The Coaching Podcast

Daniel is a Global Consultant and Expert in Customer Experience and Contact Centres. This interview was recorded by Simon back in 2018 with Daniel during a business trip from his then home in Singapore to Melbourne. We are glad to finally bring it you now.

Jennifer Migan met Emma Doyle through the winning summit and they instantly connected on many levels, especially on coaching topics and how to become an effective speaker. In this episode of The Coaching Podcast, Jennifer shares some important messages about the power of choosing your words carefully as a coach.

Jennifer is a former French professional tennis player. Before going on tour, she played college tennis at Indiana State University (Division 1) where she reached the top 50 NCAA in singles and top 25 in doubles. Jennifer also has a degree in journalism and political science and a Master's degree in international relations. Currently working as a Media and Communication expert, Jennifer launched her podcast called The Players' Lounge, in which she discusses the mental aspect of the game with her guests.

Emma Doyle interviews Andy Scantland through her connection with the ICF chapter in Colorado. Simon and Emma then share their insights on this interview especially around deep level listening and how to ask targeted questions.

Andy's passion is in helping people to lead in a more effective, confident and inspiring way. He helps businesses scale by scaling their leadership.

While some people are naturally-born good leaders, most of us are not. Good leadership practice can be learned if you have a desire to serve people and a willingness to stretch and grow. He is dedicated to empowering individuals to embrace their potential and showing up in their strengths, as their most authentic and inspiring selves.

He is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), trained through the ICF-accredited Co-Active Training Institute as well as certified Strengths Coach through The Marcus Buckingham Company., in Brain-based Coaching through the NeuroLeadership Institute and in Fred Kofman's Conscious Leadership model.

If you have a desire to enhance your leadership impact, please reach out to Andy: [email protected]

After hearing Darren Cahill talk at a Coach Education workshop with Tennis Australia, we knew that we wanted to have him on The Coaching Podcast. I have always admired his work ethic and his TV commentary/match analysis are always spot on. As he is around the top 10 male and female tennis player frequently, we can all learn from what qualities they share in common:

1) Work Ethic

2) Purpose

3) Belief

4) Resilience

5) Team

Darren Cahill is one of the great icons in the world of international tennis. Born in Adelaide, Australia as the son of a famous Australian football player and coach John Cahill, Darren started playing professional tennis in 1984, at the age of nineteen. Cahill's first success as a professional was in 1985, winning his first tour doubles title at Melbourne, and later in 1988 in Gstaad, he won his first top-level singles title. The same year Cahill eliminated Boris Becker at the US Open and reached the semi-finals. Cahill's performance at this Grand Slam event is widely considered his best ever.

A year later, in 1989 at the Australian Open, Cahill continued a streak of successes. Playing with Mark Kratzmann, Cahill finished runner-up in the men's doubles. Playing for the Australian team at the Davis Cup in 1990, Cahill achieved a career 6-4 Davis Cup record with 4-0 in doubles and 2-4 in singles. Cahill was ranked as World number 22 in singles and world number 10 in doubles. He was the winner of two ATP singles titles and thirteen doubles titles. Cahill's list of victories contains wins over such distinguished names as John McEnroe, Boris Becker, Goran Ivanisevic and Mats Wilander. Cahill's highly-successful career as a tennis player earned him the Australian male Tennis Player of the Year 1988 Award.

During my time in Washinton in 2019, I had the pleasure of coaching tennis to Jay Gruden's wife, Sherry. While coaching her, we spoke about the importance of team values that subsequently drive behaviour. She suggested that I share a values activity with her husband, Jay Gruden, who at the time was the head coach of the Washington Redskins. This was an opportunity not to be missed for The Coaching Podcast.

Jay Gruden is an American football coach and former quarterback. Currently, he has joined the Jaguars with coach Doug Marrone as one of their offensive coordinator coaches. He previously served as the head coach of the Washington Redskins from 2014 to 2019 and as offensive coordinator for the Cincinnati Bengals from 2011 to 2013. During his time in the Arena Football League (AFL), he won four Arena Bowls as a player and two more as a head coach. He is the younger brother of Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden and was an assistant coach of the 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers team that won Super Bowl XXXVII.

When you have the opportunity to interview a leader in her field who happens to be the National Chairman of KPMG in Australia, then you do not pass up an opportunity like this one.

Alison Kitchen is the National Chairman of KPMG Australia and also serves as a member of KPMG's Global and Regional Boards. Alison has held a variety of management and governance roles within the partnership as well as serving as External Audit Partner for a range of major ASX listed companies.

Alison has worked in geographically diverse and complex

operating environments providing advice on a range of topics including audit,

risk, management, internal controls, business processes and regulatory change.

Alison's experience spans a range of industries including energy, mining,

transport and consumer goods and financial services.

During Alison's time at KPMG, Alison has acted as lead audit

partner on five ASX Top 50 companies with global operations and has significant

transaction experience with those clients.

In her current role as National Chairman, Alison is

responsible for the overall governance and strategic positioning of KPMG in

Australia. Alison also remains the lead partner for ANZ's external audit.

Alison is a member of Chief Executive Women.

Michelle Guiliano is the Co-Founder at Salt Consulting & Communications. Emma and Michelle met when they were both speaking at the Festival of Doers in Switzerland. Emma was immediately impressed with both Michelle and Denise Nickerson's ability to engage an audience with practical and realistic strategies for people to action and live the best story of their lives.

Michelle Guiliano is an Innovator, Award-Winning Entrepreneur, Business Development and Strategy Consultant, experienced Executive Search Professional, and Coach. She leads teams from within and is a catalyst in the creation of high-performance culture wherever she works. Energy, enthusiasm, and creativity fuel her rapid assessment of opportunities, resources, and solutions to bring teams and companies into practical, actionable, alignment with their vision. Skills from endurance sports inform her coaching practice. She collaborates with executive clients on guidelines, attitudes and habits that make measurable difference in streamlining the path to excellence. With her business partner, she has coached over 100 sports coaches, including Olympic and national-level coaches, in human development, empathy, active listening, mindfulness, and communication skills through a Swiss Olympic-approved curriculum. She co-created a technology for Strategic Teaming for those in crisis through her own personal experience of teaming learned through personal crisis and sports.

www.salt.consulting

www.theintegritysystem.com

Following on from the interview with Alicia Molik (check out #33), this episode is with her former coach, David Taylor. Emma Doyle has the opportunity to interview David at Melbourne Park while he was working with many of the up and coming top Aussie players.

Here are some of the highlights from David long-standing career coaching.

· Began playing tennis aged eight and started coaching in 1992

· Became a coach on the WTA Tour in 1995, based out of the Hopman Tennis Academy in the US

· Touring WTA coach from 1995 to 2000

· Coached at the Saddlebrook Tennis Academy in Florida from 1995-2000

· Appointed by Tennis Australia as the national women's travelling coach in 2001, working with Alicia Molik, Evie Dominikovic and Nicole Pratt

· Nominated Australian Fed Cup coach in 2002 and 2003

· Coached several top 20 WTA players, including former World Number 1's Martina Hingis and Ana Ivanovic, US Open Champion Sam Stosur and Olympic bronze medallist Alicia Molik

· Appointed captain of the Australian Fed Cup team in 2006 and has led the team for seven ties

· Named the Australian Institute of Sport's tennis program women's coach in 2007, working with Casey Dellacqua, Jessica Moore and, currently, Stosur

· Coached the Australian women's team at the 2008 Beijing Olympics

· Guided Sam Stosur to her maiden Grand Slam title, the 2011 US Open

· Stepped down from the role of Fed Cup captain in December 2012 (Alicia Molik was named captain in January 2013) to focus on coaching Sam Stosur

· David Taylor and Sam Stosur parted ways in August 2013; they reunited in April 2015

· In between he worked with Croatian-born Australian Ajla Tomljanovic

Emma Doyle had the opportunity to interview Bethanie Mattek-Sands at the Eastbourne International tennis tournament in 2019. Bethanie is a bundle of energy and this interview is exactly the same! Bethanie is an American professional tennis player and an Olympic Gold medalist. She has won nine Grand Slam titles - five in women's doubles and four in mixed doubles, and is a former doubles world No. 1. Take a listen to hear what Bethanie believes is poor coach - so interesting!

The guest coach discussing this interview with Emma is Damien Carmody Stephens. Damo has had an instrumental impact on Emma's life as he continues to mentor, impact and influence her coaching today. His insights on Bethanie's comments and coaching, in general, will leave you wanting to hear lots more from Damo - Emma's YODA mentor.

Emma Doyle interviews Alicia Molik at the US Open on this short episode of The Coaching Podcast. It is only 5 minutes and 30 seconds of great value especially around the importance of 'listening' to help build problem-solving skills.

Alicia is an Australian former professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8 and won a bronze medal for Australia at the 2004 Athens Olympics. She enjoys good food, red wine, the Barossa Valley, Thai and Japanese cuisine, spending time with friends at home, bike riding, the beach and soccer games ... Favorite musicians are U2, Kylie Minogue, Coldplay and Robbie Williams; favorite movies are The Castle, Kath & Kim and any Australian comedy. She is the current Australian Fed Cup Captain and we wish her all the success in the world for 2021.