• Coaching with Kindness
    Jan 4 2026

    Jeff is an executive coach and leadership facilitator with 30+ years of experience in the coaching world. He works with clients to manage change, discover cutting-edge solutions, bring humanity to work, and create sustainable workplaces.

    Additionally, he leads the Co-Active Training Institute’s (CTI) Leadership Program, working with executives and other professionals to ignite their inherent strengths and create mutual, powerful alliances.

    In this conversation, Nina and Jeff explored the myths of kindness and the five pathways for being truly kind when you are coaching and developing others. They also talk about their own superpowers when it comes to kind coaching and where they see coaches get tripped up.

    The Kind Lab

    The Five Pathways of Kindness

    Jeff Jacobson World

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    51 mins
  • Innovations in Coaching
    Dec 3 2025

    Over the past two decades Julie Davidson has served thousands of leaders throughout the United States, as well as Latin America, Europe, and Asia. As President and CEO of The JD Group, she built customized and sustainable leadership development programs for organizations.

    Julie shared how she is using AI to serve clients better. Nina and Julie explored how coaching platforms are shaping the coaching profession. They also explored what Gen X leaders have to learn from Gen Z's approach to career and life.

    Julie’s background includes reproductive justice advocacy and policymaking, progressive grantmaking, conflict resolution skills, improvisational theater, storytelling, and direct feedback. Her breadth of professional experience creates a unique toolkit that unleashes clients’ strengths and supports them to get big results. She also delights in collaborating with colleagues who are making good trouble in nonprofit, small business, education, policy, and fitness/wellness spaces.

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    Strawberry

    Savor PNW

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  • How Identity Shapes Us
    Nov 17 2025

    Nina sat down with Rick Rodriquez, Ed.d., co-founder of The Rooted Life. Nina and Rick explored how to create spaces of healing, why sharing our stories of identity matters in developing leaders and building culture, and ways to create workplaces where everyone feels safe and can do meaningful work.

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    47 mins
  • The Essence of Dialogue
    Nov 2 2025

    Wiebke Renner is a leadership coach and Systemic Dialogue faciliatator. In addition to working with private clients, she is a supervisor and trainer for the nni (no-name-initiative), a South African born NPO and social enterprise. nni started out as a big vision with a big heart for greater inclusion and real dialogue, a call to service and engagement, and a commitment to action and accountability. To this end, nni has been hosting free public transformational dialogues since 2012, as well as training citizens as powerful dialogue facilitators across the globe.

    NNI Dialogue Institute

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  • Scaling Coaching
    Oct 20 2025

    Deina M King is a sales leader turned executive coach dedicated to transformation and impact. As a sales executive over the last 10+ years, she lead teams through hyper-growth and massive change curves while maintaining high levels of performance. Her executive coaching practice focuses on growth and performance for senior executives and those looking to advance their career and transform their leadership.

    Deina shared about her motivation to add coaching to her leadership toolkit. Nina also asked her about her work scaling coaching training inside her org at LinkedIn. Finally, the two talked about what drew them to building community in Seattle for Co-Active coaches.

    The Coaching Habit

    DMK Coaching & Advisory

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  • Trauma-informed Coaching
    Sep 21 2025

    Nick Kettles is an ICF Master Certified Coach and leadership development trainer with 18+ years of experience. He founded Phoenix Consulting to meet the bespoke training needs of organisations in a changing world. Over many years, regardless of the challenge, whether technological disruption, geopolitical changes, or a failed re-org, Nick noticed one variable remained the same, true sustainable organisational change is not possible unless leaders learn to lead from a foundation of deep self-acceptance and authenticity.

    Narm Training

    Thomas Hubl Books

    Coaching Grief and Loss

    Coaching Fear and Resistance: https://phoenixconsulting.eu.com/coaching-fear-and-resistance/

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  • Values-driven Leadership
    Sep 8 2025

    Anita Barnick is a career coach with a deep understanding of human potential. She makes use of her successful career as a patient-focused engineering executive in Research & Development and Quality Engineering in the Medical Device industry. Anita helps clients achieve their purpose within a meaningful career.

    Anita shared her early years in the United States after moving here from India, what she learned about courage and advocacy from her parents, and how she was successful in collaborating across the business by focusing on shared purpose.

    https://www.stem2d.org/

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  • Adaptive Leadership with Anu Ishola
    Aug 20 2025

    Nina's guest is Anu Ishola who is passionate about leadership development for women. She has over 14+ years of experience working in the global development space. Anu brings her dedication to women’s development, extensive program experience, and nonprofit leadership to her role as the Executive Director of the Women’s Impact Alliance.

    Women's Impact Alliance

    Senge's Iceberg Metaphor

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