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13th June 2020

Leading in Times of Uncertainty – free coaches’ summit

This online summit hosted by Coaches Rising takes place across two weeks from 13th July. The selection of speakers is inspiring and will take us to our learning edge as coaches, mentors, supervisors, consultants and leaders. They range from the amazing leader and author Christiana Figueres who helped achieve the Paris agreement of 2015 on […]

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5th January 2020

Systemic Coaching – Delivering Value Beyond the Individual

Peter Hawkins and I are delighted to announce the publication of our book, Systemic Coaching: Delivering Value Beyond the Individual with thanks to our publishers Routledge, our contributors through case studies and vignettes, our generous endorsers and to Jasmine Angell, the illustrator who designed the apt and beautiful cover. The book covers a range of […]

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1st July 2019

Coaching at Work conference this Wednesday 3 July

There are a couple of places left for this week’s Coaching at Work conference in London, at the Holiday Inn in Bloomsbury.  The theme is Excellence in Organisational Coaching and Mentoring: Empowering, engaging and inspiring people at work. The conference is always thought-provoking, enjoyable, very well organised and attended, with a mix of internal and […]

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10th April 2019

The Launch of the Manifesto for Supervision – May 2019

Supervision has a key role to play in coach development, linking theory and practice through the whole action learning cycle and is the core of quality reflective practice. On Wednesday 15th May the Association for Coaching is holding a Master Class to launch a manifesto for supervision in Canary Wharf, London with speakers including AC […]

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12th February 2019

Book recommendation: Mastering Executive Coaching, edited by Jonathan Passmore, Brian Underhill and Marshall Goldsmith

I am delighted to recommend a new book on coaching, called Mastering Executive Coaching. It is edited by three leaders in the field: Jonathan Passmore, Brian Underhill and Marshall Goldsmith and is in 4 parts: Mastering themes: contracting, ethics and evaluation Delivering value to clients: behavioural change, organizational change, exploring meaning, purpose, values and strengths, […]

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29th December 2018

Blowin’ in the wind

How do coach supervisors respond to ethical dilemmas and tricky issues?  Jonathan Passmore and I have been conducting research over the last few years in stages and we have just published a two-part series in Coaching at Work magazine with fellow researcher Marta Filipiak.  Seven main themes emerged: sources of ethical dilemmas, obstacles in dealing […]

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