Reflections on practice, ethics, and the work of becoming a more discerning coach.
These articles are written for the experienced coach who has stopped looking for the next technique and started asking harder questions: What am I actually doing in the room? Whose interests am I serving? Where is my own pattern showing up in the work?
Each piece begins with a moment worth pausing on, sometimes drawn from practice, sometimes a hypothetical built to surface what supervision tends to surface, and works through it slowly, with more questions than answers.
New articles are published roughly every two weeks.
Referrals are ordinary in coaching, and ethically consequential. Five practical tests for the clean ask, plus a case that shows how five ethical problems can stack up the moment a referral fee enters the picture.
Continue reading →“Executive presence” can quietly turn coaching into fit-the-mold work. What discipline does the coach need to keep the work honest, and how supervision helps surface what may be seeping in.
When organizational coaching relationships overlap, a coach can end up holding information from a prior engagement that surfaces inside a current one. What can you ethically do with what you know?
ICF announced the Coaching Supervision Qualification (CSQ), a new global standard for coaching supervisors. What this means for coaches and for the profession.
The evidence for coaching supervision is growing. Here is what the research says about what it does for coaches, their clients, and their practice.
What happens when a client reveals something to a coach’s AI tool that they would never say in session? Disclosure doesn’t resolve this.