Coaching World Issue 19: Science of Coaching | Page 14

Shutterstock.com/Leigh Prather Ethical Matters Complexity in the Coaching Space: It’s Far More Than Ethics 14 Coaching World Jim Smith, PCC Jim is an Executive and Life Vision and Enhancement Coach, international speaker, author, and change strategist based in the United States. He is a founder of ICF Cleveland, and currently serves as the Chapter’s Ethics Liaison. He can be reached at [email protected]. The situation: A coaching conversation with an executive client. The client is married, male and holds a C-suite role. After working with his coach for nine months, he declares he wants to take the conversation “in a different direction today.” He’s incredibly stressed about a situation that he characterizes as “a time-management issue.” He reveals that he has been having an affair with a male colleague, and wants to work on this during the coaching session.