Leaders need a break. Your coaching clients need a break.  You need a break. In order to get off the hamster-wheel of business (i.e., busy-ness), leaders can learn a few key mindfulness strategies that will help them to create space and breath in their otherwise uber-overwhelmed day. Below are a few excerpts from the new book for leaders called  Yoga …

This article explores the potential for detrimental consequences and inappropriateness of imposing mandatory 'supervision' on coaching practitioners, versus the established mentor coach approach.

Over the years, it has been noticed that different kinds of people treat and use the ‘future’ differently.

Business leaders know that the effectiveness of a business process, whether an internally-facing or client-facing process, can determine the quality of the results we get. But, what about our thinking processes? Those are far more elusive! How do we learn to think more effectively and in turn, discover solutions more readily? As busy leaders in large organizations and small and …

Have you ever noticed that the coach training schools and programs do a great job of teaching us how to be excellent coaches, but not such a great job of teaching how to get more coaching clients or run your business most effectively?  You may have read some of the articles in this library from bestselling author and executive coach, …

Whether it’s a marriage or a merger, there’s no experience of success without synergy.

I was listening to a fabulous segment on NPR about how the people in Haiti refugee camps have taken to starting businesses in their tents. Astonishing, isn’t it?

(excerpted from “Integral Leadership Coaching: A Partner in Sustainability” by Lloyd Raines, published March 2007, Integral Leadership Review.) How do coaches explore the moral dimensions Climate change is dramatically altering the way we understand ourselves and our relationship with the world around us? Recent instabilities in our climatic and weather patterns have forced leaders in the private, public, and civil …

Organizations spend large sums of money to hire coaches for top executives in an effort to improve these abilities. Are coaching programs effective in improving bottom line performance for organizations?