’s career spans media, environmental work and leadersh...

Claire Pedrick is an MCC Master Coach, Coaching Supervisor, and author of Simplifying Coaching and The Human Behind The Coach . With over 15,000 hours of experience, she facilitates others’ thinking and hosts The Coaching Inn podcast. Claire believes coaching is simple - though it takes time to work that simply. In 2022 she walked 600km on the Camino in Spain. She received the Outstanding Contribu...

Nick is a senior executive coach, team coach, coach supervisor, organisational consultant, facilitator, and event speaker. He has more than thirty years of experience supporting the development and success of organisations, their leaders/executives, and coaches in the UK and many parts of the world, across a wide range of sectors. He has co-led the Academy of Executive Coaching’s highly acclaimed...

Today’s guest, Wendy-Ann Smith, is a coaching psychologist working where coaching psychology, positive psychology, and ethics meet. She’s the founder of the Coaching Ethics Forum, the Journal of Coaching Ethics , and Ethical Edge Insights. Platforms dedicated to raising the bar on ethical practice and wellbeing in coaching. Her research looks at how coaches grow, weave ethics into their work, and...

Committed to helping leaders and coaches do their best work and live their best lives, Yannick Jacob is a Coach, Trainer & Supervisor with Masters degrees in Existential Coaching and Applied Positive Psychology. He is part of the teaching faculties at Cambridge University and the International Centre for Coaching Supervision, and he’s the Course Director of the School of Positive Transformatio...

David Clutterbuck is one of the early pioneers of developmental coaching and mentoring and co-founder of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council.  Author of more than 70 books, including the first evidence-based titles on coaching culture and team coaching, he is visiting professor at four business schools. He leads a global network of specialist mentoring and coaching training consultants,...

Today, we’re joined by Professor Ernesto Spinelli, a leading figure in existential psychotherapy, coaching, and conflict mediation. A Fellow of the British Psychological Society and award-winning author, Ernesto’s work has shaped contemporary existential thought, and we’ll explore his insights on therapy, psychology, and the absurdities of life - and what this means for your coaching. Links to Ern...

Dr Pamela Larde is an expert in the science and practice of joy.  Her roles include Professor of Leadership at Anderson University • Director of Education for the Institute of Coaching • Founder of Academy of Creative Coaching and Author. She is committed to engaging in the work of advancing the reach and commitment of the coaching profession to serve and build up heart-centered leaders around the...

Professor Peter Hawkins is a leading consultant, coach, writer and researcher in organizational strategy, leadership, culture change, team and board development and coaching. He has worked with numerous leading organizations globally coaching executive teams and boards and facilitating major change and organizational transformation projects.  He has coached over 100 boards and senior executive tea...

Julia Vaughan Smith is a leading voice a the intersection of coaching and trauma. She is a Master Accredited Executive Coach and Supervisor with an MA in Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy. She has also been in practice as a Psychotherapist. Along the way she has also published three books, ‘Therapist to Coach’, ‘Coaching and Trauma’ and ‘Daughters: How to Untangle Yourself from your Mother’...

Dr Ana Paula Nacif is an experienced executive and group coach, consultant and facilitator, who works with a range of clients in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors.  Ana has over 17 years of coaching experience, and she specialises in wellbeing, leadership development, women leaders, and personal development. She is a part-time senior lecturer at the Master of Positive Psychology and C...

Trevor Waldock is an author, social entrepreneur, and executive coach with over 30 years of experience in leadership development. He’s led teams, written books, been deep within the world of executive coaching for a very long time. Trevor also developed the Integrated Global Leadership Model, a holistic framework for corporate leadership. In 2005, he founded Emerging Leaders, a global non-profit i...

Nobantu is a coach, mentor coach, facilitator and trainer based out of South Africa. Coaching individuals and teams, she holds an ICF MCC and is a sought-after facilitator for Leadership Development Programs and coaches internationally. No matter what she does she gets to the HEART of the client and the HEART of the matter. As a Buddhist practitioner and teacher she supports her clients in integra...

Josie is internationally recognised as a pioneer of the Australian coaching industry and helps leaders apply the principles of complexity or living systems to their leadership challenges and lead effectively through uncertainty. Josie’s portfolio encompasses her award-winning doctoral work Embedding Sustainability into Organizational DNA, the influential book Big Little Shifts: A practitioner’s gu...

In today's episode, George enjoys the opportunity to have the questions posed to him. We explore learnings and reflections from the first series of the podcast, and hear George's experiences and offerings from his wider coaching journey. Podcast Links 'Getting started as a coach - AC Podcast - Link here 'Exploring the role of coaching for social justice' with Charmaine Roc...

Paul is a leadership development consultant, coach, coach supervisor, and researcher. He founded Leading Systemically in late 2021. Paul has published more than a dozen academic articles and book chapters and written six books on change, leadership, and coaching/team coaching, as we get into in the conversation.  With over 5,000 coaching hours working with individuals, groups, and teams, he also s...

Tabitha is the creator and director of education at Earthself, a community interest company founded in 2015 with the purpose of optimising impact through EarthConnected coaching. Earthself is a team and organisational development, coaching and coach training Community Interest Company, focused on the democratisation of coaching and a nature positive way of being and doing business.  Tabi is the au...

Viv Chitty is Director of the coaching and supervision consultancy Viv Chitty Associates, she has over twenty years’ experience in executive coaching and specialises in working with senior executives who have multiple challenges to face, across a spectrum of organisations in the UK and abroad.  Viv is an accredited coach at Master Practitioner level (EMCC) and has a degree in Psychology, a post gr...

Myles Downey is one of the leading executive coaches in Europe, with global experience He has worked across the C-suite in many prestigious organisations over the last 30 years. He is a recognized authority on Performance, Coaching and Leadership and the author of three classics in the coaching and performance arena: ‘Effective Modern Coaching’, (between them 300,00+ books sold); ‘Enabling Genius...

Robin Shohet  has been a practicing supervisor since 1976 and written and edited several books on the topic.  As you will hear, his latest In Love with Supervision , which he wrote with his wife Joan,  came out in 2020 and his next, Supervision as Spiritual Practice , is due out in late 2024. In this episode, we will explore his interest and work with forgiveness, and his approach can be viewed on...