Listen to the episode Season 4 | Ep 66
On this episode of the Coaching Studio
In this engaging episode of The Coaching Studio, host Lyssa deHart sits down with Clare Norman, MCC, a mentor coach, coaching supervisor, and author, to discuss elevating the practice of coaching through personal transformation and coaching readiness. Clare shares insights from her 20+ years of experience, focusing on her core philosophy of “marginal gains”—small, impactful shifts that can drive significant improvements in coaching practice. She emphasizes the importance of mindset shifts for coaches, advocating that sustainable transformation in clients requires coaches to examine and adjust their own beliefs and habits.
Clare highlights key themes from her books, including The Transformational Coach, which helps coaches unlearn restrictive mindsets, and Cultivating Coachability, which provides a framework for assessing coaching readiness. She shares her thoughts on coaching readiness vs. coachability, explaining that readiness involves ensuring coaching is the right fit for a client’s needs, while coachability involves building a client’s “thinking muscles” throughout the coaching process.
Throughout the conversation, Clare offers practical guidance on how coaches can shift from transactional to transformational coaching by focusing on “being” over “doing” and creating an environment that empowers clients as thinkers. She also reflects on her personal growth journey and how working with a Gestalt therapist has helped her deepen her awareness, aligning with her mission to continually evolve as a coach. This episode is packed with valuable insights for coaches seeking to deepen their practice and shift their approach to create lasting change in their clients. Join Lyssa and Clare for an inspiring conversation on the art of transformational coaching.
Claire’s Books – Go check them out!
Clare’s approach to coaching is simple, non-directive, and client-centered, encouraging clients to work and think in an adult way with themselves and toward others. She helps people to look at things from different perspectives and explore options creatively. Clare contracts for results with her clients and their organization and holds her clients accountable for their actions, pinning them down and following up. Couple that with her use of intuition to say what she sees, and you get a transformational blend. Individuals say that Clare helps them to think deeply for themselves, brings greater degrees of balance and purpose to their work and life, and provides a safe environment in which to make sometimes uncomfortable changes happen.
Clare’s first book, Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide, is a work of passion and, according to Fran Fisher MCC, ‘makes a significant contribution to the conscious evolution of the coaching profession, [and] offers a new paradigm for coach mentoring and the continuous personal and professional development of the coach.’ Her second book, The Transformational Coach, enables you to shed the ineffective scripts, trappings, and beliefs that a lifetime of personal interactions, professional training, and your parents have taught you, such that you can reset your thinking to a beginner’s mentality and so begin a fulfilling and exciting journey to coaching mastery. https://amzn.eu/d/9paSG3v And her third book, Cultivating Coachability, sets you and your clients up for success by paying much closer attention to coaching readiness than you might historically have done.
About the Host
Lyssa deHart ditched her therapy practice to become a Leadership Confidence Coach. Along the way she discovered a passion for professional coaching and wanted to find ways to share that passion with the world. Come join her in discovering and meeting some of the most amazing professional coaches on the planet. Her goal is to inspire coaches. Lyssa is the author of Sticky Outcomes: at the Intersection of Coaching, Neuroscience, and Lasting Change, StoryJacking: Change Your Dialogue, Transform Your Life, The Reflective Coach - a 12 Month Journal, and Light Up: the Science of Coaching with Metaphors. Lyssa is an ICF MCC Coach, PCC Assessor, Certified Mentor Coach, and Coach SuperVisor. Lyssa uses her understanding of the ICF Core Competencies, combined with her knowledge of Neuroscience, to work with people to become extraordinary professional coaches. Let's Go!
