The Future of Coaching is bright and people-focused By Louise Watts The future is something I've been speaking about, reading about and exploring over the last two years. Visions of our future, the future of our work and of humanity abound as we move through this transitional industrial chapter. More specifically what might it mean for our particular profession, coaching and development. As the co-founder of HPC Global, High Performance Coaching, over the last 15 years, I have brought together a wonderful team of coaches, who have transitioned from the performing arts and business, and together we coach and develop exceptional people across the world. HPC was established after I transitioned from working as a professional ballet dancer to become an executive coach focusing on presence and impact. Early on, I recognised that our transferable skills as performers could be so valuable for top executives across the world.
This marriage of performance and business became our signature and enabled us to work with professionals to develop their presence and performance skills, learning to embrace their creativity, collaboration and connection. During the last 15 years, we have built up a global business that now connects us with some of the world’s largest institutions, coaching senior executives to millennials entering a very different workforce. This year we launched an innovative personal career transition program, Transition Hub, partnering globally with WeWork as a response to the changing needs of people in the future of work and the evolving focus of our coaching business in this new career landscape.
Where and how we work is reflective of the broader professional ecosystem in which we are operating. Transition Hub, our people- focused human work solution, takes people on an immersive seven-week personal development program, and we have been so fortunate to align with WeWork as our global home. WeWork’s strong focus on community, on bringing people together and collaboration is a key part of our program delivery, as individuals and organisations from vastly different sectors and with distinct professional stories come together to share, to learn from and to inspire one another. People have become very isolated due to redundancy, freelance working and technology driving less physical interactions, and in order to coach individuals successfully in the future we will need to demonstrate the effectiveness of a community vs a solo journey. www.coachinglife. com.au
