Arete Coach 1111 Deb Calvert "Choose Joy"
- S1E1111
- 51:11
- January 23rd 2023
This is episode 1,111 of the Arete Coach Podcast with host Severin Sorensen and guest Deb Calvert. Deb Calvert is an executive coach, speaker, and author out of Kansas City. She is also the Founder and President of People First Productivity Solutions and Academy. Early in her career, Deb worked in the newspaper media industry in marketing and sales. Later she pivoted to sales leadership and coaching, and, most recently to executive leadership and team coaching.
During the interview, she shared her simple yet powerful mantra: "Choose Joy." She explains, "everything is a choice, right? And we can choose our attitude, we can choose our mood, we can choose how we interpret whatever's in front of us. Like everybody, I've had some very big challenges and difficulties in life. And even within those if I can find it somewhere, if I can choose joy, I can weather those storms a lot better."
Deb has received a variety of honors and awards: Most Influential Women in Sales Award by Sales Hacker 2018, Most Innovated Sales Blogger Finalist II Commerciale 2018, Best Sales Books of All Time appearing on CNN, Forbes, and Inc., and a variety of other awards focusing on sales and marketing. Deb is also an avid writer with several publications such as “Dealing with the Infobesity Epidemic”, “No More Miserable Meetings”, “The Ultimate Guide to Soft Skills for Managers”, “Promoted! Now What? A Primer for First-Time Sales Managers”, and a variety of others.
In the interview, we explore Deb's background, careers, coaching lessons, and several of her favorite coaching questions stems such as 'tell me more,' and others from her book on questions called DISCOVER. This interview is insightful, humorous, engaging, and a delight to listen to, as Deb is such a wonderful coach and human being. She knows who she is, and what she wants to accomplish.
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This episode was produced on 9 January 2023.
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“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.