Julia Stewart, Coach and Trainer of Masterful Coaches

March 10, 2010 By

Julia Stewart, President, School of Coaching Mastery, Guest on Des Walsh & Friends Show

Des Walsh & Friends on BlogTalkRadio

Last week, on my Des Walsh & Friends show on BlogTalkRadio, I had the great pleasure of catching up with an esteemed coaching colleague, Julia Stewart.

Julia is a coach, coach trainer, and seminar leader, who uses her creativity and humor to expand people’s thinking and inspire them to work brilliantly. She is passionate about the power of coaching to transform the world and is committed to helping coaches forge positive change with the help of powerful coaching skills.

Julia Stewart

Julia is a founding member of the International Association of Coaching (IAC) and an IAC Certified Coach. She founded the School of Coaching Mastery in 2007.

We met at a Coachville conference in San Francisco in 2003 and have maintained a virtual contact since then.

In our chat we covered a number of topics around coaching, including:

  • how the School of Coaching Mastery was established
  • how being a coach can be a new career for Boomers
  • recollections of our mutual mentor, the late Thomas Leonard
  • thoughts on the value of coaching for people finding themselves, voluntarily or involuntarily, no longer in paid employment and without a position title

Julia has some excellent, free resources, including e-books, on her School of Coaching Mastery site.



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IAC Coaching Masteries

July 9, 2008 By

I’ve been meaning for some time to post here about the International Association of Coaching (IAC) and the IAC Coaching Masteries™ .

IAC Member 2008One of the most rewarding experiences I’ve had, professionally and personally, in the past few years is to have been part of the team of volunteers which developed the IAC Coaching Masteries™.

Countless hours were spent, creating, analyzing, dissecting, re-assembling. One of the key challenges was that what was eventually produced had to work across cultures, globally.

The Masteries now form the framework for the IAC certification process, which focuses on masterful coaching skills that are observable and can be measured by IAC’s certifiers during recorded, half-hour sessions with two different clients.

IAC’s certification system is not, by any means, just for people who plan to make coaching their main career. Many people want to develop their coaching skills simply to be more effective in working with people in a business context. Or perhaps even in a family situation. They are not necessarily coaches by profession or looking to define their careers in that way.

The IAC Coaching Masteries™ are:

1. Establishing and maintaining a relationship of trust
2. Perceiving, affirming and expanding the client’s potential
3. Engaged listening
4. Processing in the present
5. Expressing
6. Clarifying
7. Helping the client set and keep clear intentions
8. Inviting possibility
9. Helping the client create and use supportive systems and structures

For an explanation of the Masteries, there is an e-book which IAC members receive free of charge and non-members can download at a cost of $27.

Disclaimer: as well as being a founding member of IAC, I am currently a member of the Board of Governors.

If you would like to know more about the IAC and the IAC Coaching Masteries™, please feel free to get in touch with me via the Contact page here. Or use the appropriate contact point on the IAC website.

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