Great coaching and I love her ability to connect and jointly problem solve. She’s one of the best for sure. I have personally learned from each episode how to best navigate career development
I often feel bogged down in the day-to-day work of being a mid level professional. This podcast helps me bring my head up and be strategic in my observations and in my actions. Nearly every episode is helpful to me — even the ones that I don’t connect with at the beginning. By the end, I see how the content relates to me or to someone in my network. Hearing Muriel walk people through such a thoughtful evaluation — of self and of their environment — is truly something special. Thank you!
I started listening to this podcast because one specific episode stood out to me as very relevant to a problem I was having at work. I’ve since listened to multiple seasons and the content regularly inspires me to up-level my game at work. Often, the coaching session takes turns that aren’t evident in the title, so I found that even episodes where the title didn’t immediately resonate with me, there are great coaching nuggets that apply to my experiences. The more you listen, the more you’ll see patterns in Muriel’s coaching that you can apply broadly or with your own reports.
Muriel has an amazing way of asking questions that help you discover the answer within yourself, but she also provides frameworks that help you think through it, and she’s great with analogies and metaphors that bring so much clarity to the process.
The Coaching Real Leaders Podcast is a great resource for anyone seeking personal growth and development.
Executive Leadership Coach Muriel Wilkins shares her insights and experiences, offering actionable strategies and tools for overcoming challenges and achieving goals.
Coach Muriel's approach is empowering and inspiring, helping listeners to uncover their true potential and create meaningful change in their lives. Whether it's improving relationships, finding purpose, or enhancing work-life balance, Coaching Real Leaders podcast provides an invaluable resource for personal transformation. It's a must-listen for anyone seeking growth and transformation in their lives.
This podcast has given me helpful insight into my own career, goals, and aspirations. Muriel Wilkins is an incredibly effective career coach in every episode and I am able to reflect on my own life and career after every session. The stories are relatable, interesting, and inspiring. I look forward to every episode. 5 stars all around.
Each episode is so incredibly on point and has takeaways and insights for every aspect of work life. A wonderful podcast. Muriel is an incredible coach who’s approach empowers others to successfully tap into their untapped resources in service of their aspirations
She is so intuitive and insightful. She not only helps leaders navigate through complex leadership challenges, she’s inspired many coaches to reflect on what we can take away from every podcast and put into practice to become even better coaches to our clients.
As an executive coach myself, I am always impressed with Muriel’s practical approach. Her work is obviously abbreviated on the pod, but her impact is not. If you are new coaching or just curious to be a fly on the wall, this is great pod to subscribe to.
Every time I listen to a Coaching Real Leaders episode, I think about the different decisions I would have made or approaches I would have taken had I had Muriel in my ear with this podcast earlier in my career. The CRL team has their finger on the pulse of what's keeping leaders up at night, delivering important topics with incredible insights and candor while helping coachees increase their awareness and create a plan for addressing their challenges. And for coaches, Muriel provides a masterclass in coaching every single episode. A must-add to your podcast list!
This is a great podcast. You get to hear real-life leadership struggles first hand. Muriel is clearly an expert coach, guiding and illuminating with a deft touch. Her approach and observations are super insightful.
I love sharing these with people who are dealing with similar situations. It gives them an opportunity to hear what coaching is, while helping them hear how someone else in a similar situation worked through their situation. It also helps people to see they are not alone in what they are dealing with. This is sincerely one of my favorite podcasts.
Muriel Maignan Wilkins has hit upon something all of us human beings can use, how to navigate ourselves in the face of situations we can’t always influence or control. Bravo, and thank you for your generosity.
I’ve listened to this a few times with colleagues for our monthly professional development sessions. Muriel is simply amazing at what she does and I find so much value in tagging along for her coaching sessions with leaders.
The best podcast for everyday leadership challenges from a real life coach. Muriel effectively shares her vast library of coaching advice with empathy and passion across a wide range of actual situations. I can’t wait for the next season.
Thank you all (Wilkins and Team) for what you offer! I am a small business owner and every time I listen to your podcast I get rays of light shined on places in me and my business. I so appreciate this! And I especially value the way you coach — allowing for my own exploration with a set of reasonable, kind, and rigorous guardrails!
The episode on Navigating a New Senior Role felt like I was the guest. It really helped me quickly get to the root of my hesitation, uncertainty and discomfort. Thank you!
Muriel does an amazing job of keeping the focus on the growth of the individual leader rather than trying to solve their external challenge. I am always learning from both sides of the conversation!
I listen to a lot of great podcasts about leadership and managing - this is my favorite!! The format of the show is ingenious because, by listening to Muriel talk guests through their challenges, you learn about both the coaching practice itself and how to deal with common leadership challenges. As a senior manager, I can relate to struggles in almost every episode. It’s like I’m getting my own personal coach for free! Muriel is such a talented coach and teaches me something new every time.
When I listened to the episode on disillusionment with the executive team, “Killing me softly with his song” popped into my head because the episode was so apropos to my situation! So many of these episodes are- highly recommend!
A friend recommended Muriel’s podcast a year ago just as I began to lead a larger team and moved into a new and expanded role. Hearing Muriel coach other leaders through their challenges helped me so much during those early months. Each conversation was like reading an entire book on leadership and management. I’ve learned something relevant that I can implement with every episode.
I am a relatively new manager, working in a sometimes challenging leadership environment. I learn something new every episode that helps me be a better leader in my workplace, whether it’s interpersonal skills, setting personal boundaries, clarifying my goals, or thinking about my future career steps. I’m so grateful for Muriel and the generosity of her guests to share their stories!
I run a small company. Like most entrepreneurs, I run into new challenges almost daily. I wasn’t sure a podcast from HBR would be relevant for to me, given the small size of my business. But the situation posed by the leader in an educational institution struggling to understand how to prioritize a longterm goal is almost exactly what I’m struggling with. Muriel’s questions were incredibly insightful, and I found her candor both refreshingly direct and still compassionate. I’ve listened to a lot of business podcasts, and this is one of the best.
I wanted to live this but it’s slow, the insights are pretty basic, and Muriel’s voice timbre is tough to listen to. I keep trying every episode but can’t finish them.
Muriel brings a helpful, direct, and compassionate style to each conversation with a client. I’m grateful for her generosity in hosting this show and also to the leaders who share their struggles and stories. A wonderful resource for leaders who are seeking immediate, practical steps for what’s next in growing their skills.
I was intrigued initially with this podcast I think it has a lot of potential. I went back to the beginning episode one and extremely disappointed on episode two when they brought Raism into the picture for no apparent reason, although the issue seem to be a supervisor or boss as they put, it, had nothing to do with race, but they continue to bring it in, even after the person with the issue said the person basically is not racist has a great heart they continue to use the word racist although the coach is not a therapist she should at least recommended the person going to see a therapist, so they understand the difference between racism and just poor management. I can’t say I’m really super surprised considering the other Harvard business review podcast moved to left agenda only instead of staying neutral and trying to support people in general. They are trying to influence only..
Having the ability to listen to other leaders explain their issues is so incredibly relatable and really helps the coaching from Muriel hit home so much more. I’m bingeing every episode and can’t wait for more to come out!
Thank you Muriel Wilkins and the team to the podcast! I just love the format and content. You make executive coaching accessible. What a gift to the community. I learn so much from you and insights are precious! 🌷💕
Ms. Muriel Wilkins is doing what she was born to do. She is incredibly gifted as a coach. She deftly leads leaders to answer their own burning questions through her savvy execution. As a mid-career manager, I have learned so much from Muriel in every episode; there are golden nuggets that I carry away every time I listen.
This podcast is a wealth of knowledge. Muriel has such a talent for identifying the real cause of the coaching clients roadblock. She helps the client break down the issue in a way that makes it both much more clear and seem like less of an insurmountable challenge. Her discussions are always positive and offer actionable, relevant advice for the listener as well. My only gripe is the length of the podcast and the frequency. I want more! I wish the episodes were 1 hour + and posted every week.
I started listening to Coaching Real Leaders with an open mind, but not expecting any real takeaways. I was pleasantly surprised and Muriel's ability to bring the listener in has made me a fan! The questions posed are very relevant to the human and leadership experience. I love that Muriel dives deep to diagnosis the real issue, not just talk about symptoms of an issue. She also makes relevant suggestions but does not take the leader all the way to the answer, they need to actively engage with coming up with their personal future state.
I truly cherish this podcast and it’s my most shared pod. The real life examples are relatable and extremely helpful to think through scenarios. I appreciate Muriel’s willingness to share her expertise and experience. She’s very down to earth and offers a welcoming environment for the participants. Love it!
For the podcast format, one piece of feedback: it has too many ads of the same sponsor. Since it’s one sponsor, perhaps it can be recreated with gusto and shared at the beginning of the pod. I find the constant ads distracting and find myself skipping through. Having said that, I’ve used the ICF to find my coach, so thank you. 🙏🏽
Love hearing Muriel do real coaching work on her podcast. I pick up a nugget or two from each episode and come away inspired and with new insights to work into my own practice.
Every coaching session on this podcast is like a personal coaching session on leadership for me.
So many lessons on how to become a better leader but also how to be a a great coach.
Muriel is an amazing leadership coach!
Muriel's expert coaching is an inspiration - every episode is a mini-masterclass in empathetic and effective leadership. I always learn something about myself, and about how to lead better at work - my team, my peer relationsips, and my relationships with more senior colleagues. Thank you, Muriel!
Muriel asks the hard questions with grave and humor. Focusing on what each of her coaching clients can control, Muriel guides them on a voyage of self-discovery that often resonates with her listeners personal experiences
Be ready to learn something great for your career. I admire how the host guides the leaders to find better ways of doing things and evolve in their careers. You feel engaged and that you can apply all those lessons too.
At the conclusion of every episode, I come away with a professional pearl that I can apply to my career path— both today and in the future. Thank you, Muriel!
This podcast is the best coaching podcast, period. Muriel’s experience as an executive coach is available to anyone and everyone if you listen to the podcast. It is packed with so much of content that I listen, two or three times so that I don’t miss anything. I am so grateful to have the opportunity to be a fly on the wall to observe these conversations. Thanks Muriel and HBR for making this happen!
The best coaching podcast out there. Format is crisp and flows smoothly. Muriel is a masterful coach and in each episode she works with clients with different coaching needs. I look forward to each new episode. She makes me a better coach! No matter your level of experience and expertise do yourself a favor and subscribe to Coaching Real Leaders. You won’t be disappointed.
Really enjoyed learning about your coaching approach with the leader who needed sponsorship support. Asking the question “Would you invest in yourself?”, using a metric for her point of comparison, and helping her have confidence in herself. All effective things to help her progress forward. Thanks again for another fantastic episode!
Coaching is so natural in this podcast. Addresses real issues that real leaders encounter regularly. Great podcast that actually caters to more than just executive level leaders.
I’m generally pretty lazy with reviews but this one warrants the attention. It’s a great learning resource on so many different levels. First, it models what coaching should look like. As an aspiring coach, I can’t tell you how helpful it is to observe this. The scenarios are also very relatable and so you can take a lot of the insight that Muriel provides and apply it to your own situation. It is also a chance to get in touch with your humanity and remember that we are not invisible creatures of the business world.
