Coaching Program details
AI transformations
What you walk away with
- Clarity on what this transformation asks of you — and what you want it to make of your role
- Your own stance found: from enduring the rollout to leading it your way
- The capacity to hear your team's fears without absorbing them — and to open a future they can see themselves in
- “AI will decide for me” converted into choices you own
Example of tools we may use
- Exploring what the change stirs up — losses, gains, loyalties
- From workflow optimization to value delivery (creative exercise)
- Role-identity work: what do I want my role to become?
- Systemic questioning of what circulates in the team
Curated resources
BOOKS e.g., Ethan Mollick — Co-Intelligence
TALKS TED talks on AI & work (e.g., Andrew Ng)
MORE HBR articles on the human side of AI adoption...
Engaging my team
What you walk away with
- Understanding what the disengagement is telling you — before trying to fix it
- Your own way of embodying the mission (you can't hand down a meaning you don't carry)
- Team conversations that feel different — franker, lighter
- The team's energy reconnected to a future they helped imagine
Example of tools we may use
- Values exploration — yours, then the team's
- Appreciative questioning: where does the energy still live?
- Systemic reading of the team's dynamics
Curated resources
BOOKS e.g., Lencioni — The Five Dysfunctions of a Team; Sinek — Start With Why
TALKS TED talks (e.g., Sinek — How great leaders inspire action)
MORE guides on writing a team mission statement, HBR pieces on engagement...
Tough decisions
What you walk away with
- A decision made — and owned, not endured
- Knowing what you are truly optimizing for: your criteria made explicit
- Often: a third or fourth way that wasn't on the table
- Peace with the road not taken — less rumination, more sleep
- A way of deciding you keep for the next hard call
Example of tools we may use
- Values ranking — surfacing what silently drives the choice
- Perspective exercises: pre-mortem, 10-10-10 projection
- Systemic questioning to reveal the real stakes
Curated resources
BOOKS e.g., Chip & Dan Heath — Decisive; Annie Duke — Thinking in Bets
TALKS TED talks (e.g., Ruth Chang — How to make hard choices)
MORE decision-journal formats, podcasts on judgment...
My next chapter
What you walk away with
- A direction that feels like yours — tested against reality, not just dreamed
- Your story reclaimed: past trials turned into strengths you can name
- The confidence to say who you are and what you bring — in a room, on a page
- Your non-negotiables known before you commit
- First steps already taken while we still work together
Example of tools we may use
- Career narrative & life-line work (narrative identity)
- Self-discovery assessments: personality questionnaire, superpower audit
- Values card sort
Curated resources
BOOKS e.g., Herminia Ibarra — Working Identity; Burnett & Evans — Designing Your Life
TALKS TED talks (e.g., Bill Burnett — Designing your life)
MORE podcasts on career transitions, HBR pieces on reinvention...
My first 90 days
What you walk away with
- A clear reading of the system you've walked into — before acting on it
- Your own way of taking the role, not your predecessor's
- The classic traps seen coming: going too fast, importing old recipes
- The key conversations prepared — and held: boss, allies, team
- Early moves that are visibly yours
Example of tools we may use
- Reading your new system — situational self-diagnostic
- Relationship & alliance mapping
- Rehearsing the conversations that matter (expectations with your N+1)
Curated resources
BOOKS e.g., Michael Watkins — The First 90 Days
MORE HBR articles on leadership transitions & onboarding...
A challenge of my own
What you walk away with
- The real question surfaced — often hiding behind the presenting problem
- The same rigor as any journey: goals & success criteria defined together
- A path shaped around your case, drawing on everything above
- You leave as soon as you're autonomous — never a session more
Example of tools we may use
- Systemic questioning — the universal instrument
- Reframing: the question behind the question
- Self-positioning inventory or 360° feedback
Curated resources
BOOKS e.g., Edgar Schein — Humble Inquiry
MORE further resources matched after the diagnostic...
Other Program details
How do we work together?
Exploratory meeting
A first one-hour conversation to understand your situation in detail, assess our personal fit, and clarify the framework and terms of our work (including coaching location, duration, frequency, confidentiality, ethics).
Agreement
Together we define the objectives and the success criteria, and align with stakeholders on detailed agreement terms.
COACHING JOURNEYS
My coaching engagements can be individual or collective, private or three-party with HR / Managers.
What clients say
“I chose Richard for his industry knowledge; I discovered his emotional intelligence and his focus on results. His questions are great at unlocking a situation.”
“In 3 weeks, I got my team moving ahead after they had feared the impact of technology on their jobs — we created momentum through experimentation, restored meaning, and discovered new opportunities.”
“In a complex economic situation that required choosing between radical options, our conversation helped me bring out a third way — and an unexpected partnership that has since become reality.”