Arete Coach Podcast 1004 Bill Clark: perseverance in life
Arete Coach: The Art & Science of Executive Coaching
Arete Coach Podcast
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🗓️ 6 December 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Arete Coach Podcast with Severin Sorensen and his guest Bill Clark, Executive Coach, Master Coach, and CEO of Clark Leadership Group. Interviewed on 10/16/20 via Zoom Video. Bill is a disruptor, innovator, and executive coaching peer who I esteem highly. The podcast begins with Bill talking about his experience sailing around the world and what he learned in the silence. What's also unusual about Bill is that he is not the typical scholar or industrial psychologist that you often see in executive coaching positions. Rather Bill struggled in school, worked his way up from an employee of a laundromat to later buying that company with the mentoring of his uncle. Bill's coaching journey was made possible by his entrepreneurship spirit, building, buying, and selling eight companies. He shares his ups and his downs in an authentic conversation that was most memorable and touching. As a coach, he has helped companies and their leaders grow their businesses from the low millions to over $400 million. Bill is a lifetime learner that has been through his own school of hard knocks and now he helps others learn, grow, and achieve their potentials. This was a special interview and I hope you enjoy as much as I did.
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| 0:00.0 | We are listening to Severn Sorenson, executive coach and curator of the RIT Coach podcast, |
| 0:06.5 | where we explore excellence and the art and science of executive coaching. |
| 0:12.1 | I am speaking today with executive coach Bill Clarke, he's an executive coach, master |
| 0:16.9 | coach and CEO of Clark Leadership Group, and you can be found online at Clarkleadership.com. |
| 0:23.7 | Bill operates from Baltimore, where he and his colleagues provide coaching services for |
| 0:28.2 | small and mid-marker companies in or near Baltimore, or Washington, T.C.R.A. and most recently |
| 0:34.8 | anywhere on the internet. |
| 0:36.9 | Now what makes Bill so interesting is that Bill did not come into coaching in your |
| 0:41.3 | technical role route. |
| 0:43.8 | Bill finished low in his high school class, in fact there was a question of whether he |
| 0:47.6 | was going to finish. |
| 0:49.3 | He started off under the mentoring of an uncle who helped him out early, got him started |
| 0:55.0 | in a laundromat. |
| 0:56.5 | Later he bought that lot of that. |
| 0:58.4 | Then he bought a bar, then he bought up and sold another business, and he grew and grew |
| 1:03.0 | buying and selling businesses, having all sorts of experiences, in some eight different |
| 1:08.0 | businesses that gave him richness and flavor for life. |
| 1:12.1 | He at one point had an opportunity to take some time to sail around the world, and that's |
| 1:18.0 | where we start this podcast as Bill describes his experience sailing. |
| 1:23.5 | But I also learned how to sail a boat, and I also learned how to leave the shores and |
| 1:31.9 | go out into the ocean, and I took a journey around the world on a sailboat. |
| 1:38.0 | I took three years off, and I learned a lot. |
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