Highlight

• Leadership development turned into coaching ~40 years ago
• Starting with Vistage with 1:1's
• Being on the fringe of society
• Asking himself "How can I be relevant"
• Started his own business at age 32 years old
• His first encounter with Frederick Hudson
• Creating Fielding
• Adding coaching to their leadership development programs
• Eventually focusing on coaching
• Teaching Coaching with Hudson in 2001
• Playing the "Inner Game"
• You don't age out in coaching if you stay relevant
• Advice for younger coaches - serve your community and self development
• There are no limits
• Not knowing what a process was
• Coaching is consciousness industry
• The summer BBQ in Kansas City in 1988
• John's favorite Pam McLean story
• And Finally "In the Middle of the Night"