Approaching life from the perspective that you can change and don’t need to be a set way is a powerful shift for leaders and the emerging generation. In this article, ontological coach Lucy Faulconer shows that if you accept what you believe are fixed character traits, you will deny yourself the opportunity to ever transform yourself as a leader or a person of influence.

Want to change your life but feel trapped by your fixed traits?

Lucy Faulconer is an experienced ontological leadership coach with a degree in Psychology and an extensive background in management consulting. In this article, she shares the learning journey and career path she embarked on that led her to go beyond behavioural change and cognitive approaches in psychology to an ontological approach that focuses on who and how we are being.

Why I went from changing people’s behaviour to transforming their ways of Being

With so many coach training programs to choose from, how do you select the most effective one for you? In this article, Master Coach and Coach Principal of the Engenesis Coach Academy, John Smallwood, suggests and explores several key areas worth considering before deciding on a suitable program.

Is coaching calling you?

There are hundreds if not thousands of profiling tools used by coaches worldwide. In this article, John Smallwood, Master Coach and Coach Principal of the Engenesis Coach Academy, explains the value of profiling tools and why he recommends them to coaches and clients alike. He also reveals the profiling tool he chooses to use with every one of his clients and five key benefits it delivers.

Why use a profiling tool as a coach?

Resentment can be loud and targeted or sly and stealthy. If left unchecked, it will destroy healthy relationships, be it in a marriage, team, community, corporation or government. In this article, Ontological Coach, Thrive Master Coach and facilitator Louise Smallwood explains how to uncover where resentment may be taking hold and the steps you can take to address it.

Building healthier teams and organisations without resentment

While finding the right coach can be an adventure in itself, the results of coaching are often profound and life changing. In this article, John Smallwood, Coach Principal and Master Coach of the Engenesis Coach Academy, provides some insights into how to look for, select and engage the appropriate coach for you.

How to choose the ‘right’ coach

While skill shortages are nothing new for the ICT sector, the Great Resignation has hit this industry hard, exacerbating an already challenging situation with increased instability and substantial salary hikes. Companies seeking to lure new staff are having to dig deeper financially and enhance their packages with a range of benefits and enticing work practices. While these can definitely help attract and retain the talent you need, Technology Leadership Coach Caroline New believes it’s also i...

Surviving and thriving through the Great Resignation

Many leaders spend too much time working in their business rather than on it. Their struggle or unwillingness to remove themselves out of operations suggests they might undervalue themselves as leaders. When this happens, business, organisational and team leaders risk failing to unleash the potential of their people, which ultimately keeps the leader stuck in a self-limiting cycle. In this article, Jeanette Mundy, an ontological and transformational leadership coach, shares some simple and effec...

Undervaluing yourself as a leader? Go from being stuck in operations to trusting and empowering your teams.

Many business owners, team leaders and managers look externally to find the solution to improving their leadership skills. But the most effective place to look is right in front of you each day you are at work – your team. That’s because your team – more specifically, your team’s performance, behaviour and results – directly reflects who you are and how you are being as a leader. In this article, Jacqueline Hofste, an ontological leadership coach with a Masters in Physics, explains why...

Your team is a reflection of who you are

Many people like the idea of becoming a coach and dive in without considering why they want to pursue professional coaching and what it takes to create a successful coaching business. Many also don’t have an authentic understanding of what it means to be a professional coach. As General Manager of the Being Profile®, Lucy Faulconer leads a global community of coaches and has the opportunity to hear the stories behind why they chose to become a coach. In this article, she shares some of those ...

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What Pulls You and What Calls You — The Subtle Art of Ontological Discernment

In a world where “being yourself” is celebrated as the highest virtue — and often confused with impulsivity, oversharing, or curated emotional chaos — how do we live in a way that’s authentic without being reckless, expressive without being performative, and free without being feral?

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This isn’t a gentle essay about self-discovery — it’s a ruthless interrogation of the emotional theatre we mistake for transformation. In a world where personal development has been hijacked by aesthetic vulnerability, curated breakdowns, and poetic self-deception, sentimentalism has become the invisible enemy. This article exposes how we romanticise our pain, narrate our healing instead of living it, a...

The Theatre of Sentimentalism: Why You’re Still Acting Instead of Becoming

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