#88: Philip Crocker – Coaching is the Most Natural Thing in the World
Can coaching teach us to love ourselves more? Can it help us come to terms with injustice and pain? Does it offer a route towards peace?
Executive coach, consultant and facilitator Philip Crocker explores all of these questions in this episode of The Coach’s Journey Podcast, and shares the wisdom and insights he uses in his work with senior leaders from some of the world’s most innovative organisations.
Philip tells host Alex Whitton what he learned from launching several successful businesses before training as a coach and coach supervisor – an experience he describes as “a brilliant illumination”.
Weaving together threads from physics and human relationships, Philip describes ways to increase the flow of energy between people in coaching conversations, utilising conductivity in much the same way as electrical circuits do.
Philip says his purpose is to help people who feel written off to live a whole life. He is an expert in strategic facilitation and his own podcast, Alongsider, brings people from all walks of life into alignment with each other, allowing them to find their place and also to take it.
In this episode, Philip and Alex also talk about:
How to grow a coaching client base full of the people you need to help you learn and develop.
Slowing down when finding your niche, and how to navigate towards it.
The theories and relationships that underpin successful business growth.
The power of coaching to help people fall in love with themselves more.
The particular quality of connection that creates influence between people in coaching conversations.
Philip also illuminates the shift we all have to make when we move from the separateness of our education system into the complexity of the world, and how coaching offers a space of integrity that can help us grapple with and utilise that complexity.
For more information about Philip, visit https://philipcrocker.com/.
For more information about host Alex Whitton, visit www.exploregrowbe.com.
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THINGS WE TALKED ABOUT THAT YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN:
Clare Pedrick https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/podcast/episode-55-claire-pedrick-and-lucia-baldelli-the-human-behind-the-coach
Clare’s books Simplifying Coaching and The Human Behind The Coach https://www.3dcoaching.com/shop/book-bundle-human-behind-the-coach-simplifying-coaching-signed-copies/
Robin Yourston https://www.linkedin.com/in/gandrprobin/?originalSubdomain=uk
Dr. David Rock, Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2602650-quiet-leadership
Dr. David Rock's SCARF model https://modelthinkers.com/mental-model/scarf-model
Dr Sally Vanson and the Performance Solution https://theperformancesolution.com/the-coaches/dr-sally-vanson/
NLP https://anlp.org/knowledge-base/definition-of-nlp
Carl Jung typology test https://jung.test.typologycentral.com/
Jung's personality types https://www.thesap.org.uk/articles-on-jungian-psychology-2/about-analysis-and-therapy/typology/
DISC theory, which employee Jung's personality types https://discboulevard.com/en/theory-behind-disc/
ILM Level 7 Leadership and Management https://www.i-l-m.com/learning-and-development/management/management-and-leadership-generic/8617-level-7-leadership-and-management
Human Conductivity https://www.humanconductivity.com/
Debra Green https://roc.uk.com/about/team/debra-green-obe/
Measure What Matters by John Doerr https://www.whatmatters.com/the-book
BIOGRAPHY FROM PHILIP CROCKER
After starting his career with HSBC in London, Paris and Singapore, Philip co-founded two support services businesses, primarily focusing on real estate, infrastructure and financial services. In 2001, he formed Darwin Whitty Ltd, a marketing and business development consultancy.
In 2010, having always been curious about what motivates people within organisations, Philip began training as an executive coach. To date, he has worked cross-culturally (over 28 nationalities) in almost all sectors and found they have much in common.
Philip works with motivated senior leaders and high-potential individuals (and sometimes their teams) who are in transition to focus on their purpose and ‘what good looks like’ in the context of their desired outcomes. He engages with the whole person, and the coaching frame he adopts is what’s in it for me, us (those in my immediate sphere) and others?
In January 2024, Philip launched his podcast: Alongsider - finding your place and taking your place.