On cross-cultural coaching and the benefits of therapy: Sara Lodge & Mark Sykes - Leading Stories

Sara Lodge is director of Beehive Coaching & Leadership Development Ltd. Apart from a couple of breaks, one working in marketing and one on the Leadership Fast Track of the West Yorkshire Police, she has been in the field of learning and development since 1985, working in places as diverse as Japan, Africa, Canada, Austria and France. 

 Sara is passionate about organisational learning and the importance of learning to leadership, and sees action learning, coaching and mentoring as two of the most important elements of developing both. She also sees Beehive's mission of sustainable learning as being directly applicable to the fields of Human Performance and safety culture, as it provides a model of operating experience feedback.

Ever since Mark Sykes first 'taught'​ rock climbing to beginners in the early 1980's he has believed that people hold the answers to the challenges they face within themselves. Mark could tell people where the holds were and how to pull on them, but then it felt like he had done the climbing for them.

For Mark, the key element was to ensure they were safe to 'have a go' and he was responsible for creating the safe space. That philosophy still holds true. Mark strongly believes that his clients know the answers to their work challenges and his role is still to create a safe environment for them to have a go, only this time it is a psychological and emotional safety that he creates. Together they are Beehive Coaching.

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