Authors, Speaker, MA and Professional Certified Coach
Episode #142
“Most of us show up on life's playing field unprepared to play full out to win. We neither understand the game, the opponent, the rules, nor the equipment that helps us play and win. No wonder we walk as if on eggshells with other people. We are lonely. It doesn't have to be that way.
We've learned much in recent years about how our mind works and there is no doubt that we can follow our heart's longing and live our lives with clarity, focus, ease, and grace.
And yes, we need to see with new eyes and listen with new ears. And that is something that can be taught, should be taught, and is not yet routinely taught.” ~ says, Ingrid Martine.
Valeria interviews Ingrid about her book: The Un-Game: Four-Play to Business As Unusual and other thoughts in between.
Ingrid Martine is the sole practitioner of Ingrid Martine Life Coaching, who now focuses exclusively on coaching people who don't quite recognize yet how extraordinarily capable they are to answer with YES the question “Couldn't life be easier, more enjoyable, and more meaningful for me?”
Former CEO of Your Leaders’ Edge Coaching, Consulting, and Training, a firm specializing in transforming resistance to change, Ingrid is also a certified executive, team, and life coach. Her former clients represent numerous industries: pharmaceutical, software development, public utility providers, insurance, ICF coaches, and the US Army.
Ingrid is passionate about ‘how people change’, Ingrid has authored a book featuring an adult learning and coaching model in easy-to-digest story form for producing sustainable change—The Un-Game: Four-Play to Business As Unusual. While The UN-Game features a fictional business environment in which sustainable change is the goal, Ingrid is quick to say the book could just as easily be The UN-Game for Teachers, Parents, Lovers, Students. The timeless principles serve anyone willing to produce meaningful change in her or his life. In fact, both Ingrid and her clients thrive with the personal connection they create with 'unlearning' behaviors which block our clarity, focus, and ease in moving step by small, sweet step toward the life we long to live.
With her straightforward, pragmatic, yet caring approach Ingrid encourages and supports shifts in thinking to achieve breakthroughs with the modalities she has mastered over her long career. Engaging in courageous conversations, conflict averting not avoiding, developing emotional and social intelligence skills, dealing with “difficult” people, understanding resistance to change, developing cross-cultural awareness and competence are some of them. Tangible results from those skills are a cross-cultural awareness program for students in Howard County, Maryland which Ingrid created and managed. As a volunteer leader she brought a symposium on deep change, now taught world-wide, to Texas and has trained others to lead it in three states. However, her greatest satisfaction is being with clients who are more and more comfortable in their own skin becoming “unself-conscious” as they claim and trust their voice of wisdom.
