What we’re thinking
Excited to be exploring borderless coaching in Birmingham
Fascinating time this week returning to my hometown of Birmingham and joining 180+ coaches and mentors at the annual West Midlands Coaching & Mentoring conference held at the International Convention Centre.
Joining together with The Diversity Practice we led an experiential session exploring borderless coaching – an approach to coaching that goes deeper with clients by embracing and exploring the dynamics of diversity in it’s various forms. Great to receive very positive feedback and reinforcement that our work in this area is sparking interest. It’s an exciting new adventure to support coaches and also leaders in organisations working with diverse clients or teams. We start by exploring our own biases, assumptions and ‘borders’ to strengthen our own self-awareness and through doing so strengthen our capability and competence in working with others where diversity can offer much potential which is often untapped. We explore different ‘borderless practices’ – using inclusion EQ (emotional intelligence), holistic empathy, cultural synergy and fierce courage to identify and cross borders for ourselves and for our clients.
An exciting journey lies ahead!
Andrew Bidnell is a professional certified coach and an experienced consultant who founded InsideOut Consulting in 2006. The focus is on leadership and communication and, in particular, the challenge of engagement – of self and of others – to achieve maximum impact and fulfillment. He has worked internationally with 1,000+ leaders in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, always seeking to facilitate, challenge, support and unlock potential that lies inside an individual, a community, an organisation, and bring that strength, passion and knowledge out for maximum impact.