Amanda Blake
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Alan Watkins
Episode 44
Extinction vs Emergence: Your Role in the next Phase
Coaches are at the forefront of the battle for a more conscious, sane world via the impact they have on leaders. As we consider our role, what are the elements that will define our success? In this deep dive with leadership expert Alan Watkins we explore the crucial switch from descriptive to developmental diagnostics and why this is so important, the skill of emotional regulation and how that impacts a leader’s ability to facilitate transformation and the potential inherent in neuroplasticity. [Read more...]
Richard Boyatzis
Episode 39
How to Access Optimum Growth States in Coaching
Did you know that common coaching moves such as goal setting can actually be counter productive to growth and learning? In this conversation, author and professor Richard Boyatzis explains why goal-setting is not as smart as we think it is, what the neurologically proven way to motivate people is, and how we can help our clients access states that facilitate genuine change. [Read more...]
Ann Betz
Episode 35
The Neuroscience of Resilient Leadership
As the coaching industry booms, coaches are seeking ever-increasing levels of expertise to help their clients. One source of high-octane insight is neuroscience. In this animated conversation, Neuroscientist and Coach Ann Betz explains the relevance of this field in coaching, takes us deep into how we can work with stress by manipulating neurotransmitters through coaching techniques, and outlines the two cognitive networks we need to be aware of to help our clients function optimally. [Read more...] Amanda Blake
Episode 27
The Neuroscience of Change
What do our bodies have to do with living a self-directed life? What say do they have in our actions and behaviors, aside from providing a more or less sports-inclined physique? In this conversation with leadership coach Amanda Blake, we learn how the body defines our scope of possibility, how we can use it to create massive shifts, and why being in direct contact with life through the body is so important. [Read more...]
Kelly Wendorf
Episode 20
What Horses Can Teach Us About Leadership
We all aspire to become the people we sense we can be – so what are the conditions that can liberate that possibility? In this fascinating conversation Kelly Wendorf explains the ground-breaking work she does with leaders and horses; how our nervous systems are wired to react and influence, and what the current crisis in leadership is evolving towards. [Read more...]
Rick Hanson
Episode 19
Learning How to Learn for Exponential Growth
Everyone wants to be happy but few people know how; in this conversation with Rick Hanson, psychologist and expert on resilience, we dive into how to foster the traits we want, the master trait we should acquire before we do anything else, and the crucial step in the process that most people aren’t aware of. [Read more...]
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Joel Monk
I’m a coach, trainer and entrepreneur.
Recently I saw on a deeper level how all the things in my life orient around cultivating a sense of ‘aliveness’. By this I mean – what is it to be awake and fully expressed in this moment? How can I metabolize the conditioning that binds me so that I can wake up into deeper expressions of authentic, embodied human presence?
I’m deeply committed to awakening the leader that lives in all of us. We’re all being invited to align with what wants to live through us and from here we can truly serve the world with our work.