Arete Coach: The Art & Science of Executive Coaching

This is episode 1088 of the Arete Coach Podcast with host Severin Sorensen and an episode on Personal Courage, the necessity of the Free Press for Democracies, and Empowering Writers, with special guest Julie Gammack, a former Executive Coach and Vistage Chair, with a background of journalist, reporter, columnist, and talk news radio host in Des Moines, Iowa. In the interview, we explore Julie's life journey and experiences. At an early age, she saw, felt, and experienced injustice, and she stood up and took action. This carried into her career in the press, as a journalist, columnist, reporter, and news talk radio host, to her journey to an executive coaching and Vistage Chairing of 20 years. We explored some of Julie's favorite questions in coaching. We end by exploring Julie's current passion for empowering writers to unleash their voices and creativity in regional writers retreats. The Arete Coach Podcast seeks to explore the art and science of executive coaching. You can find out more about this podcast at aretecoach.io. This episode was recorded on August 22, 2022, with portions of this episode drawn from a pre-recorded interview with Julie Gammack on July 18th, 2022 via Zoom Video. Copyright © 2022 by Arete Coach™ LLC. All rights reserved.

This is episode 1087 of the Arete Coach Podcast with host Severin Sorensen and guest coach Christopher Avery, PhD, who lives in Austin, Texas. Christopher is a CEO, author, mentor, and speaker. He is the CEO and founder of the Responsibility Company with a fashionable website, Responsibility.com. He teaches personal responsibility and the paradigm of owning it, where you are either above or below the line, and he teaches individuals and organizations how to get above the line. He supports evolving leaders, coaches, and leadership teams who want to be wise faster, and intend to lead themselves and others to results that matter. Christopher has published two books. One called "Teamwork is an Individual Skill" and "The Responsibility Process." Much of his early professional work involved working with IT teams implementing Agile processes. In the interview, we explore Christopher's journey from IT management consulting to executive coaching and responsibility mentoring. We also explore the difference between coping it and owning it. We discuss how personal responsibility means "Owning your ability and power to create, choose, and attract." We explore what it means to be above or below the line. And we talk about the harmful states of denial, blame, justification, shame, quitting, and obligation which are traits that keep one from being truly accountable. The Arete Coach Podcast seeks to explore the art and science of executive coaching. You can find out more about this podcast at aretecoach.io. This episode was produced on June 29 2022. Copyright © 2022 by Arete Coach™ LLC. All rights reserved.

This is episode 1086 of the Arete Coach Podcast with host Severin Sorensen and guest coach Jim Alampi who lives in Clarkston, Michigan. Jim Alampi is the founder and chairman of Strategic Execution Accelerator, Execution Maximizer, an award-winning Vistage speaker, executive coach, and founder and owner of Alampi and Associates LLC.. Before investing his time in the executive coaching industry, Jim was the CEO of three public companies ranging from $325 million to $1.5 billion. Today Jim works with CEOs, executives, and boards of directors, teaching them how to get from their vision to execution and results. Jim has received TEC and Vistage speaker of the year awards in Canada, the United Kingdom, and globally. Jim focuses on his expertise in strategic leadership, organizational development, and executive management. In the interview, we explore Jim's journey from the CEO suite to executive coaching. We also explore his recent book writing project, and we explore his business models and acumen. He speaks of "Distilling Complexity Into Simplicity" and the need for execution. He shares a few of his 21 business tools for CEO and company success. The Arete Coach Podcast seeks to explore the art and science of executive coaching. You can find out more about this podcast at aretecoach.io. This episode was produced on June 28, 2022. Copyright © 2022 by Arete Coach™ LLC. All rights reserved.

This is episode 1085 of the Arete Coach Podcast with host Severin Sorensen and guest coach Klyn Elsbury. Klyn is a motivational keynote speaker, best-selling author, and executive coach and sales team coach. Klyn's early years were developed as a promising professional recruiter, winning several awards and moving up swiftly in sales organizations. Then a negative life twist happened, a dark cloud of ill health appeared, and Klyn found herself battling the genetic disabling disorder of cystic fibrosis that attacks the lungs. Since that day, Klyn has spent over 70 extended stays in the hospital, and yet she has found ways and will to muster on, seeking to best her best days. She embraced lifetime learning and decided to learn all she could about the physical science, neuroscience, and her love 'sales team management and motivation.' Listen to her powerful story and insights, and her challenges and awakenings. Truly proving that when life hands you lemons, make lemonade. She offers a life metaphor of 'choosing your cloud' as you do with the thoughts you allow to wander by and linger in your mind. Today, Klyn teaches executives and coaches sales teams on topics of mindful leadership, improving their focus and creativity, and re-engaging their teams. She regularly provides keynotes and workshops for EO and Vistage audiences. Her written work has appeared in over 150 publications. Along with her coaching, speaking, and writing, Klyn also serves on the board of directors for Cystic Fibrosis Lifestyle Foundation. This podcast episode conversation adds color to the topics of mindfulness, positive psychology, lifetime learning, and the sheer will to live. Discover more on these topics at AreteCoach.io. The Arete Coach Podcast seeks to explore the art and science of executive coaching. You can find out more about this podcast at aretecoach.io. This episode was produced on May 24, 2022. Copyright © 2022 by Arete Coach™ LLC. All rights reserved.

This is episode 1084 of the Arete Coach Podcast with host Severin Sorensen and guest coach Sami Bugay, MCC. Sami is a Master Certified Coach, a Certified Ontological Coach, Leadership Coach, Team Coach, bestselling, author of "Better Leaders, Better Teams", and CEO and owner of KA Consulting. Better Leaders Better Teams, giving readers a ready-to-use combination of grounded theory and experiential practices to build fully functional teams. In 2021, Sami was awarded the lifetime achievement award and Outstanding OSD Graduate award from the Gestalt Center of Organization and Systems Development. In 2008, he was awarded the Local Spirit Global Presence Award from the ICF. In his coaching journey to achieve his MCC, Sami participated in over six different foundational coaching programs. In this episode, we explore Sami's journey into coaching from being a corporate leader and having to make hard choices dealing with a massive layoff, to his choice to become an executive coach and his journey to becoming an excellent coach. He shares some of his journey of learning with the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and the Integral Institute and other coaching schools. We explore Sami's background in IT, physics, and implications for ethical AI. Sami shares one of the great challenges for coaches is to tame their own monsters, and not their ones one challenges or past experience bias or influence with a client. Discover more on these topics at AreteCoach.io. The Arete Coach Podcast seeks to explore the art and science of executive coaching. You can find out more about this podcast at aretecoach.io. This episode was produced on May 13, 2022. Copyright © 2022 by Arete Coach™ LLC. All rights reserved.

This is episode 1083 of the Arete Coach Podcast with host Severin Sorensen with a special episode Surviving Economic Tsunamis: Scenario analysis, strategic planning, and risk mitigation. In this episode, we explore a world in commotion. We cross walk through current international political economy trends, the global economy, US economy, the war in Ukraine, and a portent of stormy weather ahead. Some have described our period as pre-hurricane and we explore what if it were an economic Tsunami; How would one prepare? We review economic preparations by leading economists, CEOs, and the work of surviving and thriving in turbulent times by Sequoia Capital and Bain & Company. Discussed are topics of inflation, Federal Reserve Bank policy, economic impacts of War, and inflation impacts on global nation-state instability. We explore the leadership and cultural themes needed now. The podcast is helpful for business owners, CEOs, key executives, executive coaches and executive peer groups. Severin Sorensen is an economist, executive coach, and serial entrepreneur with a keen curiosity for business and economic trends. Severin is CEO of ePraxis LLC, a premier-level executive headhunting, talent selection, and executive coaching company. Severin is a highly sought Vistage Speaker with over 250+ presentations worldwide on hiring top talent, innovation, and economic trends. Severin was a Vistage Chair (2010-2018) of three Vistage Groups in Salt Lake City, UT, and during this period he was a repeat Mentor Chair and awarded the 2011 Vistage Rookie Chair of the Year Award. Prior to Chairing, Severin was a Vistage/TEC member in Washington DC (1999-2004) while he owned and operated a company he founded called Sparta Consulting Corporation (1994-2005), a management consulting, security systems integration, and remote video monitoring company; Severin sold this company in 2005 and it continues today as part of Interface Security Systems, the 7th largest security systems integrator in the US (2018). Severin was a former “Special Assistant to the President” at the White House where he had the high honor to work for President George H.W. Bush (POTUS 41) (1992-93). Severin earned a graduate degree (M.Phil.) in economics from King’s College, Cambridge, University, England, and two undergraduate degrees in economics and political science from the University of Utah. While an undergraduate, Severin was the Editor in Chief of the Utah Forum: A journal on international political economy. Severin is the author of Economic Misery and Crime Waves (2009), a book that chronicles the Great Depression (1929-42) and the situation leading up to the Great Recession (2007-2009). Today, Severin prepares a quarterly economic overview for business coaches and business owner/operators on the economy, identifying key behavioral economic trends that impact businesses and their opportunity frontiers. More on the topic is available at AreteCoach.io. The Arete Coach Podcast seeks to explore the art and science of executive coaching. You can find out more about this podcast at aretecoach.io. This episode was produced on April 10, 2022. Copyright © 2022 by Arete Coach™ LLC. All rights reserved.

This is episode 1082 of the Arete Coach Podcast with host Severin Sorensen and guest coach David Mead, who is a speaker, management consultant, and co-author of Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team. This book co-authored with Simon Sinek and Peter Docker has 400,000 copies in print, and is published in over 24 languages. In this episode, we explore David's own "why", and his passion for helping companies overcome cultural dissonance. He talks about his formula for trust, and how company leaders should spend more time living and being, and less time materially doing their company culture. David shares his journey into management consulting and coaching, and his experiences working for and co-authoring with Simon Sinek. In our conversation, we wander through David's life experiences and learn more about him, his purpose, passion, and desire to do good to help others. In the interview, when David was asked, if he were to write a title for the name of his autobiography, he replied, "the much taller hobbit" and we explored this figurative musing about his life and journies and people he has met along the way. Discover more on these topics at AreteCoach.io. The Arete Coach Podcast seeks to explore the art and science of executive coaching. You can find out more about this podcast at aretecoach.io. This episode was produced on March 17, 2022. Copyright © 2022 by Arete Coach™ LLC. All rights reserved.

This is episode 1081 of the Arete Coach Podcast with host Severin Sorensen and guest coach Katie O'Malley, BCC, who is a leadership and development expert, executive coach, and Senior Associate Director of Leadership Development, at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and Board Certified Coach. Katie is the founder of (En)Courage Coaching and Consulting where she helps business leaders and executives live their most authentic and courageous lives in the Chicago area. She works alongside her clients to design authentic career paths, effective leadership practices, and courageous workplace cultures. In this episode, we explore Katie's passion for service and journey into coaching. She talks about courage, showing up courageous, and En-couraging her clients to be their best selves. She talks about her work with Womens coaching and career development at the Chicago Booth School of Business. She ventures into a discussion about several diagnostic tools such as Strengths Finders and Hogan Assessments, and the value she sees in these instruments for her work in coaching. Discover more on these topics at AreteCoach.io. The Arete Coach Podcast seeks to explore the art and science of executive coaching. You can find out more about this podcast at aretecoach.io. This episode was produced on March 8, 2022. Copyright © 2022 by Arete Coach™ LLC. All rights reserved.

This is episode 1080 of the Arete Coach Podcast with host Severin Sorensen and guest coach Tony Lewis who lives in Kanas City, MO. Tony is an executive coach, Vistage Master Chair, Best Practice Chair, and Chairman of The Lewis Group. In 1998, Tony founded the Lewis Group USA, where he helps companies develop better strategic direction and greater organizational effectiveness through his consulting services. Prior to this, Tony Lewis held several executive positions including President and CEO of ConAgra Foods and Vice President of Continental Grain. Additionally, Tony is retired from the U.S. Air Force after serving his country for 6 years as an active duty Colonel and 31 years as a General in the Air National Guard. On the podcast, Tony shares his life journey as an Aviator, Military and Business Leader, CEO ConAgra, and his passion for being a Vistage Chair. He shares concepts of leadership, courage, action, and activities to make individual coaching and peer groups stronger. He muses over the powerful contrast of 'opportunity is nowhere' vs 'opportunity is now here.' He talks about the necessity of cultivating the "Courage To Fail, Learn, and Think." The Arete Coach Podcast seeks to explore the art and science of executive coaching. You can find out more about this podcast at aretecoach.io. This episode was produced on June 1st, 2022. Copyright © 2022 by Arete Coach™ LLC. All rights reserved.

This is episode 1079 of the Arete Coach Podcast with host Severin Sorensen and guest coach Doug Bouey who lives in Calgary, Canada. Doug is a business consultant, executive coach, Vistage/TEC Canada Chair Emeritus, and author of Fixing Fractures: Restoring Shattered Relationships in Business and in Life. Doug has been the president and principal consultant of Catalyst Strategic Consultants Ltd. since 1986. Prior to coaching, he worked as an attorney. Doug uses a wide range of tools and approaches to help his clients overcome their challenges and “amplify their arcs of success.” Doug has over 30+ years of service as a TEC-Canada / Vistage Chair. In 2010, Doug received the Don Cope Award for his service in TEC/Vistage. He is also a co-founder of Keepers of the Flame, a gathering of senior Vistage Chairs and Chair Alumni. In the interview, we explore the roots of Doug's life journey into coaching, the foundations for his book on Fixing Fractures, his experience as a Gazelles Coach, and we explore many other nuances of business coaching and life lessons on the art and science of executive coaching. The Arete Coach Podcast seeks to explore the art and science of executive coaching. You can find out more about this podcast at aretecoach.io. This episode was produced on April 27, 2022. Copyright © 2022 by Arete Coach™ LLC. All rights reserved.