‘Be Visible and Share Your Story’ Isn’t Ethical Guidance

‘Be Visible and Share Your Story’ Isn’t Ethical Guidance

At some point during or after our coach training, most of us received some version of this advice: be visible and share your story because that’s how clients will find you. It sounds reasonable, even inspiring. The problem is that it’s useless advice, and...
How To Have A Positive Impact On The World

How To Have A Positive Impact On The World

If you ask coaches why we coach, or why we want to coach, the idea of having a positive impact on the world will always appear in one guise or another. It’s fundamental to who we are and why we do this work. Coaching itself has a positive impact on clients, and...
Let’s Talk About Monetisable Credibility

Let’s Talk About Monetisable Credibility

We qualified as coaches. Most of us are good at it, we love the work, but the clients just aren’t coming and we can’t work out what we’re doing wrong. Meanwhile, some of our training cohort seem to be doing absolutely fine. They landed clients within...