Integral Leadership Coaching
awareness + insight + action = results
Knowing others is intelligence;
Knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength.
Mastering yourself is true power.
- Tao Te Ching
About Integral Leadership Coaching
"Integral means comprehensive, balanced, embracing. When it comes to human beings, integral means maps, models, and practices that include the full spectrum of human potentials, often summarized as 'exercising body, mind, and spirit in self, culture, and nature.'"
– Ken Wilber
Integral Leadership Coaching provides a personalized learning experience designed to support a client's discovery and development in pragmatic, productive and life-enhancing ways. It is based on a mutually committed partnership between the coach and client.
Quantifiable Impact of Leadership Development
Over a three-year period:
- CEO’s involved in leadership development produced a total return to shareholders of 22%
- CEO’s not involved in leadership development produced a total return to shareholders of - 4%
Source: Leading the Way
Robert Gandossy, Mark Effron
Fundamentally, the integral view recognizes that human beings are not “problems to be solved” (yes, even in the business world!). Rather, we are each multi-dimensional, complex beings existing in a field of possibility with significant untapped potential!
Integral Coaching starts with the premise that there are no "one-size-fits-all" recipes for leadership success. As coaches, we bring a focused awareness to our client's unique aspirations, perceptions, relationships, somatic patterns (body movements), and external environment, with a view toward the interconnection of all of these domains.
Each coaching program has a customized purpose and outcomes co-designed by the coach and client. A universal aim of all coaching projects is to support our clients in becoming more astute observers, thereby accelerating learning, expanding choice, and creating capacity for self-generation and enduring change.
Within the coaching partnership, there is always a mutual engagement: coach and client each deepen their understanding of what it means to be human in ways that are always pragmatic and often profound.
Why Integral Leadership Coaching Now?
In the 1960s Alvin Toffler observed, "the world is experiencing a changing rate of change that is unprecedented in the human condition.” Since then, exponential rates of change have produced work environments where even customary leadership competencies can pale.
Today's effective leaders must navigate tremendous complexity, develop comfort with the unknown and a responsive way-of-being from the inside-out. Such leaders cannot afford to simply rely on external roadmaps that are often outdated and in constant flux. Learning how to learn, how to observe oneself, how to adapt and work well with others are the essential leadership skills of the 21st century.
These competencies are the foundations of emotional intelligence and are often referred to as; self and social awareness and the ability to manage oneself and one's relationships. As the authors of Executive EQ point out, "IQ may be related to as little as 4% of real world success." The good news is that our EQ (emotional quotient) can be influenced and enhanced throughout life.
The Integral Coaching process is designed to enhance EQ by; widening the aperture of awareness, illuminating blind spots to see both strengths and limiting ways of paying attention, engaging in new practices that support insight, and providing support for putting insights into action.
The French writer Anais Nin observed, "we do not see things as they are, we see them as we are." As awareness expands through new practices and ways of paying attention, desired habits take root. As one client exclaimed when his leadership practices changed and his team went from floundering to flourishing, "shifts happen!"
Contact us to schedule a free, 45-minute call to learn how we can help you or your organization.