Clare Norman MCC

With over 25 years of coaching experience, Clare Norman is a Master Coach, mentor coach, supervisor and coach educator whose work sits at the intersection of professional rigour and human tenderness. She is sought after by expert coaches and coach training organisations across the world, and is known for her precision, honesty and willingness to say what others in the profession have left unsaid.

Reclaiming Love in Coaching is Clare’s fourth book and, in many ways, the one the others have been reaching towards. Her first, Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide, argued for the professionalisation of mentor coaching. Her second, The Transformational Coach, introduced the idea of mindset update before sustainable skillsets change follows. Her third, Cultivating Coachability, turned the lens towards the thinker and what they bring to the work. This fourth book names what has been underneath all of it: agape love as the field in which coaching happens, and the quality the profession has abandoned in its pursuit of competency frameworks.

Clare’s purpose is to help people feel seen for who they really are, so they can find their voice and express their needs in service of a more caring world. She is still in the coaching chair herself, still in practice and still learning. She writes from that place. Her international following includes peers and senior leaders who have found in her work a more loving experience of what coaching can be.

Alongside her writing, Clare runs Clare Norman Coaching Associates, which she founded in 2015 after leading learning and development strategy within NatWest and Accenture. She specialises in transition and leadership coaching, mentor coaching and coaching supervision. She is a regular contributor to industry journals, a keynote speaker, and host of gatherings and retreats for coaches who want to reconnect with the heart of the work.

Clare lives in the New Forest, Hampshire, where she enjoys Nordic Walking with her husband and their bloodhound. She paints in watercolour, sings in a choir and practises tai chi and yoga.