The AC Podcast

220: Can Love Transform Coaching and Leadership?

In this Episode

The transformative role of love in coaching and leadership is explored by leadership development and consultant coach, Helena Clayton and our host Dina Sabry Fivaz. Helena shares insights from her research on love in the workplace, highlighting its various definitions and application in coaching, leadership and organizational relationships. They discuss themes like radical acceptance, unconditional positive regard, fostering connection and belonging.

Helena emphasizes the critical role of self-awareness, objectivity, and transparency in creating a coaching space rooted in love while maintaining professional boundaries. She highlights the growing interest in love as a leadership tool, exploring its potential to foster supportive, empathetic workplaces that drive personal and organizational growth.

You Will Learn

• The significance of love in coaching and leadership
• Different definitions of love and their implications for coaching relationships
• Whether a coach can ever be truly neutral and what that means for the coaching dynamic

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Guest Bio

Helena's work is supporting organisations and leadership teams to create healthy and human working cultures. She is also a coach and coach supervisor. Threaded through and in addition to her core is her research and workshops exploring love and the role it could - and perhaps should - play in leadership and in our organisations, as well as in our wider lives.

 

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