Better Leaders show

#Mythreewords for 2024:
- inner development,
- inequality, and
- conversations.

What are your three words for 2024?

• 00:00 intro
• 01:50 Using the experience to inspire leaders to redesign their organisation
• 02:25 The overview effect - Frank White
• 03:35 We came for the moon, but we discovered the earth.
• 04:40 Earthrise explanation
• 06:05 Planetary Awareness explanation
• 07:15 From Earth gazing around 70-80% of the astronauts that return to Earth become eco-activists.
• 09:15 The virtual journey begins at the back of the moon and then you travel towards earth.
• 09:50 To develop a compassionate relationship with Earth.
• 10:35 Action starts with awareness.
• 10:55 Kate Raworth - Doughnut economy - "You can only understand the system when you are outside the system"
• 15:30 The astronauts came back as different people, transformed by being in space.
• 19:20 What is happening with life on earth, and why is it happening?
• 20:00 It's not about saving the planet, it is about saving humanity.
• 23:25 There is only one earth, there are no borders.
• 24:15 We are all astronauts on spaceship Earth - Wubbo Ockels
• 24: 35 You feel connected to the universe - nondualism
• 27:55 Inner Development Goals (IDGs)
• 28:10 Promoting a circular economy because we live on a finite planet.
• 29:05 The development of leadership is a circle:
• 32:25 We have to act, and make it less bad. We have already surpassed some tipping points.
• 35:20 How and where can you experience overview effect in the workshop?
• 36:00 Looking for partners for the workshops.

Egbert Mulder studied Social Sciences in Groningen, the Netherlands, and Sydney, Australia, and is a serial entrepreneur and founder of several companies in the fields of marketing, leisure, and leadership. Egbert is an author and consultant in the field of sustainability and leadership and as a keynote speaker, he regularly appears worldwide at conferences on sustainable leadership and circular and regenerative economy.

In 2014 Egbert started CIRCULAR LEADERSHIP to support leaders and organizations in creating a liveable and sustainable future. The VR Workshop EARTH FROM SPACE ® is a unique, innovative and effective way to make a powerful contribution to accelerating system change towards a circular and regenerative economy through the so-called Overview Effect. The Overview Effect is what astronauts experience when they look at the Earth from Space and that is the reason that many astronauts become eco-activists.

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07:25 Connecting to the deeper why - inspired by a report of dr Vivek Murthy on an epidemic of loneliness and isolation.

08:10 Use shared practices as rituals

10:20 A great practice to address a difficult moment in the team.

12:35 Creating strong connections in a hybrid team

15:30 The challenge of silos in organisations and community settings and how silos keep us disconnected.

16:00 The communication and collaboration challenge.

16:55 We are born into a story of fragmentation. (Thomas Huebl)

18:10 The trauma that has lived within us is passed on epigenetically Epigenetics

19:40 Shining light on what happens in the house of organisations that we believe are normal but they are trauma.

20:50 Innovation happens when different parts of the business come together.

25:25 The relationship with Driftless Curiosity a Land-Based Learning Nonprofit.

25:40 The harm and beauty is also in everyone's backyard.

28:05 An example of that you don't have to go far for experiences to build resilience.

29:10 A practice of appreciation.

29:50 Poetry transports us into experiences very quickly and deeply.

30:10 Poetry Unbound is a series of immersive explorations of a single poem, led by Pádraig Ó Tuama

30:25 Worm by Gail McConnell

32:40 The embodied knowing

35:20 The younger generations are yearning for connection, meaning, and purpose.

36:20 Silos show up across generations in organisations.

38:35 The story of the jaguar in Costa Rica

43:30 The conditioning with us that we bring to the workplace

45:30 Compassion for our colleagues and managers.

From breakdowns to breakthroughs: Unlimited Boundaries helps teams work better together across silos. Generating team effectiveness and organizational flourishing by creative connections and bridging perspectives. Co-Founders, Arielle Goodman, MSW, Jenny Hegland, and Lindsey K.eck, believe it takes a strong team to build strong teams and feel grateful to practice being a team together every day.

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• Experiencing the Rusian vs Ukraine war as a Russian abroad was difficult.
• She moved from Portugal to Israel because of the war.
• Her parents live in Israel and as a jew, it was ‘easy’ to move to Israel
• Then one year later the war in Israel started.
• Taking action, and doing small things, helps you to get out of the negative emotional spiral.
• Worrying about the things you can’t control is going to make you feel worse and the people around you.
• Accepting your limitations, things you can’t control, and that things will happen.
• Focus on the actions you can take and have joy in life.
• Allowing yourself to have grief and sadness and in parallel don’t feel bad about the moments of joy.
• Don’t put your life on pause.
• Man’s search for meaning – Viktor Frankl.
• Stoicism – The Stoics outlined that our own actions, thoughts, and reactions are within our control.
• Find meaningful work – there are always people worse off than you.
• We never know what small thing will change the path of civilization.
• An earlier conversation with Lidia Chmel – Staying true to yourself
• Hope and optimism are a big part of resilience.
• Hope is a verb, similar to love.
• Hope and love are like a fire, you need to bring resources to keep it going. Active hope. Doing.
• The meaning of all the suffering is that we grow and that we teach.

Lidia helps driven women gain clarity and build habits so that they live a Deep Life – life in radical alignment with their values.

She is guiding women through life transitions and turbulent times so that they feel grounded and confident, and able to face current and future challenges.

• This episode is a bit different, Erno, who is normally the host, is now the guest.
• Sustainable development goals – signed by 186 countries in 2015. The goal is to accomplish these 17 goals by 2030.
• Now we are at 50% of the timeline (2015 – 20230), but we are only at 30% of the goals. Some countries are even declining on some of the goals. See 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report.
• Inner Development Goals – the second phase of the program was finished in 2023.
• The third phase of the Inner Development Goals just started.
• The Inner development goals framework with 5 domains and 23 skills.
• The inner compass helps you to make decisions.
• Being aware of who you are and making decisions that align with that.
• Katharine Hayhoe – climate scientist on LinkedIn (wikipedia)
• The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it – TED talk by Katherine Hayhoe
• How do you work with a city that does not support your ecological practices?
• The Carbon Almanac book.
• Can a ban on gas-powered leaf blowers save the planet? (Carbon almanac) “experts say the small, obnoxiously loud “conveniences” we call Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers (or GPLBs) create in one hour an equal quantity of harmful emissions as driving from Denver to Los Angeles.”
• Thought of Seth Godin on the Gas-powered leaf blowers “We’re not serious enough about making change happen. If we cared enough to get two dozen friends and neighbors to show up at the village hall, the regulations could be changed in a few meetings.”
• Inner Development Goals Summit 2023
• Presentation by Erik Fernholm at the 2023 summit about the psychological difficulties people are facing today. Jump to the section where he talks about suicide. Suicide kills more people than murder, war, and terrorism combined.
• Making personal connections in an international environment in business.
• Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones | Netflix by Dan Buettner
• You can find the exercises on the IDG.tools site.
• IDG global practitioners network with monthly meetings
• The Inner Development habits on coach.me

Erno is helping leaders with sustainable habits so they become good ancestors. As a business coach for entrepreneurs, he helps to scale sustainable positive impact. He is a sparring partner for founders and management teams on long-term goals and helps them stick to their decisions as their accountability partner.

Reducing social and ecological inequality drives him. He is an IDG Voice and developed the Inner Development habits. He is also a climate activist.

For Coach.me Erno is an executive coach and podcast host for the weekly LinkedIn Live, Better Leaders show.

Erno asks tough questions and listens carefully. Skills he acquired from interviewing over 350 guests in three podcast shows.

• Viisi has a holacracy structure in their company – that is decentralized decision making
• In teams, every team member is for half a year has leader role of the team.
• All the roles are visible to everyone in the Glassfrog online tool
• All the roles of Tom van der Lubbe for example can be found here.
• People first (employees), clients second, and shareholders third.
• Shareholders have an obligation to be the example and act first, for example in a downturn.
• Radical transparency on all the information of the company.
• Here you find the talk of Tom – Holacracy in times of crisis (video)
• In a normal situation rotation over experience, in time of crisis, it is, experience over rotation.
• Meetings are extremely efficient in a holacracy.
• In a centralized decision-making structure, the role of the leader has been made too important.
• Great Place to Work award – awarded four times in small business.
• Leaders eat last – Simon Sinek
• The golden rule – treating others as one would want to be treated by them
• Our DNA is the we are altruistic, not egoistic.
• Humankind – Rudger Bregman

Tom is the Co-Founder of Viisi NV, a Dutch financial service company that offers mortgage advice.

Viisi’s Purpose is to Change Finance. How?

We want to give better advice, focussed on the long-term responsibility. We think Finance should be less transactional and more relational and last but not least we want to transform the mortgage sector and make it more Sustainable (CO2 neutral).

Besides building Viisi, Tom also acts as an advisor to CxOs, mainly on topics of organizational design, purpose, and leadership.

Tom studied history, law and politics in Leiden in The Netherlands, at Sciences Po in Paris, and at the Free University in Berlin.

You can find the notes and links for this episode here.

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• 1:30 transition from strategic work to flexible work
• 2:45 What we need to know about ourselves and different generations – developing empathy
• 5:00 How she got more focussed during her work days, by working fewer days, and it improved quality family time.
• 5:46 What she learned about Millenials and Gen Z
• 7:20 Technology’s impact on millennials
• 9:40 What are the differences with Gen Zs? Concerns about Job security, staying current, and upskilling
• 11:30 New roles emerging
• 13:50 How can leaders attract people to work for them?
• 17:30 Help them keep learning
• 19:10 Empathetic leadership – seeing life from their point of view
• 21:30 Co-create together
• 22:00 Love is the killer app – Tim Sanders
• 24:00 Decentralised decision making
• 26:15 Impact and consequences of the pandemic
• 27:20 Gen Z is not being intentionally disruptive it’s fresh eyes
• 30:00 How to develop empathy and empathy habits
• 30:30 Helen Riess and Frans de Waal
• 32:50 Three kinds of empathy – Cognitive, affective, and act with empathy
• 35:19 How to start a meeting positively to create a connection

Sophie Wade is a work futurist and Workforce Innovation Specialist at Future-of-Work consultancy, Flexcel Network. Over 550,000 people have taken her LinkedIn video courses on Gen Z, Future of Work skills, and empathy.

Sophie’s executive advisory work and transformative workshops help leaders adapt to digitalized business conditions and modern work and attract, engage, and retain a multigenerational distributed workforce.

Sophie has written two books on the Future of Work, the most recent one is “Empathy Works: The Key to Competitive Advantage in the New Era of Work” [5/2022]. Sophie hosts the internationally popular podcast “Transforming Work with Sophie Wade”.

You can find the notes and links for this episode here https://blog.coach.me/peter-benei-leadership-anywhere/

In this episode with Peter Benei, we talked about the following:

• The first 10 years of his career were separated into two distinct phases, in-office and remote.
• He moved to London for a more global view and to prove that he was capable of working in advertising in the center of the world.
• During his time in London, he saw more and more people working remotely.
• Hybrid: there is an office or location, part of the employees go to the office and another part works remotely
• Remote: when people are free from the location, but work at the same time. They work synchronously.
• Async: when people work location and time independently.
• We make bad decisions because we have a time limitation or information limitation.
• You can avoid these bad decisions by writing down the problem and a suggestion on how you would resolve it, then you share it with other people, allowing them to contribute, and having a short meeting to make the decision together. (check the book for a great explanation)
• You create great documentation for your organisation on these types of decisions.
• With asynchronous decision-making making, you have a focused documented meeting at the end.
• Leading a team that operates remotely, requires you to talk less and listen more, be more transparent by documenting everything, and be supportive of your team.

Peter Benei is the founder of Anywhere Consulting, a boutique business and management consulting company specializing in operations and growth strategies for B2B companies.

He is the author of Leadership Anywhere, how to become a better asynchronous leader book, the host of the Leadership Anywhere podcast, and the creator of Anywhere Hub, a resource library and community for managers of remote companies.

He has worked remotely as a growth leader since 2014 for global startups and led companies to seed & Series A funding or a successful exit. He has a background in advertising and worked at agencies with Fortune 500 brands in London and Budapest.

You can find the notes and links for this episode here https://blog.coach.me/lidia-chmel-the-…ce-of-resilience/.

You can find the notes and links for this episode here: https://blog.coach.me/ken-yarina-new-p…nd-team-dynamics/

• Listening closely to the learner and centering the understanding of the learner centrally.
• Teaching is about what you are hoping to accomplish and solving from that backward.
• As leaders to be invitational.
• Express power to others instead of over others.
• We want to see them grow inside and outside their role and company.
• One of the first remote workers were naval captains.
• There is no substitute for connection.
• We had over-optimized for office work.
• Bringing mentorship and apprentices back to work.
• Intentional togetherness – Annie Dean at Atlassian.
• Unconditional positive regard – Carl Rogers
• For leaders, imagine yourself as a helper, as a coach.
• Invitational leadership.

Once, Tyler was a technology-oriented teacher; now, he’s a teaching-oriented technologist. Tyler is an advocate for remote-first workplaces broadly including serving as the host of “The Remote Show” podcast from We Work Remotely. At his core, he’s an enthusiastic, empathetic educator with a passion for leveraging technology to help others become their best selves.

• A leader can be at any level in the organization.
• The difference between a manager and a leader.
• The medium time you should think about reinvention for the organization.
• Managing your emotions and using habits to do this.
• Two words need to be retired, perfect and finished.
• Multi-tasking vs multi-purpose.
• The effect of the therapy dog for Liz.
• Giving back time gives you time.
• Book The Power Code: More Joy. Less Ego. Maximum Impact for Women (and Everyone).: Katty Kay and Claire Shipman.
• Power to (female) vs Power over (male).
• Time for wellness.
• Leaders can learn a lot from athletes in regard to wellness and recovery.
• Kristin Neff on Self-compassion . Book Self-compassion. – helps for resilience.
• A daily act of kindness is a keystone habit.
• Get off your devices to rejuvenate.

Liz works with leaders who recognize the need to be more human-centered and embrace the disruption that swirls around us. I help leaders rewire their mindset so they can expand their capacity to deal with more complex and uncertain situations. This also helps them make more connections and build stronger relationships with more stakeholders in multiple ecosystems.

Leaders and their teams who work with me increase the clarity of their thinking, improve their communication, including listening, and become more empathetic and compassionate. Leaders also become better decision-makers and more resilient as they gain greater confidence in navigating today’s BANI (brittle, anxiety-producing, nonlinear, and incomprehensible) world.

• She explained why remote working has changed during the pandemic.
• During the hiring period at Automattic, you are not talking to a live person.
• People who like to be at the office, but hate the commute to the office.
• People who want to work from home, not because they hate people, but because they love their life.
• Why becoming a parent changed her view and experience with habits and productivity.
• The guilt of wanting to be more productive.
• The shift from now I am at home and now I am working from home has a lot to do with habit creation.
• The remote leadership radar
• Our brains are not wired for a remote world, our brains would like to people in person.
• Have places where people can virtually meet with people on hobbies and other topics.
• Onboarding in a remote and distributed environment and how many people you want in the network for new employees where they can ask questions.
• A community of neighbors that help each other during the kids’ holiday breaks from school.
• As a leader, you want to stimulate the hobbies of your team members.
• Create a community for yourself to meet people having fun with, without being it a dating environment.

Valentina Thörner is a remote leadership expert, supporting tech companies at the executive level to create a distributed reality that works for the entire team. She has over a decade of experience in coaching and mentoring managers who understand that leading remote teams requires new skills – skills that can be learned. She runs on trails to think.

• Growing up in Roumenia he was advanced in math coming to the US. Going into computers was a natural thing.
• Agile and Ruby are written for developer happiness.
• The episode with Maud Slich on testing of software
• The lesson he learned from volunteering during his college years in New Hampshire.
• How he developed the productivity game with David Brawn.
• If you don’t get good at execution, your planning doesn’t matter.
• Doing 23 minutes really focused work, then take a break and start the next cycle with 2 minutes reviewing what you did.
• Habit Coach Certification
• Teach people that are already very productive, to take a five-minute break.
• There is a gift in starting and stopping, as long as you can relax in between.
• To be human is play and joy. Do as little work as possible, to have more time to play and joy.
• His life’s purpose is to reinvent education.
• Sudbry school and agile learning centres.
• Conversation with Maria Alvarez Garzia – Rethink how we think about education.
• How do I make that in-the-moment choice?
• The six-word memoir.
• Finite and Infinite Games is a book by James P. Carse.
• In order to be playful, you have to have a choice.
• Do I have any worth when I am not producing for people?
• Coddiwomple – to travel purposefully without a set destination.

You will learn to appreciate and nurture connections of all kinds.

He coaches (teaches) whatever inspired and transformed his own life— blues partner dancing, authentic connection, productivity-integrity, meditation-prayer, and coddiwompling.
Unlike most productivity training, he will guide you to introduce small but very effective habits/tools which will (hopefully) have an immediate positive impact on your life. This in turn will motivate you to ask for the next habit/tool, and so on.
Part of his philosophy is that being human is more important than being productive, and that rhythm and rest play a huge part in both happiness and productivity. In the end, it is possible for your work to be a kind of playful meditation which actually increases the amount of energy available to you for the other parts of life.

• How she got into the world of healthy eating,
• In the US 60-70% of the people are overweight and 30-40% are obese.
• The important habits to change what you are eating and eating less sugar.
• Why she is against restriction.
• How tiny habits help to start eating healthier.
• How she uses chat-based coaching in her programs.
• Achieving lasting weight loss.
• A difference between what they need and what they want.
• The parts of your life that are important for your health.
• The wheel of life

Andrea is an expert in emotional eating and a master transformational nutrition coach, developed her Food Freedom Formula to help busy people struggling with cravings and emotional eating implement healthy habits and lose weight without dramatic changes to their diets or workouts.

Andrea’s mission is to help others break free from self-sabotage, heal their relationship with food and figure out how they want to live life on their own terms.

You will find the notes and links for this episode here https://blog.coach.me/cherry-jeffs-the-creative-practice/

In this episode with Cherry Jeffs, we talked about:

• What is an artist’s book?
• Using habits in the creative process.
• Creating a piece of art every day for one year.
• One of the first coaches of coach.me.
• The training of getting back into the habit faster, when you drop off.
• Most creatives are very hard on themselves.
• Build the patience, stamina, and self-belief that you will finish it.
• Time is elastic, depending on what you ar doing.
• The daily check-in is very effective to start the habit to create.
• Writing a good profile page is the hardest and most important thing to do as a coach.
• As a coach, you need to ask questions.
• Writing the profile page is not about us, it has about the client’s problems and needs.
• Reading The Artist Way
• When does she sell via her personal website and when via coach.me.

Cherry Jeffs is a UK-born artist who specialises in creating Artists’ Books. Her studio practice artfully blends myths and allegories to express the intersection of culture and identity in both personal and universal visual narratives. Her artwork is in private collections across the globe. Cherry is also a writer on the creative process and an experienced coach who has empowered hundreds of artists, writers, and other creatives to build regular and joyful routines, finish their projects and develop their careers.

• his Ph.D. experience made him shift from research to building a solo business.
• Digital Photography School by Darren Rowse is a great online business example.
• A computer in his family home and a modem at a young age started his interest in computers.
• the feeling of scaling his work with the computer and the internet was the main motivation to start in computer science.
• a difficult question non-native-English content creators.
• the niche of the topic you want to create content on is less important than you might expect.
• Start with a long list of the problems that your audience has with your topic.
• Start publishing content as soon as possible and do not overthink the niche.
• You need to publish a lot of content with limited results before you learn enough about your audience.
• Pick a topic that you really like, so you keep the motivation to produce content and increase the speed of content creation.
• Focus on the small wins to keep going.
• Medium is a form of gamification with views, claps, comments, and earnings.
• Chat coaching makes it easier for Alberto to help authors to write every day, with frequent and brief interactions.
• Creators can use AI for topics, research, and more. AI will be the content creation assistant.
• For authors, it is good to get daily triggers, join a group to learn, keep motivated, and have a list of 50 problems or topics to keep going a publishing content.
• Create a rhythm that fits your lifestyle and keep that rhythm.

Alberto helps aspiring content creators become prolific by starting with writing every day.
You will become a consistent content creator, improve your skills, and increase your reach.

He was born and lives in Italy. In 2010 he started on the right path, making a living by helping others through content.
He launched a blog about photography and brought it to 300k pageviews per month.
Then he got sidetracked.
Writing on Medium is his attempt at redemption.

• The coach.me platform is omnichannel and asynchronous.
• Create images on Midjourney, tried repurpose.io, playing with various AI tools.
• An accelerated coaching membership with a resources library.
• Use ChatGPT for coaching messages. Be sensitive about confidentiality.
• Kendra gives an example of how you could do this.
• Get the initial draft going for your website and coaching package.
• Retain the human awesomeness.
• Use AI to improve the marketing for your coaching business.
• Dance with it. Suspend your opinion.

Kendra is the CEO of Coach.me and Managing Partner at  Ruble, Leadbetter & Associates, LLC.

• https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/foster-change/clip/not-your-statistic-xkqfq3
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt_IGrUOfVA

Shari Walker on Soulful Adulting. Helping You To Find The Spark To Inspire Your Soul.

Shari Walker is your personal strategist, coach, and friend on this journey of career growth and self-discovery. She is a Career Empowerment Strategist and Certified Habit Coach who was once a foster-care child, now a thriving advocate for breaking free from the status quo, redefining success on your own terms, and exploring unconventional holistic paths to career fulfillment and personal growth in holistic ways using the roadmap of holistic strategies, resources, tools, and tips, affirming mantras, the uplifting power of a supportive community, inspiring coaching, and insightful guidance. She has worn many hats, walked many paths, and painted a vibrant, one-of-a-kind "Canvas of Opportunities".  Now, she can't wait to help individuals paint their own holistic career and personal development journey!

• as a producer, she supports the artists and tries to get the best of themselves;
• she makes underground music, and her studio is in the underground.
• the keystone habit for Felix is that she has to make a beat on her phone.
• she plays bass and programs music.
• choosing is not the same as making.
• boredom is a good source of creativity.
• Alienation and acceleration Hartmut Rosa (interview with Rosa on Arte in German) What do we lose when we save time. Lecture by Rosa in English Hartmut Rosa: Social Acceleration, Alienation, and Resonance
• Music is the space in between the notes.
• We need more space.
• Turn your phone off for more boredom in your life.
• Getting past the starting friction.
• Making something makes you really happy.
• The art always comes back and finds you.
• Music in business can cause problems, but it is the trouble that we need.

Felix is championing mature musicians. She helps musicians and producers actually make music. You will break through creative blocks by establishing a daily music making practise.

• the book Factfulness by Hans Rosling.
• Seth Godin - The song of significance
• Esther Perel on The Other Ai: Artificial Intimacy at SXSW

With Ramon Williamson will will talk about focus, stop stopping, making consistent progress, reaching your goals, and super habits.

Kendra Kinnison is the CEO of coach.me. We talked about the trifecta of coaching, keystone habits, coaching in groups, and much more.

Malica Ahmad is an Atlanta-based coach who serves as lead instructor for aspiring habit coaches through the Coach.me Habit Coach Certification program. At Accenture,  one of the world's largest professional services firms, she gets to  wear her tech/design hat while leading, coaching and mentoring  high-performance teams that create impactful digital experiences for  clients worldwide.

She’s passionate about personal development  (John Maxwell is one of her favorite authors ) and believes the most  effective teams have leaders who listen deeply, ask great questions and  weave psychological safety into their team’s DNA. Malica is also a  Certified Tiny Habits Coach and loves helping people transform their  most important health-related goals and intentions into consistent  action with the smallest of steps.

Recording of the LinkedIn Live session with Ruben Munoz Aguilera on business and family on the Coach Me To Lead show  Friday, Mar 3rd, 2023.  

Ruben is a father, husband, professional, coach, and many other things. He wants to make the world a better place to live in through his contribution and he has spent most of his adult life learning how to put first things first, and be healthier, stronger, and happier. Becoming a father has been a game changer for him and accelerated his learning and growth.

Gwen came to Coach.me in 2015, just as she was beginning to launch her own leadership  coaching and consulting business. She had just left a career of more  than 25 years in the corporate world where she delivered and managed  leadership development programs. Now she has a thriving business  creating custom-designed programs for leaders at all levels.

In  addition to her individual and corporate clients, Gwen manages blended  leadership development programs for Harvard Business Publishing. She  oversees all elements of designing and delivering corporate learning  programs for many global companies. This role puts her at the cutting  edge of world class business management research and thought leadership  so she sees challenges leaders face firsthand.

Gwen has a Master’s  degree in Training and Development from the University of Minnesota and  multiple certifications to teach and facilitate professional  development tools and products.

She is a credentialed coach with  the International Coaching Federation, the largest credentialing  organization for trained, professional coaches in the world.

In her time with Coach.me, she’s developed relationships with several Coach.me coaches, including Kendra and Donita Brown. A couple of years ago, the  three of them discovered a shared passion for leadership development and  created the Leadership XO Playbook Series. It is a set of six books  that guide leaders through exercises to help them set up or tune up  their leadership systems. They are very excited to bring this body of  work to Coach.me as a curriculum for leaders that is very accessible and effective in a group coaching format.