Arete Coach 1148 Rebecca Jones "Jumping with Courage: Exploring Evidence Based Coaching and Inclusion"
- S1E1148
- 1:09:34
- October 16th 2023
This is Arete Coach Podcast Episode 1148, with host Severin Sorensen bringing you an engaging conversation with Professor Rebecca Jones with an episode titled, "Jumping with Courage: Exploring Evidence-Based Coaching and Inclusion." Professor Rebecca Jones is a psychologist, professor in coaching for behavioral change at Henley Business School, and co-founder of Inclusive Leadership Company.
Welcome to the Arete Coach Podcast with your host, Severin Sorensen. This platform dives deep into the world of executive coaching, exploring both the art and the science behind it.
On today's episode we feature a conversation with Professor Rebecca Jones from the Henley School of Business, Henley Centre for Coaching. Ironically, Rebecca started off skeptical about coaching, but after researching it for her master's dissertation she became a believer. Now a professor at the prestigious Henley Business School, she directs their coaching programs and researches coaching effectiveness. Severin and Rebecca have an insightful discussion on her journey, passion for evidence-based coaching, insights from coaching research, and company aimed at developing inclusive leadership.
Rebecca describes how her curiosity about coaching effectiveness led her down the path of a PhD focused on the topic. She publishes constantly to make the research accessible. At Henley, Rebecca now specializes in coaching education across certificate, master’s, and other programs.
Diving into team and group coaching, Rebecca explains how the shared experience and peer coaching in groups can create added benefits beyond 1:1 coaching. She's seeing group coaching excel for empowering marginalized groups.
As co-founder of the Inclusive Leadership Company, Rebecca is on a mission to assess and build inclusive leadership capabilities in organizations. She describes her 360 assessment tool and coaching for inclusion.
Tune in to understand Rebecca's personal motivations, hear her coaching research insights, and learn how to create more inclusive workplaces. She discusses the importance of whole person coaching, shares her mantras for courage, and explains how we still have far to go in truly embracing inclusion.
The Arete Coach Podcast aims to uncover the art and science of executive coaching. Learn more about the podcast at aretecoach.io.
This Podcast interview was recorded on September 28, 2023.
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Arete Coach: Exploring the Art and Science of Executive Coaching
“Arete Coach Podcast" Explores the "Art and Science" of Executive Coaching hosted by Severin Sorensen. The “Arete Coach Podcast" is for executive coaches and anyone considering becoming an executive coach. The podcast is especially valuable to executive coaches who are lifetime learners with deep curiosity about the "art and science" of coaching. In this podcast, the ‘art of coaching’ is explored through engaging interviews with leading executive coaches from diverse backgrounds sharing their individual coaching journeys, learnings, methods, best questions, and situational approaches to executive coaching. Beyond best practices, the podcast will regularly mine research on the ‘science of coaching’ and explores ongoing scientific discoveries and studies looking for what works and why, with an aim to improve the core body of knowledge for executive coaches and the industry. Severin Sorensen has provided over 7,500 hours of paid executive coaching sessions and he holds the following coaching certifications: ICF/ACSTH Certified Executive Coach (CEC), Certified Organizational Development Coach (CODC), Certified Life Coach (CLC); and the IAC: Coach Masteries Practioner. Severin Sorensen has an M.Phil in Economics at King's College, Cambridge University, and undergraduate degrees in Economics and Political Science from the University of Utah.
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Severin Sorensen is host of the Arete Coach Podcast, where he interviews executive coaches and researchers with the aims to celebrate and explore the art and science of executive coaching today.
Severin is a senior executive coach, serial entrepreneur and lifetime learner with a passionate curiosity about people and businesses. Severin is the CEO of ePraxis LLC, a premier level retained search firm that provides executive headhunting, talent selection, and executive coaching. (www.epraxis.com)
Severin is a certified coach with an IAC Masteries Practitioner designation and 800+ hours of ICF/ACSTH and other advanced training in Executive Coaching, Organizational Development, EOS, Life Coaching, Emotional Intelligence (EQ), and Positive Intelligence (PQ). Severin has over 7,500+ hours of paid executive coaching working with high performing executives, owners, and operators of public and private companies throughout North America.Severin's coaching clients include boards of directors, CEOs, Presidents, GMs, COO, CFO, CTO, VP Engineering, VP Talent, and many other positions.
Severin lives in Park City , Utah and his virtual coach practice includes clients throughout the Americas.
From 2010-2018 Severin was a Vistage Chair where he coached three CEO and Key executive groups. In 2011, Severin received the "Rookie of the Year Chair Award" from Vistage. Since 2013, Severin has added international speaking for Vistage, CEO conferences, executive peer groups, and corporations on the topic of identifying and hiring difference making top talent.
In terms of the types of clients coached, Severin has coached new CEOs (with less than 2 years experience), large company executives (e.g., Managing Director of Rio Tinto), numerous high-growth entrepreneurs operating INC 5000 businesses, multi-generational family owned businesses, and primary-equity business owners who are still actively managing their companies. Severin has experience coaching both private and public company executives and their executive teams.
Severin's own coaching practice is tool based, using diagnostics, surveys, and Socratic questioning to get to root issues. You can learn more about Severin at epraxis.com (insights), LinkedIn, Quora, and Twitter. If you think you might be a good fit for executive coaching with Severin, he is happy to give you a free test drive coaching session to see if this would be good for you and your team. You can book a free test-drive 30 min coaching huddle at: calendly.com/epraxis.