Global Coaching Perspectives
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my guide in my journey as emerging coach.<br />
Whether leading or coaching (or both), having<br />
your moral compass for compassion, courage<br />
and achievement framed into a cherished and<br />
beautiful picture is available to us all.<br />
In my native country, the Netherlands, I am<br />
inspired by the glory of Rembrandt’s paintings.<br />
The light of the Master’s genius shines through<br />
his portraits and leaves no soul untouched.<br />
Without adding weight to my baggage, my own<br />
Master travels with me on my business trips, and<br />
without making any sound, I hear its voice in the<br />
classroom. And whilst smiling to my mirrored<br />
image, I embrace fully the colour it brings to<br />
my life.<br />
About the Author<br />
Josephine Schoolkate has fifteen years of business experience in programme leadership with global<br />
diversified technology leader Johnson Controls Inc. (JCI) and six years’ partner and leadership<br />
development experience at leading business school IMD Switzerland. In January 2015, she returned<br />
from Australia after a two-year assignment at the Graduate School of Business at the Queensland<br />
University of Technology. She is currently managing director of Genesis Advisers Europe, a leading<br />
provider of on-boarding and transition acceleration services.<br />
<strong>Global</strong> <strong>Coaching</strong> <strong>Perspectives</strong> - <strong>Global</strong> <strong>Coaching</strong> Community<br />
Barefoot Leadership for<br />
Societal Transformation<br />
What larger purpose exists for the coaching profession beyond<br />
competencies and labels? And is there a larger purpose for us as coaches?<br />
Ram Ramanathan asks us to reflect on these key questions<br />
At the World Business and Executive Coach<br />
Summit 2015 my son, Pranav, and I presented on<br />
the topic of coaching for societal transformation<br />
through the process of barefoot leadership.<br />
The answer to these opening questions from an<br />
audience of over 150 was unequivocally: the<br />
greater purpose to both coaching and coaches<br />
is to help others fulfill their life’s purpose.<br />
We all have a leader within us, sometimes<br />
explicit, sometimes nascent, and sometimes<br />
unconscious — but always struggling to<br />
emerge. Each of us is a barefoot leader, often<br />
unknown and unsung. Some of us grow to be<br />
recognised and lauded as leaders, not that<br />
we are any different from those who are not<br />
celebrated. The difference is of opportunity, one<br />
of time and space, and quantum probability,<br />
not of substance and essence. This leadership<br />
energy within us empowers us, and in turn, our<br />
environment.<br />
As coaches our métier, our vocation, is to<br />
empower those who come to us disempowered.<br />
Can this competence be expanded beyond<br />
individuals to groups of individuals? Can this be<br />
further promoted beyond groups to society as a<br />
whole? If so, how?<br />
Can we apply coaching at a societal level across<br />
diverse subsets of rural and urban, young<br />
and old, men and women, the affluent and the<br />
disadvantaged? Can we empower and kindle the<br />
leadership potential in each of those we serve to<br />
optimal performance? If so, how?<br />
At an early stage of my career I worked with<br />
young executives of multinational company in a<br />
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