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.
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.
Website: www.alifemoreinspired.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolaraewickham/
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