The Leadership Skill Nobody Talks About | James Edgar on Somatic Coaching

About this episode

Nathaniel Chapman interviews James Edgar about the role of somatic coaching in enhancing leadership and emotional resilience in the workplace.

In this episode of Breaking the Chain, host Nathaniel Chapman sits down with James Edgar to explore the increasing significance of somatic coaching in leadership, emotional resilience, and contemporary workplace performance. As a Chief People Officer with nearly 30 years of leadership experience across industries, James shares how somatic coaching goes beyond mindset and traditional executive coaching by helping leaders understand the connection between the body, nervous system, emotions, and...

People in this episode

Host: Nathaniel Chapman

Guest: James Edgar

Topics covered

• somatic coaching
• leadership
• emotional resilience
• workplace performance
• executive coaching

Keywords

• somatic coaching
• leadership
• emotional resilience
• workplace performance
• executive coaching

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