Conversations with authors: Coaching for Optimal Energy

Join us for an engaging and insightful EMCCUK Conversations with Authors event featuring Viv Chitty, author of Coaching for Optimal Energy: A guide for executive coaches. The book is an essential resource for practitioners who want to effectively address energy with their clients and enable them to take action to optimise their energy in and out of work.

A completely new way of considering energy in executive coaching, the concept of ‘Optimal Energy®’ is based on original research. This fresh insight and its application is a fundamental new approach for use in executive coaching. Suboptimal energy levels in senior executives, although rarely considered, can negatively impact efficacy, feelings, behaviour and self-awareness both at work and in coaching sessions. But what is optimal energy®?

This needs to be addressed by executive coaches but how? Coaching for Optimal Energy: A Guide for Executive Coaches answers these questions and challenges previous thinking on the subject. Written for executive coaches, and appropriate for anyone who works with people, for the first time in coaching literature the book gives a research-based definition of the concept of energy and examines how energy manifests in clients, analyses the influences on energy and offers clear guidance and practical ideas for addressing energy with clients.

This is an essential resource for coaches and other practitioners who want to effectively address client energy and enable clients to become more aware of their energy levels and take action to optimise their energy in their daily lives.

Viv’s work in this area is based on the years of research she has conducted on this topic, including interviews with experienced executive coaches, which led to her to writing the book Coaching for Optimal Energy: A guide for executive coaches. The book explores the concept of energy, how it manifests in sessions and in the workplace, influences on energy, the role of the coach and how this can be addressed by practitioners.

Book author

Viv Chitty is Director and founder of the coaching and supervision consultancy Viv Chitty Associates, she has over twenty years’ experience in executive coaching and specialises in working with senior executives who have multiple challenges to face, across a spectrum of blue-chip organisations in the UK and abroad.

Viv is an accredited coach at Master Practitioner level with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) and has extensive training and expertise in coaching. She has a degree in Psychology, a post graduate Diploma in counselling and an MA in coaching and mentoring. In addition, Viv is an accredited coach supervisor and has supervised fellow executive coaches in the UK, USA and Mexico since qualifying with the Coaching Supervision Academy (CSA) in 2009.

Her robust, evidence-based practice is informed by rigorous and continual self-development and her own regular professional supervision. Recently, Viv has pioneered and researched a ground-breaking new methodology, Optimal Energy® Coaching, which is based on her MA research and book Coaching for Optimal Energy: A guide for executive coaches. This addresses client energy levels with a focus on how this influences how they perform, feel, behave, relate to and impact others.

Viv commenced her career (which later led her to specialise in executive coaching) consulting with large retail and transport organisations enabling them to prepare for and deal with complex workplace situations which directly affected their bottom line.

She has featured as a speaker at a number of major conferences, including those hosted by the British Retail Consortium and The Association of Counselling in the Workplace and gave the keynote speech to the Oxford Brookes University Coaching and Mentoring Research Conference held in Oxford in January 2023.

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