Coaching blog

Our innovation coaching blog evokes new ways of knowing and being through integrating deep learning and coaching. Where coaches develop subtle skillsets as teachers, transformers and innovators. Coaches work with innovation, creativity, and consciousness as co-creative frequencies. To emerge creative insights and collective breakthroughs, within a safe container and holding space. Embracing speed and agility, in ways that are personalised and blended to help people adapt, grow, collaborate, innovate and flourish.

EVERYONE HATES TO FAIL – WHY DO YOU?

If you have ever had a significant setback, made a serious mistake, or failed at completing an important task, you will have experienced some kind of deep emotional and visceral, largely unconscious, negative, reactive response to it. By becoming passively...

BEING PLAYFUL AND EXPERIMENTAL TO CREATE AND INNOVATE

by Janet Sernack|06 September 202106 September 2021|Coaching blog, Education blog

Growing up in the fashion industry, in 1980’s Paris, I forged an exciting global career and experienced, first hand, a diverse range of the most amazingly innovative fashion presentations ever. It was the dawn of an explosive era where fashion...

Creating high-performing and faster-moving teams

by Janet Sernack|05 September 201907 October 2019|Coaching blog, Collaboration blog

It seems that every meeting I went to recently, and almost every person I spoke to, mentioned the new book, from the authors of How Google Works – The Trillion Dollar Coach. I dutifully ordered it and once I had...

How can we prepare people for a future we cannot predict?

by Janet Sernack|05 June 201816 September 2019|Coaching blog, Innovation consulting blog

As many of us are aware, we are living in an era of extreme rapid & continuous change, driven largely by the technological leaps of the Digital Age. These are impacting exponential shifts in customers' needs, priorities, preferences & expectations...

Cultivating a Fail Fast Culture

by Janet Sernack|04 December 201714 October 2019|Coaching blog

In last month’s blog, What does it mean to cultivate a fail fast organizational culture we shared what typically happens when people experience failure, and how important it is to uncouple people’s fears about failure and to support and enable...

Accelerating learning pathways to innovate and change

by Janet Sernack|08 August 201722 August 2019|Coaching blog

Having failed to successfully engage, train and retain a few millennials in my global innovation culture consulting, education and coaching business, I hit the proverbial pause button, and asked myself, why isn’t it working out? As a seasoned corporate educator...

Innovation coaching to effect transformation

by Janet Sernack|19 April 201718 August 2019|Coaching blog

The business playing field has changed and will keep on changing, in ways that we cannot yet imagine. Uncertainty and instability are the key drivers of the business game, and our coaching clients are challenged by a diverse range of...

Generating Discovery for Innovation

by Janet Sernack|05 September 201622 August 2019|Coaching blog

Just in case you haven’t seen the latest Star Trek movie yet, here is one of its key messages in generating discovery for innovation, which links to generating fresh new ways of business problem-solving: “You know the greatest danger facing...

Fear of failure, what drives it & how to deal with it?

by Janet Sernack|30 April 201530 June 2019|Coaching blog, Leadership blog

In the 2014 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Report more than 206,000 individuals were surveyed across 73 economies and 3936 national experts on entrepreneurship from 73 economies participated in the survey. GEM participant economies represent 72.4% of the world’s population and 90%...

Changing questions changes the world!

by Janet Sernack|30 March 201505 September 2019|Coaching blog

In the incredibly challenging process of compiling, collating and presenting the new ImagineNation MOOC (massive online open course) on innovative leadership, we created a new role for innovative managers and leaders as ‘disruptive provocateurs!’ One of their key skill-sets is...

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