The Coach's Backpack

This week, Dr Rob Kemp, an expert on authenticity, tells us:

• Why he contemplates going naked
• How to get a quick start in a coaching engagement
• How to identify someone who doesn’t value coaching early in your relationship
• What emotional labour is and why it matters
• What factors he uses to measure the impact of his coaching
• The display rules of the coaching profession
• The similarities between plumbers and coaches
• The towering presence he would like to take with him and emulate
• The selection box that helps define the kind of coach you are
• Why he feels  strong bond with people he’s never met
• ... and much more.

Find out more about Rob at linkedin.com/in/robmkemp

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Rob is a qualified and experienced Coach, a Doctor of Coaching & Mentoring, (2021) holding an MSc in Coaching & Mentoring (2013), and a post-graduate certificate in coaching (2005). You can read more about Rob's doctoral research here.

Coaching experience in life sciences, public sector, commercial organisations, higher education, not-for-profit and voluntary organisations.

Rob is CEO of EngageCoach, and founder of Purple Patch Coaching. 

For contact details, LinkedIn might be useful: linkedin.com/in/robmkemp

This week, Sebastian Fox, a team coach, tells us:

• How he suggests you master the art of team coaching
• What team coaching is
• How much 1-to-1 coaching is still included in team coaching
• How confidentiality works for team coaching
• Why he always takes someone else with him
• Why it’s not all about location location location
• Why he’s not keen on 6-step guides
• The common causes of lack of effectiveness
• ... and much more.

Find out more about Seb at linkedin.com/in/sebastianfox and www.brownfoxconsultancy.com

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Sebastian is a qualified team and executive coach who works with leaders and teams to enable them to become more effective through helping them understand and address what’s getting in their way. He also works with individuals in creating greater impact in their business development efforts to grow their business over the long term. He is a director at brownfox consultancy and Head of Research at Team Coaching Studio, a developer of team coaches. Seb is currently undertaking a Doctorate in Coaching and Mentoring, researching how teams perceive their coaching sessions to be productive.

linkedin.com/in/sebastianfox

E: [email protected]

www.brownfoxconsultancy.com

This week, Brendan Kelly, a property investment coach, tells us:

• Why you should be wary of those who love you the most
• Why nobody inspires him
• Why property beats shares and business to invest in
• How to find out what people do and do not know
• How much a property coach guides your portfolio
• What his tool for encouragement is
• How to avoid “ready-fire-aim”
• Why the best market in the world for you to invest in is probably closer than you think
• Why data is important but history should be ignored
• ... and much more.

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Brendan’s decades of property investment experience and expertise spans a multitude of property strategies including renovations, subdivisions, commercial developments, growth properties, positive cash flow deals, industrial properties and even vendor finance.

Originally trained as a teacher of mathematics and science, Brendan has been able to easily translate what he’s learnt through investing in property into systems and approaches anyone can use.

Brendan helped establish the renowned Results Mentoring Program and has since personally mentored over a thousand people in all aspects of property investing. Brendan co-authored the critically acclaimed property investing reference book The Real Deal: Property Invest Your Way to Financial Freedom, published in 2010 by Wright Books.

Today, Brendan continues to focus on educating and supporting people on all aspects property investing and the Australian property market.

This week, Andy Bird, a leadership coach, tells us:

• Why he likes to keep it plain and simple
• The 3 stages of leadership
• The problem he sees most frequently in leadership
• Why it's not just about getting stuff done
• What state of mind he thinks is key
• What helps burst the bubble leaders are sometimes lost in
• His favourite tool to identify the beliefs and skills that flourish in great leaders
• ... and much more.

Find out more about Andy at www.andybird.com and on linkedin.com.

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Andy Bird

Andy Bird is an executive coach and mentor who provides support, challenge and guidance to help leaders flourish and succeed. He works with a diverse range of CEOs in charities, start-ups and larger corporates.

As a leader himself, Andy’s early career at Unilever culminated in him leading their Marketing Academy, the group responsible for driving the development of their global marketing capabilities. He went on to co-found Brand Learning, a specialist consultancy that won many awards for its high levels of employee engagement. The company grew to a team of 170 people, with offices in London, New York and Singapore, before it was acquired by Accenture in 2017.

Andy has been working as a coach for over 10 years. He obtained an MSc in Coaching and Behaviour Change at Henley Business School and is accredited as a Master Executive Coach by APECS. Andy has published two books – The Growth Drivers and The Inspired Leader – and he is currently conducting doctoral research into the roles that coaching and mentoring play for charity CEOs.

www.andybird.com

This week, John Inge Hervik, an enterprise coach, tells us:

• Why he wouldn’t TAke his parent
• What he uses to spot patterns
• The item that captures ideas
• Why he wants to leave time out of his backpack
• Why he wouldn't take his "parent" with him
• ... and much more.

Find out more about John Inge at https://norge.adventureswithagile.com/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/hervik/

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John Inge is an engaging solid systemic coach. He uses his knowledge and reflective practices to support organisations, teams and leaders to develop their game towards high performance. He has an array of approaches to pull from. His organisational systemic experience and training supports leaders, teams and organisations navigate the complex times we live in successfully. His whole hearted and genuine presence for the client creates an environment where enthusiasm and deep insights can emerge.

This week, Dr Andrea Kilpatrick, an executive coach, tells us:

• What Andrea’s research suggests exec leaders need the most
• When new leaders should start coaching
• The non-academic book to help you build your confidence
• The “security blanket” that Andrea would not want to take with her
• The one tip to boost your confidence
• ... and much more.

Find out more about Andrea at [email protected] and www.kilpatrickexecutivecoaching.com

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Dr Andrea Kilpatrick is an experienced executive coach working with senior leaders across all sectors. Andrea has a particular interest in transitions, confidence and leadership development. She is an accredited senior practitioner with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) and is a trained coach supervisor. She has a doctorate in coaching from Oxford Brookes and an MSc in career management and coaching from Birkbeck, University of London. For more information, please contact Andrea at [email protected] or www.kilpatrickexecutivecoaching.com

During January's episode where David and Amelia quizzed Emma, they interspersed questions. Here are two questions that we had to edit out for timing reasons.

This week, Sarah Woodward, a divorce coach, tells us:

• The way that most people try to deal with divorce
• What the love language is
• How to find an ideal partner
• Why people on "Married at First Sight" get it all wrong
• What a mood hoover is and why you should avoid them
• Why you should regularly drop a G bomb
• ... and much more.

Find out more about Sarah at sarah-woodward.com, Instagram and Facebook.

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Sarah Woodward is an award-winning divorce coach for women, helping them to get unstuck, let go of destructive thoughts and to rediscover who they are so that they can feel happier and stronger than ever before. It is her mission to empower women to believe that even though their future may be different, it can still be amazing. She helps her clients move on with their lives, let go of the past, and find the happiness again that they deserve, because she was that person broken by divorce, wasting years devastated, in therapy, with chronic depression, grieving and truly lost.

Having found a passion that really helped her find herself again she beat chronic depression and fell in love with life again and using her corporate skills from senior roles in global brands such as Sony, she tapped into her change management and relationship management skills, to help her learn to embrace the change in her life, and to start to build new relationships.

When a friend divorced several years ago, Sarah realised that there was still very little support for women going through this traumatic life changing event, and that she could use her training and experience to help them move on with their lives and leave behind the heartbreak to find happiness again.

One of the first Accredited Breakup and Divorce Coach Practitioners in the UK and having been awarded the Most Influential Woman in divorce coaching by the Influential Businesswomen Awards in 2020, Sarah is a well-respected expert in her industry.

Sarah's website: sarah-woodward.com

Sarah on Instagram: instagram.com/sarahwoodward_divorcecoach

Sarah on Facebook: facebook.com/sarahwoodwarddivorcecoach

This week, Sue Haswell, a laughter yoga coach, tells us:

• How to give yourself an internal massage
• What laughter yoga is (including a demo)
• How making laughter a default reaction helped Sue in a car crash
• Why she hates bright flowers
• ... and much more.

Find out more about Sue at suehaswell.co.uk and at creativelaughter.co.uk

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Although now a coach, trainer and therapist, Sue's main work used to be in the serious-sounding field of “corporate communications” and she's been using NLP to support communication and behaviour change since 1997. In 2011 Sue became a Laughter Yoga Leader, then a Laughter Facilitator, and finally a Laughter Yoga teacher – which means she teaches others to be Laughter Yoga Leaders. Now she aim's to inject a few Laughter Yoga principles into all her work – because the health benefits are incredible and the perspective change that laughter gives can be deeply transformative.

Sue likes to stress that Laughter Yoga isn’t about humour, "it’s just laughter because it’s very good for us", she explains. Last week someone asked Sue, “Can you teach me Laughter Yoga if I’m not very flexible?”. “Yes," Sue replied, "Laughter Yoga doesn’t need flexibility”. "Oh good," they said, "I can’t make Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays".

You can find Sue's website at suehaswell.co.uk and at creativelaughter.co.uk (which she set up back in 2012 to offer group coaching and training, and one-to-one work).

Sue works in public and private sector organisations, training in coaching, mindfulness, NLP and Laughter Yoga to support stress management and creativity. Throughout Covid she's been working online with a number of blue-light organisations, including the police and NHS to support stress management and team building through laughter and mindfulness.

This week, Sorrel Roberts, a personal and professional development coach, tells us:

• How breathing is a unifying factor of religions
• How to turn off your inner chat
• Why your experiences are based on predictions
• How some people slow down time to predict the future
• Why Sorrel gets cross about the idea of the lizard-chimp-human brain
• ... and much more.

Find out more about Sorrel at sorrelroberts.com and book a place on her upcoming 'Breath for coaches' workshop.

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A professionally and academically accredited coach, passionate about harnessing the benefits of coaching to assist organisations and individuals in realising their potential.

Sorrel brings to her work: experience within national and international organisations and extended experience of coaching and personal development.

When she isn’t coaching Sorrel can be found learning new life lessons from her daughters.