Coffee House Coaching
Coffee House Coaching is an Executive Coaching podcast where I speak with fellow Executive Coaches about their practice, their process and how they help their clients. I also speak with individuals impacted by coaching and how it has improved their lives. My goal is to shine some light on the wonderful world of Executive Coaching and explain what it is and how it works. So, grab a cup of coffee, sit back, relax, and enjoy my conversations about Executive Coaching.
Coffee House Coaching
Ep 148 Matt Williams Gr8 Questions - Proud of his resilience to build a coaching practice.
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Gary Nowak
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Season 4
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Episode 148
Welcome to Coffee House Coaching, where great conversations are brewed one powerful question at a time. I’m your host, Gary Nowak, and each episode is steeped in 8 thought-provoking, no-fluff questions designed to tap into the Coaches insight, impact and inner work of their practice.
Today’s guest is Matt Williams - Most proud of: The resilience to build a coaching practice without a playbook, metrics, or much applause.
Episode Highlights
- 🕵️♂️ Early coaching lens? Prosecutorial. Today? Curious and collaborative.
- 🧭 Coaching roots go back to HP’s golden era under Bill & Dave—Matt learned leadership through coaching before it had a name.
- 📚 Favorite advice: “Be attentive to the lens you look through.”
- 🚧 Constantly working to give observations without advice—avoiding the “expert trap.”
- 🧠 Biggest discovery? Aligning with personal values is the foundation of authentic leadership.
- 😤 Told a control freak “you don’t control the outcome.” It went... exactly how you'd expect.
- 😂 Humor and sarcasm as subtle coaching tools—no games, just dry wit and sharp timing.
- 💻 Uses AI tools like Grammarly and Fathom for editing and transcripts, but insists the voice stays human.
- 🐟 Bucket list dream: Fly-fishing road trip through the Rockies with a (borrowed) dog and zero constraints.
- 💪 Most proud of: The resilience to build a coaching practice without a playbook, metrics, or much applause.