The lawyer, the coach and the big decision! // Business Skills

Episode 6: The Linklaters Ideas Foundry

Elodie Michaud (founder of Dare&Grow) and Ian Rodwell

Many of us try to bring a bit of coaching ‘magic’ into our day-to-day leadership practice. But what happens if you love coaching so much, you want to devote your life to it? In this episode, Ian talks with Elodie Michaud, a former lawyer in the Linklaters Luxembourg office who now runs her own coaching business. We discuss Elodie’s first steps into coaching, the extent to which lawyers make great coaches (or not…) and how she coached herself through a life-changing decision. So if you are keen to learn more about the art of coaching — or perhaps you are contemplating your own career move? — then Elodie’s story will no doubt both instruct and inspire.

Key sources for this episode include:

• Alison Temperley – Inside knowledge
• John Whitmore – Coaching for performance
• Dave Stachowiak – Coaching for leaders (podcast)