This is episode 1094 of the Arete Coach Podcast with Severin Sorensen and his guest Michele Barry, who is a CEO, Vistage Chair, Executive Leadership Growth Coach, CEO Peer Group Leader, and Consultant. Michele is a former college athlete and teacher, and a current executive coach, and lifetime learner. Michele is CEO of M Barry Consulting operating from Arlington, Massachusetts. She is also a Vistage Chair with multiple peer groups since 2005. In 2007 she became a Vistage Mentor where she helps develop new Vistage Chairs to start their groups and become effective leaders. In 2012, Michele became a faculty member of Vistage and started teaching new hire training courses and advanced training courses for experienced chairs. Michele was a Lead Change Management Consultant and Director with Fidelity Investments. Michele has also worked in the education, training, and learning fields. With Politzer & Haney she served as a Learning and Development Manager and she also worked in other organizations as an Instructional Designer for training, a Developmental Editor for school curriculum, and an English Teacher and Mathematics Teacher. Michele is a certified Predictive Index Certified Partner and Practitioner, a certified EQi 2.0 and EQ-1 360 with Multi-Health Systems, she is certified with the Leadership Circle Profile, and she is a PI Certified Talent Optimization Consultant. Furthermore, Michele has her Masters' degrees in Literature and Accounting. In the podcast, we explore Michele's journey into executive coaching, lessons from sports, curiosity, courage, and compassion. We talk about the parallels of sports and business, sch as "Playing on Your Front Foot" and being offense or attack minded. We explore powerful questions and nuances of performance coaching. The Arete Coach Podcast seeks to explore the art and science of executive coaching. You can find out more about this podcast at aretecoach.io. This episode was recorded on August 31, 2022 via Zoom Video. Copyright © 2022 by Arete Coach™ LLC. All rights reserved.

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