Pengarang: Dave Williams

Dave Williams is a registered Psychologist living in Sydney Australia who started his career working with leaders in the corporate world for 17 years. In the year 2000, Dave set up his own mentoring business, joint ventured with an executive coaching firm, and ever since has worked one-on-one with hundreds of leaders of Australian businesses, big and small. Through his research and 30 years plus experience, Dave noticed that even really capable leaders had moments, when despite knowing what they “should” be doing, they still persisted with less effective behaviours that added stress, strained their relationships and restricted their results. So David looked at those moments and discovered that there was a fleeting moment of discomfort, which as tiny and as subtle as it was, had the power to make these highly capable people baulk at doing what they knew would have been more effective. The term most people used to describe what was happening in these moments was that they were running into their “comfort zones.” Knowing this, David tested and refined a way of coaching leaders that enabled them to identify and clear their “Leadership Comfort Zones”. In the process, Dave has enabled hundreds of leaders to literally make millions, and just as importantly, live richer lives with their families and friends. In 2016, Dave read the book, The Body Keeps the Score, by Bessel Van der Kolk. It”s here that Dave started his journey of understanding and applying Dick Schwartz”s approach to Self Leadership. He realized that what he had been doing with his Comfort Zone Coaching was actually identifying what Schwartz called, inner “Parts.” In particular, the Parts that his clients were uncomfortable with. By enabling his clients to step back from their Parts, Dave learnt that his coaching had been enabling people to lead from a place that Schwartz calls “Self”. “Self” is that core sense of calm clarity within you that has the potential to lead the internal resources of your Parts with curiosity, compassion, courage, confidence and creativity. It”s a presence that empowers any person to handle the highs and lows of life with greater ease and effectiveness. I”m very grateful to Dick Schwartz for providing such an insightful framework that so accurately and simply explains the way us humans experience our inner and outer worlds. So this book aims to enable you to be even more Self Led. And if through your example, others are inspired to learn and become more Self Led as well, then it is Dave”s hope that in some small way, this book contributes to the evolution of an even more Self Led World.