The Edge of Coaching

Jo Birch a highly respected supervisor, author, and long-standing contributor to the development of supervision in coaching and helping professions. Jo has worked for many years at the intersection of practice, ethics, and professional standards, supporting supervisors and practitioners to think more deeply about their work and their responsibility within it. She is widely known for her writing and teaching on supervision, reflective practice, and professional maturity, and for her steady, principled voice in a rapidly evolving field.LinkedIn: Link hereJo's Website: Link hereSupport & Emergency ResourcesIf this episode brings up anything difficult for you, support is available:Samaritans (UK & ROI) Call 116 123 - free, 24/7 emotional support https://www.samaritans.org/SHOUT (UK) Text SHOUT to 85258 - free, 24/7 confidential text support https://www.giveusashout.org/Find a Helpline (Worldwide) Search by country to find local crisis and emotional-support services https://findahelpline.com/UK Helplines Directory of UK mental-health and wellbeing services https://www.nhs.uk/urgent-help-for-mental-health/If you are in immediate danger, please contact your local emergency services. Your Coaching DevelopmentI’ve helped hundreds of coaches grow their confidence, impact, and presence. If you’d like to explore supervision, mentor coaching, or training - for yourself or your organisation - let’s have a conversation:📩 [email protected] 📅 Book a call here

Helen Sieroda is an APECS-accredited Master Executive Coach with over 30 years’ experience coaching and mentoring senior leaders. She is founder and director of Wise Goose School of Coaching, a certified B Corp delivering executive coaching and accredited coach training.Helen’s work is shaped by a lifelong commitment to inclusion, sustainability, and ethical leadership. Formerly a UKCP-registered psychotherapist, she helped establish a psychosynthesis academy in Stockholm and served on the Board of the Psychosynthesis and Education Trust in London for over a decade. Her background includes roles in management, a degree in Comparative Religion, and a Master’s in Responsibility in Business Practice. She is passionate about the meeting point of inner and outer change, helping leaders and organisations align ambition with care for the wider world, recognising how small, thoughtful actions create lasting impact.Helen's LinkedIn - Link HereWise Goose Coach Training - Link Here Your Coaching DevelopmentI’ve helped hundreds of coaches grow their confidence, impact, and presence. If you’d like to explore supervision, mentor coaching, or training - for yourself or your organisation - let’s have a conversation:📩 [email protected] 📅 Book a call here

Aubyn Howard is the co-founder of Psychosynthesis Coaching Limited and author of Psychosynthesis Leadership Coaching - a psychology of being for a time of crisis (2020).Aubyn holds an MA in Psychosynthesis Psychology with the London Institute of Psychosynthesis and an MSc in Change Agent Skills and Strategies with the HPRG at Surrey University. He draws upon more than 30 years’ experience as an organisational consultant, facilitator and coach, supporting change and leadership development within organisations across different sectors and cultures. He is a Certified Spiral Dynamics and NLP practitioner, an APECS Accredited Master Executive Coach, an EMCC Senior Practitioner and EMCC Global Coach Supervisor.Aubyn lives in southern France with his wife Diana. He continues some organisational client work alongside his primary focus on the education and development of leadership coaches and supporting the psychosynthesis coaching community.LinkedinPsychosynthesis Coaching Ltd  Your Coaching DevelopmentI’ve helped hundreds of coaches grow their confidence, impact, and presence. If you’d like to explore supervision, mentor coaching, or training - for yourself or your organisation - let’s have a conversation:📩 [email protected] 📅 Book a call here

Simon Western is a leading academic and practitioner in coaching and leadership, and the author of several books and many academic papers. He is the host of the popular Edgy Ideas Podcast and blogs on Re-enchanting Our Worlds, Substack.Simon brings an unusual depth of experience to the field of coaching and leadership. He has led Masters courses at leading universities, including tenure as Director of Coaching at Lancaster University Management School, and Director of the Masters in Organizational Consulting, psychoanalytic approaches at the Tavistock Clinic.  He is also Past President of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO).Currently, his portfolio of work includes coaching and consulting to CEO’s and international leaders in all sectors. He has also developed the Five-Frame Eco-Leadership Coaching System which he teaches. He offers ‘thought leadership’ to support strategic change in today’s ‘network society’, specializing in distributed leadership to ensure ethical and dynamic leadership occurs at the edge as well as the centre of organizations.Simon’s work emerges from a critical and ethical perspective, and the purpose of the Eco-Leadership Institute is to help leaders work in ‘good faith’ to build the ‘good society’.  Your Coaching DevelopmentI’ve helped hundreds of coaches grow their confidence, impact, and presence. If you’d like to explore supervision, mentor coaching, or training - for yourself or your organisation - let’s have a conversation:📩 [email protected] 📅 Book a call here

Ed Rowland is Founder of The Whole Partnership and a leadership catalyst and senior executive and team coach. A leading Systemic Coach and Constellations practitioner for both personal and organisational systems, he has delighted in co-pioneering this way of working in a leadership and work context for the last 20 years. He learned the work in the early 2000s from its 1st generation pioneers, notably Gunthard Weber and Judith Hemming.With a background as a barrister, in creative industries and various psychological disciplines, he has over 25 years experience of helping leaders, teams and organisations in all sectors to unfold their unique potential and creativity. He co-founded the Centre for Systemic Constellations (CSC), the UK training body, and he has worked at various business schools and universities.Links:The Whole PartnershipEd's LinkedIn Your Coaching DevelopmentI’ve helped hundreds of coaches grow their confidence, impact, and presence. If you’d like to explore supervision, mentor coaching, or training - for yourself or your organisation - let’s have a conversation:📩 [email protected] 📅 Book a call here

Anthony Eldridge-Rogers is an executive coach, trainer and organisational consultant working at the intersection of wellbeing, recovery and leadership. Founder of FRC Worldwide, he developed the Meaning Centred Coaching™ model and has championed coaching as a powerful yet underused resource for behavioural health and human flourishing.Anthony’s career spans media, environmental work and leadership consulting, with clients from the BBC to Henley Business School. A Fellow of the RSA and Certified Professional Recovery & Wellness Coach, his work blends coaching psychology, self-leadership and meaning-based approaches to help people live and lead well. Your Coaching DevelopmentI’ve helped hundreds of coaches grow their confidence, impact, and presence. If you’d like to explore supervision, mentor coaching, or training - for yourself or your organisation - let’s have a conversation:📩 [email protected] 📅 Book a call here

Claire Pedrick is an MCC Master Coach, Coaching Supervisor, and author of Simplifying Coaching and The Human Behind The Coach. With over 15,000 hours of experience, she facilitates others’ thinking and hosts The Coaching Inn podcast.Claire believes coaching is simple - though it takes time to work that simply. In 2022 she walked 600km on the Camino in Spain.She received the Outstanding Contribution to Coaching Award from Henley Business School (2022) and a Points of Light Award from the UK Prime Minister. Your Coaching DevelopmentI’ve helped hundreds of coaches grow their confidence, impact, and presence. If you’d like to explore supervision, mentor coaching, or training - for yourself or your organisation - let’s have a conversation:📩 [email protected] 📅 Book a call here

Nick is a senior executive coach, team coach, coach supervisor, organisational consultant, facilitator, and event speaker. He has more than thirty years of experience supporting the development and success of organisations, their leaders/executives, and coaches in the UK and many parts of the world, across a wide range of sectors.He has co-led the Academy of Executive Coaching’s highly acclaimed Advanced Diploma in Executive Coaching for over 12 years, is a long-standing faculty on their Systemic Team Coaching programmes and a sometime guest lecturer on programmes at various Coaching and Business schools including London Business and Said (Oxford) Business school. His great passion is supporting leaders/coaches in participating effectively in the interplay between their lived, embodied/somatic cognitive experience (their/their clients ‘aliveness’) and the wider system (relationship, team, organisation, world) of which they are both a part and a co-creator. Limited awareness in either (or neither!) domain, soma or system, becoming at least problematic and at worst, disastrous. To this end he has run Somatic coaching and embodied leadership programmes on leadership programmes and coach trainings, for over 25 years, again in many different parts of the world with their distinct, inherited somatic patterns and challenges; from Estonia, Ukraine & Russia on one side of the world to senior Texan oil executives on the other. [email protected]'s LinkedIn Your Coaching DevelopmentI’ve helped hundreds of coaches grow their confidence, impact, and presence. If you’d like to explore supervision, mentor coaching, or training - for yourself or your organisation - let’s have a conversation:📩 [email protected] 📅 Book a call here

Today’s guest, Wendy-Ann Smith, is a coaching psychologist working where coaching psychology, positive psychology, and ethics meet. She’s the founder of the Coaching Ethics Forum, the Journal of Coaching Ethics, and Ethical Edge Insights. Platforms dedicated to raising the bar on ethical practice and wellbeing in coaching. Her research looks at how coaches grow, weave ethics into their work, and sustain their own wellbeing. Through one-to-one coaching and workshops, she helps coaches and leaders deepen their ethical awareness, always bringing warmth, curiosity, and a passion for ethical growth.Resources:Wendy’s LinkedInCoaching Ethics Forum Your Coaching DevelopmentI’ve helped hundreds of coaches grow their confidence, impact, and presence. If you’d like to explore supervision, mentor coaching, or training - for yourself or your organisation - let’s have a conversation:📩 [email protected] 📅 Book a call here

Committed to helping leaders and coaches do their best work and live their best lives, Yannick Jacob is a Coach, Trainer & Supervisor with Masters degrees in Existential Coaching and Applied Positive Psychology. He is part of the teaching faculties at Cambridge University and the International Centre for Coaching Supervision, and he’s the Course Director of the School of Positive Transformation’s acclaimed Accredited Certificate in Integrative Coaching, for which he gathered many of the world’s most influential coaches and earliest pioneers. Formerly Programme Leader of the MSc Coaching Psychology at the University of East London, Yannick founded and hosts Yannick’s Coaching Lab which gives novice and seasoned coaches an opportunity to witness experienced coaches live in action. Yannick presents at conferences internationally, his book An Introduction to Existential Coaching was released by a leading academic publisher, and his self-study online course on the subject is now available for instant access. Across four seasons as host of Animas Centre for Coaching's popular podcast Coaching Uncaged Yannick engaged the thought leaders of our industry in dialogue, and he passionately hosts his own podcasts Talking about Coaching and Talking about Coaching and Psychedelics.Links mentioned: http://existential.coach/ - Yannick's websitehttps://rocketsupervision.com/ - Resources & supervision for coacheshttps://gocoachinglab.com/ - Live & recorded coaching demoshttps://rocketsupervision.com/podcasts - Yannick's coaching podcastshttps://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/file/faf00ac1-9dc5-45a8-89dc-d6a3ab23b783/1/IJEBCM_22_2_19.pdf - Yannick's white paper on coaching and psychedelics Your Coaching DevelopmentI’ve helped hundreds of coaches grow their confidence, impact, and presence. If you’d like to explore supervision, mentor coaching, or training - for yourself or your organisation - let’s have a conversation:📩 [email protected] 📅 Book a call here