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Module #2
Dates: Dec. 5-6, 2013
The Leader’s Odyssey: Coaching to Leaders’ Stories
Human beings do not just have experiences – they deploy a highly personal and
sophisticated sense making apparatus in order to extract meaning from their
experiences. The experiences that rise above threshold consciousness and make
their way into memory are generally recorded as stories. In this two-day course
we will work with insights from cognitive psychology and linguistics in order to
explore how coaching clients organize their stories, and evolve a sense of self
and the future direction of their stories. We will examine memory, imagination,
the construction of narratives, and the experience of time. We will study how
coaches can help clients build more empowering stories that broaden their
capacity for leading.
- Learn to recognize how clients’ make sense of experience
- Learn how clients “live in time”
- Explore how cognitive biases and distortions inform stories
- Practice coaching to help clients “see” stories as stories
- Develop tools to help clients to reframe experience, “rewrite” stories,
and reclaim authorship
Faculty
Dr. Neil Stroul, PhD Psychology
Professionally, Dr. Stroul is first and foremost a leadership coach. Trained
originally as a psychologist, he blends more than 25 years of experience in
organizational consulting and the perspective of applied psychology to help
executives build their leadership capabilities. When he is not working
one-on-one with senior executives, he can be found working with senior
leadership teams, helping them to work initially in a more coordinated, and
ultimately collaborative, fashion.
He regularly consults with organizational clients on such topics as
developing leaders, implementing new organization structures, team building,
managing change and uncertainty, and approaches to career development. He has
frequently been invited to speak to groups and consult with organizational
leaders on the role of generational dynamics in the work place. Most recently
has spoken at the Harvard Kennedy School about mentoring the next generation, as
well as conducted a leadership development workshop, “Leadership, Language &
Stories” at Harvard’s Ivy Summit. He has written and delivered presentations
extensively on coaching and professional development, and is currently working
on a book, UUN: Up Until Now, a handbook for people who aspire to
reclaim power, choice and authorship.
The only professional activity that he enjoys more than coaching leaders is
training professional coaches. He is a founding faculty member of Georgetown
University’s Certificate in Leadership Coaching program, and has been teaching
coaching to a diverse body of aspiring coaches for more than ten years. He is
honored and excited to be working with the University of Maryland in launching
the advanced executive coaching program.
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