S4 Episode 35: Exploring Power in Coaching: Moving from Power Over to Power With - with Shruti Sonathlia

The Coaching Inn

This week, Claire Pedrick MCC interviews Shruti Sonthalia MCC about her coaching journey and her research on power and internal coaching. In India, USA and South Africa, Shruti shares how her personal experiences and longing for intimacy, connection, passion, and groundedness led her to become a coach. She also discusses the transformative power of coaching and how it shifts leaders' relationships with themselves and their teams. Shruti's research explores the impact of coaching on leaders' relationship with power and their leadership styles. She highlights the importance of making coaching accessible and hopes to see more inclusive and holistic research in the coaching world.

Takeaways

• Personal experiences and longing for intimacy, connection, passion, and groundedness can lead individuals to become coaches.
• Coaching has the power to transform leaders and their relationships with themselves and their teams.
• Coaching shifts leaders' perspectives on power, moving from a paradigm of power over to power with.
• Making coaching accessible is crucial for organisations and leaders to navigate complexity, ambiguity, and uncertainty.
• There is a need for more inclusive and holistic research in the coaching world.

Contact Shruti through Linked In - where you can also access her research.

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Coming Up:

Next: Open Table - The Power of Noticing in Coaching

Soon: Coaching and Neurodiversity with Nathan Whitbread and Kim Witten
Keywords

coaching journey, power, internal coaching, leadership, research, accessibility, inclusivity