Coaching for Innovation.
Pedagogical Philosophy
Nina Fiddian-Green
Coachologist, B.A., M.A.
Introduction
What greater impact do you want to create? This coaching question inspired me to pivot from being a marketing communications leader at The Coca-Cola Company and Netflix, go back to school and evolve. Now, I serve as a coaching media psychology researcher, practitioner and adjunct instructor From Netflix to The Coca-Cola Company,, and New York University, I have coached Fortune 100 executives and teams through change and transformation, scaled challenger brands from startup to $4 billion dollar global growth, and created evidence-based learning experiences to advance talent development, build culture and grow employer brand value at scale.
As an executive coach, I use science, coaching and media technology to predict and grow leadership potential to innovate and inspire positive change. As faculty, I teach the evidence-based theories, techniques and technologies of coaching psychology as an applied human capital behavioral science (e.g. performance, positive psychology, behavior change, virtual pedagogy). My doctoral research focus is on the triadic convergence of coaching psychology, media technologies (VR/AI), and human experiences in the workplace.
Wonder
The world I see is one where leaders and educators think like coaches, scientists, and marketers. A place where everyone has access to the tools to coach, inspire and unite passions, talents, purpose and potential to imagine, learn, and grow positive impact in our digital world.
I wholeheartedly believe collective greatness grows when people coach. At school, when faculty coach, instruction improves, imagination flows, thinking expands, and students flourish. At work, when leaders coach, engagement grows, inspiration flows, and potential can excel with impact. When people thrive, our communities thrive. Even so, some of the greatest people are threatened by the fear of new technologies, the complexity of change, mindlessness and burnout.
This is my reason for aspiring to inspire learning and growing experiences that are human, deeper, and more than just a class to engage, include and empower potential to expand and excel. I stand on my loving kindness belief for helping people coach up into being their best whole selves, do their most meaningful work and make the wildest dreams come alive. Even when the going gets stressed.
Know
As a coachologist, I apply coaching as a pragmatic leadership learning science grounded in Rogerian theory. My work is evidence-based with influence from Lewin, Piaget, Vygotsky, Bronfenbrenner, Bandura, Goffman, Csikszentmihalyi, Seligman, Fredrickson, Grant and more.
In the teachable and coachable moments, my approach blends industry with SoTL positive education scholarship, coaching psychology, human capital behavioral science, real-world experiential action learning, and new media technologies to strengthen instructional effectiveness, advance pedagogical innovation, and inspire academic excellence to flourish.
Grow
Choosing to coach and inspire a sense of awe and wonder versus command and control. Co-creating a safe space with unconditional positive regard to cultivate character strengths, and the freedom for self-expression. Championing a greater sense of collective self-efficacy to vitalize positive change, learnability and desired goal achievement. Connecting through shared human experiences for a more meaningful way to teach and lead.
I am intuitively sensitive to the cognitive processes of human development, the stages of change, and the opportunities and challenges of learning, teaching, and coaching with technology. So, I prioritize being psychologically present in each moment to consciously construct and adapt teaching and coaching strategies to meet changing human needs, learning outcomes and business goals.
Because in a digital world, I believe a coaching approach equips learners and leaders with greater power to bring their best whole selves forward with academic, career and leadership excellence. Away from the noise, minds are drawn to the stillness that roars from a wild heart to galvanize collective greatness to thrive. Who will you inspire today?
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Nina Fiddian-Green, BA, MA
Coachologist
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within your way of thinking.”
— Marcus Aurelius