Leading with the Coach Approach

As many businesses wrestle with inevitable culture change and digital transformation initiatives that are now needed to survive in our ever ambiguous, turbulent and increasingly fast paced environments, how do we ensure that the way we coach and empower individuals reflects and re-enforces the businesses we want to become and not the businesses we were?

The inextricable link between how we organise ourselves, the change methodologies and ways of working we use and equally the way we coach is ever more apparent. As businesses go through change the need for increased control of outcomes and specific delivery effectively seeks to disempower people if not managed correctly. Equally changing the landscape of what people do and how they do it within businesses inherently separates people from what they have come to value as their skills and abilities. Using coaching correctly to help people both consume but also empower others through change, whilst helping populations find new value in what they are going to do as opposed to what they have done is key.

Join Ms. Kwong, for a session where she shares her experience of working in a large international corporate organization, building high performing teams by unleashing the potential in others. Ms. Kwong will discuss how she “walks the talk,” influences and grooms colleagues to enable them to deliver at their best. She will emphasize the importance of embracing diversity and inclusion, collaboration, resilience, and agility.

Join Syl Saller, Global CMO of Diageo and Katherine Tulpa, Global CEO of the Association for Coaching and Wisdom8, for an exciting conversation about what it means to lead with a coaching approach, from both a client and coach perspective.

They will talk about how leaders can make every conversation a coaching conversation, create a coaching culture and learn what it takes for a Leader Coach to help nurture this approach and grow outstanding leaders. The role of external coaches in a leader coach company will also be examined.

Syl will share from her experience as a leader and a coach in complex multi-nationals, as well as in smaller scale organisations. Syl has been recognised as a strategic, visionary and exceptionally inspirational leader who is using a coach approach when working with her team and peers.

Join Katherine Tulpa, Global CEO of the Association for Coaching and Syl Saller, Global CMO of Diageo, for an exciting conversation about what it means to lead with a coaching approach, from both a client and coach perspective.

They will talk about how leaders can make every conversation a coaching conversation, create a coaching culture and learn what it takes for a Leader Coach to help nurture this approach and grow outstanding leaders. The role of external coaches in a leader coach company will also be examined.

Syl will share from her experience as a leader and a coach in complex multi-nationals, as well as in smaller scale organisations. Syl has been recognised as a strategic, visionary and exceptionally inspirational leader who is using a coach approach when working with her team and peers.

I believe that most of the success that I have had in my career is attributable to building strong leadership teams through coaching. Hopefully, I can convey some of that philosophy and approach in this session.

Specifically, I will share what I have learnt about coaching from my experiences of playing rugby at a high level and how I have applied that in my leadership style in the working environment.

There are a number of models that I have found most valuable in coaching others. I share some of the most powerful models that I use and the impact that they have had on the teams I’ve worked with.

Our LIVE Leadership Coaching Circles are a facilitated group process that focuses on what is needed most to enhance leader-effectiveness. Participants will be coached and they will, in turn, coach their pears, developing a community of practice.

Coaches ask compelling questions intended to move the group to a new level of thinking and challenge the group to uncover innovative and creative solutions to support new levels of performance.

There’s a paradox about organizational flourishing in a VUCA world. When things are Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous it’s unlikely that leaders will experience their operating environment as particularly safe. Ironically, research shows that psychological safety is the very thing that enables others to access higher brain structures that lead to market breakthroughs. This session will explore the neurophysiology of psychological safety and how mindfulness can deepen it in coaching for higher levels of innovation and growth. It will also explore the role mindfulness can play in the vertical development of leaders capable of transforming the organizations they lead.

Current research on transformational leadership points to the emergence of a paradigm shift in what is considered "effective" leadership. The authoritative "alpha" traits focused on charisma, hierarchical position, or expert power are no longer the only game in town. The arrival in the C-suite of the "beta leader" is upending the traditional meme about what it means to lead. With the explosion of diversity and the acceleration towards virtual, networked organizations, the "new generation" of leaders must develop the agility to succeed in dynamic, fluid environments, to know their strengths and continuously look to expand the spectrum of their capabilities along six science-backed dimensions of leadership.

Few of today’s leaders are prepared to deal with the escalating levels of complexity, change and disruption they face, often referred to as Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity or VUCA. David’s session outlines how coaches can help leaders succeed and even thrive in VUCA by cultivating the right capabilities and mindsets through increased exposure, under the right conditions, to Diversity, Novelty, and Adversity. David shows how such experiences, supplemented by thoughtful reflection, increase leadership agility and generate more effective decision-making.

We all know things are changing so fast that change itself is changing.

How do we translate our need to quickly flex into action? What kind of headset do we need?

Dr. Kauffman will share the highlights of her Coach Approach for Leaders that won the Inaugural award for excellence in programs at Harvard Medical School. You’ll learn some of the science behind a coach approach, see a short demo, and get practical tips on how to add this to your leadership repertoire.

Did you know that what you “emanate” as a leader is crucial? Or that your colleagues and reports can pick up on how you feel about them in a nanosecond. We’ll explore what you can do to create the impact you want.

“Nothing is best done alone anymore” – no one leader can make all the tough calls on their own anymore. Our world was until recently more joined up and interdependent than it has ever been before. Information spreads at digital speed and no economy is immune or unaffected by the force, velocity, or impact when seemingly well-informed decisions turn out to be dramatically mistaken. Every leader requires the support of a diverse and high performing team and a culture that enables ‘every voice to be heard’.

Join Jay Shetty as he discusses the profound changes that COVID-19 is expected to have in the workplace in the coming years. Jay explores how perceptions of the pandemic determine how leaders and their teams respond to the crisis and what can be done, from a coaching perspective to cope and thrive.