Episode 170. Michael Bungay Stanier interview

My guest today is the wonderful Michael Bungay Stanier.

Michael is at the forefront of shaping how organizations around the world make being coach-like an essential leadership behavior and competency. His book The Coaching Habit is the best-selling coaching book of this century, with over 700,000 copies sold and 1,000+ five-star reviews on Amazon. In 2019, he was named the #1 thought leader in coaching, and was shortlisted for the coaching prize by Thinkers50, the “Oscars of management”. Michael was the first Canadian Coach of the Year and has been named a Global Coaching Guru since 2014. He was a Rhodes Scholar.

I’ve hassled Michael to be on my show for nearly 3 years and so am incredibly excited to finally be able to bring you this interview. His book is an absolute favourite of mine and is essential reading

This was a particularly enjoyable conversation and covered a wide range of perspectives on how to understand and deal with insecurity. Here are some of the great topics we explored:

• Story telling

• The cleft pallet advantage

• The paradox of being important and insignificant at the same time.

• The definition of great coaching

• The value of reading more fiction

• How astronauts can help us think more clearly

• The darwinian value of insecurity

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