Fireside Chat with Marie Smith
Firework and ICF certified coach Marie Smith joins host Rachel Schofield for an engaging, candid chat on how Marie has set up and grown her career coaching practice.
Initial chat - key moments:
3.05 - Introduction to Marie
4.34 - How Marie got into coaching
7.01 - How Marie started coaching senior leaders
8.24 - Why Marie enjoys the ripple effect of coaching
10.13 - What advice Marie gives on imposter syndrome as a newbie coach
12.00 - Whether you can work in corporate or executive coaching without a corporate background
13.27 - Why Marie enjoys coaching people on a human level
17.43 - Whether Marie works on an individual basis or across teams
18.50 - How Marie works with corporate clients and private individuals
20.33 - How Marie structures her sessions
24.13 - Why helping people to align with their personal values is important to Marie
25.49 - What Marie has learnt looking back on her coaching
28.43 - How Marie markets herself without a website
Audience Q&A - key moments:
31.46 - How Marie got her first clients
33.55 - Why Marie reconnects with old clients
36.28 - Whether Marie uses coach directories
38.17 - How Marie keeps boundaries between coaching and mentoring
40.03 - Whether Marie finds formal psychometric assessments useful
43.22 - If Marie needed to be ICF accredited to work with corporate organisations
44.47 - How Marie manages the model of working with organisations
47.18 - How Marie sets her fees
49.58 - What tools Marie goes back to time and time again
50.34 - Which coaching framework Marie prefers to use
52.22 - Where Marie runs her private coaching sessions
54.12 - What notes Marie takes during a coaching session