HighlightsHelping clients with their brandsFinding the right metaphor for your clientWhat is your Super Power Untangling necklaces Parallel Parking Humans have complicated life stories, it's our nature3 things that come up in her practice Clarity Confidence Community Having gone through the hard work herself to be great at what she doesHiding who you are isn't good hygiene for your soulPeople really do struggle with how to explain what they doModulating with each and every clientUsing Collage session in details to help others describe themselvesCreativity - Making connections between to seemingly disparate thingsLoves to help people express themselves as the Big PurposeFinding your purpose is your Life's workThe Brand is a relationshipMy view was Purpose is internal to YOU and Branding is external to you want others see youUnderstanding your valuesHow do your values show up for you today?
Some Highlights:Leaving a cushy high paying job for Google in 2006Another Covid coaching opportunity, great time to go to The Hudson Institute to become a coachBeing a vulnerable leader = a great coachThe layoff from google kicked Jaybird unlimitedGetting Executive Coaching at Google, was extremely valuableYour Network is your Net Worth - Linked In storyPeople are genuinely good and kindNorth Star is freedom, doing something that you likeSigning on with Fast Forward GroupUsing vulnerability to instill confidenceHave a Pointy Point of ViewW-A-I-T acronymFinding your happiness - Arthur Brooks new book"Happiness is the feeling I get when I need more happiness"Be yourself sooner
Highlights:7 years at a Buddhist meditation centerSoftware tester at intelCoaching was always inside of herSomatic is important part of her coachingSeeing clients too much in their heads, spinningLight bulb momentsBrief discussion about neuro science of habitsStruggle with challenging the clientBeing a helper and NOT being confrontationalLocking into a persons needsAmerica is ready for coaching and mindfulnessHelping people find purpose in their workHoning in on being more empatheticMassive trouble with the favorites section of this podcast
Highlights:Coming to us from Yorkshire in the UKCoaching starting in 1996 in Hong Kong for RussellExternal Virgin Company Training session that sparked him insideDiscovering Executive Coaching was like finding a drugBeing the resilience coachCoaching aligns to his purpose positively affect 100,000 people by 2025Avoiding toxic positivityFocus on being optimisticModeling being resilientBeing made redundant 6 times prior to going out on his ownListening to the Universe on what to do nextWhat are your natural energizersI've come homeRussell is always himself all the timeDavid Bowie is the sound track to his life
Highlights:Living in and loving ClevelandLife Long learnerIntegral Coaching in CanadaWe are all works in progress and being a life long learnerLoving philosophy and psychology early on 2 day intensive coaching trainingSeeing Divine intervention first handYou know when you knowGetting his clients to run experiments, a MUST HAVE in his practiceCreating coaching space with your boss2 Day intensive coaching sessionTrust is imperativePatricks coaching style Playful but direct Supportive buy challenging Deeply curious Thinking creatively Persistent Corner of his monitor Heard and say more On a good day we are partially rightGood Coaches don't have a conflict of interest
Highlights:Getting into coaching to align self and build a careerWhat we put out there, we get back, just like a mirrorNeuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) instructor Understanding the language and programs in your mind Picking up limitations over timeWe all enough, we just need to be reminded sometimesListening to the language of your clientPlans to write a book every couple of yearsFollowing the lead of your client to connect more deeplyCoaching without videoNot many Tesla's in Greece, however in Norway . . .
Highlights:Two great friends that met through HudsonLeveraging each other to support their coaching practicesTalking useful tools Wheel of Life The Lifeline in real time Value Exercise Following your clients leadListening to your body prior to upcoming callsSetting intentions prior to callsSomatics in coaching and clients that might have an allergic reaction5 areas of coaching focus Thought Partner Job change or onboarding support Relationship Management Health Uncertainty in the environment
Highlights:Engineer to finance to Executive CoachingHaving deep meaning conversations through coachingWhen you realize that you're not that good of a listenerManaging expectationsEarly on in coaching we move at the speed of light to reach a conclusionShout out to Julie Hess and Laura Daley "Do your best coaching"Being connected to his purposeGetting better as we get older as a coachWhat to do when you dread an upcoming coaching sessionFighting being a "Pleaser" and reconciling this with coachingSeeing the sense of relief from our clients
Highlights:Client is the treeInvisible to Visible is where the coach worksVisible to Obvious is the clients workUnderstanding the rear view mirror will support forward movementOur minds are like the surface of a lake, try to get that still as a coach As coaches we try to create moments of stillness Bringing tough topics to the surface Having difficult conversations with our clientsThe window vs the mirror analogyCoaching someone in a foreign languageCoaching the person not the problemLimiting beliefs as layers of clothingCoaching is like a jigsaw puzzle
HighlightsBoundaries Breaking them Not being fair to your client Make choices that work for you Boundaries evolve What is your Niche Having a bullseye Coaching is Coaching
Some Highlights:32 years in HR and then turning to coaching after being exposed to itSeeing the benefit of Executive coachesBeing an internal coach within an organizationGetting goose bumps during a chemistry callHave multiple calls with potential coaches, increase your options and choose the best coach for youThe power of assessments and the overall impact, especially the 360 degree interviewsWorking with coaches in our practiceLet the client figure it out for themselvesEmbedding coaching into MBA programsCoaching isn't like work it's a privilegeCoaching showing up without even thinking about it
Highlights: Growing her business & getting comfortable with her coaching businessLining up corporate clientsUsing your coaching skills to sell more effectivelySelling to individuals vs companiesMassive technology event in Lisbon to Present Coaching
HighlightsAssessmentsEnneagram Self Awareness Understanding Articulating self to othersMany wonderful nuances to the tool and descriptions and personality typesMultiple ways to assess the toolNature vs nurtureYou have Wings with EnneagramHeaps of self assessmentWhere are you at on a given dayGreat example of using the tool to understand significant people in their livesAssisting with the framework of coachingThe $12 investmentThe enneagram panel conversationMassive overall impact in Nikki's life
Highlights:Quote "Half of the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not."Can't stop thinking about this quoteThe façade or reflection on our emotionsSetting Intention prior to a conversation and not working out according to the intentionYou need to be youAccepting who you are, building confidence in yourselfGoing from Invisible to Visible to ObviousTrust / Faith / Courage
Highlights:Coaching early but now knowing itHelping someone up the physical mountainBeing a cheerleader"I See you" Seeing the clientWe need to remember and bring back previous sessionsThe work between sessionsBox out time to think of our clients outside the sessionUnattached intimacyThinking like a coachGreat place with her coaching practiceCore value is connectionSupportive and challenging - are they the same thing?Nothing to do nowhere to goTrust yourself
Highlights:12 years active duty Air ForceBurned out during Covid, need something elseThe Hudson Life Forward ImpactHow being a physician has impacted her coachingStaying in a place of curiosityLoving using analogies in her coachingGetting a bit uncomfortable with our coachingThe feeling of being unteatheredLoving being present with somebodyThe coaching community is her tribeBeing playful with clients
Highlights:Pairing with a 360 feedback toolHelps to find an individuals core beliefsGreat tool to start the coaching journeyIt's easy to take and to understand from the Coachee perspectiveBoth forward and backward looking 42 page report that you can utilize with your clientsHelps you understand YOUVery rich with coach / coachee relationshipHow they deliver the results Request the coachee read and provide their perspectiveGreat lens to learn about yourself and those around youUnderstanding your wingsEnneagram is consistent over time
Highlights:Degreed in Psychology and hearing the rumblings in the psychology circle about "coaching"Growing up with Entrepreneurial parentsCoaching early on was a remedial approach to improving someone in their careerCoaching style is great listening and asking for storiesChris has a developmental style of coachingBeing directive with the clientUsing Somatics in her practiceWe become armored as we go through lifeI got a small somatic lessonHang out with an open curiosityConnecting the dots through coachingThe stories we tell ourselvesSurface the invisiblesAuthor of the "The Leadership Pause"Advice to younger coaches Do your own inner work Get really good at listening
Some Highlights:Calling in from Greystone IrelandTaking his clients into nature and using this to see more clearlyHaving 2 or 3 unraveling's in his life, where his life didn't fit any longerGoing through outer and inner transitions and the cost of "hanging on"Participating in the Vision Quest and the massive impact to DanaTaking a Reckoning to help find your wayCoaching based his own lived experienceDoing work on your own nervous systemFinding your edgesGetting coached on his own belongingMost new coaches feel that they are not enoughWe live in a culture of scarcityHis coaching practice Meeting your client with the structure that they need Looking for clients that recognize the world we are living in Coaching was his lifeline Uses his practice as a bridge to illuminate people where they are I feel you feeling me Does your identity drain you or give you energy
Highlights:How they prepare for coaching sessionsBeing natural with coaching preparationMind body and feeling coaching mindsetThe 3 to 5 min meditation prior to a session"Whats happening with you right now?"Noticing out loudLet's shut off the video to prepareSpelling your name with your hipsListen to your body"How was this for you today?"