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Through an uncommon blend of storytelling and personal coaching, Tom Henschel created a unique and influential podcast. Eavesdrop on a monthly coaching conversation and get practical tools you can use as soon as the episode ends.
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A Dream in Peril Syed and I hadn’t spoken in years. I had coached him when he was a young rising star at a Silicon Valley tech giant. I had enjoyed my time with Syed. I found him to be an interesting thinker. He had…
A Rising Superstar K.C. and I were celebrating a bittersweet event: her coaching was ending. Again. For now. She and I had first worked together when she was a young rising star at her global firm. The company had felt she could become a future…
Vulnerability as a tool Jacqui was a highly analytical introvert. I learned early in our coaching that she used silence to think. That is not to say she didn’t speak up. When she felt strongly about something, the words flew out of her. From our…
Feedback from her boss Connie was in her second year at a global hardware company as chief product officer. She’d been a product leader at a hardware behemoth until this smaller giant wooed her away. Now she was in the C-suite with global reach. Her…
Calm in the Storm Rana had reason to be upset. Her reputation for making large-scale sales was well-known. She’d been hired by a company and placed on a division leadership team that had been together for years – in some cases, decades. That leadership team,…
Hard To Listen To Stephanie was concerned about commanding a room. In particular, she worried her voice wasn’t up to the task. I asked what specifically she worried about. “I’m monotone,” she said. “People tune me out when I talk.”
Barking management Reiko and I were exploring the differences between leadership and management. During our conversation, she had wondered whether the two actually sound different. I said to her, “You seem pretty comfortable in both camps, Reiko. Does your version of leadership sound different from…
Which is which? Reiko had leapfrogged her colleagues. Now, while still leading her large group of accountants, she was going to become the CFO of a division as well. Her boss, a huge supporter, got her coaching so she could step boldly into her new…
A Vicious Cycle Samir was stuck in an unhealthy cycle. Over the course of several years, I’d delivered a number of 360-degree feedback reports to him and his partners at their architecture firm. ‘Every report of Samir’s, including this current one, reflected the same good…