Patricia Burgin has helped to develop a generation of coaches and coaching leaders. As a leader, facilitator, speaker, supervisor and coach of leaders, Patricia ("Patty") Burgin has advised and mentored thousands of individuals and teams toward better performance, communication and meaning. She is the author of the new and best selling overview of leadership coaching, The Essential Coaching Leader. |
In 2016 Patty received the ACES Award from ICF Washington State. This award "recognizes a coach who authentically acts, motivates and inspires excellence and commitment to achieving goals that advance the development of coaches, the coaching profession and the coaching community. They exemplify outstanding achievements in leadership and are a visionary with major contributions to both the profession and industry of coaching."
Click here to read comments from some of Patty's past and present clients. And click here to read about the origins of her work as a coach. |
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What and Whom Patty Follows, Likes and Retweets
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Admittedly Patty is a bit of a free-enterprise geek, believing that the marketplace is very discerning, and that just about anyone with grit can become an exemplary person with a compelling story and a service that the world needs.
This, of course, means that good behavior--and a moral architecture that supports it--is non-negotiable to the process. This, of course, is where it becomes non-negotiable for each of us to put ourselves around great colleagues who share our values. And when a culture or an organization can attract, build and inspire large numbers of exemplary people, excessive control, direction, regulation and taxation get in the way of the magic. |
Mr. Rogers: A patron saint of the modern Professional Coaching Movement . . .Click here to read Mr. Rogers' letter to Patty's Partner, Dr. Kari, after she wrote to thank him for his influence during her tumultuous childhood. |
"In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways." Edith Wharton
The Flood. 7/31/1976. On Turning Seventy. November 2020. "Listen and attend with the ear of your heart." St. Benedict "It is still new to me. . . . the life of oak trees can still astonish me. I feel sometimes as if I were a child who opens its eyes on the world once and sees amazing things it will never know any names for, and then has to close its eyes again. I know this is all apparition to what awaits us, but it is only lovelier for that. There is a human beauty in it, and I can’t believe that when we have all been changed, and put on incorruptibility, we will forget our fantastic condition of mortality and impermanence--The great, bright dream of procreating and perishing that meant the whole world to us. In eternity this world will be Troy, I believe, and all that has passed here will be the epoch of the universe, the ballad they sing in the streets, because I don’t imagine any reality putting this one in the shade entirely, and I think piety forbids me to try." From Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming 'Wow! What a Ride!'” Hunter S. Thompson |