TEDxJumeirahBeachPark
If your executive coach is just asking questions, you have the wrong coach.
If your executive refuses coaching, you have the wrong executive.
Michael Phelps has 28 Olympic medals and a coach who broke down every stroke and optimised every turn. Executives make billion-dollar decisions, govern thousands of livelihoods, and mostly do it alone.
Seventeen minutes on why the coaching industry’s dominant model runs out of road in the C-suite, what it costs the executives who hit that wall, and what the alternative actually looks like.
For faculty
The talk takes a position students can argue with, which makes it more useful in a seminar than something they all nod at. I’ve written a short teaching note to go with it: six discussion questions, the two counterarguments I find strongest, and the sources behind the ROI claims so students can interrogate the evidence rather than accept it.
Free. No list, no follow-up.
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