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An excellent methodology overview and expert resource for the experienced executive coach. A stimulating introduction to new approaches, developed and mastered by world-leading coaches.
Andrew Green, Partner, Gallup
A great practical coaching book for coaches that offers a variety of new insights, tools, models and that coaches can use and practise on growing their coaching career and enable them to bring more value to their clients.
Nehad Tadros, Professional Certified Coach; President ICF United Arab Emirates Chapter
As a leader without any coaching qualifications, I found this book incredibly helpful in providing a range of practical tools and techniques that I could deploy with my team where personal growth and change is the imperative. From working with the conscious mind to getting deep into the soul, this book will definitely help me better deploy strategies that best fit the person and challenge at hand.
Tracy Clarke, CEO Europe and Americas and CEO Private Banking, Standard Chartered Bank
A truly thought-provoking and illuminating guide. Offering the reader powerful frameworks, models and ways of approaching our coaching client’s needs. I love the way the content flows and connects together with the underlying theme of exploring our five levels – from the conscious mind through to the soul. The case studies resonated with me, as if I were an observer of a deep and meaningful coaching session. I am still reflecting upon ‘George’ from the book’s final chapter. My key take-away is to be reminded of how very deep and extremely transformative coaching can be.
Nigel Cumberland, The Silk Road Partnership – is an international executive coach, mentor, facilitator and author of a range of leadership and self-help books
Elegantly written, simple to follow and apply, its intellectual applicability is perhaps its strongest point: steps, guides, scenarios and ways of using the techniques, makes this the coach’s swiss-army knife.
Perry Timms, Founder and CEO (Chief Energy Officer) of People & Transformational HR (PTHR) – HR Magazine’s Fifth Most Influential Thinker 2018, TEDx speaker, author and international consultant
As a systemic team coach well versed in integral leadership, I found this book very useful in terms of the rich tools available that one can use in their coaching practice with clients. I particularly enjoyed the focus on the inner self and the attached experiential exercises with powerful tips and real-world practice with clients.
Bernard Chanliau, Professional Certified Coach, ICF; ICF Ireland Coach of the Year 2015
The coaching industry has generated a vast range of reference books for aspiring and newly-qualified coaches, as well as those coaches with intermediary experience. There aren’t many written specifically for senior practitioners and this book is a welcome contribution to this genre. Each chapter offers a different approach, inviting coaches to go deeper with their clients to achieve transformative and lasting positive impact as well as continuing to reflect on their own practice. A thought-provoking book. I encourage all senior experienced coaches to read it.
Annabel Harper MA, FRSA, Change Connections Ltd
This book is both transforming and liberating. I can testify to the fact that the interventions contained in it enable deep and sustainable change. These were both key factors in my personal transformation to a different and more productive way of being.
Paul Morrish, Group Director Succession Wealth
Making a quantum leap in leadership performance is now achievable through this complete approach to changing and developing leadership impact. In particular, I found listening through the emotions and perspectives of others struck a chord with my own development as a leader and was critical to understanding how to communicate the way I made decisions.
Mike Rees, Founder at Strategic Vitality
There are many books on coaching; however, this one stands out. It is a treasure trove of practical and powerful techniques for advanced coaches that you can use to transform your clients, generating deep self-awareness, insights and personal growth, as well as improved performance and results. I would highly recommend this book to all those with a deep interest and curiosity in taking their coaching practice to the next level and enjoying self-discovery in the process.
James Brook, Leadership Psychologist, Executive Coach and Founder of Tech Talent Solutions Ltd
An immensely practical insight into first-class coaching skills. A must-read for all professional coaches looking to perfect their technique.
Nigel Jeremy, Chief Learning Officer, British Airways
First published in Great Britain by Practical Inspiration Publishing, 2019
© Veronica Munro, 2019
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EDITOR’S NOTE
Early in 2018 I invited six independent world-class executive coaches to partner with me, and each other, and create this book. I had known them all separately for several years. They had each created their own unique coaching interventions, models, practices and sets of skills and I had the privilege to study and work with them (and others) during my journey as a professional coach. With their contributions and inputs to my learnings I was able to transform myself, my coaching practice and also the lives of many of my clients and those they touched too (both professionally and personally).1
My goal with this book is to share some of our collective work with you and other coaches and leaders around the world who wish to continue to learn, develop and grow themselves and, by doing so, keep at the top of their game and stay relevant as the world continues to evolve and change.
What came as a great surprise to me, and what I was not expecting in our journey together, was the huge amount of collaboration that grew between all the authors as they read and re-read each other’s chapters, offering suggested edits, rewrites, word changes and structural improvements.
It has been a fun and highly productive journey, and a huge privilege, working with Shirley, Colin, Dan, David and Aidan and of course Richard who has been our linchpin and go-to guy at all times. We wouldn’t have made it this far without him! Thank you all!
Thank you too to our publisher Alison Jones for all her inspired insights in bringing this book to life.
Veronica Munro
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