Conversations with Masters

Leda Turai, Master Certified Coach

Currently, Leda Turai Petrauskiene is a leadership and executive coach, supervisor and trainer, also an active contributor to the coaching profession in various roles within the International Coach Federation.

Leda has over 15 years of international work experience in profit and non-profit organizations and has coached more than 2500 hours. As a leadership and executive coach, trainer, coach supervisor and board member she supported many companies in achieving great business results through continuous personal and professional development and coaching.

Also, she has been awarded the designation of Master Certified Coach by the International Coach Federation and with Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary in 2006.

As a chapter president of ICF Lithuania she contributed to the professional qualification of many coaches and to the improvement of the coaching brand on the market. Leda has been an ICF assessor in 5 languages is an active member of the organizational team of the 2014 Global ICF Conference in Malmö.

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1:26 – 2:56 I’m just a simple human being with a task in this world. I’m trying to find always my purpose and my passion, I try to listen to my emotions and intuitions, also to my rational thinking. Also, I am a very proud mom of two teenagers. They are the best teachers in the world. They challenge my thinking, my stereotypes every day, my patience and they really gave honest feedback. So, they are the best developers, supporters and challengers for me. I’m also a coach, a trainer, supervisor, mentor coach and an ICF global member.

3:32 – 5:34 I was always interested in people and supporting people. The real source of coaching was actually in my search to be the best mother for my kids. I’ve started to study psychology and NLP. And then I have to write a study to finish my Psychology Institute. I was looking for books on the Internet on the topic I was interested in and I couldn’t find any books and sources. I just found only one person who had any links to my topic and I write her an email and she invited me to a summer school in Ireland.

There I met the Director of Coaching Development (a coaching school from London), Colin Brett. After a week with him in that summer school I sad: “I want to be your student and to learn more from you.”

8:16 – 8:28 If we operate only with our rational brains, so we are not a whole persons because emotions and intuitions and also need to listen to them.

9:50 – 10:05 An Australian study with entrepreneurs noticed that the best decisions were made intuitively and later they could explain that rationally.

12:44 – 13:05 An MCC is another journey to improving continually. I just kept working and enjoying coaching and taking supervision and mental coaching.

13:40 – 14:12 The main important learning for me was that the minute when I start believing that I know what is going to be the next step with my client I become a bad coach. Because the MCC coaching is about being a full partner with the client, staying absolutely curious in every second, trusting the process, the intuition, trusting the client.

15:43 – 16:27 My next step is to allow new dreams to emerge. One of the next step is to support as many coaches and chapters as possible because I do believe that the best work happens when we communicate, when we hear each other, when we can be honest with each other.