Beyond the Individual 🧠 Professor Peter Hawkins on the Coaching Studio

In this powerful conversation, I sit down with Professor Peter Hawkins, one of the most influential thinkers in systemic coaching and organizational transformation. Together, we explore the deeper shifts required for leaders, teams and coaches to meet the complexity of our world, moving beyond individual performance toward collective purpose, ecological awareness and relational intelligence.

Peter traces the arc of his remarkable journey—from literature and drama therapy to mental health, psychotherapy and global systems consulting—revealing how each chapter shaped his understanding of human consciousness. He shares the story of his granddaughter’s sudden paralysis, illustrating how his five-step practice of “grumble to gratitude” became not just theory but a profound lived discipline. The conversation expands into the urgency of unlearning individualistic paradigms, the role of beauty in transforming consciousness, the interdependence of all systems we inhabit and why coaching must evolve to serve life itself, not just the person in the room.
This episode is a meditation on purpose, service and the great work of our time: shifting human consciousness so we can respond wisely to the interconnected crises we face. Peter’s humility, clarity and grounded wisdom offer a rare glimpse into what systemic leadership looks like when practiced from deep authenticity.

Listeners will walk away with a richer sense of what it means to coach relationally, lead ecologically and live with radical responsibility for the future we are shaping.

You can connect with Peter on LinkedIn here:   / professorpeterhawkins  
His website: www.renewalassociates.co.uk
Instagram:   / renewal.associates  
YouTube: ‪@renewalassociates8419‬

Peter's Books: He is author of many best-selling books and papers in the fields of leadership, board and team coaching, systemic coaching, supervision, and organizational transformation: Team of Teams Coaching, Beauty in Leadership and Coaching, Leadership Team Coaching, 2021; Leadership Team Coaching in Practice; Systemic Coaching; Supervision in the Helping Professions and Integrative Psychotherapy; Coaching, Mentoring and Organizational Consultancy: Supervision, Skills and Development; Creating a Coaching Culture and The Wise Fool’s Guide to Leadership.

Peter is one of the Global top 100 coaches and the international thought leader in systemic coaching, executive teams, and board development. He is an Emeritus Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School, Honorary President of the Association of Executive Coaching and Chairman of Renewal Associates and joint founder and Dean of the Global Team Coaching Institute.

He has been a keynote speaker at many international conferences on learning organization, leadership, and executive coaching and teaches and leads masterclasses in Systemic Team Coaching in over 50 different countries.

Peter was joint founder, in 1986, of Bath Consultancy Group and its chairman until the company was sold in 2010 and has chaired three other company boards as well as being a trustee director of several charities.

Peter Hawkins has consulted to a wide range of governments, and leading commercial, financial and professional organizations including Fortune 100 and FtSE 100 international companies

He now supervises and mentors many coaching and consultancy businesses internationally as well as running international trainings and masterclasses.

About your host:
Lyssa deHart ditched her therapy practice to become a Leadership Confidence Coach. Along the way she discovered a passion for professional coaching and wanted to find ways to share that passion with the world. Come join her in discovering and meeting some of the most amazing professional coaches on the planet. Her goal is to inspire coaches. Lyssa is the author of StoryJacking: Change Your Dialog, Transform Your Life, The Reflective Coach - a 12 Month Journal, and her newest book Light Up: the Science of Coaching with Metaphors. Lyssa is an ICF PCC Assessor, Certified Mentor Coach, and budding Coach SuperVisor. Lyssa uses her understanding of the ICF Core Competencies, combined with her knowledge of Neuroscience, to work with people to become extraordinary professional coaches. Let's Go!

Where can you find Lyssa?
Website: https://lyssadehart.com/
Book: Light Up: The Science of Coaching with Metaphors - https://amzn.to/42iI74l
Lyssa deHart Coaching Academy: https://academy.lyssadehart.com

00:00:00 AI Thrilling & Chilling
00:01:18 Professor Peter Hawkins
00:04:22 Peter's Journey
00:09:29 Subscribe Today
00:10:20 Curiosity to Grow
00:13:37 Integrating Systemic Change
00:15:11 Ecology in the Coaching Room
00:21:20 Human Consciousness
00:25:36 From Grumble to Gratitude
00:37:02 Invitation to Monthly Coaches Q&A
00:38:05 How the Thinker Processes
00:40:00 Collaborative Inquiry
00:49:55 Modern World Changes