The Business of Executive Coaching

How your professional background is your biggest asset

The Business of Executive Coaching

Show Notes

Today I'm joined by Emma Clark, a leadership and executive coach who works primarily with healthcare clients. Emma brings close to 30 years of clinical and operational experience in the health system, having worked as a nurse, a nursing unit manager and in statewide healthcare leadership roles.

In this episode, Emma shares why she was adamant she wouldn't go back into healthcare when she started her business, and how a career break helped her reconnect with why she became a leader in the first place.

Emma and I also dig into how her lived experience builds instant trust and credibility with clients and organisations, and how her existing network - including people she worked with decades ago - has become one of her biggest sources of new work.

You can connect with Emma on LinkedIn or through her website, empoweringhumans.com.au.

If you've been thinking about joining the Corporate to Coach Accelerator, book a call with me to see if it's the right fit for you and your business at elliescarf.com/bookacall, or find out more about the program at elliescarf.com/cca.

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