The integration of
Executive Psychotherapy, Coaching, and Team Facilitation? 

For the last 30 years, I have coached and facilitated executives and their teams by setting goals, providing techniques, and giving feedback on the external expressions of leadership. I see leadership as having four components:

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1) Strategy: future proofing, emerging markets & technologies, customer innovation

2) Operations: 90, 180, 360-day plans, accountability, project management

3) Talent: organisation culture, talent acceleration, succession, leadership development

4) Self: executive presence, self awareness, expansion of the concept of reality  

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Of course, the internal psychological health of an executive affects the strength of an executive's expression of these four components. 

It is unethical and dangerous for coaches untrained in psychology to stray into the areas of psychological challenges such as depression, anxiety, or addiction (amongst many others).  

Until 2008, I focused on coaching and team facilitation and left the psychotherapeutic interventions to trained professionals in psychotherapy or psychology. 

By 2008, I realised that I could no longer coach on effective leadership without integrating it at the same time with mental, spiritual and physical wellness.  

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In 2008, I thus qualified in psychotherapy and now have accreditation with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA).   I have complemented this ongoing study with significant adjustments to lifestyle in my life: body, heart and mind.   

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Since 2008, I have been working in this integrated way, with not boundaries between coaching and psychotherapy, unless the client states they would prefer one over the other. 

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We have witnessed anxiety, addiction and suicide exponentially rising both in us as executives but also in our family and friends. 

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As executives, we seem loathe to admit that we have psychological issues.  We prop ourselves up with more work, sugar, coffee, alcohol, drugs, affairs, divorces and many other distractions.  This provides temporary respite from the pain hiding in our mind, heart and body.  

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Relying on these distractions to get us through the day, we have become more and more ineffective in our leadership without noticing; more and more detached from our families; and less and less aware of the massive costs to our physical and mental health - and that of our loved ones. 

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COVID-19 has accelerated these destructive pressures. 

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While we search for a strategy and a leadership style to provide clarity to our EXECUTIVE TEAM, our people, our customers and our stakeholders, we simultaneously search for clarity across the whole of our life. 

With the respectful challenge of your view of reality and the skill of drawing out your own wisdom,

my aim is to assist you in 

becoming a leader who inspires your people to succeed and 

creating a life well-lived in mind, body and heart. 

Executive Coaching

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• Creating a compelling vision for purpose, values, direction, and targets for the organisation 

• Shaping the strategy and implementation plan to respond to your customer, people and stakeholders' needs

• Establishing a culture of innovation to continue to drive value and growth

• Defining performance expectations, coaching and holding your people to account

• Creating effective communication and governance through the organisation

• Understanding the external stakeholders of your businesses:  Shareholders, Board, Analysts, Customers, Media, other Stakeholders

• Understanding your internal stakeholders: determining and transforming the talent and culture

• Maximising your own leadership resilience, impact and legacy

• Building your presence through inspiring presentations, speeches -- with provocative content and a galvanising presence with speech and body language tactics

• Assessing potential successors 2-3 years in advance and then working with them to ensure readiness

• Assessing individual leadership, team performance and organisational culture (see links to the Neuroleader 360°, three other 360°'s, three individual psychometrics, two organisational culture surveys and one team diagnostic)

• Retreating with you for a day to create/review vision, strategic plan, inspiring the culture, leading a high performance team, and discovering who you are as a leader and who you are not  

Executive Psychotherapy

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As an accredited psychotherapist with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA), I have trained to work with you to address many potential issues: 

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• COVID 19-related fear, depression, overwhelm, anxiety

• Depression

• Anxiety (including social anxiety)

• Bipolar disorder

• Suicide awareness and prevention

• Panic attacks

• Alcoholism, drugs, food, gambling and sex addictions

• Stress management in general

• Work stress, including job loss and career transition

• Workplace bullying or other manager/direct report/peer issues

• Workplace performance management

• Grief and bereavement

• Insomnia

• How to meditate and sustain a practice; see LINK to meditation teaching and classes

• Relationship counselling

• Family issues 

• Domestic violence

• Loneliness

• Purposelessness

• Despair

• Codependence

• Anger management

• Disaster recovery, e.g. fires, floods, drought, etc.  

Executive Facilitation

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• Team Facilitation Workshops: Quarterly 1-2 day workshops where we create and review: 

  • The competitive environment:  STEEP: S​ocial, Technological, Economical, Environmental and Political 

  • The strategy for meeting and surpassing the needs of our customers, our stakeholders, our people and the market

    • Arenas, Vehicles, differentiators, staging and conomic logic​

  • What are the operational plans for this next period? ​

  • What is the culture we want to drive and how will we do this? 

  • Talent and succession plans for our people? 

  • Capital allocation for projects

  • Strengthing team effectiveness through clarity, accountability, processes and trust 
     

• Organisation Facilitation Workshops: ​

  • Interactive ways of developing components of strategy, culture and accountability​

  • Interactive reflections on topics of the future: e.g. artificial intelligence, robotics, life in a Covid world, the impact of "de-globalisation," space travel 

  • Interactive speeches such on critical leadership components we all have to work on, the neuroscience behind leadership, the new way of talent management, the constellation of the organisation to show weak connections that require strengthing (see this link for a possible set of topics as well as examples of me addressing 

  • Organisational Culture Inventories (see this links
     

• Leadership & Talent succession dialogue​

  • Assessment of key executives by their strengths and weaknesses

  • Portrayal of the people suited to a particular role and a method of creating