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Practical Wisdom at Work
A story, coaching dialogue and essay on one leadership situation. The first series: a young VP whose operational excellence bloomed while his judgment and taste withered.
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EXECUTIVE COACHING
Private Dialogue for Leaders
Conversations and correspondence on the judgment calls, relationships and transitions you need to see clearly, grounded in Berkeley’s Active Communication method.
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Strategic Narrative Advisory
Memos, decks, collateral and the crucial conversations where engagement, enrollment and entrustment are won or lost. Drafted with you, never for you.
Share Your NarrativeFrom the eye of the storm
Where the air is still and the sky is clear, but everything around it spins.
Most leaders I meet don’t lack information or advice. They’ve lost that place. Sometimes the storm is theirs. Sometimes it’s the one their program of change will stir in others, and the words have to hold.
So we sit in the eye together. We talk, we write, we wait, until what’s true comes to light, direction becomes clear, and the words arrive to carry it to the people who must act on it.
I call it a benediction: the breath of permission your heart gives your head to go forth and answer the call. It is the gift of entrustment you give to others, after you’ve given it to yourself.
The judgment, and the voice that expresses it, are always yours.
If you’re in a storm, dwell in dialogue with me, and let the way through show itself.
Simon Thomas
Executive Coach & Narrative Advisor
Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute Alumni
Shall we fuse horizons?
You’re the seer in your situation. When my horizon meets yours, what you already know comes into view, clearer than either of us could make it alone.
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