
108: Jean Christophe Normand: Can Fasting Help Teams Achieve Breakthrough Results?
11/07/19 • 53 min
Team Coaching Zone Podcast | Season 2 with Carissa Bub | Episode #108
Jean Christophe Normand: Can Fasting Help Teams Achieve Breakthrough Results?
In this episode, I (Carissa Bub) talk to Jean Christophe Normand, a certified coach, coach supervisor, leadership development facilitator, and deacon in the Roman Catholic Church on how he works with groups to expand consciousness and help leaders face the risk and uncertainty of our times through fasting. Some of the questions I ask him are
- How might this approach help leadership teams a crisis?
- What brought him to work this way with groups?
- How can fasting and meditation help foster collaboration and systems change?
Listen to this episode at Team Coaching Zone, on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere you listen to podcasts.
More On Jean-Christophe Normand
Jean-Christophe is a certified coach and coach supervisor (PCC) at ICF since 2012 and a professional facilitator in leadership and management skills since 2009. His background is a 20-year finance and controlling experience in Cable Industry with a wide range of experiences with international executives. Jean-Christophe provides executive coaching and training in leadership and management skills with a measurable ROI based on the C-ROITM methodology developed by Seattle-based Lisa Ann Edwards. He is a certified CTT (Cultural Transformation Tool) consultant trained on the tools provided by the Barrett Values centre which provides powerful metrics to support leaders in building values-driven organizations and values-driven societies. He teaches management and leadership skills at the Theologicum Department of the Institut Catholique de Paris since 2017 and is a permanent deacon for the French Roman Catholic Church since 2014. He is a Fellow of Oxford Leadership and lives in Nantes, France. His book on his fasting journey over 15 years comes out in Spring 2020.
You can learn more about Jean-Christophe
- rhinc.wordpress.com (Blog) [email protected]
- https://www.oxfordleadership.com/authors/jean-christophe-normand/
Team Coaching Zone Podcast | Season 2 with Carissa Bub | Episode #108
Jean Christophe Normand: Can Fasting Help Teams Achieve Breakthrough Results?
In this episode, I (Carissa Bub) talk to Jean Christophe Normand, a certified coach, coach supervisor, leadership development facilitator, and deacon in the Roman Catholic Church on how he works with groups to expand consciousness and help leaders face the risk and uncertainty of our times through fasting. Some of the questions I ask him are
- How might this approach help leadership teams a crisis?
- What brought him to work this way with groups?
- How can fasting and meditation help foster collaboration and systems change?
Listen to this episode at Team Coaching Zone, on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere you listen to podcasts.
More On Jean-Christophe Normand
Jean-Christophe is a certified coach and coach supervisor (PCC) at ICF since 2012 and a professional facilitator in leadership and management skills since 2009. His background is a 20-year finance and controlling experience in Cable Industry with a wide range of experiences with international executives. Jean-Christophe provides executive coaching and training in leadership and management skills with a measurable ROI based on the C-ROITM methodology developed by Seattle-based Lisa Ann Edwards. He is a certified CTT (Cultural Transformation Tool) consultant trained on the tools provided by the Barrett Values centre which provides powerful metrics to support leaders in building values-driven organizations and values-driven societies. He teaches management and leadership skills at the Theologicum Department of the Institut Catholique de Paris since 2017 and is a permanent deacon for the French Roman Catholic Church since 2014. He is a Fellow of Oxford Leadership and lives in Nantes, France. His book on his fasting journey over 15 years comes out in Spring 2020.
You can learn more about Jean-Christophe
- rhinc.wordpress.com (Blog) [email protected]
- https://www.oxfordleadership.com/authors/jean-christophe-normand/
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107: Felipe Paiva and Henrique Gonzalez: A Team of Teams Approach to Culture Transformation
This week on the show, we are in Brazil where Felipe Paiva, organizational consultant and coach joins his client Henrique Gonzales Garcia Filho, Head of HR at Prumo global logistics group, and me (Carissa Bub) as we delve into a live case study on how to use a team of teams approach to transform a multi-business economic group responsible for the strategic development for the largest privately owned port in Brazil.
We discuss:
- The business case that brought them together their partnership
- The initial and ongoing design behind their work
- What assessment tools they used
- The successes and challenges on the way
- How to help highly complex systems learn faster
- What facilitation and coaching competencies are needed
- What really makes the difference
- Lessons learnt and tips to share
More on Felipe Paiva
Felipe is the founding partner of Artisan Consulting. In his own words... "My purpose is to enable more humane organizations, where people can fulfill their potential and create shared-value. I pursue this purpose combining the roles of consultant, facilitator and executive coach. Clients value my partnership and dedication to a deep, systemic, and consistent work. After having worked for 10 years in large companies, I spent the last 16 years as a consultant and coach, involved in strategic alignment, transformation programs, and executive development. I’m the founding partner of Artisan, a boutique organizational consulting company in Brazil. I studied business administration in the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, where I was also earned an MBA degree. Later, I enrolled at HEC-Paris to deepen my knowledge and perspective about change at systemic, organizational and individual levels, earning an MSc in consulting and coaching for change. I am also a graduate (PCC) of the Columbia Coaching Certification Program. I live my life with my wife and two kids in Rio de Janeiro. I love spending time with family and friends, doing outdoor activities and playing guitar. Music has been a constant life passion and I play monthly in night clubs & parties with my band, which keep me connected with art and people." If that is not enough, you can find everything you want to now about Felipe and Artisan consulting here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/felipe-paiva-0a3190/
More on Henrique Gonzalez and Prumo
Mechanical engineer, with a master’s degree in Sciences of Engineering in IME (Institute of Military Engineering), people management extension in INSEAD, leadership extension in Wharton and Finance administration extension in FGV. Henrique has more than 20 years of experience in HR, but have also worked in engineering, operations, logistics and financial planning for other 10 years. Developed most of his career at Shell, being HR leader for Brazil and Latin America. Delivered the Rio2016 Olympic and Paralympic games, as HR Director, recruiting, training and engaging a workforce of 7.000 paid and 60.000 volunteers, participating since the startup of the Organizing Committee, on a journey of 5 years. Since Oct/2017 is the HR Executive Director at PRUMO, a holding company that develops the largest private Port, Industry, Energy complex in Brazil, Porto do Açu. https://www.linkedin.com/in/henrique-gonzalez-a7170b15/ https://www.prumologistica.com.br/en/
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109: Dr. Ruth Wageman and Dr. Krister Lowe: Nautilus Rediscovered
A look back on the adventure-based learning journey at sea off the coast of Norway onboard the Wylde Swan, a tall ship built in 1920.
A deep dive with Dr Krister Lowe and Dr Ruth Wageman and myself (Show Host - Carissa Bub) into what's possible when you put a group of team coaches and team leaders in a VUCA environment to learn about how to create and coach brilliant collaboration and team of teams.
We cover:
- The origins and vision behind the Nautilus Experience
- Why learning to sail in team of teams is perfectly suited to help leaders and team coaches alike to adapt to doing business in a VUCA environment
- What we gained personally and professionally from the voyage
- What we learnt about how do create high performance collaboration and distributed leadership
- The ideal participant for the Cuba April 2020 voyage and July in Norway.
For show notes and more information go to: https://www.teamcoachingzone.com/nautilusrediscovered
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