In this episode, Sam’s guest is Michelle Lucas.

Michelle is an established coach and coach supervisor who has run her own business, Greenfields, since 2006. A frequent speaker at Oxford Brookes International Supervision Conference, she has enjoyed challenging some of the myths which have found their way into our coaching supervision community as we have borrowed from our helping profession colleagues. She surprised herself when she discovered the joy of writing, sharing her expertise in the community and has published 4 (soon to be 5) titles relating to coaching supervision and reflective practice with Routledge.

In this episode, Sam’s guest is Will Linssen.

Will’s Triple Win Leadership Coaching has a 95% success rate confirmed by coworkers, based on 100,000 leaders coached. Will has been recognized as a LinkedIn Top Executive Coaching Voice, serves as advisor to Harvard Business Review, has been ranked World’s #1 Leadership Coach by Global Gurus (USA), World’s #1 Coach Trainer by Thinkers50 (UK), and has attained the highest accreditation—Master Certified Coach—from the International Coaching Federation (ICF). With 30 years of leadership experience across North America, Asia, and Europe, Will serves as CEO of the Coach Group, the world's most renowned international leadership coaching network.

In this episode, Sam’s guest is Katharine St John-Brooks.

Katharine loves variety and recently embarked on a fourth career as a thriller writer but her heart, for the past 22 years, has been in coaching. While she was an external executive coach herself, her research interest has always been internal coaching. She says: “I am so full of admiration for people who coach on top of their day jobs. Internal coaches are very special.”

In this episode, Sam’s guest is Brian O. Underhill, Ph.D. and PCC. Brian is an industry pioneer in the executive coaching field for the past 30 years. He is the founder and CEO of CoachSource, the world’s largest “pureplay” executive coaching firm, with over 1200 executive coaches. He’s the co-author of 3 books in the field, numerous articles and is a frequently sought-after public speaker.

In this episode, Sam’s guest is none other than Brian Cox!

Born in Dundee, Brian began his career in 1961 at the Dundee Rep and in a stage and screen career spanning more than dix decades, he has appeared in both the West End and Broadway, numerous acclaimed films and television and most recently, in his role in the award-winning HBO drama Succession.

In this episode, Sam’s guest is Georgina Woudstra. Georgina is a pioneering voice in the field of team coaching, known for her high impact, emergent approach to working with senior leadership teams. She is the founder of Team Coaching Studio and the author of the acclaimed book Mastering the Art of Team Coaching, now in its second edition. With a career spanning executive coaching, entrepreneurship and thought leadership, Georgina champions the transformative power of teams to shape a better, more collaborative world.

In this episode, Sam’s guest is Paul Folan. After 20 years of working for a major UK high street retail bank, Paul jumped ship to retrain as a group fitness instructor, personal trainer, sports therapist, sports nutritionist...and other things! Specialising in Phase IV cardiac rehab and special populations, Paul developed his businesses, opening his own Personal Training studios with his then business partner. After 17 years together, Paul now has his own Personal Training gym, continues to run group exercise classes and personal training sessions online and uses his NLP skills to continue to support his clients both inside and outside of their training sessions.

Paul’s falling story is different from many previous guests as the ‘failure’ is not caused because he is doing anything wrong. In fact, he is doing everything right, to the letter. Paul beautifully articulates the difference between doing the thing right and doing the right thing – they can often be very different things. What we do with people is not the same as how we be with them and both are important for a coaching relationship to be successful.

In his flowing story, Paul reminds us of the power of an apology. He shares how a heartfelt apology demonstrated that he heard the other person which immediately took the heat out of a situation and enabled the relationship to continue and build.

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In this episode, Sam’s guest is Dr Jane Freeman Hunt. Jane is a specialist neurodivergence coach working in a variety of organisations to deliver one to one sessions, client/manager sessions and awareness presentations. She has an initial background working at senior levels in the IT industry before re-training in psychology and coaching. Her goal is to help neurodivergent clients achieve in the neurotypical world that dominates the workplace and to help this group realise their full potential and experience success.