The Coach’s Ultimate Guide to Leveraging Adaptability

How to Drive Client Value with 7 Powerful Principles

to Navigate Change

By Ross Thornley | Published: July 28, 2022
As the pace of change accelerates, coaching must evolve. The Coach’s Ultimate Guide to Leveraging Adaptability challenges traditional coaching methods, providing a new framework for helping clients embrace uncertainty, unlearn outdated thinking, and unlock future-ready potential. This book introduces seven powerful principles to help coaches strengthen their own adaptability muscles while guiding clients through transformation and disruption.
“By 2025, 85 million jobs will disappear—while 97 million new ones will be created.” — World Economic Forum

With research from McKinsey, Deloitte, and the World Economic Forum, this book provides practical, science-backed techniques to future-proof your coaching practice and enhance client success.

79 pages of insights, coaching frameworks, and adaptability exercises
The latest research on adaptability and the future of work
Step-by-step tools for integrating adaptability into coaching sessions
How to prepare clients for career transitions, disruption, and uncertainty

Executive & leadership coaches guiding clients through transformation.
HR professionals & learning specialists integrating adaptability into workplace training.
Entrepreneurs & business mentors preparing clients for the future of work.
Anyone who wants to coach adaptability as a core skill.

Part 1: The Power of Adaptability – Why Coaches Hold the Key to Thriving in Change
Understand why adaptability is the #1 skill for navigating uncertainty and how coaches can help individuals and teams embrace change with confidence, not fear.
Part 2: The 7 Principles of Adaptability Coaching – A Framework for Transformation
Master the seven core principles that allow coaches to develop adaptability, unlock potential, and future-proof careers in a rapidly evolving world.
Part 3: From Awareness to Action – How to Measure and Improve AQ®
Discover how to assess, track, and enhance Adaptability Intelligence (AQ®) using data-driven insights, helping clients shift from resistance to resilience.
Part 4: Breaking Through Resistance – Unlearning, Mindset Shifts & Overcoming Fear
Learn how to help clients rewire limiting beliefs, challenge assumptions, and move past fear-driven decision-making to embrace continuous growth.
Part 5: The Coach’s Toolkit – Practical Exercises & Techniques for Real Impact
Gain access to powerful coaching exercises, conversation frameworks, and adaptability-building techniques that drive lasting behavioral change.
Part 6: Building a Thriving Coaching Practice – Leveraging AQ for Business Growth
Learn how to position yourself as an adaptability expert, integrate AQ® into your coaching practice, and create long-term impact for your clients.
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