Book Club: The Human Behind the Coach How Great Coaches Transform Themselves First

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The book is available locally through Audry’s bookstore.  Join Linda Maul and your ICF Edmonton Chapter colleagues online for an evening of engaging conversations and community building

Ever come away from a coaching session feeling it didn’t quite hit the mark, despite your skills and knowledge?

It’s not just the words we use, it’s the music, the lyrics and the dance of the conversation that make a difference to the quality of the outcome, and getting these right demands not just skill but humanity.

Explore the human qualities that great coaches need to develop - humility, vulnerability, courage, and more - based on research from thousands of real coaching sessions, with stories, reflections, practical examples and tips on how to develop yourself and your work.

This is a book for anyone who wants to deepen their work without adding more tools and techniques, and who is willing to do some deeper work in service of having more transformational conversations.

Practical Components

• Reflection prompts to examine your own habits, beliefs, and patterns.
• “Try this” experiments to put ideas into practice with real clients.
• A strong push toward using session recordings for skill development.
• A free downloadable workbook (on the authors’ site) for deeper personal inquiry.

Who This Book Helps Most

• Internal coaches: navigating dual roles, building trust, showing up more human.
• External coaches: refining presence, deepening maturity, and elevating from competent to artful.
• Any coach seeking substance beyond tools — wanting to grow themselves in order to serve better.

Bottom Line

This book challenges coaches to stop “doing coaching” and start being a coach — grounded, present, humble, courageous, and deeply human.
It’s a powerful resource for coaches ready to evolve their practice by evolving themselves.