088: How Coaching with Proverbs Creates New Perspectives with Lorlett Hudson

088: How Coaching with Proverbs Creates New Perspectives with Lorlett Hudson

“As coaches, our voices transform the quality of life for people.”

Lorlett Hudson, Executive Leadership & Transition Coach and CEO of "One Hand Can't Clap", joins host Maxine Bell to talk about her multi-award-winning, 52 card set of proverbs, "What Mama Used to Say", designed to facilitate change, alter perceptions, break down barriers and develop high-performing leaders and teams.

She talks about her work with African Caribbean leaders and entrepreneurs, the power of words to help us find what is not being said and what limiting beliefs we are holding onto. An authentic, natural-born coach, Lorlett is full of wise simple truths that she generously shares in this podcast episode.

Lorlett has lived by her own belief that “there is always another way” and demonstrates the power of the right question by examples from her work with young people, leaders and corporations. Listen and be inspired by her passion for people, community, innovation, coaching and change.

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Lorlett Hudson

Lorlett Hudson, FRSA, is CEO and Founder of "One Hand Can't Clap", one of the UK's leading Learning and Development Enterprises: building exceptional leaders, preserving cultural heritage and improving productivity in organisations and small businesses. She is also a multi-award-winning entrepreneur, inventor, Executive Leadership/Transition Coach and International Speaker. Her work with high-level senior African and African Caribbean leaders and entrepreneurs to develop their leadership potential has produced a powerful and substantial alumnus.

Lorlett is the inventor of the critically acclaimed “Things Mama Used To Say”, a 52 card box set of Jamaican/Caribbean proverbs cards designed to facilitate change management, build inclusive leaders, diversity and Inclusion, culture humility, and develop high performing teams.

Her pioneering approach to culture, entrepreneurship and leadership has resulted in her winning the Silver Award of the prestigious British Female Inventors & Innovators Awards; Wavemakers National Awards; a runner up in the National Training Awards; a Member of Courvoisier The Future 500 top talents in the UK, and recently the GLE Enterprise award. She is a Cherie Blair Business Mentor and Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship Caribbean Mentor. Lorlett believes that when people come together, the possibilities are endless.