Extend and Include
Becoming
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Celebrating the 14,000th Profile!
What might have happened if he'd chosen both?
' Having Faith in the Fire. The Art of Alchemical Transformation '. An article by Dr Dylan Hoffman.
I’m a Quaker, and one of the Quaker practices I seek to bring into my coaching/supervision work is to ‘answer that of god in everyone’
Working with thousands of current leaders and ‘soon-to-be’ leaders over the last 25 years... Harthill gets asked one question more than any other: "Where should I start?". The answer is easier, and harder, than you think. All the great leaders that we have seen quickly realise that that their #1 responsibility is to manage themselves, their personal discipline and their own personal growth. If you cannot lead yourself, then you cannot lead others. And, the leader you are going to be tomorrow, you are becoming today. What differentiates leaders on any day is not their personality, or style. Rather, it’s how they interpret their surroundings and respond. What differentiates leaders on any day in the future are the choices they made for their own development in the past. Relatively few people try to understand their own map of the world, and fewer still have explored the possibility of changing it. (Back to: 'If you cannot lead yourself, you cannot lead others!'). If you think you would like to develop your leadership capabilities, Harthill has a specific tool that you can use. It shows you the way to take a voyage of personal understanding and development to transform not only your own capabilities but also your team and your organisation. Please get in touch with me if you would like to know more about it.
What would happen if I let go? The coaching metaphor
Leaders and readers Part 2
Extend and Include
Becoming
Vertically Developmental Coaching
Celebrating the 14,000th Profile!
What might have happened if he'd chosen both?
' Having Faith in the Fire. The Art of Alchemical Transformation '. An article by Dr Dylan Hoffman.
I’m a Quaker, and one of the Quaker practices I seek to bring into my coaching/supervision work is to ‘answer that of god in everyone’
Working with thousands of current leaders and ‘soon-to-be’ leaders over the last 25 years... Harthill gets asked one question more than any other: "Where should I start?". The answer is easier, and harder, than you think. All the great leaders that we have seen quickly realise that that their #1 responsibility is to manage themselves, their personal discipline and their own personal growth. If you cannot lead yourself, then you cannot lead others. And, the leader you are going to be tomorrow, you are becoming today. What differentiates leaders on any day is not their personality, or style. Rather, it’s how they interpret their surroundings and respond. What differentiates leaders on any day in the future are the choices they made for their own development in the past. Relatively few people try to understand their own map of the world, and fewer still have explored the possibility of changing it. (Back to: 'If you cannot lead yourself, you cannot lead others!'). If you think you would like to develop your leadership capabilities, Harthill has a specific tool that you can use. It shows you the way to take a voyage of personal understanding and development to transform not only your own capabilities but also your team and your organisation. Please get in touch with me if you would like to know more about it.
What would happen if I let go? The coaching metaphor
Leaders and readers Part 2
Coaching, supervision and the thing with feathers
Ian Mitchell • February 5, 2026
Taking inspiration from Emily Dickinson and the HopePunk concept, Ian Mitchell uncovers a series of ‘contrapuntal weavings’ for coaches and supervisors to ponder in their practice
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I’ve heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
- Emily Dickinson
Extend and Include
Becoming
Vertically Developmental Coaching
Celebrating the 14,000th Profile!
What might have happened if he'd chosen both?
' Having Faith in the Fire. The Art of Alchemical Transformation '. An article by Dr Dylan Hoffman.
I’m a Quaker, and one of the Quaker practices I seek to bring into my coaching/supervision work is to ‘answer that of god in everyone’
Working with thousands of current leaders and ‘soon-to-be’ leaders over the last 25 years... Harthill gets asked one question more than any other: "Where should I start?". The answer is easier, and harder, than you think. All the great leaders that we have seen quickly realise that that their #1 responsibility is to manage themselves, their personal discipline and their own personal growth. If you cannot lead yourself, then you cannot lead others. And, the leader you are going to be tomorrow, you are becoming today. What differentiates leaders on any day is not their personality, or style. Rather, it’s how they interpret their surroundings and respond. What differentiates leaders on any day in the future are the choices they made for their own development in the past. Relatively few people try to understand their own map of the world, and fewer still have explored the possibility of changing it. (Back to: 'If you cannot lead yourself, you cannot lead others!'). If you think you would like to develop your leadership capabilities, Harthill has a specific tool that you can use. It shows you the way to take a voyage of personal understanding and development to transform not only your own capabilities but also your team and your organisation. Please get in touch with me if you would like to know more about it.
What would happen if I let go? The coaching metaphor
Leaders and readers Part 2
