Episode 45 – Learning to Coach as a Manager with Dr. Jim Smith

Patrick’s guest is one of the country’s leading executive coaches, Dr. Jim Smith. Jim and Patrick talk about what managers can learn about adding a coaching tool to their leadership tool kit. Jim has coached and trained coaches for the Center for Creative Leadership for 3 decades. As founder and president of Leadership Systems, Inc. (LSI), he coaches executives, designs leadership development programs, and writes – all to help move people from their current state to their desired state. Jim trains coaches using his Master Coach Model that surfaced from his doctoral dissertation. He has led over 18,500 coaching sessions with mid to senior-level leaders around the world and has trained hundreds of coaches. He is also a member of The Jinks Perspective Advisory Board. Jim and his wife, Karyn have successfully launched four adults and enjoy traveling and working with college students as they plan their careers and future life steps. Jim is the author of The Master Coach Model and loves to apply the art of coaching to pull, not push; to ask, not answer; and to listen, not lecture as he helps develop his clients to think, learn and solve their current challenges.