Back to school

I’m excited to embark on a postgraduate certification for coaching supervisors 🌻🌳 🕺🏻💃🏻 More than just coaching the coach, supervision is a practice informed by systemic thinking and is common in all helping professions. It supports continuous professional development, ethical practice, and much more. Supervision is also a professional requirement for accredited coaches. Beyond myContinue reading “Back to school”

Maturing as a human coach: beyond models and AI

I recently ran a CPD seminar on coaching models, AI and maturing as a human coach. If this tickles your interest, here are my slides 😊 Of course, the slides alone aren’t as rich as the full presentation, let alone the breakouts and group discussions. The slides are a collection of deliberately half-baked ideas, heldContinue reading “Maturing as a human coach: beyond models and AI”

3 coaching spaces available from mid-September

Back from summer holidays ☀️ ready for new ideas? Feel like upgrading the way you work? From mid-September I have capacity to take on 3 new people in my 1:1 coaching practice. I work with leaders and managers primarily in technology related sectors. Online, confidential, pay as you go, no minimum number of sessions required.Continue reading “3 coaching spaces available from mid-September”

Developing the next generation of talent

Great to attend Esri’s annual conference in London today to reconnect with the UK geospatial community — 2500 people! Some key takeaways: The increasing diversity of the geospatial community is really noticeable and represents a massive change from 20, 10 or even 5 years ago. Fantastic to see. Artificial intelligence: Many people see AI asContinue reading “Developing the next generation of talent”

Going solo: Lessons from my mid-career change into coaching

People often ask me what it’s like being a freelance coach after 25 years in geospatial technology. So I spent some time reflecting and wrote down the key lessons I have learned so far. By way of background, I’m based in the UK and qualified as an executive coach in 2020. I previously held leadershipContinue reading “Going solo: Lessons from my mid-career change into coaching”