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Good Bye

Good Bye

Written by: Endings for Beginnings
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In their book, Good Bye, Leading Executive Coaches Alison Lucas and Lizzie Bentley Bowers provide this missing piece of the change leadership puzzle: a way of leading yourself and others through change in a respectful, emotionally agile way. Their intention in writing Good Bye was to start more conversations about Endings in organisations. Here on the Good Bye podcast you can hear them in conversation with each other, and with guests, about why a Good Bye matters, how to be better leaders of Endings, and the impact of leading a Good Bye.


Because better endings mean better beginnings.


Alison and Lizzie are professionally accredited coaches and facilitators, working predominantly at board level and across all three sectors, who love to enrich their practise by working and learning together. They are passionate about staying continually curious and paying attention to their clients individual and commercial needs and outcomes.

Good Bye began as an article and a series of podcasts called Endings For Beginnings. You can also hear those early conversations here.

You can find out more, or contact Alison and Lizzie at www.GoodByeCoach.co.uk.


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Episodes
  • The Myriad Series: Retirement

    The Myriad Series: Retirement
    Dec 11 2025

    There is a myriad of endings every day in organisations.


    In the Myriad series, authors of Good Bye Alison and Lizzie, explore one specific ending and the challenges and opportunities that come with it. Using their REAR model—Reality, Emotions, Accomplishment and Ritual—they also offer some practical ways to help leaders end and begin well.


    This episode focuses on retirement, an ending loaded with personal significance, challenge and opportunity.


    The conversation includes:

    Unhelpful language, including the word retirement

    How to manage shifting identity

    Structure and purpose before and after you retire

    The importance of meaningful ritual and the ripple effect of that

    A brighter future

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    20 mins
  • The Myriad Series: Merger

    The Myriad Series: Merger
    Dec 11 2025

    There is a myriad of endings every day in organisations.


    In the Myriad series, authors of Good Bye Alison and Lizzie, explore one specific ending and the challenges and opportunities that come with it. Using their REAR model—Reality, Emotions, Accomplishment and Ritual—they also offer some practical ways to help leaders end and begin well.


    This episode focuses on mergers, whether it’s teams or whole organisations, this is one of the most complex events we can experience in organisational life and is rife with opportunities to increase the strength and success of the merger


    The conversation includes:

    The role of transparency

    Navigating the challenge of different information being available to different people at

    different times

    Hidden pitfalls and ways to avoid them

    History matters – acknowledging the past as you celebrate the new

    Losses, opportunities and assumptions

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    24 mins
  • The Myriad Series: Promotion and Progression

    The Myriad Series: Promotion and Progression
    Dec 11 2025

    There is a myriad of endings every day in organisations.


    In the Myriad series, authors of Good Bye Alison and Lizzie, explore one specific ending and the challenges and opportunities that come with it. Using their REAR model—Reality, Emotions, Accomplishment and Ritual—they also offer some practical ways to help leaders end and begin well.


    This episode focuses on promotion and progression and how we might miss opportunities to have even brighter beginnings by giving more time and thought to ending well.


    The conversation includes:

    Approaching all endings as opportunities rather than boxing them in to positives and

    negatives

    Unexpected complexities, including rivals for the role

    Purposeful planning for the full reality

    The impact of longer careers

    Confidence and imposter moments

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    23 mins
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