February 18, 2025

Posted at 11:55h in Blog

As the coaching field grows, so does the need for mindful reflective practice, aka supervision. Leaders are not reflecting enough, especially during these trying times. They are not learning at the pace they need to so they can keep up with the changes in the business environment. It is our job as coaches to model a reflective approach. The emerging research shows coaches who attend to their well-being, continuously develop their competence and capacity, and focus on quality control are the coaches most fit for purpose....

October 11, 2024

Posted at 07:30h in Blog

Monday, October 14th, 2024 is Indigenous Peoples’ Day. We acknowledge and celebrate the day together with the indigenous peoples in our communities. I have written previously about this important holiday because it is essential to know our past fully with all its present-day ramifications....

September 24, 2024

Posted at 15:54h in Blog

According to the 2023 International Coaching Federation (ICF) Global Coaching Study, the number of coaches jumped 54% from its 2019 estimate of 71,000 to 109,200 worldwide in 2022. Internal coaches have also increased in number as more organizations intentionally build coaching cultures and offer coaching to wider populations of managers and leaders. The ICF estimates nearly one in five coaches (16%) works both as an external and internal coach, and these coaches spend most of their time doing internal coaching....

August 8, 2024

Posted at 14:18h in Blog

A 2023 Gallup survey found only 23% of employees trust their senior leaders. It’s not an overstatement the senior leader behaviors behind these survey data are reflections of senior team behaviors. The same survey found when senior leaders, and, by extension, senior teams, exhibit high effectiveness in leading and supporting change, communicating clearly, and inspiring confidence in the future, 95% of employees fully trust their leaders. And, clearly, employees who trust their leaders are more engaged and higher performing themselves....

June 19, 2024

Posted at 14:26h in Blog

With 2024 half over, I suggest we take a break from our busy lives and return to big questions. Why wait for a crisis or the end of the year to reflect on what you are doing with “your one wild and precious life” as the poet Mary Oliver asks....

April 22, 2024

Posted at 08:56h in Blog

It’s a big week for celebrating nature with Earth Day today and Arbor Day on Friday. Each year in spring we are reminded we live in the Earth, not on the Earth, and with the trees and animals versus seeing them as nature’s attractions. We are all nature, and my hope is we soon come to our senses and take care of the Earth and ourselves in the process. I find lately my hope is chased by my fear it’s too late to change our destructive ways of living with the...

April 11, 2024

Posted at 13:53h in Blog

What if feeling overwhelmed was mostly in our heads? What would change if we became aware that “being” overwhelmed was a state of mind? And, what would it be like if we could simply walk away from our overwhelmed state of mind? There are many ways to approach being overwhelmed. For simplicity’s sake, I’ll break down the contributing factors into two buckets—what’s out there (our external environment, our world of relationships and systems), and what’s in here (our beliefs, thoughts, and emotions about the world out there)....

March 4, 2024

Posted at 14:13h in Blog

We know all relationships end, no matter how much we want them to last. We experience this self-evident truth when there is a breakup with a partner or friend, a valued employee leaves, or the ultimate ending, the death of a family member. All endings are inevitable and necessary to make way for new beginnings....

December 22, 2023

Posted at 12:39h in Blog

As I see it, the preeminent question for our time is – how will we cultivate peace in ourselves, with others, and in our world? Peace feels out of reach right now. Every day the news brings us a drumbeat of despair and desperation—so many lives lost to war, and so much vitriol in our society. Detaching from the news does not change the reality the world is in deep pain. For me, when I see children suffering and dying, it breaks my heart....