Finding Your Voice

“What do you do to get into the ‘zone’?” asked my friend and colleague Mark when we worked together last week. We were delivering workshops to an exec MBA group on Executive Presence.

Last week I was enjoying delivering a leadership workshop with my great colleague, Andrea when I was reminded of one of the many wonderful phrases crafted by Maya Angelou…

Thursday – delivering a workshop on managing challenging conversations with a colleague for a corporate client.

I was flicking through the sleeve notes for Dolly Parton’s latest album (in the passenger seat) on a long drive to York recently when I was reminded of a recent conversation with a new coaching client.

Yesterday I attended Carole Pemberton’s excellent coaching masterclass on resilience and, a few weeks ago, the launch of a new book curated by Liz Hall on Coaching in Times of Crisis and Transformation.

At my first session with my new coach – Abbodi Shabi – he asked: “So Stephen, how do you feed yourself?