Final reflections from our coaching participants
As 2024 draws to a close, this week also saw the final workshop of Ashridge’s Postgraduate Certificate in Executive Coaching program. This is a standalone program, which also forms the…
Coaching grads launch new book—Leading in a Wicked World
This month sees the launch event of a new book about navigating the pitfalls of modern leadership. Co-authored by two coaching alumni; naturally, we wanted to learn more! “In a…
The accreditation equation: Setting out the facts and a participant’s story
Many people considering a coaching qualification naturally have questions around accreditation. We recently took the opportunity to talk with two-time Ashridge coaching alumna, Tünde Erdös. As well as her Master’s…
My online coaching experience: Interview with Bela Stankova
As we enter the last couple of weeks of applications for the annual intake of our Global Online Master’s in Executive Coaching, we asked a former participant to share her…
Coaching Coffee Chat With Dr. Erik de Haan
Erik de Haan is the Director of Hult Ashridge’s Center for Coaching and an accomplished coach, professor, psychodynamic psychotherapist, author, and more. I recently had the chance to sit down with…
Looking for a Rashomon Effect
Extract from Critical Moments in Executive Coaching, 2021 by Erik de Haan Rashomon describes a particular event as seen by different witnesses who contradict each other. They cannot all be…
Impact Research: Hult Ashridge Center for Coaching
Following Chief Academic Officer, Johan Roos’, announcement that Hult is renewing its research strategy to prioritize impact and launching three new Impact Labs, the long-established Hult Ashridge Center for Coaching will…
Role Clarity: Understanding Your Team
Working as a team coach for many years, I recently noticed a pattern of experiences that brought into sharp relief a dilemma that as a team coach (and OD consultant)…
Thanks Coach! How Personal Development Is Done at Hult
At Hult, each undergraduate student has a personal career and development coach and has 1-2-1 support. This starts before they set foot on campus, to give them the best start…
The Coaching Leader—Food For Life
At a gathering of local business leaders, I sat next to the recently appointed MD (let’s call him James) of a flourishing medical supplies company. In his first few weeks…
Coaching Begins At Hello
Originally published in Training Journal, 2019. I have observed a great many coaching conversations over the years, and I have been amazed at the phenomena occurring just at the time…
Race Consciousness–a Three Part Series (Part Three)
Originally published in Coaching at Work, 2021 Part three: Inform your perceptions In my previous articles, I talked about how our coaching arrangements, practices, and conversations are inevitably ‘racialized’. Deeply…
Supervisors Attend To Coaches So They Can Attend to Leaders
Originally published in Coaching Perspectives, 2017 The leadership shadow: the vulnerability of being a leader In today’s fast-paced, interconnected, and mercilessly competitive business world, senior executives have to push themselves…
A Fleeting Moment of ‘noticing’ – the Balance of Presence in Team Coaching
Originally published in Coaching Today, 2019 When coaching teams ask, how do we know when our presence is “too much” or “too little”? Erik de Haan proposes how to navigate…
Are You The Coach You Think You Are?
Originally published in Coaching Today, 2018 The latest version of our Coaching Behaviours Questionnaire (CBQ) was used in a large-scale study of coaching behaviours among 537 coaches, 196 consultants,…
Race Consciousness–a Three Part Series (Part One)
Originally published in Coaching at Work, 2021 Part one: Race equity and coaching – a call to conscientization? In the first of a series of articles about race equity in…
Race Consciousness–a Three Part Series (Part Two)
Originally published in Coaching at Work, 2021 Part two: Conversations of Difference Three coaches reflect on their experience of creating, facilitating, and holding the space for themselves, for each other as…
Hult Alumni Magazine 2020: Arielle Shnaidman
Master of Her Own Message Your greatest asset? Yourself. While treading a relentless path to “success”, Arielle Shnaidman realized she no longer recognized her destination. A little introspection and a…