Arete Coach Podcast 1090 Severin Sorensen - Honoring Prof Anthony Grant and Evidence Based Coaching

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🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This is episode 1090 of the Arete Coach Podcast with host Severin Sorensen with a special episode that honors the life, legacy, and contributions of professor Anthony Grant PhD, the father of evidence-based coaching.

Professor Anthony Grant (1954-2020) is often credited as ‘the father of evidence-based coaching” and in 2000 he “established the world’s first Coaching Psychology Unit at the School of Psychology at The University of Sydney.” (Grant, 2020). As director of the Coaching Psychology Unit, Anthony Grant made great strides toward establishing the efficacy of evidence-based coaching. He collaborated widely with colleagues at Sydney University and researchers worldwide. Through his focused attention, research, teaching, and collaborations, Anthony has supported the development of the evidence-based coaching industry, and his impact on the industry continues today. In academia, a scholar's contributions and community significance is often captured by academic key performance indicators: for example, SemanticScholar shows that Professor Grant has 111 publications of record, eight books, 27 book chapters, and over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles, and more research is being published that was started before his death.

The episode explores Professor Grant's life contributions and a new article written by Severin Sorensen, M.Phil., and Nathalie Lerotic Pavlik, MSc, MBPsS, "Towards Evidence-Based Coaching Practice: “Taking Out the Sham, and Putting in the Wham” – Honoring the Life, Legacy, and Research of Professor Anthony Grant, PhD." In the article, we review several findings in Professor Grant's coaching research that informs the coaching practice today. We explore themes like, When is coaching best practice actually bad practice? How can coaching research inform coaching practice?

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This episode was produced on 5 September 2022.

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0:00.0	This is the Art to Coach podcast with Severn Sonson, with a special episode that honors the life,
0:05.6	legacy, and contributions of Professor Anthony Grant, PhD, the father of evidence-based coaching.
0:14.7	The session is recorded on September 5, 2022 via Zoom Video.
0:20.2	You are listening to Severn Sons' executive coaching curator of the Art to Coach podcast,
0:25.6	where we explore excellence in the art and science of executive coaching.
0:30.3	In this episode, we explore the concept of evidence-based coaching and honor the life,
0:36.0	legacy, and research of Professor Anthony Grant. In 2010, when I decided to become an executive
0:43.5	coach, I also committed to become the best coach that I could be. This required a personal
0:48.8	commitment to research, practice, and learning, and diving into the coaching literature.
0:54.3	As a professional executive coach since 2010, I have provided over 8,000 hours of paid
1:01.2	executive coaching to entrepreneurs, CEOs, presidents, and sea-level executives.
1:06.6	In terms of coaching-specific training, I've received Vistach Chair training and there are several
1:12.0	rounds of in-service trainings, and I have joined the major coaching organizations and currently
1:17.6	possess the IAC Master's Practitioner Designation and other designations such as the ICF-ACSTH
1:25.6	Certified Executive Coach, Certified Organizational Development Coach, Certified Life Coach,
1:31.6	the ICF-CCE Certified Positive Intelligence Coach, and most recently I've completed a leadership
1:38.3	circle profile certification, and in total, I have logged over 850 hours of specialized coach
1:44.8	training. However, with all this training and striving to be the best, I have often wondered,
1:51.4	what is the science that underpins the curriculum? Is best practice truly best? Or is it bad practice?
1:58.8	Over the years, I have dived into the research to find out what scholars are saying about the
2:03.1	coaching field to see if it could help my coaching practice. In my deep dive, I came across a number
2:09.5	of scholars, including one named Anthony Grant. I became intrigued by his writings and what
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