In today's episode, Ruth welcomes Nicola Rae Wickham, a multi-faceted coach, supervisor, and creative strategist. Nicola shares her passion for making quality coaching accessible and her unique approach to holistic ambition. Together, they explore what ambition means beyond career success, touching on how it evolves over time and impacts every facet of life. Nicola also delves into the importance of supervision in coaching and offers practical exercises you can do at home to redefine ambition and success on your terms. Tune in for an enlightening conversation that promises to spark new insights and inspire you on your coaching journey.
Here are the Highlights:
01:17 I’m a coach trainer and supervisor, I have fingers in lots of different coaching pies.
05:50 Challenging societal norms and finding personal empowerment.
09:09 Key components for an ambitious coach include flexibility, thorough training, ongoing reflection, and a commitment to continuous improvement.
10:20 Supervision in coaching: supportive, non-judgmental relationship for practitioners.
13:26 Building trust and a non-judgmental space in supervision is vital.
20.24 I love to look at life in seasons.
About Ruth Kudzi:
Ruth is the founder of Optimus Coaching Academy and a well respected and successful coach, speaker and author who has worked across sectors including leadership, career and more recently business and mindset. She has over 10,000 coaching hours and has completed hundreds of hours of training and coaching supervision. Ruth is a MCC level coach with the ICF and is our course director and CEO. Prior to becoming a coach Ruth was a senior leader in education.
Find out more here: https://ruthkudzi.com/
Book:How to Feel Better: 4 Steps to Self-Coach Your Way to a Happier More Authentic You eBook : Kudzi, Ruth: Amazon.co.uk: Books
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About Optimus Coach Academy:
Optimus offers best in class coaching training for individuals and corporates.
If you want to know more about what we offer: https://optimuscoachacademy.com/coach-training
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About Nicola Rae Wickham:
Nicola Rae is an Executive Coach (ICF Accredited), qualified Coach Supervisor, ICF Coach Trainer and experienced Creative Strategist who works with ambitious brands and leaders to help them to live and work well.
Nicola combines her 20 year corporate marketing experience with a values-led and compassion-centered coaching methodology rooted in Neuroscience, Positive Psychology and Transactional Analysis.
Her uniquely positioned supervision and life and career coaching practice covers gender and racial equity, leadership development and wellbeing and helps move her clients into possibility, overcome challenges and step into a more fulfilling way of working, leading and living.
Nicola works with both organisations and individuals and is committed to bringing nuance to the personal growth, wellness and coaching space, so that it is development for the many and not the few.
Nicola is trusted by a number of innovative and industry leading brands including being the resident life coach for the global creative agency D&AD, Career Coach for the women’s only private members AllBright and a Coach Trainer for Optimus Coach Academy.
Find out more: www.alifemoreinspired.com
Connect with Nicola:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolaraewickham/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicolaraewickham/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nicolaraewickham/
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