“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”
When our lives are structured to have us believe that play and work cannot co-exist, we lose access to the magic of curiosity that we are all born with and that we allow with such ease in our childhood. But so many of us put our sense of play and the spirit of make believe away in the toy box, and throw it on the pile for the garage sale as we move on and “grow up”.
But to play is to be human. Our drive for play - which is also our natural curiosity - never actually goes away. It just sometimes needs to be reignited and experienced in a new way that serves us as adults.
In this session, CEO, consultant and coach, Tracy Playle, will explore the role that play and playfulness bring to our work as leaders and as coaches. We take a look at our own relationship to play, notice our own growth edges, and explore ways that we can bring the magic of play and make believe into our work as curious coaches creating a world of possibility.
Bio: Tracy Playle BA(Hons) MA DipCIPR
Tracy is a successful CEO, consultant, public speaker and coach. She joins us from the United Kingdom where she lives every day as if it were an invitation to play thanks to the reminder of her two dogs Scout and Monty, who never fail to throw the ball at her feet when she needs it most.
Spending most of her career - now spanning almost two decades - working in and with the higher education sector, Tracy is known around the world as a leader in the field of content strategy and education sector communications. She is an international speaker and published author. After seeing the potential for applying a coaching style to her leadership and consultancy work, Tracy took the leap in 2019 to train properly to become a coach. She now offers a coaching practice alongside her consultancy business, of which she is CEO and leader to a team of 10 people. She offers one-to-one life and leadership coaching, group coaching and team coaching. She also created an at-home self-guided weekend play retreat - Play Boost - designed to help people bring more playfulness to their lives.
Tracy flew back and forth across the Atlantic for a year to complete the ICF accredited Coach Training Program with Accomplishment Coaching in New York. Upon graduating from the program she also joined the leader team for 8 months, supporting with mentor coaching and training the next cohort of participants on the program. She left the program in February 2021.
She is a member of the ICF and currently closing in fast on completing the criteria to become a professional certified coach (PCC).
