Walking Each Other Home
Founder and Principal of Better Your Best Business Performance Specialists for over 12 years, Carolyn de Voest works with leaders to achieve and exceed their best. Through coaching, consulting, training, and speaking, Carolyn and her team of associates equip organizations to enhance their leadership, optimize their teams, and get results. She believes that to be successful, businesses need to put their people first, foster cultures of ongoing learning, and continuously engage in courageous conversations.
Carolyn has a degree in Education from McGill University and numerous coaching certificates, including the Co-Active Coaching Certification through the Coaches Training Institute. She is the past chair of the Strachan Hartley Foundation and is a current volunteer coach for West Vancouver Field Hockey, as well as instructor in the local Junior Achievement program.
Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:
Carolyn de Voest’s first business ventures
What everyone’s purpose in life should be
How Carolyn defines the word coach
Why Carolyn likes to ask questions of leaders and clients
The three questions she likes best
Why wanting to earn money, in the context, according to Martin and Carolyn, is not evil
Tactical ideas for creating a coaching culture
The coaches Carolyn looks up to
The books Carolyn recommends to feed the head, heart, and soul of leaders
In this episode…
Carolyn de Voest was instilled with an entrepreneurial and independent spirit by her father in childhood. She learned to make her own opportunities and incorporated her first business, called Play Like A Girl Athletics, at age 21. She translated that natural passion to lead, and to coach others to achieve their best into Better Your Best: Performance Business Specialists.
Carolyn chose the title Walking Each Other Home because she believes it’s important to remember that it’s our humaneness that connects us and that our purpose is to help and serve each other. Through coaching, she strives to empower people, to lead them into the autonomous ability to solve their own problems and face their own challenges. She asks questions of leadership: What do you want? Who are you? How are you going to make it happen?
In this episode of What CEOs Talk About, host Martin Hunter and guest Carolyn de Voest discuss leadership and coaching, why connectedness and a sense of service are important to retain, and how she views the responsibilities of coaching in a business context. Martin and Carolyn explore the values of personal awareness, how to quantify Walking Each Other Home, and the realities of caretaking one’s health and wellness in this vital conversation.
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