In this episode we speak with Clare Norman MCC about the concepts in her new book ‘Cultivating Coachability’. We discuss why assessing coaching readiness is such a crucial aspect of the coaching process. We explore what stakeholder and coaching custodian responsibilities could look like. We unpack the clarity we can offer when meeting clients in co…

Systemic questions in coaching are an invaluable way to support clients on a deeper level. These questions are designed to reveal the interconnected dynamics within a client’s personal, professional, internal, and external systems. By examining relationships, patterns, and unconscious influences, they help clients gain profound insights into how th…

In this insightful episode, we sit down with Pia Ault, an expert in horse-assisted learning and coaching, to explore the transformative power of working with horses in personal and professional development. Pia shares how these majestic animals help individuals and teams enhance communication, build trust, and unlock their leadership potential. We …

At the beginning of 2025, Empower World explores themes of reflection, gratitude and growth, sharing stories of navigating joy and challenges, uncovering wisdom in darker times and celebrating the light in our lives. Tune in to be inspired to embracing life's duality: finding lessons in difficulties and joy in achievements, as well as cultivating g…

In a world filled with noise and constant distractions, the art of deep listening is often overlooked. But what if simply offering someone your undivided attention could be transformative—or even life-saving? We explore the concept of "listening like a Samaritan" with special guest coach Barry Phillips - an approach rooted in empathy, compassion, a…

Ever wondered how Lego can support powerful coaching conversations? Hands On Thinking Coach Paul Sanbar explains how Lego bricks can be utilised powerfully when coaching clients by unlocking unconscious thoughts and patterns in a playful yet meaningful way. Paul is a Certified Lego Serious Play facilitator whose passion lies with coaching clients o…

We speak with Influencer and coach, Alex Swallow, about his life and work experiences and how living authentically is important for how he shows up and impacts his world. We get curious about what it means to be an authentic influencer: exploring the importance of aligning our values with our actions, staying true to your purpose, choosing to live …

Presence is foundational to deep and effective listening, as well as asking powerful, thought-provoking questions that provoke deeper insights, ideas, and new ways of being and doing. By practicing deep presence, we become better receptors—not only for the words we hear and how they are shared, but also for powerful non-verbal, unconscious language…

We dive into the art of embracing cultural differences in coaching practices to connect deeply with coaching clients from diverse backgrounds. This means understanding and honouring the unique cultural perspectives that shape their identities, values, and visions of fulfilment as well as exploring traditions, such as spiritual and well-being practi…

Some rules guide us positively, while others can hold us back from becoming highly effective coaches. New coaches often create stories about needing to follow a process or use a tool, ask complicated questions, complete numerous coaching courses, or even build a website and have business cards, etcetera, which can prevent them from coaching in a wa…

Marie speaks with Dr. Kate Jenkinson about her journey from Scientist to HR Professional to poet. As someone with Aphantasia, Kate invites us to a greater curiosity about others and how we experience our world. This can lead to a much deeper understanding of self and others, which impacts every area of our life, work and relationships.…

The Journey To ACC, PCC And MCC. Practice Insights from ICF Assessors’ with Tracy Tresidder. Join ICF MCC coach Tracy Tresidder, a respected leader in the coaching field and contributor to the book Becoming an ICF Credentialed Coach. In this episode, Tracy discusses how the book supports coaches and leaders in mastering essential coaching skills fo…

Asmaa Al-Kuwari is at the forefront of professional coaching in Qatar as a Qatari national and a woman who supports and coaches executives and women to become better leaders in their professional and personal lives. Before embarking on this journey, Asmaa had to face many of her own limiting beliefs and challenging experiences growing up in an expa…

Dr. Mark Setch MCC, Senior Lecturer/Course Leader MBA and Coaching, is passionate about combining leadership and coaching. In his roles as a senior academic leader and a professional coach, he is a strong advocate for coaching skills as part of a leader's ability to support and empower people and teams: to bring out the best in people to create hig…

Marie speaks with Brinsley Kazak about how coaches can effectively communicate their services and share content that is both honest and meaningful. Join us as we explore strategies for marketing with truth and authenticity to build trust and connection with your audience.

Join Marie and Robbie Swale from “The Coaches Journey” in this long form podcast as they meander through a fascinating conversation filled with discovery and connection. Exploring living and leading with values, Robbie's 12-minute method and so much more.

In this episode, Marie speaks with Roger Fielding about his journey to becoming an ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC). Listen in to hear lots of tips, procedures and processes to support you on your ICF credentialing journey.

Most coaches are taught about the different levels of listening but what does this really mean? In this episoded Jeanine and Marie discuss practical ways to increase our presence and our listening to support our conversations to be even more impactful.

In this episode, Velvey Blocker, Director of Executive Coaching Black and Veatch who has been leading global leadership development programs for professionals, supervisors, managers, and executives for over 25 years shares his thoughts and experience on how coaches can move into the world of executive coaching. What experience is required, how orga…

In this episode, Christina Zini, an ICF-credentialed coach with extensive leadership experience with some of the world's leading organisations, shares her vision of what a modern successful leader is and how coaching can support that success in numerous ways. As Christina describes in this podcast, a modern leader can engage, inspire and invite the…

In this episode, Marie and Tony Adamson explore Tony's first year of working as a full-time coach and the questions he has been asking himself about staying true and authentic to who he is when bombarded with so many different coaching models and philosophies. They begin with talking about Tony's focus on Voluntary and Community Sector managers who…

Colluding with our client’s stories can lead to stifling our client’s growth. Believing or going along with our client’s beliefs potentially move the relationship from coach and client where the client is supported and challenged to expand their perspectives and thoughts to a friendship role. In this podcast we share what collusion is and how we ca…

In this podcast, Arslan Athar, Empower World’s business manager - and so much more - shares his powerful insights as to how learning coaching skills changed his life in every area: work, relationships, leading large teams, and music creation as examples. Arslan is Empower World’s glue that builds the foundation for what we do - so we are grateful f…

Michelle Travers, is an Empower World coach training alumna shares her experiences and what she describes as life-changing learning post her coach training in 2021. Michelle explains how she incorporates her coaching skills into her practice of supporting families in need. Listen to Jeanine, and Michelle in Empower World Coaching and Leadership Pod…

Establishing our personal boundaries is key to creating healthier relationships with ourselves and others, prioritising self-care and value, and making choices that energise and inspire us. Without boundaries in our lives, we risk compromising our health - mental and physical - potentially because of external requests on our time, energy, and focus…

Marie chats with ICF PCC coach Jo Sheasby about the process of learning something new, challenging ourselves about what we already know, and trusting our intuition and so much more. Jo is an ICF professional accredited coach who works with passionate and committed individuals to achieve transformational change in their businesses, careers and perso…

Coaches need to be aware of potential power dynamics in coaching because they can play a key role in shaping the coaching relationship and outcomes. Understanding these dynamics is essential to maintain an effective partnership between the coach and the client. Power imbalances arise due to many factors between the client and coach - including beli…

Coaches can sometimes get caught up with trying to find powerful questions which can lead to greater insights, awareness and processing of experiences for the client but the coach can sometimes miss the clues the client is going deeper. Those clues may be very subtle but if the coach is paying close attention to their client they can continue to su…

Effective, powerful leadership and coaching are very interconnected. This is because coaching skills - such as holding space for people, deep listening, asking thought-provoking questions, effectively providing feedback, and getting curious about the person, team, ideas, emotions, energy, intuition, and much more - within systems support engagement…

Grief is an emotion we will experience from time to time and is about letting go or the loss of something - such as a relationship, a job, a responsibility, a home etc - which is sometimes out of our hands or it’s a choice we’ve made. We share how coaching can powerfully assist in the process of grief and how it can support us to be better leaders …

ICF core competency 8: Partners with the client to transform learning and insight into action. Promotes client autonomy in the coaching process. Marie and Jeanine explore this competency bringing it to life with real-life examples and questions to support your client in moving forward into action and growth. Listen to Jeanine, and Marie in Empower …

ICF core competency level 7: Evoking Awareness Facilitates client insight and learning by using tools and techniques such as powerful questioning, silence, metaphor or analogy. We explore this competency and what this means in the co-creation of the coaching experience and how we as coaches can embody this important competency throughout the conver…

In this podcast recorded by Tim Collings on his Better World Leaders podcast, a conversation takes place between three friends and colleagues who have been deeply exploring how to co-create conditions for systemic change to be activated and sustained. Empower World invites you into the conversation with Tim Collings, Sue Glendenning and Empower Wor…

ICF Core Competency 6: Listens Actively, focuses on supporting coaches to deepen their listening skills to support their clients to create even more awareness for themselves. Marie and Jeanine share practical tips to increase your and your clients listening ability and development to have even more powerful experiences in the coaching conversations…

We explore ICF Core Competency 5: Maintains Presence in this podcast episode. This competency is about being fully conscious and present with the client throughout the session while ensuring we are ‘open, flexible, grounded and confident’ when partnering with the client to create new perspectives and change. Listen to Jeanine, and Marie in Empower …

"It ripped me from my ego, brought my family together, and put me on a new path for my business... I've never looked back." CEO of Ginger Camel - Stefan Lindberg-Jones - shares powerfully how attending Empower World’s coach training programme changed his life profoundly in both his personal and professional lives. Stefan emphasises the programme is…

We explore ICF Core Competency 4: Cultivates trust and safety in this podcast. This competency is about partnering with the client to create a supportive environment which allows the client to feel psychologically safe, respected and free to share honestly. We share our perspectives to support relationships built on trust and rapport and for our cl…

There are many reasons a credential can support you, your practice and your credibility as a professional coach. This is especially so in an unregulated industry where many people call themselves coaches but actually are not coaching. Find out the reasons why it’s important to gain your credential in this podcast with Jeanine and Marie. Listen to J…

Climate challenges are ever increasing with more awareness and urgency being created about its impact in homes, schools, organisations, communities, countries ... across the world. Many coaches want to know how they can support climate action - especially in roles of facilitating change, thought partners and holding space for what is emerging. In t…

Climate change is now much much in our collective consciousness - and many coaches, leaders are asking 'what is mine to do?' or 'is climate change something I can support?' In this episode we interview Charly Cox, Co-founder of Climate Coaching who shares her experiences, wisdom, knowledge, and how we as coaches and leaders can be and lead in ways …

In this session, we explore what establishing and maintaining agreements means in relation to the agreements made prior to and throughout a coaching programme between the coach, client, and potential sponsors and stakeholders. We explain what agreements mean in the context of the whole programme as well as the individual sessions and why it's impor…

In this session, we explore what this competency of embodying a coaching mindset means to live and breathe. It incorporates how we can support ourselves in service of our clients. Listen to Jeanine and Marie in Empower World Coaching and Leadership Podcast Episode. 181

This is the first episode in a series of 8 where We explore the core competencies and what they mean. In this episode we discuss developing an ethical practice, what to consider for the clients, the organisation you work with and for you personally as a coach. Listen to Jeanine and Marie in Empower World Coaching and Leadership Podcast Episode. 180…

Professionally contracting with your clients at the beginning of each coaching session sets the foundation for creating powerful conversations and new awareness for clients or colleagues - in any relationship. Listen to Jeanine and Marie in Empower World Coaching and Leadership Podcast Episode. 179 #icfdohachapter #ICF #coaching #coach #mastery #ne…

Do you find yourself getting lost in your clients story? Getting hooked on the details which stops you listening deeply to what is happening underneath the client's story - forgetting to ask them thought provoking and powerful questions? We share our thoughts about how and why this may happen and strategies to keep you in presence so you can do the…

Tim Collings - professional coach, leader and founder of 4i Leadership - shares his experience of how he brought what he is passionate about: supporting the health of our lands and developing leaders to bring out their best - do the inner work in support of living, healthy and generative systems. Listen to Jeanine and Tim in Empower World Coaching …

Often when we have a goal we want to achieve or we feel stuck or have a decision to make, we can experience internal conflict and hear ourselves saying “part of me wants this and a part of me wants something else”. In this episode, we discuss parts work and how, as coaches, we can support our clients - and ourselves - to get curious about the learn…

Giving and receiving effective feedback means opportunity for growth! Engaged feedback is an important leadership skill that leads to powerful, inclusive connections with people. The more we are willing to stretch into the skills of feedback - as both the provider and acceptor of - the greater our self-development and the development of others in p…

We believe to be truly effective as a leader is very interlinked with coaching. The ability to be coached, coach others and coach self can create deep and powerful connections to self and others which leads to empowering behavioural transformation. Listen to Jeanine and Marie in Empower World Coaching and Leadership Podcast Episode. 174 to find out…

If you find you are coming out of sessions, tired and exhausted you may be doing the work for your client. Masterful coaching is enabling the client to do their own work. In this podcast we share reflections, thoughts and ideas about how to support your clients to do their own heavy lifting.