Walking Each Other Home

<p>Founder and Principal of Better Your Best Business Performance Specialists for over 12 years, Carolyn de Voest works with leaders to achieve and exceed their best. Through coaching, consulting, training, and speaking, Carolyn and her team of associates equip organizations to enhance their leadership, optimize their teams, and get results. She believes that to be successful, businesses need to put their people first, foster cultures of ongoing learning, and continuously engage in courageous conversations. </p><p>Carolyn has a degree in Education from McGill University and numerous coaching certificates, including the Co-Active Coaching Certification through the Coaches Training Institute. She is the past chair of the Strachan Hartley Foundation and is a current volunteer coach for West Vancouver Field Hockey, as well as instructor in the local Junior Achievement program.</p><p><strong>Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:</strong></p><ul><li>Carolyn de Voest’s first business ventures</li><li>What everyone’s purpose in life should be</li><li>How Carolyn defines the word coach</li><li>Why Carolyn likes to ask questions of leaders and clients</li><li>The three questions she likes best</li><li>Why wanting to earn money, in the context, according to Martin and Carolyn, is not evil</li><li>Tactical ideas for creating a coaching culture</li><li>The coaches Carolyn looks up to</li><li>The books Carolyn recommends to feed the head, heart, and soul of leaders</li></ul><p><strong>In this episode…</strong></p><p>Carolyn de Voest was instilled with an entrepreneurial and independent spirit by her father in childhood. She learned to make her own opportunities and incorporated her first business, called Play Like A Girl Athletics, at age 21. She translated that natural passion to lead, and to coach others to achieve their best into Better Your Best: Performance Business Specialists.</p><p>Carolyn chose the title Walking Each Other Home because she believes it’s important to remember that it’s our humaneness that connects us