Coaching in Conversation

Kate Wendelboe, ACC is an advocate of coaching as a key leadership tool and foundational block of inclusive corporate culture. She is a co-director of strategy and growth at a multinational telco and founder of Recalibration Coaching where she helps people who are at a crossroads in their career. Her educational background has been in language and business and she had an MBA from Cambridge’s Judge Business School where she specialised in culture, arts and media management. Kate loves supporting individuals and colleagues in her corporate environment to be their best selves both inside and outside of work, through powerful questioning and helping people tell compelling stories. Connect with Kate at [email protected].

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Mel Leow, MCC is the founder of APIC with 28 years of coaching, consulting, marketing and leadership experience in the Asia Pacific region. He has more than 4,500 hours of executive and team coaching experience. Mel is described as a thoughtful listener, professional, calm, genuine, intellectually stimulating and emotionally compassionate. He serves c-suite executives and leaders from global MNCs to regional/local organisations, to lead and thrive at their best in an ever evolving and highly competitive environment. One of his passions is to develop future coaches globally through Catalyst Coach, with their mission “to equip 10,000 coaches who will in turn impact 10 million people over the next 20 years.”

Mel is co-author of Bring Out Their Best, Coach Wisdom (Volume II), and The Calling; and author of ENGAGE—How to Stop Living in Default and Start Living the Life You Desire. He is also the host of the #100MasterCoaches podcast.  

Connect with Mel on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/coachmel

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In this episode, Tracy Sinclair has a conversation with Janet Wilson. 

Janet Wilson has extensive expertise in supporting people as they work to develop skills, knowledge and leadership behavior to lead sustainable improvement and development in their organisations. Working with teams and individuals, her work has a particular focus on partnering with leaders to explore the personal, social and strategic awareness which is needed to successfully lead others. 

With a background in business development, marketing and higher education, Janet has worked in the UK, in the Middle East and Africa. She has personal experience of executive level leadership and has worked with executive and senior leaders in public sector organisations, national charities, universities and businesses. 

Janet qualified as a coach in 2003 and is an ICF Professional Certified Coach with more than 2,800 hours of coaching practice. She is qualified as a Relational Team Coach and a Coach Supervisor. 

Convinced by the value coaching can offer, Janet has served as a volunteer with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) since joining in 2004. She served as President of the ICF United Kingdom Chapter and as vice Chair of the Global Dispute Resolution Panel. 

Janet brings her personal experience of leadership and change to the work she does. She is highly motived by learning and continues to extend her own professional development by exploring new and innovative ways of looking at leadership and human behaviour. 

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In this episode, Tracy Sinclair has a conversation with Osama Al Mosa.

Osama Al Mosa is a senior executive, leadership and systemic team coach. Osama is an International Coaching Federation (ICF) Master Certified Coach (MCC) and EMCC Global Individual Team Coaching Accredited Practitioner (ITCA) with more than 10 years of coaching experience and completing more than 9,500 hours of coaching. His academic background is in psychology, business and human resources management and his first university degree was from the medical field and pharma sciences.  

Osama is a bilingual (Arabic/English) global associate for world leading leadership development firms empowering senior leaders and leadership teams at Fortune 500 Corporations, the World Bank Group, and the United Nations. Osama combines his leadership development credentialing, academic background in psychology and corporate managerial experience to conduct different learning and development interventions to support senior leaders, directors, managers and high potential employees. He is a seasoned executive coach, ICF approved coach trainer, ICF coach mentor, ICF coach assessor, and one of the most senior ICF recognized coaches in the Arab world and the MENA regions.

Osama received his coaching qualifications from the most reputable international schools and has been trained in a variety of evidence-based methodologies. In addition, he is accredited in a research-based leadership assessment, teams' dynamics, and psychometric tools (i.e Hogan, WPB5, DiSC, Harrison Assessment, Reina Trust building, Resilience, Influence Style Indicator).

Prior to focusing his practice on professional coaching and training, Osama worked for Fortune 100 for 17 years, and lead different operations within the MENA region. He has a unique extensive practical and diverse experience in leading operations, teams and organizations. 

Osama is the president of the ICF Liwan Chapter, founder and former president of the ICF Jordan Chapter, the founding president of Amman Agora speakers, the board chair of the 3rd and 4th ICF Middle East Prism Award, EthicalCoach volunteer, the Vice President of ICF Global Dispute Resolution Panel, and a board member of ICF global Arabic language translation taskforce. He is also very active in volunteering to support start-up businesses, entrepreneurial initiatives, capacity building and social impact projects.

Connect with Osama on Social Media: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/osama-al-mosa-25a0075/

https://www.facebook.com/accompleash/

https://www.instagram.com/accompleash/

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In this episode, Tracy has a conversation with Janet Harvey about the role of coaches and the re-evolution of humanity. 

Janet M. Harvey, Best Selling Author of the award-winning leadership and coaching book, Invite Change — Lessons from 2020, The Year of No Return, is CEO of inviteCHANGE, a coaching and human development organization that shapes a world where people love their life’s work. As a visionary leader in the global professional coaching industry, Janet Harvey is an International Coaching Federation (ICF) Master Certified Coach and accredited educator who has engaged adults, teams, and global enterprises for nearly 30 years to invite change that sustains well-being and excellence. Being better humans together requires claiming a true self first and then choosing to live inside out as we transform, evolve and be resilient. 

As Janet shares, “coaching in its many forms has at its root the effect of awakening consciousness and doing so in a highly accelerated fashion that sustains.” She uses her executive and entrepreneurial experience to cultivate leaders in sustainable excellence through Generative Wholeness™, a signature generative coaching and learning process for people, processes, and systems. Her colleagues, audiences and clients regard her as a bold, curious, provocative, articulate, and compassionate human being. Janet has served as a global board leader for ICF, as a director from 2009-2013, as past president in 2012, as Chair for the ICF Foundation 2013-2017, and more recently as Treasurer for the ICF Thought Leadership Institute 2020-2021.

Connect with Janet on social media: 

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/janetharvey/
• https://www.facebook.com/invCHANGE
• https://www.instagram.com/invite_change/

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In this episode, Tracy has a conversation with Lyssa deHart about finding the courage to work on ourselves as coaches.

Lyssa deHart, LICSW, MCC, BCC, author of StoryJacking: Change Your Dialogue, Transform Your Life and The Reflective Coach. Lyssa is a Leadership Confidence Coach and Whole Life Coach, Certified ICF Mentor Coach, Coaching SuperVision Partner, ICF PCC Assessor, and coaching educator.

Using her understanding of the ICF Core Competencies, combined with her knowledge of Neuroscience, Lyssa works with professional coaches to expand the capacity to partner with their clients through how they show up and hold the space for those with whom they work.

Lyssa is the creator of the Power of Metaphor Certification Program. Giving coaches new ways to tune their ears to hear the powerful metaphors their clients bring forward, as well as discovering how to leverage the important metaphors to create stronger agreements, build trust and safety, allow the client to lead, and ultimately evoke powerful embodied awareness.

Lyssa works with creative executives and leaders ready to move their goals forward, shift mindsets, and get unstuck. Her clients develop powerful embodied goals and together they get curious about what stands between where her clients are and where they want to be. Using a creative human solutions focused framework, she supports people to get results. What fires her up is working with smart creative people to trust their brilliance, and develop the courage, and confidence to believe in themselves and the goals that are important to them.

Visit Lyssa's website at lyssadehart.com.

Find Lyssa on social media: 

• Linkedin
• Instagram
• Facebook

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Gaurav Arora has a decade of rich experience in the professional services industry as a facilitator, coach and speaker, with a strong track record of building high-performing leadership teams. As a facilitator, he has been recognized for creating stimulating and interactive learning environments, encouraging participation and individual creativity. As an Executive Coach, he works to dismantle barriers which come up in the workplace for leaders and help them in fulfilling their intent. A storyteller by heart, he leverages various methodologies and techniques to put his point across and create the breakthrough. 

Ontology has influenced his work in a big way and he loves designing and delivering long term interventions using visual facilitation, storytelling, and experiential learning activities. Gaurav’s work is aligned with some of his highest values of authenticity, creativity, collaboration, continuous learning and innovation. His areas of developmental focus include: executive coaching, transformational leadership, self-mastery, executive presence, emotional intelligence, personal and interpersonal leadership. Gaurav has over 2,700 hours of coaching experience. He has worked with individuals and organizations primarily in India, and has led workshops in China, Indonesia, Thailand, and Turkey. 

Guarav founded Inspire Coaching Systems in 2009 and started a social development initiative “iOwn” in 2016, which is a platform to connect coaches with the Social Development Sector to create possibilities and transformation for the change makers and bringing coaching to the grass root level. As a thought leader, Gaurav is coaching change-makers across India. These change-makers are very ordinary people who want to create a new society, and Gaurav is facilitating their journey. While coaching, Gaurav learned from them how simplicity opens up new experiences and beginnings and how everyone can contribute and generate change. To name a few - Amar Daniel of Ananda Sagara (ocean of joy) providing an ecosystem for children of migrant construction workers to realize their true potential; Anshu Gupta of Goonj (www.goonj.org), is using urban discard as a tool to alleviate poverty and enhance the dignity of the poor in the world; Robin Chaurasiya of Kranti, empowering girls from Mumbai’s red light areas to become agents of social change; Ravi Kalra of The Earth Saviours Foundation (www.earthsaviours.in), a social activist, only person to step into the picture, and make arrangements for the last rites for a life. 

Gaurav is an Engineer and a Management Graduate in Marketing. He is a recipient of the “Young HR Professional of the Year 2009-10” by Employer Branding Institute and has been awarded as the 100 top Leadership Coach in 2017. Recently, Gaurav has been honored with the 2019 ICF Young Leader Award. Gaurav is a voracious reader and loves adventure sports. In his free time, he does calligraphy, painting, and reads books. 

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In this episode of Coaching in Conversation, Tracy has a conversation with Karen Dean. 

Karen is an International Coaching Federation (ICF) Master Certified Coach with 30 years and more than 15,000 hours coaching individuals and leadership teams. Karen has delivered in more than 90 organisations, across 22 sectors worldwide. She believes that she has the courage to to usefully provoke and challenge her clients. She works with precision and bends this approach with the sensitivity to support as needed. She enjoys complexity and seeking clarity and simplicity, which is valuable in her supervision practice. Endlessly curious, she has applied this to innovating tools for coaches. 

Karen is the co-author of Coaching Stories: Flowing and Falling of Being a Coach (2019). She was awarded “Joint winner — Best Feature Article” in the Coaching at Work magazine in 2016 and shortlisted in 2017. She has been a guest on a number of podcasts and was interviewed in a 2-part production of “The Workplace” on Resonance FM, a London arts radio station where she was invited to share her expertise, knowledge and insights from working with teams. 

Karen is an original thinker and innovator who created me.my team. This is a diagnostic for team leaders and coaches working with teams to assess, prepare for, and conduct inclusive conversations. This enables a broad population in an organisation to consistently approach change with a common language and understanding. 

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In this episode of Coaching in Conversation, Tracy has a conversation with Andrew Machon.

Andrew Machon is an experienced ICF Master Certified Coach, living in the United Kingdom. He has a first-class honours degree and Ph.D. in Biochemistry and a Master of Arts in Psychosynthesis Psychotherapy. He has worked as a coach trainer across the world in many different countries and cultures. Andrew has also helped major organisations develop coaching strategies and valuable resources for internal coaches. As a visiting lecturer in Positive Psychology at Buckinghamshire New University in the UK, he has taught students about the nature of change and development.

Andrew is the co-author of Positive Psychology Across the Life Span: An Existential Perspective (2020). He has also written several other books including, Guiding Lights – Images and Words Inspired by Aurora Borealis (2019), Appreciative Healthcare Practice – A guide to compassionate person-centered care (2015), The Coaching Secret – how to be an exceptional coach (2010), A Difference of One – Rediscovering a Loving and Creative Originality (2008), and Just Beyond the Visible – the art of being and becoming (2005).

Andrew’s focus now is largely two-fold – firstly, continuing his work as an experienced coaching supervisor working with and developing groups of coaches. And secondly continuing to explore and develop coaching mastery with groups of coaches in retreat settings in the UK and abroad.

We hope you enjoy this conversation!

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