Welcome to the Coaching Studio, I am looking forward to introducing you to my guest today Tünde Erdös, Ph.D., MCC. Join us as we meander through the forces that moved Tünde from extrinsic motivation to intrinsic motivation and how coaching aligned with that journey. 

One of the interesting parts from our conversation was around "knowing" or "not knowing." 
Tünde shares, "I don't want to know and interestingly what I realized today and I didn't know that before when I was a novice coach, was that anything that we need to know to start working with, emerges in the first 5 to 10 minutes in any encounter. And because I have had this experience, this is what I'm looking for. This innocent, this blank sheet, you know, going in as a blank sheet as best as we can." 

Tünde is a Master Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation and has done a body of research on Presence. Her work has explored how coaches may think they are present with their clients, yet the body language of the coach and the client tells a different story. What does it mean to be present?

Tünde Erdös, Ph.D., MCC, would say, "My profession is more than a vocation: it’s a pro-vocation: I coach in synergy with leadership, HR, teams, and workshop staff mostly in culturally diverse environments. What I learned is that staying fresh as a coach is the biggest challenge for me. So, I’ve decided to fall out of love and in love with coaching over and over again. My vision is to coach for connection between all stakeholders. The goal is to encourage systems-collaborative thinking, the key to organizational thriving beyond individual growth. I also place my practice on evidence base through my own engagement in research. And creating social impact through coaching has been my latest pet peeve: it's about moving from 'power for me' to 'empowering other women in Kenya - through coaching and coach training: and the coaching documentary is the most recent initiative to do just that.

So thank you again, Tünde, for being on the show.

Visit Tünde Erdös at her website and see what she's up to!

Coaching Documentary: The Light and Shadow of Coaching

Find out more about the Mama Organization and Doing Good

Book(s): The Coaching Science Practitioner Handbook and Coaching Presence

Find Tünde Erdös on LinkedIn

I hope you enjoy the show!

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Host: Lyssa deHart, LICSW, MCC, BCC

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