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…
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…
Leadership Weekend: Lessons Learned in Ashridge
When I started at Hult, I didn’t know they had a campus in a manor two hours outside of London, nor did I know if I would ever see it,…
Compassion in the workplace: New faculty book release
Hult faculty Amy Bradley releases a new book next week. The Human Moment: The Positive Power of Compassion in the Workplace contends that compassion is the key to business performance this century. We…
Changing attitudes to disability in the workplace: a study with Barclays and Jubilee Sailing Trust
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that having a diverse workforce has been associated with individual, organizational and societal benefits. The inclusion of diverse individuals leads to higher employee engagement,…
Hult undergrads build their leadership skills: The Ashridge Cohort Experience
The new academic year is well underway and classes and campus life are in full swing. Students are beginning to experience what life as a Hult undergraduate is all about….
The Hult Prize Accelerator at Ashridge: Tomorrow’s changemakers take up the baton
This summer, over 150 student entrepreneurs arrived at Hult’s Ashridge campus for an intensive six-week accelerator program. Armed with ideas to change the world for the better, these ambitious students…