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Systemic Coaching throws open a vast arena where the coaching is not just about how a team works together but also how it can mean a lot of different things. There is a lot of talk about "systemic" these days, but is there really a consensus on what it means in the context of coaching?

We delve into leadership coaching and how systemic thinking may be used in coaching in this episode with Dr. Paul Lawrence.

Paul is a  leadership development consultant, coach, coach supervisor, and researcher. He founded his new company Leading Systemically in late 2021.

He designs and delivers leadership programs, including coaching skills programs and programs in teaming excellence. He has more than 4,500 coaching hours experience, working with leaders across a diverse range of industries. He is a trained coach supervisor, having trained at Oxford Brookes University.

Before moving into consulting and coaching, He enjoyed a 15-year corporate career performing leadership roles in the UK, Australia, Spain, Portugal & Japan, with responsibilities for other markets across Europe & South-East Asia. I have experience in corporate strategy, organisational development, marketing, operations, finance & HR.

He is an Honorary Research Associate at Oxford Brookes University and conducts an ongoing program of research into leadership, coaching and change. He has authored more than a dozen academic articles and book chapters, and four books.

He is currently working on his fifth book with the working title 'The Wise Leader'. This book will challenge contemporary perspectives on leadership and leadership development, offering organisations practical guidance in enhancing collective leadership capacity.

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As a child, Kevin was taught to be polite—to say “please” and “thank you” like all the kids are. You could say that he learned a cursory form of gratitude at an early age.

But take a pause and think for a moment, is being thankful and being grateful the same thing?

This is what Kevin talks about in this ultimate gratitude podcast. So if you want to discover the true power of gratitude and embrace gratitude as a lifestyle then this episode is just for you.
 
During a bout of depression in early 2018 when Kevin began to discover the true power of gratitude and embrace gratitude as a lifestyle. He realized that his early expressions of gratitude were anemic and bordered on robotic. As such, they failed to tap into the power of gratitude that neuroscientists and positive psychologists talk about. 
 
As he adopted gratitude as a lifestyle, he began incorporating gratitude into his work. Whether that was speaking engagements, training or coaching sessions, or his podcast, he started sessions by asking people to pause and express gratitude for something. 
 
Then, in June 2019, he was inspired to host a gratitude challenge. So he did. At first, it was in conjunction with his podcast. He hosted a 10-Day Gratitude Challenge to celebrate the 100th episode milestone. It was a tremendous success with almost 300 participants, and by the second day, a 100-person waitlist. 
 
So, he launched a second session of the challenge. And it grew—organically and globally. By the fifth session, more than 1,000 people from 40-plus countries had participated, and by the 10th session, that number grew to over 2,000 people from more than 50 countries. Somehow, Kevin had tapped into the power of gratitude and people’s hunger for it. 
 
He also co-created The Gratitude Challenge Card Deck, a resource that shares 52 of the creative prompts from The Gratitude Challenge for people to use to grow and guide gratitude in their life, work, or family. 
 
His latest endeavor is 30 Days IN the Power of Gratitude, an app-based journey helping people explore and embrace the power of gratitude in a 30-day journey. 
 
He is the founder and host of This Extraordinary Life Global Community and Podcast. 
 
Kevin is a graduate of Gonzaga University with a Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership. He has an undergraduate degree in theology from Mercer University. He is a Fellow with Creating the Future and The Colson Center. He lives in Woodstock, Georgia, where he enjoys being a husband, father, grandfather, friend, creator, and gratitude guide. 

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Seeking a radical purpose in life is something that humanity has been aiming for, since centuries. But humanity must undergo a radical revolution in the way we see ourselves, nature, and our mission. We need to change the paradigm so that we can fully express our willingness to work together and have an impact as a group.

This is what we discuss in this podcast. Learn what led Jose to the point in his life that, despite his triumphs, he began to doubt his surroundings and actions in this interview. He gives us a new definition of "radical" through research into human behaviour and psychology and the fusion of the body, mind, and heart.

Jose is an entrepreneur, a change agent, a paradigm shifter, a researcher, and an author. He is the co-founder of Radical Purpose, a Collaborative helping other people switch to ways of collaborating that suit their needs.

His primary concerns are in devising strategies to escape from the current prevailing systems of coercion and exposing the truths about them. In doing so, he sketches out the workplace of the future, one with a balanced environment. This frequently results in harmony and a sense of purpose fulfillment for the individual.

After 13 years of working in a dysfunctional organisation and industry, Jose realised that he could no longer live or make a contribution to the dysfunction of the systems of force. In order to create the Radical Purpose Framework, Collaborative Canvas, and Collaborative Agreement as well as co-author Radical Companies, he has spent the last seven years studying human motivation and organisational environments.

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What is Compassionate living? Have you wondered? 

Is it a way of living where one's mind and heart are both open to understanding others' experiences, or is it our shared connectivity with all life, where one acts from that place of informed caring? Compassion is not that simple and sometimes often confused with empathy and sympathy. But all these terms are different.

Come explore with us in this episode all you need to know about compassion with Immanual Joseph.

Immanual is the founder of Compassionleaders, whose mission is to empower workplaces with compassion skills that enable human and business excellence. 

For over 6 years, he has been a student and evangelist of workplace compassion. He is convinced that love, kindness, and decency have a crucial place in the work setting. He created the 9-Pillars of workplace compassion framework and authored ‘The Fifth Revolution- Reinventing workplace happiness, health, and engagement through compassion’. He has taught compassion workshops globally, including at Amazon, Salesforce, Box, and HSBC. 

He is a former cancer scientist, and author of seven fiction and non-fiction books, multiple scientific publications, book chapters, and articles. He dreams of a world without walls, of global harmony, and workplaces that empower their people to thrive. 
He currently resides in McKinney, Texas, with his wife and kids. 

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Do you find it difficult to say NO? Many of do we feel that we are obligated to say yes all the time. But have you really wondered how much does it cost when you end up saying yes to everyone every time..when you want to say NO actually…

Saying no is never easy, but it can be particularly difficult after accepting a commitment. You can be concerned that walking away will sever relationships, make you seem erratic or untrustworthy, or make you look ineffective on a team. But what does it actually cost? Find out in this episode with Matt Parker.

Matt K. Parker is a writer, speaker, researcher, and third-generation programmer. Over the last two decades, he's played a variety of roles in the software industry, including developer, manager, director, and global head of engineering. 
 
He has specialized in hyper-iterative software practices for the last decade and is currently researching the experience of radically collaborative software makers. 
 
He lives in a small village in Connecticut with his wife and three children.

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Life has given us gifts that we cannot even imagine. Life gives us messages to aline, realign or even reorient itself and we often even miss them or misinterpret them. But these messages bring out the best in us. In this episode, I talk about one such incident that left a huge impact on my life.

Gaurav 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, and encouraging participation and individual creativity. As an Executive Coach, he works to dismantle barriers that come up in the workplace for leaders and help them in fulfilling their intent. A storyteller by heart, he leverages various methodologies and technique to put his point across and create the breakthrough. 
 
He founded Inspire Coaching Systems in 2009, now known as xMonks and started a social development initiative “iOwn” in 2016, which is a platform to connect coaches with Social Development Sector to create possibilities and transformation for the change makers and bringing coaching to the grass root level. 
 
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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 What if I ever come to you and ask you about the wildest dream you would want to live before you say goodbye to this life. How would you respond to that? 

God's desire for us is that we fulfill our purpose. But are we doing that? Skip has tried to answer this question. Listen to this episode and explore topics around friendship, connection, and purpose.

Skip Lineberg is highly creative, visionary marketing leader, innovator, problem-solver, podcaster & published author. Certified Scrum Master. His Top 5 strengths are ideation, strategy, achiever, positivity and competition. (Clifton Strengths Finder 2.0). Skip is a published author and podcast host. By day, Skip is a B2B marketing executive and visionary, energetic leader in the IT world.

He is blessed to apply these gifts in many diverse roles--as a mentor, as a marketing manager, in training and public speaking, teaching at colleges and universities, as a youth sports coach and as a father.

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What does it mean to give and be a Go giver? For me personally, giving is a way of life, like a purpose and our actions should reflect that way of life.

In this episode, Bob Burg joined us on The xMonks Drive to explain giving. Let’s hear from the master about how he came up with this concept of giving and how can this be applied in the business context today.

Bob Burg shares how a subtle shift in focus is not only a more uplifting and fulfilling way of conducting business but the most financially profitable way, as well. For 30 years he’s helped companies, sales leaders, and their teams to more effectively communicate their value, sell at higher prices with less resistance, and grow their businesses based on Endless Referrals.

Bob has regularly addressed audiences ranging in size from 50 to 16,000 — sharing the platform with notables including today’s top thought leaders, broadcast personalities, Olympic athletes and political leaders including a former United States President.

Although for years he was best known for his book Endless Referrals, it’s his business parable, The Go-Giver (coauthored with John David Mann) that captured the imagination of his readers.

The Go-Giver, a Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek Bestseller, has sold over a million copies. Since its release it has consistently stayed in the Top 25 on Porchlight’s (formerly 800-CEO-READ) Business Book Bestsellers List. The book has been translated into 30 languages. It was rated #10 on Inc. Magazine’s list of the Most Motivational Books Ever Written, and was on HubSpot’s 20 Most Highly Rated Sales Books of All Time.

Bob is the author of a number of books on sales, marketing and influence, with total book sales approaching two million copies.

The American Management Association named Bob one of the 30 Most Influential Leaders and he was named one of the Top 200 Most Influential Authors in the World by Richtopia.

Bob is an advocate, supporter and defender of the Free Enterprise system, believing that the amount of money one makes is directly proportional to how many people they serve.

He is also an unapologetic animal fanatic and served on the Board of Directors of Furry Friends Adoption and Clinic in his town of Jupiter, Florida.

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What is Metaverse? Is it just a buzzword, the next internet, a video game, or an idea? 

It's been nearly six months since Facebook announced it was rebranding to Meta and would focus its future on the upcoming “metaverse.” But what does metaverse mean to you? Join this episode of The xMonks Drive with Dr. Mark van Rijmenam and unveil the future talking to you.

Dr Mark van Rijmenam is a future tech strategist, international keynote speaker, author and expert on disruptive innovation and how we can benefit from emerging technologies such as big data, blockchain, AI and VR/AR. 
 
Dr Mark van Rijmenam is the founder of Datafloq and co-founder of AKVO. Datafloq is the one-stop source for emerging tech, offering C-level Executives information, insights, knowledge and opportunities to drive innovation with data and use technology in ways that benefit employees, customers and citizens. AKVO enables users to immerse themselves and create lasting memories with friends & family by experiencing the virtual worlds together. He recently launched the Between Two Bots podcast with Dan Turchin, covering the cultural, technological and ethical implications of artificial intelligence, technology and the metaverse. 
 
He has a bachelor’s in hospitality management, a Master of Science in Marketing Management, and a PhD in Management from the University of Technology Sydney. His research was on how organisations should deal with big data analytics, Blockchain and AI. 
 
He is a globally recognised speaker on big data, blockchain and AI, a future tech strategist and author of 3 best-selling management books. His last book, The Organisation of Tomorrow, discusses how AI, blockchain and analytics turn every business into a data organisation.

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“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”
Isn't this true, god made angels and sent them on earth as our mothers. 

In this special episode on The xMonks Drive, I celebrate the three most important women in my life. Listen to this episode and celebrate motherhood because life doesn’t come with a manual—it comes with mothers.

Gaurav 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 that come up in the workplace for leaders and help them in fulfilling their intent. A storyteller by heart, he leverages various methodologies and technique to put his point across and create the breakthrough. 

He founded Inspire Coaching Systems in 2009, now known as xMonks and started a social development initiative “iOwn” in 2016, which is a platform to connect coaches with Social Development Sector to create possibilities and transformation for the change makers and bringing coaching to the grass root level. 

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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