K Street Coaching®

Author: Gideon Culman

  • Navigating Polarities I — Interview

    From very early, we are taught to see the world in certain ways. And one of the first ways that we’re taught to see the world is through either/or. ‘Either the stove is hot or the stove is cold. And I touch it or I don’t touch it.’ That it is possible to expand our…

  • Wielding the Power of Profit — Interview

    “Choose to do something that supports what you care about and will help us all sustain life on this planet.  Every day you make that choice and we all make those choices. The hope is that millions of people will be making the difference every day.” — Wendy Moomaw Wendy Moomaw is the executive director…

  • The Cruelty that Brings Us Together

    I hate that my neighbor went through this. It pains me. I’m also relieved my experience isn’t exactly unique.

  • Journeying to the Growing Edge – Interview

    It’s had me just question why I’m using a map. It’s not, “Here I am, we’ve got a destination, we can surmount obstacles better.” Now it’s like, “Why are you on a journey?” And that doesn’t play well with our culture. And yet I want to be as transparent about it as possible” Gideon Culman…

  • Downgrading Your Certainty — Interview

    “I’d much rather look at the reality rather than the opinions people carry.” Tony Quinlan When we face intractable problems — wanting to change the trajectory of our lives and stalling, wanting to change the direction of our community and failing — an important area that we often don’t examine are the stories we tell…

  • Practicing Complexity Fitness — Interview

    “One of the things that we know from complexity theory — especially used in leadership — is that we can’t figure it out. There is no plan that can work, necessarily. But what we can do is we can pay attention to the patterns of behavior and we can just try stuff, experiment.” — Carolyn Coughlin…

  • Creating Transportive Experiences — Interview

    “It is 100% based around the idea of making dreams come true and going above and beyond the regular steps of service to build an experience that will be a memory that lasts a lifetime.” — Nitiya Sin We’ve all experienced moments in which time seems to stop. It’s as though we’re transported. To better understand…

  • Jean-François Cousin and Magda Mook sit for a Where Genius Grows interview in Washington, DC

    Letting Learners Teach Themselves — Interview

    “We don’t stop absorbing the new. We keep inviting it. We keep that curiosity. And I think that this is important, that we look at everything coming our way with curiosity rather than with judgment.”

  • Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps — Interview

    “When we don’t understand ourselves well enough and when we don’t understand the ways we trip up consistently, we act as though we haven’t tripped up, and that gets us into even more trouble.” — Jennifer Garvey Berger Jennifer Garvey Berger writes in her new book Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps about unhelpful patterns of behavior that we fall…

  • Holding Our Vision Lightly

    Any vision we pursue, even the most tantalizing one, generates a tension between whatever we want and the current reality that our vision defiantly contradicts.