episode 154 | Dec 8, 2022 | 71min

Coaching in Complexity

In this conversation with executive coach Jennifer Garvey Berger we explore what coaches need in these times, Jennifer’s favorite theories, flow and presence, understanding context, biases and the action urge, and how we engage with complexity.
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In this podcast we talk about:

04:00 What do coaches need now
10:30 Client reflections
15:30 Models, flow & presence
21:30 Undefined leadership
24:00 Favorite theories
27:30 Revealing biases
37:00 Paradigm changes
42:00 Understanding context
47:30 Handling complexity
50:30 The action urge
56:00 Pattern recognition
1:00:00 Wonder and presence
1:05:00 Fostering love

Resources Mentioned:
Adult development 
Cynefin framework
Polarity Management
Power and love, by Adam Kahane
Unleash Your Complexity Genius – by Jennifer Garvey Berger & Carolyn Coughlin

About the Guest

Jennifer Garvey Berger

Jennifer Garvey Berger is endlessly curious about how humans grow — especially when things get messy, uncertain, and dizzyingly complex. A Harvard-trained researcher turned global leadership thinker, she has spent decades helping leaders untangle big questions and find more spacious, courageous, and effective ways to be in the world. As CEO and co-founder of Cultivating Leadership, she works with individuals and organizations to bring more wisdom, compassion, and genuine transformation into how people lead. All four of her books — Changing on the Job, Simple Habits for Complex Times, Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps, and Unleash Your Complexity Genius — are published by Stanford University Press. She is American by birth and now lives in the French countryside, where she bought a house with fourteen friends who are trying to keep the dogs from terrifying the cats — and to figure out, in quotidian terms, what it means to live and love well.

https://themeadow.space/
www.cultivatingleadership.co.nz

About the Host

Joel Monk

Joel Monk is a leadership coach, educator and entrepreneur. He co-founded Coaches Rising, a company on the cutting edge of online coach training with a community of over 65,000 coaches. Coaches Rising programs regularly include participants from every continent on the planet and they have collaborated with some of the leading minds in the field of human development and coaching. Joel is also a leadership coach, coaching at companies such as THNK, Booking.com, Siemens and Naspers. Joel has designed and led several entrepreneurial and leadership development programs, at places such as Socionext, THNK and The Impact Hub Amsterdam.

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