Episode #55: Claire Pedrick and Lucia Baldelli – The Human Behind The Coach
Every coach has a human story, and these stories contain the wisdom, vulnerability and invaluable lessons that inform our work.
In this episode of The Coach’s Journey Podcast, Claire Pedrick and Lucia Baldelli share some of the human stories that have shaped their lives and careers, leading them to become Master Certified Coaches and co-authors of a powerful new book.
That book is The Human Behind The Coach, and it’s about the inner work we need to do to cultivate a simpler practice and to demonstrate art in the coaching room. It is a guide to the principles that inform a more human approach to coaching: one that is not bound by tools or hacks, but allows for a natural process and a letting go.
The vibrant dynamic between Claire and Lucia gave rise to the book and it shines through in this episode as they share their infectious enthusiasm for transformative coaching work with individuals, teams and organisations.
In this episode, we also talk about:
How Agile methodologies help people adapt to change
The importance of holding endings
The times when it’s appropriate to break the rules
How we navigate fundamental differences between our beliefs and values and those of our clients
The power of being able to sit with not knowing
Claire and Lucia also discuss their virtual book launch, which is taking place on Monday November 13th at 6pm (UK time) - click here for details.
For more information about Claire, visit https://www.3dcoaching.com/claire-pedrick-mcc/.
For more information about Lucia, visit http://www.luciabaldelli.com/.
For more information on The Human Behind The Coach and the course Claire and Lucia mention, visit: https://www.thehumanbehindthecoach.com/
For information about my wider work, my writing or to buy my books, visit www.robbieswale.com.
Music by My Good Man William: listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4KmeQUcTbeE31uFynHQLQg
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Things and people we mentioned (that you might be interested in):
- Coaching Agile Teams by Lisa Atkins https://lyssaadkins.com/product/coaching-agile-teams-paperback/
- Listen by Kathryn Mannix https://www.kathrynmannix.com/books/listen/
- With the End in Mind by Kathryn Mannix https://www.kathrynmannix.com/books/with-the-end-in-mind/
- The best chair in the world (according to Claire's LinkedIn connections) https://www.hermanmiller.com/en_gb/products/seating/office-chairs/
- Lucia's husband Marco's website: https://www.marcolattarulo.com/
- The Coaches Walking LinkedIn Group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12827884/
- Coaching Outside The Box https://www.coachingoutsidethebox.net/
- Claire’s book https://spckpublishing.co.uk/how-to-make-great-appointments-in-the-church
- Nancy Kline https://www.timetothink.com/nancy-kline/
- Brene Brown’s TED talk on vulnerability https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_the_power_of_vulnerability?language=en
- Siobhan Miller https://www.linkedin.com/in/siobhan-miller/?originalSubdomain=uk
- Jennifer Garvey Berger on The Coach’s Journey Podcast https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/podcast/episode-42-jennifer-garvey-berger-the-answer-to-either-or-is-both
- Chapter 12 of The Human Behind The Coach is available for free on the website https://www.thehumanbehindthecoach.com/
- Bounce by Matthew Syed https://www.matthewsyed.co.uk/book/bounce-the-myth-of-talent-and-the-power-of-practice/
- Claire and Lucia on a writing retreat https://www.linkedin.com/posts/clairepedrick_thehumanbehindthecoach-activity-7044305188907544576-Gbpi/
- The Coaching Inn Podcast https://thecoachinginn.podbean.com/
BIOGRAPHY FROM LUCIA
Lucia Baldelli is a coach who enjoys helping others cross the finish line and succeed. She is passionate about making coaching deeply transformational. Her focus is helping other coaches bring their humanity as they enter the coaching room, to become more artful and make a greater impact. She enjoys partnering with those who want to work on themselves and transform who they are, in order to go deeper. They reach out to her for training, mentor coaching and supervision.
Lucia works with executives and their teams to help them collaborate better and achieve challenging objectives. She builds internal coaching capabilities within organisations, and volunteers as an executive coach to non-profit organisations that work with rising leaders to help them manifest the change they want to be and see in the world.
She describes herself as a lucky wife and mother of two boys.
BIOGRAPHY FROM CLAIRE
Claire Pedrick is, in her own words, a human who facilitates other people’s thinking. She is a business owner. A mother. A friend. A volunteer. An MCC Master Coach with over 13,000 hours of experience. And she is the author of Simplifying Coaching and host at The Coaching Inn podcast.
About these descriptions, Claire says: “All of these are true and each will impact how we start a conversation. With some definitions you might assign me power which I do not deserve.”
Claire established 3D Coaching in the 1990s to bring together the simplest and best learning from coaching, to support people in organisations to have more effective conversations with an edge. Coaching for more than 35 years, she believes that the essence of coaching is simple and that it takes time to learn to work that simply.