How to Become an Executive Coach

Hey, I'd like to welcome you to another episode of mission matters. My name is Adam Torres. And if you'd like to apply to be a guest in the show, just head on over to mission matters. com and click on be our guest to apply. All right. So today my guest is Mohammed Hamza and he's senior director of client success over at Mercer talent enterprise. Hamza, welcome to the show. Thank you very much. Thank you for having me, Adam. All right. So we got a lot to talk about today. So I want to get into executive coaching. I definitely want to talk a little bit about what you're doing over at Mercer Talent Enterprise as well a bit. But before we get started, I like to start this interview the way that we start them all with what we like to call our Mission Matters Minute. So Hamza, we at Mission Matters, we amplify stories for entrepreneurs, executives, and experts. That's our mission. Hamza, what mission matters to you? First of all, I really like your mission. That's really interesting. My mission is basically, I think it's a really wide question. I can answer it in so many different ways, but for me, what stands out is normally developing, generally developing people. And more specifically developing leaders. I think I always see the impact of this on people and our organizations. I see the impact of good people, good leaders and the impact of not really good leaders on organizations. So I think it's it's really important thing. And I I think this is my mission. So let, I kind of want to go back a bit here. So when did you get interested in this concept of like leadership, being a leader, like getting, getting, helping others in leadership, like where did that start for you? So normally people get interested in, in leadership development, or if they're interested in leadership development further in their careers. For me, it was a little bit different because it was just when I started my career. So when I, when I joined my first company, I was really lucky because my company, just as I joined, they were winning an award. we're a com. We're winning a competition, basically. And the award was that they will develop their people, the employees with top US business schools, top global business schools, basically. And I was really eager to learn. I I wanted to understand about this stuff. And the first program I attended was about leadership. It was called the Leadership Challenge. And it was it, it fascinated me like how the, the awareness that I got, I didn't have any leadership experience, right. But, but the way I saw people around me and the awareness I got about myself and how I can become a leader regardless of the titles and everything, I think this, this, this is how it started, right? So started really early in my career. Yeah. And so how did you in the beginning, obviously at work, you had a certain amount of infrastructure there, right? With the leaders around you, maybe some training programs and other things they may have had in place. But how did you start to, in those early days, how did you start to like tool up? How did you start to, you know, build your tool set? Yeah. So as I told you, I was really lucky. Right. So I was working in an organization where I was not really paid well, but everything else was good. Right. So it's always pros and cons, right? Hamza, it's the scales of life, right? Yeah. So really strange, but I mean, they develop you like crazy. Right. So, so the development was amazing. Really good people. And I had a lot of opportunities to grow and to learn and to experience. So again, to be honest, the first thing was the people around me and the resources I was provided. So I was just joining an organization coming out of university and getting top executive school training from everywhere in the U S mostly us business schools, but it was amazing. Like Harvard, Stanford, all like famous business schools. I was getting really deep training. Around all of this stuff. So I had the sources of, of the resources of knowledge in general. That was like, that was a lot, right? So it was really easy for me to learn, to be honest. And as you started developing your skill set and you start moving up and, and you know, the corporate side of things, at what point did you feel, or maybe it was a progression, maybe it was something, I don't, I don't want to put words into your mouth, but at what point did you feel that that like, this was something that you were going to be doing for a long time? Like, and what I mean by that is you're going to be helping and wanting to like tip over and start developing other leaders. Like when did that happen? Yeah, well. Well, as, as you said, normally it happens to people as they progress in their careers. Right. So, but it also didn't happen to me. This way happened to me like early on, once I saw what this person did in this room. Wow. So you wanted develop other leaders early on, even so you are obsessed with the idea and then you wanted to, you wanted to get

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