Coaches Rising 258 - Muriel Wilkins: Leadership Unblocked
Oct 10, 2025
Muriel Wilkins, founder and CEO of Paravis Partners, is a seasoned executive coach with a focus on leadership development. In this engaging conversation, she reveals seven common limiting beliefs that keep leaders stuck, such as perfectionism and urgency. Muriel offers practical coaching questions to help clients uncover their core beliefs and emphasizes the importance of reframing perspectives. She also shares a structured three-step process for transforming these beliefs into actionable insights, equipping leaders to respond with greater capacity and ease.
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Beliefs Shape Sustainable Change
- Beliefs drive sustainable change more than actions alone.
- Muriel Wilkins found that without shifting internal beliefs, external actions often fail to stick.
Start By Asking What You’re Thinking
- Ask yourself, "What am I thinking right now that contributes to this situation?"
- Use repeated curious questions to surface assumptions so you can choose different beliefs and actions.
Treat Beliefs As Hypotheses
- Test a new belief by asking, "What would you need to believe to increase the probability of the outcome?"
- Hold beliefs loosely and treat them as hypotheses to expand your range.
