Arete Coach Podcast 1035 Steve Leach "Using Metaphors in Coaching"
Arete Coach: The Art & Science of Executive Coaching
Arete Coach Podcast
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🗓️ 5 July 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This is episode 1035 of the Arete Coach Podcast with host Severin Sorensen and his guest Steve Leach.
In this episode, Steve Leach talks about his journey as an executive coach, business coach, and master coach with ActionCoach. Steve shares his entry into business coaching, the formative years of ActionCoach, and his favorite coaching tools, including the use of metaphors in coaching situations. Steve shares his favorite coaching metaphor of "Wile E. Coyote" and why sometimes entrepreneurs seem to sabotage the very things they build.
Steve lives in Brisbane, Australia, and he is a founding coach with ActionCOACH, and one of the early pioneers of Business and Executive coaching. Over the past 26 years, Steve has inspired, educated, guided and held accountable, over 630 business owners, as their 1-on-1 coach; several of whom have been on programs for over a decade. Steve has also racked up a staggering, speaking resume; having spent over 9,600 hours on stage, in 68 cities, across 19 countries. Steve is wise, insightful, and witty, and his journey into executive coaching is a great addition to the Arete Coach Podcast.
The Arete Coach Podcast seeks to explore the art and science of executive coaching. You can find out more about this podcast at aretecoach.io.
This interview was conducted on June 3, 2021 via Zoom Video.
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| 0:00.0 | This interview was recorded on June 3rd, 2021 via Zoom video. |
| 0:05.8 | You are listening to Severin Sortsen, Executive Coaching Curator of the Art to Coach Podcast, |
| 0:11.5 | where we explore excellence in the art and science of executive coaching. |
| 0:15.6 | Today, I've managed to track down a special guest for our coach community, literally the |
| 0:20.4 | Adam of the Global Business Coaching Profession. |
| 0:24.2 | Steve Leech, out of Brisbane, Australia, is a founding coach with Action Coach, the first |
| 0:29.8 | and still number one business executive coaching firm in the world. |
| 0:34.3 | Now, I want to challenge him on that data, but that's what his marketing literature says. |
| 0:38.7 | Now, over the past 26 years, Steve has inspired educated guide and held accountable over |
| 0:44.3 | 630 business owners as their 101 coach, and several of them have been on programs for |
| 0:51.0 | over a decade. |
| 0:53.0 | Steve also has racked up a staggering number of speaking engagements, spending some |
| 0:58.0 | 9600 hours on the stage in 68 cities across 19 countries. |
| 1:04.2 | He was brought up to be a hard working employee in a medical class family, his journey to |
| 1:09.6 | deck up millionaire, auditor and investor is inspiring hope to go through some of that. |
| 1:14.8 | Steve's unique perspective, having been a witness to this industry that starred in its |
| 1:19.3 | infancy, going to business coaching through lots of different versions, now something we |
| 1:24.1 | call executive coaching, will be a fun journey for us to take, and it certainly makes it |
| 1:29.8 | immensely valuable to have him as a guest on our podcast today, where we seek to explore |
| 1:35.4 | the art and science of executive coaching. |
| 1:38.5 | So welcome, Steve. |
| 1:39.5 | Thank you, everyone, good to meet you. |
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