# Ep. 244 - The Coaching Leader: Navigating Complexity with Vulnerability and Challenge

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Podcast: [Empower World: The Coaching and Leadership Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/empower-world-the-coaching-and-leadership-podcast-742342)
Published: 2025-12-22T06:23:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 2666

## Resource

Ian Day, Expert in Coaching and Leadership Development, highlights the crucial shift leaders and coaches must make to thrive in a VUCA world. As co-author of Challenging Coaching, he emphasises that true leadership effectiveness comes from blending support with courageous challenge, all grounded in unconditional positive regard. In a landscape of volatility and need for adaptability, leaders can no longer play the lone rainmaker. Instead, they must embrace core coaching behaviours: asking real questions, listening deeply, and modelling vulnerability. His provocation is simple and powerful: "Who am I being as a leader?"

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