Arete Coach Podcast 1094 Michele Barry "Playing on Your Front Foot and Being Offense Minded"
- S1E1094
- 1:04:35
- October 3rd 2022
This is episode 1094 of the Arete Coach Podcast with Severin Sorensen and his guest Michele Barry, who is a CEO, Vistage Chair, Executive Leadership Growth Coach, CEO Peer Group Leader, and Consultant. Michele is a former college athlete and teacher, and a current executive coach, and lifetime learner.
Michele is CEO of M Barry Consulting operating from Arlington, Massachusetts. She is also a Vistage Chair with multiple peer groups since 2005. In 2007 she became a Vistage Mentor where she helps develop new Vistage Chairs to start their groups and become effective leaders. In 2012, Michele became a faculty member of Vistage and started teaching new hire training courses and advanced training courses for experienced chairs.
Michele was a Lead Change Management Consultant and Director with Fidelity Investments. Michele has also worked in the education, training, and learning fields. With Politzer & Haney she served as a Learning and Development Manager and she also worked in other organizations as an Instructional Designer for training, a Developmental Editor for school curriculum, and an English Teacher and Mathematics Teacher. Michele is a certified Predictive Index Certified Partner and Practitioner, a certified EQi 2.0 and EQ-1 360 with Multi-Health Systems, she is certified with the Leadership Circle Profile, and she is a PI Certified Talent Optimization Consultant. Furthermore, Michele has her Masters' degrees in Literature and Accounting.
In the podcast, we explore Michele's journey into executive coaching, lessons from sports, curiosity, courage, and compassion. We talk about the parallels of sports and business, sch as "Playing on Your Front Foot" and being offense or attack minded. We explore powerful questions and nuances of performance coaching. The Arete Coach Podcast seeks to explore the art and science of executive coaching. You can find out more about this podcast at aretecoach.io.
This episode was recorded on August 31, 2022 via Zoom Video.
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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.