Some rules guide us positively, while others can hold us back from becoming highly effective coaches. New coaches often create stories about needing to follow a process or use a tool, ask complicated questions, complete numerous coaching courses, or even build a website and have business cards, etcetera, which can prevent them from coaching in a way that truly embodies the core competencies of coaching—the ways of being and doing as a coach—that foster transformation and life-changing...

Marie speaks with Dr. Kate Jenkinson about her journey from Scientist to HR Professional to poet. As someone with Aphantasia, Kate invites us to a greater curiosity about others and how we experience our world. This can lead to a much deeper understanding of self and others, which impacts every area of our life, work and relationships.

The Journey To ACC, PCC And MCC. Practice Insights from ICF Assessors’ with Tracy Tresidder. Join ICF MCC coach Tracy Tresidder, a respected leader in the coaching field and contributor to the book Becoming an ICF Credentialed Coach. In this episode, Tracy discusses how the book supports coaches and leaders in mastering essential coaching skills for transformative conversations. She also shares her personal insights on the significance of embodying these skills for impactful, life-changing...

Asmaa Al-Kuwari is at the forefront of professional coaching in Qatar as a Qatari national and a woman who supports and coaches executives and women to become better leaders in their professional and personal lives. Before embarking on this journey, Asmaa had to face many of her own limiting beliefs and challenging experiences growing up in an expat world and returning to her homeland, which is very different in its culture. Asmaa provides fascinating insights to navigating different...

Dr. Mark Setch MCC, Senior Lecturer/Course Leader MBA and Coaching, is passionate about combining leadership and coaching. In his roles as a senior academic leader and a professional coach, he is a strong advocate for coaching skills as part of a leader's ability to support and empower people and teams: to bring out the best in people to create highly effective outcomes and experiences.

Marie speaks with Brinsley Kazak about how coaches can effectively communicate their services and share content that is both honest and meaningful. Join us as we explore strategies for marketing with truth and authenticity to build trust and connection with your audience.

Join Marie and Robbie Swale from “The Coaches Journey” in this long form podcast as they meander through a fascinating conversation filled with discovery and connection. Exploring living and leading with values, Robbie's 12-minute method and so much more.

In this episode, Marie speaks with Roger Fielding about his journey to becoming an ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC). Listen in to hear lots of tips, procedures and processes to support you on your ICF credentialing journey.

Most coaches are taught about the different levels of listening but what does this really mean? In this episoded Jeanine and Marie discuss practical ways to increase our presence and our listening to support our conversations to be even more impactful.

In this episode, Velvey Blocker, Director of  Executive Coaching Black and Veatch who has been leading global leadership development programs for professionals, supervisors, managers, and executives for over 25 years shares his thoughts and experience on how coaches can move into the world of executive coaching. What experience is required,  how organizations choose executive coaches, what the onboarding process is, how organizations measure the success of a coaching engagement and so much more.

In this episode, Christina Zini, an ICF-credentialed coach with extensive leadership experience with some of the world's leading organisations, shares her vision of what a modern successful leader is and how coaching can support that success in numerous ways. As Christina describes in this podcast, a modern leader can engage, inspire and invite their team to tap into their resourcefulness, wisdom and talents to identify ways forward and navigate the ongoing opportunities and challenges all...

In this episode, Marie and Tony Adamson explore Tony's first year of working as a full-time coach and the questions he has been asking himself about staying true and authentic to who he is when bombarded with so many different coaching models and philosophies. They begin with talking about Tony's focus on Voluntary and Community Sector managers who are feeling exhausted, to help them avoid burnout so that they get their mojo.

Colluding with our client’s stories can lead to stifling our client’s growth. Believing or going along with our client’s beliefs potentially move the relationship from coach and client where the client is supported and challenged to expand their perspectives and thoughts to a friendship role. In this podcast we share what collusion is and how we can prevent it in support of our client’s growth.

In this podcast, Arslan Athar, Empower World’s business manager - and so much more - shares his powerful insights as to how learning coaching skills changed his life in every area: work, relationships, leading large teams, and music creation as examples. Arslan is Empower World’s glue that builds the foundation for what we do - so we are grateful for his wisdom. Find out more here: https://www.empower-world.com/professional-coach-training Listen to Jeanine, and Arslan in Empower World...

Michelle Travers, is an Empower World coach training alumna shares her experiences and what she describes as life-changing learning post her coach training in 2021. Michelle explains how she incorporates her coaching skills into her practice of supporting families in need. Listen to Jeanine, and Michelle in Empower World Coaching and Leadership Podcast Episode. 199 🎙️

Establishing our personal boundaries is key to creating healthier relationships with ourselves and others, prioritising self-care and value, and making choices that energise and inspire us. Without boundaries in our lives, we risk compromising our health - mental and physical - potentially because of external requests on our time, energy, and focus. Kayoko Nidsaid is our special guest and Empower World Associate who shares her experiences and wisdom in relation to boundaries. Listen to...

Marie chats with ICF PCC coach Jo Sheasby about the process of learning something new, challenging ourselves about what we already know, and trusting our intuition and so much more. Jo is an ICF professional accredited coach who works with passionate and committed individuals to achieve transformational change in their businesses, careers and personal lives. Jo coaches with individuals both privately or on behalf of their organisations, and especially enjoys working with entrepreneurs,...

Coaches need to be aware of potential power dynamics in coaching because they can play a key role in shaping the coaching relationship and outcomes. Understanding these dynamics is essential to maintain an effective partnership between the coach and the client. Power imbalances arise due to many factors between the client and coach - including beliefs about self and others. They can impact communication, trust and a client's willingness to be open and engage in the coaching process, or a...

Coaches can sometimes get caught up with trying to find powerful questions which can lead to greater insights, awareness and processing of experiences for the client but the coach can sometimes miss the clues the client is going deeper. Those clues may be very subtle but if the coach is paying close attention to their client they can continue to support the client even more powerfully. Find out what this means in this podcast episode with Marie and Jeanine.

Effective, powerful leadership and coaching are very interconnected. This is because coaching skills - such as holding space for people, deep listening, asking thought-provoking questions, effectively providing feedback, and getting curious about the person, team, ideas, emotions, energy, intuition, and much more - within systems support engagement, wisdom and inspiration to come together and find a way forward. Katie Mapondera shares some very interesting insights about what really effective...

Grief is an emotion we will experience from time to time and is about letting go or the loss of something - such as a relationship, a job, a responsibility, a home etc - which is sometimes out of our hands or it’s a choice we’ve made. We share how coaching can powerfully assist in the process of grief and how it can support us to be better leaders by exploring emotions, understanding the learning, what we appreciate and so much more.   Listen to Jeanine, and Marie in Empower World Coaching...

ICF core competency 8: Partners with the client to transform learning and insight into action. Promotes client autonomy in the coaching process. Marie and Jeanine explore this competency bringing it to life with real-life examples and questions to support your client in moving forward into action and growth.   Listen to Jeanine, and Marie in Empower World Coaching and Leadership Podcast Episode. 192 🎙️ #icfdohachapter #ICF #coaching #coach #mastery #newperspectives #skils #presence...

ICF core competency level 7: Evoking Awareness Facilitates client insight and learning by using tools and techniques such as powerful questioning, silence, metaphor or analogy. We explore this competency and what this means in the co-creation of the coaching experience and how we as coaches can embody this important competency throughout the conversation. Listen to Jeanine, and Marie in Empower World Coaching and Leadership Podcast Episode. 191 🎙️ #icfdohachapter #ICF #coaching...

In this podcast recorded by Tim Collings on his Better World Leaders podcast, a conversation takes place between three friends and colleagues who have been deeply exploring how to co-create conditions for systemic change to be activated and sustained. Empower World invites you into the conversation with Tim Collings, Sue Glendenning and Empower World's Jeanine Bailey. Empower World Links: Stitcher:    https://www.stitcher.com/show/empower-world Apple:       ...