The Power of And

The power of and means strongly holding and uniting desirable dimensions that are commonly viewed as divergent: being challenging and caring, rigorously committed and flexible, idealistic and pragmatic, passionately alive and professional.

Achieve both great success and deep fulfillment. Merge world-class coaching competencies and equal expertise in building a thriving business. Integrate rigorous "doing," and in-depth "being" of a coach and leader. Meld the inspiration of your inner vision and the discipline of focused implementation. Dream as an idealist and plan as a pragmatist. Harness the power of and.

Being and Doing
Being involves clarity of intention, vision, calling, motivation, and inspiration. It requires being truly present both with yourself and others, and noticing the rich unspoken information "between the lines" and in the space. Doing includes techniques, processes, and actions. Once you are grounded in the deep and rich context of being, your doing has much greater impact. We hold both as equally important and enable you to harness the power that comes from integrating the two. Read more on Being and Doing.

Success and Fulfillment
We are committed to your deep fulfillment that comes from experiencing the impact of your Co-Active coaching and leadership on others. We are equally committed to your great success in business, so your fulfillment will be sustainable. Business development competencies are as complex as coaching competencies and require an equal amount of time, study, practice, and support to master. We enable you to master both.

Individual and Co-Active
Our courses are highly individualized, benefiting from very low student/faculty ratio and personalized exercises. We believe your greatest success will come out of you discovering your own unique strengths and style, aligned with your unique calling, vision and purpose.

And, paradoxically, your greatest individual capabilities will manifest themselves within Co-Active relationships with others, where you co-create an agenda that is not yours but belongs to the Co-Active alliance.

Rigorous and Fun
Our courses are extremely rigorous and challenging. Students report being stretched into discovering entirely new capabilities they are surprised to find. And we believe the greatest learning occurs when a fun, energizing, and safe learning environment is created. Some of the ground rules of our courses are "No one gets to be wrong" and "Every one is creative, resourceful, and whole."

Idealistic and Pragmatic
We are here to change the world, through enabling people to fulfill their own greatest promise. This idealism is what motivates us to jump out of bed in the morning. And we are highly pragmatic about the challenges of concrete action and results. We have created both the Business Development Program, and the Co-Active Network to support you through the challenges and ups and downs of taking action and creating results in the real world.

One-on-One and Relationship Systems
We have pioneered many of the standard practices in one-on-one coaching. And we believe the relationship systems to which individuals belong are crucial in sustaining individual change. Our advanced series in coaching organization and relationship systems is a ground-breaking expansion of individual coaching. You will be able to choose when an issue is best resolved in an individual context, when it is a relationship systems issue, and when it is both.

Transformational and Grounded
We aim high, for both deep impact on you and those with whom you work. Our graduates often call our courses life changing and transformational. And we keep your learning grounded in specific doing and being competencies that you can replicate outside, in the real world. Our work is as well received by whole-life coaches as it is by managers and leaders in the Fortune 500.

Passionately Alive and Professional
We liberate the dormant passion and power in you by empowering you to be your authentic self and trusting your intuition in the moment. And we show you how to be fully present as a professional to the needs and reactions of your clients or colleagues so your authentic and bold actions have high impact. You get to be both passionately alive and professional.