In today's fast-paced and often challenging environments, Care, Dare, Share: The Secure Base Coach was developed to help individuals, teams, and organizations not just survive but thrive. It offers a practical and transformative approach to coaching leaders, centred on unleashing potential in individuals, teams and organizations. Building on the award-winning Care to Dare, by integrating secure base principles, this playbook equips coaches and executives to create sustainable, high-performance cultures of trust, psychological safety, and innovation.
Secure base coaching shifts the paradigm from outdated "power over" leadership to a collaborative "power with" approach. It focuses on fostering conscious choice, constructive challenge and courageous communication. In this model, leaders learn to act as secure bases, providing a safe, supportive environment that allows others to take risks, learn, and grow without fear of judgment or failure. This trust-driven atmosphere nurtures self-awareness, enhances people's ability to navigate challenges, and encourages individuals to play to thrive even amidst adversity.
At its core, secure base coaching focuses on human connection as a critical driver of success. By cultivating empathy, understanding, and genuine collaboration, this approach strengthens relationships within teams and organizations, leading to increased well-being and performance. These connections, built on mutual trust and shared purpose, enable teams to unlock their highest potential and work together more effectively.
This playbook offers a variety of exercises and reflective questions to help coaches and leaders apply secure base principles. It is designed to serve as a springboard for personal and professional growth rather than a rigid, one-size-fits-all manual. Coaches are encouraged to tailor these tools to the specific needs of their clients and organizations, fostering deeper understanding and mastery of secure base coaching through ongoing practice and exploration.
Susan Goldsworthy OLY is Affiliate Professor of Leadership, Communications, and Organizational Change. As a former Olympic finalist, award-winning writer, executive coach, and speaker with more than 20 years of corporate experience with large multinationals, Susan Goldsworthy brings knowledge from the fields of sport, business and neuroscience to her leadership development work. She focuses on how leadership needs to change in an increasingly uncertain world, working with people and companies to turn knowledge into behavior to create the conditions for healthy high performance.She believes that our current way of working and living is unsustainable - not only for ourselves, but for other species that share our planet - so the need for change with new narratives is critical. This includes a change in the style and type of leadership of organizations. No one person has all the answers, so the model of 'power over' needs to be replaced by one of 'power with' to cultivate conditions where people can flourish and co-create solutions to the challenges organizations face. This means uniting and working across departments, industries, cultures, and age groups, with a focus on inclusivity and diversity.
