Our Coaching Panel

In selecting coaches, businesses use several criteria. Amongst other considerations, they look for:

• Deep business experience at the highest levels
• Strong behavioural sciences expertise with a solid academic foundation
• Demonstrable track record of success in coaching

While all these factors are useful indicators, we believe that they are not the full story.

At enso executive coaching, we first seek out core characteristics. For us they are:

• Business Insight – Coaches need the ability to grasp core strategic and business dynamics of the issues that their coaching clients work with day to day. This doesn’t mean that they need specific expertise in the industry or the role – often the outsider’s perspective is more insightful – but they do need to be able to grasp the patterns and intricacies in a way that lets them connect.
  
• Emotional Perceptiveness – Coaches deal with very subtle issues.  The vast majority of the goals that coaches help executives achieve have at their heart questions about the way the executive relates to the people around them and the way they feel, think and behave. Outstanding coaches hear the emotional undertones and connotations, and are able to reflect these back to spark insights that empower and facilitate change.
  
• Systems Thinking –The modern organisation is heavily laden with ambiguity. There are many ways of looking at the issues we face, and inspired leadership often involves flipping conventional, entrenched approaches on their heads. Coaches need to be able to come in from sometimes unorthodox angles, asking the “dumb” questions that lead to new possibilities.

To bring you the very best possible selection of coaches, we have hand picked a panel of coaches with outstanding skills and a thirst for learning. 

They come from a variety of backgrounds, giving us the ability to closely match client and coach.   Some are seasoned business leaders with a wealth of wisdom and experience. Others have deep knowledge in the behavioural sciences, both as practitioners and prominent academics. Most already have a strong track record as an independent executive coach, and coaching forms for them part of a portfolio career that includes major directorships and senior academic posts.

While these qualifications are important and useful, we are convinced that alone, they are insufficient to ensure coaching of the highest calibre. All our coaches share those special, almost indefinable qualities of presence, insight and incisiveness that allow them to craft a conversation and a relationship that has real impact. They share the ability to ask the key question, to unlock and unblock thoughts, emotions and paradigms and to help the executive find new, powerful ways of working.