FRESH IDEAS FOR LEADERS: Building relationships to power success, coaching pioneer joins Vision, learn essential coaching skills, exploring authenticity in leadership

SEPTEMBER 2023

The importance of meaningful relationships

Friends,

This summer, I was reminded of the importance within Vision Coaching of strong and meaningful relationships. The reminder arrived in the most pleasant way possible.

Lianne Krakauer, a coaching colleague who lives in Toronto, was planning a visit out my way on the East Coast and wondered if I had time to get together. No hesitation there – indeed, my wife Mary Ellen and I invited her and her partner, Kevin, to stay with us.

From there, it snowballed.

A coaching pioneer joins Vision Coaching

We’re excited to announce that Amy Ruppert Donovan, one of the pioneers of the coaching industry in North America, has joined Vision Coaching as our Director of Learning and Development.

With more than 25 years of executive coaching experience, Amy combines her business leadership with her mastery of coaching to help build high performing, trustworthy leaders people want to work for.

A Master Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation, Amy brings a broad range of experience in a variety of industries including health care, financial, tech, manufacturing, legal, academia and government.

Co-author of Who’s the Boss? Confront the Elephant in the Room, Amy has coached leaders at all levels, from the emerging leader to the C-Suite, in the areas of communication, resiliency, fortitude, character and legacy building.

Limited opportunity: Using the Coach Approach essentials workshop

Experience how using coaching skills and adopting a coaching philosophy to leading and managing can transform your organization.

Our popular introductory three-hour workshop on Using the Coach Approach is back in an engaging virtual format on Oct. 13. Sign up by Sept. 27 to take advantage of early-bird pricing.

With this interactive and practical session, leaders and managers will learn what coaching is and how it is being used to elevate the work environment.

This session will be facilitated by Jill Brown, a certified executive coach who has worked in finance and human resources for more than 15 years, obtaining her CPA designation before shifting her focus to change and talent management.

For more detail and to register for this dynamic session before the limited number of seats are gone, visit the events page of the Vision Coaching website.

Exploring authentic leadership

and the challenges of new leadership

The Boiling Point explores the importance of authentic leadership, the challenges and opportunities of being a new leader and the value of executive coaching in an engaging episode with Rachel Vander Vennen, executive director of L’Arche Saint John.

Listen or watch to capture Rachel’s insights on authentic leadership and the significance of genuine relationships.

For this and a treasure trove of past episodes of the podcast, visit The Boiling Point website.

Harvard Business Review explores whether productivity tools are paralyzing workers in Are Collaboration Tools Overwhelming Your Team?

Inc. examines the unconventional leadership insights of one of the most successful people on the planet in Richard Branson Says the Thing We All Fear the Most Is Actually the Way to Success.

In The Managerial Misconception: Not Every High Performer Wants To Be A Leader, Forbes looks at the perils of promoting your top performers.