Susan Goldsworthy

In today's fast-paced and often challenging environments, Care, Dare, Share: The Secure Base Coach was developed to help individuals, teams, and organizations not just survive but thrive. It offers a practical and transformative approach to coaching leaders, centred on unleashing potential in individuals, teams and organizations. Building on the award-winning Care to Dare, by integrating secure base principles, this playbook equips coaches and executives to create sustainable, high-performance cultures of trust, psychological safety, and innovation. Secure base coaching shifts the paradigm from outdated "power over" leadership to a collaborative "power with" approach. It focuses on fostering conscious choice, constructive challenge and courageous communication. In this model, leaders learn to act as secure bases, providing a safe, supportive environment that allows others to take risks, learn, and grow without fear of judgment or failure. This trust-driven atmosphere nurtures self-awareness, enhances people's ability to navigate challenges, and encourages individuals to play to thrive even amidst adversity. At its core, secure base coaching focuses on human connection as a critical driver of success. By cultivating empathy, understanding, and genuine collaboration, this approach strengthens relationships within teams and organizations, leading to increased well-being and performance. These connections, built on mutual trust and shared purpose, enable teams to unlock their highest potential and work together more effectively. This playbook offers a variety of exercises and reflective questions to help coaches and leaders apply secure base principles. It is designed to serve as a springboard for personal and professional growth rather than a rigid, one-size-fits-all manual. Coaches are encouraged to tailor these tools to the specific needs of their clients and organizations, fostering deeper understanding and mastery of secure base coaching through ongoing practice and exploration.

What did we do once we knew?This book is written for both children and adults to entertain and educate.Join storytime as Grandma recounts her adventures with an alphabet of wild animals to her granddaughter, Little Dove. But with species loss accelerating at an alarming rate, will there be any creatures left for Little Dove to play with?We have solutions that can make a difference. Working together, we can step up to our responsibility to protect what we still can in this magical, more-than-human world. Then we can have hope that instead of talking about where the wild things were we can speak to our children and grandchildren about where the wild things are.

A Soundview Executive Summaries Best Business Book of 2014 and a Silver Medalist in the Axiom Business Book Awards! If there's one certainty in business today, it's this:Change is coming your way. You have no choice in thematter. The choice you do have is either to embrace itor bury your head in the sand.In Choosing Change, ASTD Chairman Walter McFarland and leadership executive coach Susan Goldsworthyoffer a proven new model for not just facing inevitable change--but leveraging it as a tool for long-term success. The first step is personal: You must decide that you are going to change; only then can you lead change. From there, the authors present the tactics and strategies you need to compete today.Organized into two thematic sections, ChoosingChange takes you step-by-step through the authors'dynamic model for leading any company to success. Part I explains how to apply the newest research findings in psychology, neuroscience, and executive development to implement change in yourself. Part II focuses on organizational theory, management, and organizational learning, showing you how to integrate change into your organizational DNA. Each section makes the process easy to understand by breaking it down into the Five Ds:Disruption: An experience or event that triggers a conscious choice to changeDesire: Committing to goals and deciding upon the change necessary to meet themDiscipline: Consistently taking steps that build the momentum required for sustainable changeDetermination: Developing the resilience to focus and deliver even when faced with setbacksDevelopment: Establishing a system for continuous improvement, feedback, and ongoing learningIf you want to survive and flourish in today's businessworld, you must be prepared to adapt to changingmarketplace circumstances. Sudden changes in markets, society, and the economy have ruined industryleadingcompanies overnight--because they weren't change-focused.Don't be one of them. Lead yourself and your organization to the top--and stay there--by Choosing Change.PRAISE FOR CHOOSING CHANGE:"The most essential talent for successful leaders will be having the capacity for conscious evolution — changing themselves and their organizations for the better. Susan and Walt introduce a fascinating multidisciplinary approach for developing this capacity. If you aspire to be part of the solution, this book can help, big time!" -- Richard Olivier, Artistic Director, Olivier Mythodrama,author of Inspirational Leadership"How do you respond to change and disruption? Ignore it? Resist it? React to it? Embrace it? Or create it? Choosing Change will help you find your choice point — and when you see and use it you will quickly be able to escape the habits of the past and build for the future." -- Daniel Denison, Professor of Management and Organization, IMD Business School, Chairman, Denison Consulting LLC , author of the Denison OrganizationalCulture Survey and the Denison Leadership Development Surveys"The only way to succeed today is to change before you need to. Goldsworthy and McFarland draw from over 60 of today's most successful leaders to create anunprecedented road map on exactly how to change before it's too late." -- Marshall Goldsmith, author of the New York Times bestsellersMOJO and What Got You Here Won't Get You There, Thinkers50 Award Winner for Most-Influential Leadership Thinker in the World"An outstanding contribution to the literature on leadership and change. In fact, their focus on both is unique. I recommend Choosing Change highly." -- Michael Watkins, international bestselling author of The First 90 Days, cofounder of Genesis Advisers, Professor IMD Business School"Change. Or be changed. This amazing book takes a deep dive into helping leaders create new possibilities -- for themselves and for their entire organizations." -- Patrick Sweeney, President of Caliper, coauthor ofthe New York Times bestseller Succeed on Your Own Terms"There were good books about personal change and good books about organizational change. Choosing Change is a great book linking the two domains and giving you the tools you need to succeed on both fronts." -- Jean-Francois Manzoni, Shell Chaired Professor of Human Resources and Organisational Development and Professor of Management Practice, INSE AD, author of the award-winning The Set-Up to Fail Syndrome“Goldsworthy and McFarland’s five principles make it easy to integrate change into your organization's DNA. The foundational knowledge in this book is critical for those who hope to successfully lead their organizations into the future.” -- T+D Magazine“A must-read!” -- People & Strategy

Werden Sie zu einer großartigen Führungskraft und entfesseln Sie das eigene besondere Potenzial sowie das Ihrer Leute und des Unternehmens! Wie das geht? Mit der „Führung mit sicherer Basis“ (Secure Base Leadership). Bauen Sie Vertrauen auf und konzentrieren Sie sich auf die Unterstützung von Engagement und das Schaffen innovationsfördernder Konditionen im Unternehmen. Verbinden Sie den Aspekt von „sich kümmern“ mit dem Aspekt von „etwas wagen“. Somit verringern Sie die Sorgen und Ängste Ihrer Mitarbeiter und steigern das gesunde Risiko. Das Ergebnis sind herausragende Leistungen. Das Buch von Kohlrieser, Goldsworthy und Coombe zeigt Ihnen, wie Sie zu einer solchen außergewöhnlichen Führungskraft werden können – egal wo Sie arbeiten, mit wem Sie arbeiten, wie groß Ihr Budget ist oder wie viel Unterstützung Sie bekommen. Jeder kann bestimmte Fähigkeiten entwickeln und einen Weg finden, nachhaltige Ergebnisse durch inspirierende Beziehungen zu erreichen. Sie auch!

Have you ever been led by someone who cared for you like family, and dared you to achieve more than you ever thought possible for yourself, your organization, and even society? Award-winning author of Hostage at the Table, George Kohlrieser, along with his co-authors Susan Goldsworthy and Duncan Coombe, explain how becoming a secure base leader releases extraordinary potential in others. Part of the Warren Bennis leadership series Care to Dare shows you how to become a Secure Base Leader so that you release your followers from the fears that get in the way of their performance. It shows you how you can unleash astonishing potential by building the trust, delivering the change, and inspiring the focus that underpins sustainable high performance. From extensive interviews with executives from all over the world, as well as from surveys with more than a thousand executives, the book reveals the nine characteristics that Secure Base Leaders display on a daily basis. The research shows that a primary difference between a successful leader and a failed leader is the presence or absence of secure bases in his or her life. Care to Dare will take you on a journey where you will discover your own secure bases, past and present, and determine how you can be a secure base for other people in your life at work and at home.