121: An Audience with Carol Kauffman PhD

Carol Kauffman is Harvard Faculty, author, global speaker, leadership advisor and coach, who Marshall Goldsmith has described as the world’s Number 1 Leadership Coach. 

This episode is an amazing insight into the life and work of Carol as we explore who Carol is and what drives her day to day in her work with some of the most senior and influential leaders in the world. 

Carol is committed to bringing the best out of people including herself. Her strong personal purpose is to be ‘a conduit for joy, the sword of truth to care for and challenge the powerful, galvanise their goodness so that they can change the world.’ 

Carol gives an incredibly candid insight into her family life with a genius for a sister, a mother with strong values and a father who was a sociopath and CEO of his own company who tried with all of his might to corrupt Carol’s thinking and approach to life. Thankfully Carol realised that this advice was not to be her path of truth, focus and impact in the world.  

Carol describes herself as an average student and her role as coach allows her massive permission to tell the truth to power and coach the fearful into achieving incredible results. 

Carol during her childhood was exposed to a rich variety of people from the rich and powerful of Monte Carlo to the Head of the Mob! She realised that the more you are in the spotlight, the less it is about you. Her role as coach is never to shame but to bring joy into the experience and care deeply before challenging someone to help improve their personal development. 

Human Centred Leadership capabilities are absolutely core for any leader to be a Force for Good. This is one of the reasons that Carol always asks her clients “who do you want to be right now?’ as who you are will ripple out through your organisation. 

Carol explains the importance for all leaders to be coaches as it will allow them to establish positive relationships and be their best. This kind of interaction creates high profit and engagement and an environment of autonomy and psychological safety which changes how an entire organisation can run and meet challenges when being disrupted.  

Carol also gives me coach training 101. A good coach must be able to do the following: 

1.     Be a view to the future

2.     Focus on the skills of the other person

3.     Help navigate the person forward with questions (Carol shares her key questions in this episode) and positive confrontation 

Carol is set to launch her new book ‘Real Time Leadership – Find Your Winning Moves When the Stakes Are High’ available from February 2023. In the book and episode, she outlines her M.O.V.E. approach to winning and the three dimensions of leadership.  

I even asked Carol for advice to play a tennis final, which I won. Thank you, Carol. 

Don’t miss this incredible episode. 

Visit www.carolkauffman.com for a sneak peak of the book. 

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