In this episode of The Supervision Series, Brendon Le Lievre explores risk in coaching.  How we engage with it, what influences our risk tolerance, and ultimately, who decides the right level of challenge in a coaching session.

Brendon discusses:
When to push and when to hold back
The impact of our own biases on risk-taking
Practical strategies for gauging and adjusting risk in sessions

Plus, reflective questions to help you explore your own approach to risk in coaching.

Tune in to deepen your coaching practice.

Supervision Series #2: Am I Truly Present in Each Coaching Conversation?

Podcast Summary:

Presence is one of the most powerful tools a coach can develop, yet it’s easy to lose focus amid distractions, pressure, and our own internal dialogue. In this episode of Coach Conversations: The Supervision Series, we explore what it truly means to be present in a coaching session.

How do we prepare ourselves mentally and emotionally before a session? What pulls us away from presence? And when we do get distracted, how can we return?

We’ll reflect on the challenges of staying engaged, explore practical strategies to deepen presence, and consider how supervision can support us in strengthening this foundational coaching skill.

Connect with Brendon on LinkedIn or via coachingsupervision.com.au

In this first episode of The Supervision Series, we explore what coaching supervision is and why it matters. Many coaches work in isolation, but who is supporting them? Supervision provides a reflective space to deepen practice, navigate ethical challenges, and enhance impact.

I discuss different forms of supervision—one-on-one, group, and peer—and the benefits of each. This series will introduce reflective questions designed to challenge assumptions and elevate coaching practice.

Join me as we embark on this journey of self-awareness, growth, and professional development.

Next episode: How do I ensure I’m fully present with my clients?

For more on coaching supervision, visit coachingsupervision.com.au.

 In this episode of the Coach Conversations Podcast, Rob Hills shares his journey from the Air Force to leadership development and coaching, highlighting the power of mindfulness and sustainable leadership. Rob candidly discusses his challenges with overthinking and how mindfulness helped him navigate his career and personal life. He explains the importance of self-awareness and provides practical techniques, including the STOP method (Stop, Take a breath, Observe, Proceed), for managing stress and maintaining focus. Rob also explores the evolving dynamics of leadership in today’s work environment, emphasising the need for sustainable practices to prevent burnout and build resilient teams. His insights into leadership development tools like HBDI, combined with his commitment to helping others live better lives, make this episode an inspiring and practical guide for leaders seeking balance and effectiveness.
 
 Bio
 
Rob Hills is a distinguished leadership expert with nearly three decades of experience spanning the Royal Australian Air Force, Australian Federal Police, and ACT Public Service. As the host of The Balanced Leader Podcast and author of 'Mindful Leadership Blueprint', he has dedicated his career to helping leaders elevate their wellbeing and create healthier workplaces. His extensive background includes delivering leadership and intelligence workshops to tens of thousands of participants worldwide.
 
Drawing from his diverse professional experience, Rob works as a leadership coach and facilitator, empowering individuals and organisations to unlock their full potential. His approach combines practical leadership strategies with a deep understanding of wellbeing principles, enabling sustainable high performance. Through his podcast, coaching services, and speaking engagements, Rob continues to guide professionals in developing the skills, mindset, and resilience needed to thrive in today's dynamic leadership landscape 

Connect with Rob

Website: www.robhills.com.au
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-hills

Sara Harrup joined Brendon Le Lievre for a coach conversation where they discussed what makes good coaching good, coaching neurodivergent people and coaching as a board director.

About Sara

Sara is a successful Board Chair, Non- Executive Director and Coach. She also has ADHD and some Autistic traits. She slipped through the cracks because she was smart and really good at masking. She knew she was different, and for a while focused on her deficits rather than her strengths. Through her executive career she started to learn how to truly leverage the strengths her different brain offered her, and now she works with others to unleash the strengths of their brains.

Sara coaches people whose brains are wired differently, diagnosed or not! They are often in roles where their brains ask a lot of them and their different wiring makes them vulnerable to tough environments. We are talking about CEOs, Board Directors, Board Chairs and Senior Executives. 
 
Sara facilitates learning and insights for Leaders and Boards who want to harness the power of specialist, unconventional thinkers! Sara also shares her insights on Linked In about Boards, Leadership, and the power of relationships to harness our collective brain power for success!
 
Sara is for the late bloomers, the before-their-timers, the people and organisations that want to know themselves well so they can bring their best to the world!

Connect with Sara

e:  [email protected] 
w: www.uniquemindco.com
LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-harrup/

Dianne Flemington, PCC, CTPC, ORSCC joined Brendon Le Lievre for a coach conversation where they spoke about making decisions for longevity, creating behaviour change and the professionalism of coaching.

About Dianne

Dianne Flemington, PCC, ORSCC, CTPC, BBCC is a multi certified professional coach with specializations in Results and Performance, Relationship Systems, Health and Wellbeing, and Neuroscience.

She is the founder of Motion Forward Inc, a coaching and training company
established in 2010 which works dominantly with financial, technology and specialized healthcare organization to support their leadership excellence and team performance and most recently the founder of the Leadership Longevity Institute, a soon to be launched online learning platform for aspiring and tenured leaders to access topics to support their healthy leadership journey and combat the struggles and challenges that can come from their dedication to leadership

Dianne is the podcast host for the Leadership Longevity podcast, which is her platform that encourages leaders at all levels, to take time to look holistically at their life using her 5 Influencers for Leadership Longevity ™ model to lead well and live well.

Having spent the last two decades passionately researching three dominant areas:
Leadership, Relationship and Longevity, Dianne’s strongly held values in Health,
Adventure, Learning, Contribution and Honesty are what direct her business and
coaching with executives and organizations seeking culture and behaviour change.

Dianne is strong believer that ‘without your health there’s nothing else’ and offers
online and in person workshops to convey this message in creative and engaging ways as well as embedding this topic in all her executive and leadership 1:1 and team performance coaching conversations.

Dianne’s love of architecture, international foods and geography have her traveling the world where you might also find her long distance hiking, cycling or housesitting in remote areas.

Her love for dogs has had her foster over 20 rescue and service guide dogs in both
Canada and Australia supporting not for profits and people with physical  disabilities.

And some of her creative endeavours include dance lessons and legacy writing.
You can find her style to be direct, trustworthy and informative with a touch of fun-
loving.

Connect with Dianne

Dianne would love you to connect with her on LinkedIn at:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianneflemington/
or by becoming a member of the Leadership Longevity Tribe here: https://deft-
pioneer-6037.ck.page/71eb0e7d55

Podcast Feed available on Apple Podcast, Spotify and Amazon
dianneflemington.com

Kylee Leota joins Brendon Le Lievre to have a coach conversation focussed on  discovering lessons from adversity, self compassion, insights through feedback and holding space for conversations.

About Kylee

Kylee Leota is the founder and Chief Vision Officer of Elements 4 Success - a global organisation delivering transformational experiences to individuals, teams, and organisations.

Earl Nightingale defines success as “the progressive realisation of a worthy goal or ideal”. Kylee wishes to empower people of all ages so that they can develop the confidence, skills, and tools they require to live a life of their design and purpose. She believes that you have the knowledge within yourself to create success and gives you the right tools in your toolbox to help you make these goals and ideals, reality!

As a lifelong learner and educator she has taught all ages and stage and sectors of schooling including guest lecturing at tertiary level. Kylee consults to and works collaboratively with, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, and other professionals to create sustainable behaviour change for her clients in her coaching role. 

“I’m here to accompany you on this journey, providing support, inspiration, and guidance as you strive towards your most meaningful goals. Join me on this transformative journey together, celebrating every step forward as a testament to our shared commitment to personal and professional excellence.”

Connect with Kylee

m: (+61) 480 118 303
w: www.elements4success.com.au
e: [email protected]

Irene Riad, PCC joined Brendon Le Lievre for a Coach Conversation focussed on adding different disciplines to our coaching practice to create a space for leadership reflection.  Tips on getting present and staying focussed on the process of who we are becoming rather than purely on outcomes or goals.

About Irene

Irene is an ICF PCC Executive Coach, Accredited Coach Supervisor, and Organizational Culture Coach who is specialized in emotional intelligence, success mindset, complex trauma recovery, and Jungian depth psychology. She is the founder of SightCET, The Institute of Leadership Authentic Culture, a keynote speaker, and soon to be author for her book – Radical Becoming – coming out by end of 2024. Her coaching and coach supervision journeys weave in the growth of clients’ emotional intelligence and wisdom of the body through different modalities that enable them to go through a deep transformation of their whole human system as leader, team, and organization which mirrors the mind, body, and soul. The outcome of her work is experienced as a renewal of sight to the energetic power we hold within ourselves as well as collectively, to live into our big visions and legacy work. She is deeply fulfilled by empowering others to step into their light and see their unique magnificence in the world.

Connect with Irene:

Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/irene-riad/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sightcet/

Website - https://www.sightcet.com/

 Some thoughts from Brendon on motivation and inspiration in coaching. What are they? How are they different? How might you recognise an increase in motivation or inspiration and what might you do when you notice it. 

 Commodore Peter Scott, CSC, RAN (Retired) joins Brendon Le Lievre for a Coach Conversation on coaching as a leader,  reflections on resilience, life as a sub mariner and the process of writing Running Deep.

Peter's Bio

Joining the Royal Australian Navy as a seventeen-year-old Midshipman in 1983, Peter
Scott served in twenty different command and leadership appointments and rose over three decades to be the professional head of the Navy’s elite: the Submarine Arm. In all, he served in 10 submarines and 20 different command and leadership appointments over 34 years.

Now retired from full time service, Peter holds a Masters in Strategy and Management from the University of New South Wales, and a Masters in Coaching Psychology from the University of Sydney. With special interests in strategic leadership, resilience and transition, Peter now works as an executive coach to help today’s leaders develop, perform and succeed. His memoir Running Deep. An Australian Submarine Life, was published by Fremantle Press in April 2023.

When not coaching or writing, Peter can be found on the trails running ultra-marathons or relaxing at home with his family.

You can connect with Peter on LinkedIn, through his website - https://peterscott.au/ and you can buy his book through - https://fremantlepress.com.au/books/running-deep-an-australian-submarine-life/