The Top Integral Coaches
The Top Integral Coaches
Ever wondered what it takes to achieve true personal transformation, not just in one area of life, but across all facets?
Integral Coaching, a holistic approach that integrates mind, body, and emotions, offers a profound way to navigate life’s challenges and achieve lasting change.
I’ve had the privilege of speaking with some top Integral Coaches who specialize in this transformative method.
They’ve shared their insights on how understanding and evolving our way of being can lead to profound shifts in our lives.
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In Brief : The Top Integral Coaches
- Dr. Max Klau -With a background in leadership and a doctorate from Harvard, Dr. Max Klau integrates advanced expertise in human development and leadership into his coaching approach.
- Dina Pataki - As a Certified Integral Coach®, Dina specializes in supporting overwhelmed parents to overcome emotional challenges during the perinatal period.
- Griff Foxley - Griff is a certified Integral® Coach, entrepreneur, writer, and advocate for justice. With a diverse background spanning business, sustainability, and leadership roles.
- Scott Flowers - As a finance executive and strategic advisor, Scott Flowers brings extensive experience in commercial lending and banking to his coaching practice.
- Gergely Szabó - Gergely offers professional business and life coaching in a calm and safe environment, tailored to each client's specific needs.
Dr. Max Klau
Dr. Max Klau is the Founder and Principal at Max_Clarity Coaching. He received his doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education with a focus on leadership in 2005, and was certified as an Integral Master Coach by Integral Coaching Canada in 2021. He is an internationally recognized leadership coach, scholar, educator, author, and speaker. His first book, Race and Social Change: A Quest, A Study, A Call to Action was published in 2017.
What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?
My approach is grounded in the understanding that our inner way of being calls forth the dynamics and circumstances that we encounter every day. By creating shifts at the level of our way of being, we begin calling forth a new reality in all facets of our lives. My approach is grounded in advanced expertise in human development, leadership, and systemic change as well as the ability to access a deeply intuitive and creative sense of what each client needs. This work goes beyond productivity and accountability; it’s about transforming one’s way of being in the world.
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
What makes me unique as a coach is my ability to integrate head, heart, and hand. Every time I sit down with a client, I draw upon my doctoral level work in developmental psychology and adaptive leadership, my two decades of experience as a senior leader in both large organizations and small start-ups, my extensive training in the integral coaching model, and my skills as an artist and musician. My success is grounded in my ability to synthesize all of that into clear, practical, powerful guidance for my clients.
Dina Pataki
Dina is a Certified Integral Coach® by New Ventures West, one of the oldest coaching schools in the world. Dina also holds a B.A. Hons in Psychology and is the mother of two energetic boys! Her own experience of motherhood has prompted her to specialize in Perinatal Mental Health.
Dina collaborates as a Mental Health Guide with Cleo, a leading benefits platform for working parents. In this capacity, Dina works with companies such as Apple, PepsiCo, Salesforce, Meta, Uber, etc. supporting their employees in Europe, Middle East and Asia. Dina also cooperates with Right Point Global, supporting Suisse companies in their diversity and inclusion goals. Dina established her own private practice in the French-part of Switzerland in 2019. Finally, Dina has 18+ years of corporate experience in FMCG and hospitality industries in multinational companies.
What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?
Dina’s passion is to support parents who often fall between the cracks of the health system, as they may not tick all the boxes for a Perinatal Mood and Anxiety disorder but are still deeply suffering emotionally and do not understand why. Specifically, she supports overwhelmed parents to overcome feelings of self-doubt, anxiety, guilt, loss of self-identity and grief for previous life, and loneliness.
From her experience, a lot of times the source of the distress lies deep in the way of being of the person. When a baby comes into the picture, this way of being gets disrupted or may no longer be sustainable. For example, a parent who is used to be in control, has perfectionistic tendencies, and is used to be the expert in their profession, may experience distress by the loss of control, unpredictability, and feeling of “I have no idea what I’m doing” once the baby arrives.
Dina also supports parents return to work after parental leave, to create healthy boundaries between family and work and feel accomplished in both. Finally, Dina supports parents beyond their first journey into parenthood. A lot of parents find themselves in this phase of “reclaiming themselves”, once their little ones have grown a little bit. But they may feel confused, disoriented, and stuck, not knowing where to start from.
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
Traditional approaches to changing behaviour, a lot of times fail because they rely on a cognitive understanding only and the self-discipline to choose a new behaviour over a habitual behaviour. Willpower alone is not enough because our habits are hardwired in our body’s nervous system. My method is Integral, which means holistic, and a big part of the work is done at the somatic level, to help our brain, body and nervous system build new habits.
In addition, Perinatal clients have particular needs and it’s important to understand these needs. There are several paradoxes that women and men in perinatal distress experience. For example, they know they need help and have a deep longing to let go and lean on support, AND at the same time they feel the need to hold on to every ounce of control they can get. I had the honour and privilege to train with Karen Kleiman on the Art of HoldingTM where grounding, presence and safeguarding the client in distress are particularly important for healing.
Griff Foxley
I’m a certified Integral® Coach, an entrepreneur and former COO, a strategic adviser, a writer and poet, and a champion for the cause of justice via longtime service on the boards of two foundations. For 10 years, I helped build and run a food production and ecommerce business which I still co-own.
I received an MBA in Sustainable Management, before which I served in a variety of content, communications, and branding roles. I’m a New Yorker born-and-bred, a Los Angeleno for the bulk of my adult life, and I now live in the mountains of Colorado with my wife and three young kids.
Scott Flowers
A highly accomplished, pioneering top finance executive with extensive experience in commercial lending, business and retail banking. Sets strategies in alignment with corporate objectives, taking a broader picture to enable the development of individuals to attain goals. Continually drives top-line revenue while reducing expenses within a framework of exceptional service to secure long-term prosperity.
