Coaches Rising

In this conversation with cofounders of iConscious, Carole Griggs and Ted Strauss, we explore into the iConscious Model for accelerating human potential, unpacking the different domains and how they support growth at different developmental stages, as well as discussing how development works, the transformational setting, developmental integration and the future of AI in coaching. Carole Griggs, Ph.D. is an executive coach, leadership development consultant, international speaker, university professor, author/writer, and developer of transformative technology tools focused on human potential and consciousness evolution. She is currently coaching leaders at Apple, Google and other international and Silicon Valley tech companies. Carole is co-founder of iConscious and a professor and course developer for John F. Kennedy’s Masters program in Consciousness and Transformative Studies department, and is the author of Space to See Reality: A New Model for Professional Coaches, and coauthor of Conscious: Accelerating Human Potential. Ted Strauss is cofounder of iconscious.global and has been a writer and teacher of awakening for over 45 years. For 10 years he taught Transcendental Meditation, helping hundreds to awaken consciousness. He integrates his experience with computer programming to create electronic means for accelerating personal and collective unfoldment and has been a major player in the Loving AI project, using AI to support awakening using the iConscious human development model as a dialog framework. He is co-founder of iConscious and coauthor of the book iConscious: Accelerating Human Potential. Visit coachesrising.com to see our acclaimed online coach trainings and other offerings.

In this conversation with CEO of the Jazz Leadership Project, Greg Thomas, we explore the process of racialization, how racialized worldviews impact development, the limits of the anti-racism movement, cultural intelligence, antagonistic cooperation and a more expansive approach to the topic of deracialization. Greg Thomas is the CEO and Co-Founder of the Jazz Leadership Project. Greg embodies the strategic vision of the company and enacts it during live workshops and for the Tune In To Leadership blog. The Co-Creator of G&J Productions, Greg has been instrumental in developing humanities programs for top cultural organizations such as Jazz at Lincoln Center. As a journalist and scholar, he has conducted in-depth research and conducted hundreds of interviews over the course of his career. Greg has given presentations on jazz, culture, race, and democratic life and values for a range of online platforms and institutions such Columbia, Hamilton and Harvard. Visit coachesrising.com to see our acclaimed online coach trainings and other offerings.

In this conversation with Dr. Bayo Akomolafe we explore the beliefs that underlie our collective culture, the epistemology of identity, hypo-subjects, the decentralization of humans, how the world is more than story and potential in the instability of our times. Dr. Bayo Akomolafe is a philosopher, psychologist, professor and poet renowned for his unconventional views on global crises, activism, and social change. He has taught at various international universities and currently lectures at Pacifica Graduate Institute and the University of Vermont. He sits on the Board of many organizations including Science and Non-Duality. Bayo is Executive Director and Chief Curator of The Emergence Network, author of These Wilds Beyond our Fences and We Will Tell our Own Story, and host of the online postactivist course, ‘We Will dance with Mountains’. Visit coachesrising.com to see our acclaimed online coach trainings and other offerings.

In this conversation with author, coach and entrepreneur Neo Moreton we explore the 3 prongs of Microshift Method, how connection changes our physiology, the business model of coaching, fostering sincerity and realness and the future of coaching and tech. Neo Moreton is a business-building Brit with a fierce passion for real growth in real life. Neo is inspired by tech and consciousness in equal measures and with his vast experience of high growth tech companies, business development and M&A, is the Co-Founder and CEO of Microshift, Founder of BYOND, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Urban OM and Co-Founder of Reach Within. He is also the author of Being real for a change. Visit coachesrising.com to see our acclaimed online coach trainings and other offerings.

In this conversation with coach and communication expert Barbara Piper Roelofs we explore leadership challenges in a post-Covid working context, leading from common humanity, what the research says about compassion, creating client touchpoints, ritual and wellbeing, and resilience and responsibility. Barbara Piper-Roelofs is a coach and facilitator who works with both individual and corporate clients. She started her 20+ year career in Corporate Communications and later moved into Health Care Management. During these years Barbara could always be found in a personal development or in an organizational training hub, either learning about management development or learning about different ancient wisdom traditions, meditation, mindfulness, compassion, somatic work and systemic constellations. Barbara holds a Masters degree in Communication and has recently studied at Stanford’s CCARE Institute (Cultivating Compassion and Altruism) which combines rigorous academic research with experiential contemplative, meditation practices. Visit coachesrising.com to see our acclaimed online coach trainings and other offerings.

In this conversation with coach and CEO of the Moment Institute, David Drake, we explore how we can be effective, masterful coaches in the context of these times, breadth versus depth, the perception of change versus what creates change, exploring patterns, the five maturities and competence versus mastery. David B. Drake, PhD, is the founder and CEO of the Moment Institute in the San Francisco Bay Area, whose mission is to reinvent learning & development for practitioners and clients to better meet the challenges of our time. He pioneered the field of Narrative Coaching, and he has taught coaching skills to over 10,000 leaders, managers, and professionals. He is the author of over fifty publications on narratives and coaching, including his book “Narrative Coaching; The definitive guide to bringing new stories to life”, co-editor of the SAGE Handbook of Coaching (2016) and a thought leader for the Institute of Coaching at Harvard. Visit coachesrising.com to see our acclaimed online coach trainings and other offerings.

In this conversation with executive coach Jennifer Garvey Berger we explore what coaches need in these times, Jennifer’s favorite theories, flow and presence, understanding context, biases and the action urge, and how we engage with complexity. Jennifer Garvey Berger helps individuals and teams to transform themselves and their organizations, to see bigger perspectives, to think in more creative ways, and to collaborate effectively. With her partners at Cultivating Leadership, Jennifer runs transformational leadership programs and supports organizations to use their leaders (and leadership development) to encourage and support whole-of organization change. Visit coachesrising.com to see our acclaimed online coach trainings and other offerings.

In this conversation with Alexander Love, Veronica Love & Lorie Dechar we explore emerging perspectives on adult development in the current paradigm of cultural change, various perspectives on wholeness and fragmentation, balancing different lines of inner development, reintegrating the somatic and the emergence of self. Alexander Love is an acupuncturist, life coach, and craniosacral therapist. With gentleness, lightness and depth, he invites us to listen to the voice of our inner wisdom & potency and allow that to move us outward into the world and make a difference. Veronica Paz Olalla Love is the Chief Executive Officer for the Newfield Network, United States branch and is an international presenter for the Newfield Network programs. She combines over 15 years of experience working in the holistic health field with over 14 years of immersion in the ontological coaching domain. In addition to being a somatic and program leader for the Newfield Network, she is the co-founder of eōs wellness center; a transformative wellness clinic in Boulder, Colorado that blends Coaching and Chinese medicine within an integral context. Lorie Eve Dechar's intuitive work as an alchemical healer, mentor, and teacher is supported by a strong foundation of theoretical understanding and clinical experience, including over thirty years of Chinese medical practice, twelve years as a senior faculty member at the Tri-State College of Acupuncture in New York City as well as years of teaching at institutes and retreat centers throughout the United States, Canada and the U.K. Visit coachesrising.com to see our acclaimed online coach trainings and other offerings.

In this conversation with executive coach Gonzalo Córdova we talk about emotional literacy in coaching, the science of emotions, how to bring emotional literacy into corporate environments, understanding emotional filters and having congruence as a coach. Gonzalo Córdova is an international facilitator, lecturer and an experienced executive coach. He has more than fifteen years of immersion in human development and is an expert at innovating and energizing leaders and has trained and coached more than 3,000 people around the globe. His focus is building communities of learning for the betterment of individuals and organizations throughout the globe. Gonzalo is one of the founders of The Newfield Network Mexico and LSHuman, an innovative company based in Malaga, Spain, dedicated to bringing about the synthesis of the mind, body and spirit to develop powerful leadership presence. Visit coachesrising.com to see our acclaimed online coach trainings and other offerings.

Coach and facilitator Forrest Wilson discusses the unified field of coherence, accessing essence, increasing inner alignment, and expanding our sensing capacities as coaches. They also explore the superorganism of humanity and creating a future where we can collectively thrive.