Integral Coaching for Authentic Leadership

Integral Coaching with Christine McDougall...

If you really knew how others saw you as a leader, would you stay as you are? Or would you want to become more aligned, congruent, empowered, resonant and authentic?

Imagine how your ability to inspire, motivate and influence your people would be if you could bring even more of your unique self to your leadership with certainty and confidence?

At core integral coaching is deeply transformative. We enter into a dialogue and embark on a journey that is profoundly revealing of self.

You will begin to see the truth of you, from every angle...the good, the beautiful and the broken, always held in a space of loving compassion and rigor. We will laugh and cry together, finally reaching a place where all aspects of you are brought into the light.

You will begin to see and experience yourself as others experience you. Some of this may not be pretty. Some of it may leave you breathless with awe.

From this place of deep awareness and clarity, the future you will begin to enter the scene. What parts do you wish to keep and take forward, what parts do you wish to leave behind forever, what parts do you wish to transmute? How will the world react to the you that is emerging? How will your primary relationships engage with this more whole you? How will this affect your team and your work?

Certainly this kind of integral coaching experience is not for the faint of heart.

It is for those people, leaders, artists, entrepreneurs, who know the time is now to go deeper than they ever have before, and from here to open themselves up to even more integrity than they dared dream possible.

....and this experience is definitely about integrity. It is about bringing more alignment to all of the pieces of you than you have ever done before.....about becoming a more resonant and whole human being...

What does the future hold following integral coaching?

While I am not certain of how your future will unfold, I am certain that you will have more value to add to the world, your impact and offering will be of greater worth.

You will like who you see in the mirror.

Feedback from the world will recognise the more congruent, empowered you. You will have created for yourself some breathing room. You will have more authentic influence, you will be inspirational to others, able to motivate people to be accountable and committed.

As each person is unique, every integral coaching engagement is uniquely crafted. What you want to hold at the centre of the integral coaching will be generated from you. People have worked on their relationship to authority, or their feelings of being a fraud, or their lack of interpersonal skills, or their sense of never achieving enough....or they craft a leadership development plan for the next stage of their career and life.

How do we do integral coaching?...

While there is a structured process behind our work together, the experience is profoundly emergent. In the beginning we take the time to get to know the entirety of you. We do this using methods embedded in integral and human development theory, and through deep dialogue.

We also explore together the future way of being you want to bring to life, and why. The tension between the current and the new provides the platform for our work, which will include exercises and practices crafted with careful consideration of your journey.

There is a teaching component to our experience together. I will give you new models and tools to support your understanding and application. The application of these tools will become skills you can apply to other parts of your life.

As the new aspects of yourself begin to emerge and stick, we continue to apply care and consideration to how this is affecting your larger world and your relationships. We may need to bring other people into our dialogue. We may need to work with your team.

Finally, when you have become fully integrated into the new way of being, we review the whole process, acknowledging and celebrating the journey, before we take a pause in our work together to allow a fuller and deeper integration to occur.

The investment in integral coaching...

The investment for this process is based on a monthly retainer. The retainer is by agreement based on your needs, the speed you wish to work and logistics of meeting. The retainer is payable monthly in advance. The fee includes all meeting times, preparation and research by me, assessments, and ad hoc calls and emails.

Meeting times vary between 2-5 hours per month. Some months will be of a higher intensity of engagement, other months lesser, depending on your needs. As we co-create our relationship terms, some clients choose to have a quarterly or biannual immersive retreat. The integral coaching engagement is for a minimum of 6 months. The fee does not include travel expenses.

What are the business outcomes of integral coaching for authentic leadership?

*To develop authentic leaders who live the principles, ethics and values that inspire people to seek them out, whether it be the customer to build an enduring relationship, the staff member to go the extra mile and then some; or the various stakeholders to be willing to support an enterprise of breathtaking excellence.

*To support the successful navigation of turbulent times, in a way that ensures the company is positioned to meet the emergent future powerfully.

*To create a leadership team that transcends political posturing, backstabbing and collusion...a team that has the developmental competence to work through their issues quickly, to stay focused on the overarching goal of the company, and to bring the very best of themselves to that effort.

I have been working in this way with clients for 14 years. Recently Harvard University commenced an Authentic Leadership program as part of its MBA with very similar processes to the ones I use. This program has been getting extraordinary results. I am not surprised. The best leaders know that the ‘business as usual’ model is dead. The work I do is deeply embedded in highly researched tools and models, including and not limited to Integral Theory and Practice, the principles and models of R.Buckiminster Fuller, Archetypes, Metaphors, Narrative work and Endurance sports.

Positive Deviants intrinsically know that they must maintain around them a support team that includes coaches. The objective, high altitude perspective from an independent other cannot be ignored.

My clients speak about integral coaching...

For my most real and ‘raw truth’ conversations, I can rely on Christine to get to the real issues and focus on seeing me reach my highest potential. I am, as a consequence, able to far more authentically deal with challenges in a honest and open way – without reverting to negative behaviours.Simon KalinowskiCEO, Mandalay Technologies, Queensland, Australia

Christine is fearlessly uncompromising in liberating the deepest and most empowering integrity within individuals and corporate systems.

Dr. Richard David Hames, Distinguished University Professor, Founding Director, Asian Foresight Institute, Dhurakij Pundit UniversityBangkok - Thailand

Working with Christine is like a mirror always reflecting my higher self back to me, challenging me and encouraging me. The pace varies from instant support and reassurance, through to more in-depth discussions around innovation and worldly topics. Christine comes from a different perspective, is incredibly well read and consistently provides a stream of knowledge and wisdom. Christine is a good balance of hard, real, support and inspiration - continually push myself to a higher place.

Kate Freebairn Head of Interaction Design, Nokia, Helsinki, Finland

"If you want to truly push yourself as a leader and take your personal, professional and team performance to new levels, Christine is an expert facilitator who works with you to focus on and achieve these uncompromising goals and stand in full integrity with yourself and with others."

Toni Laming Graduate, INSEAD Advanced Management Program, FrancePrevious Senior Executive, Fonterra Co-operative Group, New Zealand

Christine I would like to thank you for your outstanding, insightful and professional facilitation of our strategy day. I was very impressed with the way in which you were able to involve, challenge and educate all 55 participants. You are extremely skilled in drawing out their feelings, providing business context, addressing participants limiting beliefs and channelling their knowledge so to give a vision to improve our business.

Gary Parkin

State Manager, Small Business Banking, South Australia and West Australia, ANZ

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