Mish Middelmann
@enterprisecoach.bsky.social
I facilitate change for businesses to thrive. Founder of Enterprisecoach network, co-founder and first CEO of Praxis Computing (Pty) Ltd.
Navigating social media for business development: advanced seminar specially for team coaches starts in 90 minutes, live and interactive online. Essential details and registration: widervalue.com/advanced-bus...
Advanced business development programs for team coaches 2026 - widervalue.com
How to find, engage with and sign great transformative team coaching contracts with real organizational clients worldwide
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December 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Navigating social media for business development: advanced seminar specially for team coaches starts in 90 minutes, live and interactive online. Essential details and registration: widervalue.com/advanced-bus...
People buy from people. Team coaches and consultants can go further by applying our relationship systems skills to business development. Advanced seminar November 4 widervalue.com/team-coachin...
The three i's of team coaching and consulting sales presence - widervalue.com
People buy from people. How team coaches can leverage presence and systemic awareness to improve sales conversations
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October 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
People buy from people. Team coaches and consultants can go further by applying our relationship systems skills to business development. Advanced seminar November 4 widervalue.com/team-coachin...
It's sometimes a surprise to those on the battle lines, that conflict can be defused in the workplace with a bit of skillful help and some willingness to get past fixed positions
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The high cost of unaddressed workplace conflict - real life example
Businesses often tolerate festering conflict between two leaders at great cost just because it feels too awkward to address emotional issues
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October 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
It's sometimes a surprise to those on the battle lines, that conflict can be defused in the workplace with a bit of skillful help and some willingness to get past fixed positions
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Professor Marc Kahn's book on the need for a systemic approach to business coaching, now more than ten years old, is still vitally relevant enterprisecoach.net/business-coa...
Business coaching requires a systems approach - Enterprisecoach
Reading Marc Simon Kahn’s brilliant new book, Coaching on the Axis, I am struck by the crucial role of a systemic approach in business coaching. It is necessary to ensure that business coaching result...
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September 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Professor Marc Kahn's book on the need for a systemic approach to business coaching, now more than ten years old, is still vitally relevant enterprisecoach.net/business-coa...
How leaders discovered the power of empathy in Cambodia enterprisecoach.net/empathy-isnt...
Empathy isn't soft. It's strong - Enterprisecoach
Empathy isn't just for others, it's also part of the way leaders take care of themselves. It helps sustain changemakers for maximum impact.
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September 5, 2025 at 11:52 AM
How leaders discovered the power of empathy in Cambodia enterprisecoach.net/empathy-isnt...
Truly generative team coaching is not well understood in the market. Team coaches need to apply our systemic and relationship skills to build our businesses. widervalue.com/team-coachin...
Team coaching is not for everyone - widervalue.com
To contract transformative team coaching requires a depth of relationship and business systems understanding to generate wider value
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September 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Truly generative team coaching is not well understood in the market. Team coaches need to apply our systemic and relationship skills to build our businesses. widervalue.com/team-coachin...
The team coaches and consultants with their eyes on the future are finding ways into strategic long term value conversations with clients in spite of all the short term results pressure out there. widervalue.com/advanced-bus...
Advanced business development programs for team coaches - widervalue.com
How to find, engage with and sign great transformative team coaching contracts with real organizational clients worldwide
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August 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The team coaches and consultants with their eyes on the future are finding ways into strategic long term value conversations with clients in spite of all the short term results pressure out there. widervalue.com/advanced-bus...
Making decisions of consequence and taking full accountability for the outcomes - what still distinguishes human leaders and entrepreneurs from agentic AI and bots. Thanks to NEXT Canada for 15 years supporting entrepreneurs enterprisecoach.net/making-conse...
Making consequential decisions: where humans still have an edge over AI - Enterprisecoach
Celebrating the 2025 cohort of new entrepreneurs at NEXT Canada, highlighting the power of humans to take big decisions and risk failure.
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August 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Making decisions of consequence and taking full accountability for the outcomes - what still distinguishes human leaders and entrepreneurs from agentic AI and bots. Thanks to NEXT Canada for 15 years supporting entrepreneurs enterprisecoach.net/making-conse...
It's surprising how useful a positive take on eldership can be - regardless of your chronological age. This post also points ways to get results by influence rather than by control enterprisecoach.net/eldership-no...
Eldership: Not just a scrapheap - Enterprisecoach
Facing up to getting old often brings feelings of shrinking, ending, being over the hill. Finding energy flagging, body sagging, milestones behind rather than in front leaves the go-go-go energy in us...
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August 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
It's surprising how useful a positive take on eldership can be - regardless of your chronological age. This post also points ways to get results by influence rather than by control enterprisecoach.net/eldership-no...
Billion-dollar businessman David Bradley made a point ten years ago, that remains relevant now:
generosity of spirit is a key factor in long term business success. enterprisecoach.net/generosity-o...
generosity of spirit is a key factor in long term business success. enterprisecoach.net/generosity-o...
Generosity of spirit: a must-have for good business - Enterprisecoach
My Dad was an optimist about business. When I was young and hotheaded, I remember explaining to him how wrong he was. And I still think business is not all sweetness and light. And yet, maybe thanks t...
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July 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Billion-dollar businessman David Bradley made a point ten years ago, that remains relevant now:
generosity of spirit is a key factor in long term business success. enterprisecoach.net/generosity-o...
generosity of spirit is a key factor in long term business success. enterprisecoach.net/generosity-o...
I met with a global leadership team honestly grappling with letting people go as AI rips through their business. Here's how they found their heart and soul to continue enterprisecoach.net/ai-reshaping...
AI reshaping workforce: Leadership team responses - Enterprisecoach
How a top global firm embracing AI also grapples with reshaping its white collar workforce. Straight talk among the leadership team helps.
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July 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I met with a global leadership team honestly grappling with letting people go as AI rips through their business. Here's how they found their heart and soul to continue enterprisecoach.net/ai-reshaping...
If you want to be a senior leader, start refining your understanding of what really matters. enterprisecoach.net/leadership-a...
Leadership and control - Enterprisecoach
This is about what changes as we go up the leadership ladder in organizations. I have found that the higher I go up the corporate ladder, the less detail I can control. It sometimes feels as if my con...
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July 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
If you want to be a senior leader, start refining your understanding of what really matters. enterprisecoach.net/leadership-a...
Ten years ago Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social published analysis of the roles of both collaboration and competition in the historic success of the human species. It is still relevant today. enterprisecoach.net/the-true-pow...
The true power of collaboration - Enterprisecoach
We grew up in an era dominated by individualism and competition. These human traits have driven the accumulation of wealth, power and technological advancement and taken the world to a place where we ...
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July 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Ten years ago Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social published analysis of the roles of both collaboration and competition in the historic success of the human species. It is still relevant today. enterprisecoach.net/the-true-pow...
Many teams don’t have a purpose.
Some have a fuzzy one - each team member's is different.
Others are clear about their purpose (defined by the company), but it doesn’t resonate with the team.
Dino Zafirakos of the Enterprisecoach network offers help dinozaf.substack.com/p/the-proble...
Some have a fuzzy one - each team member's is different.
Others are clear about their purpose (defined by the company), but it doesn’t resonate with the team.
Dino Zafirakos of the Enterprisecoach network offers help dinozaf.substack.com/p/the-proble...
The problems with team purpose
One of the key topics when I start working with a team is purpose.
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July 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Many teams don’t have a purpose.
Some have a fuzzy one - each team member's is different.
Others are clear about their purpose (defined by the company), but it doesn’t resonate with the team.
Dino Zafirakos of the Enterprisecoach network offers help dinozaf.substack.com/p/the-proble...
Some have a fuzzy one - each team member's is different.
Others are clear about their purpose (defined by the company), but it doesn’t resonate with the team.
Dino Zafirakos of the Enterprisecoach network offers help dinozaf.substack.com/p/the-proble...
How a sports star values community growth above his own athletic legend enterprisecoach.net/sports-star-...
Sports star turns to leading systemic change - Enterprisecoach
Long distance runners worldwide know Bruce Fordyce. He’s famous for winning the 89 kilometre (55 mile) Comrades Ultramarathon 8 times in a row, and nine times in total. He is quite simply a legendary ...
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July 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
How a sports star values community growth above his own athletic legend enterprisecoach.net/sports-star-...
Business can forget the profound truth that our most precious resources are limited and must ultimately be shared if the planet, our species and the marketplace are to survive. enterprisecoach.net/inspired-by-...
Inspired by the Dish with One Spoon - Enterprisecoach
Having recently arrived in Canada, I am inspired by the first people of this land who created a wampum (covenant) called The Dish with One Spoon. And grateful to meet so many people here in what was f...
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July 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Business can forget the profound truth that our most precious resources are limited and must ultimately be shared if the planet, our species and the marketplace are to survive. enterprisecoach.net/inspired-by-...
"The only thing our contractors understand," said an oil refinery engineering manager to me, "is a size 12 boot up the ass." Yet 2 days with the Enterprisecoach Network helped managers like him get results, collaboration and enthusiasm without the boot enterprisecoach.net/shifting-lea...
Shifting leadership culture in heavy industry - Enterprisecoach
Client: Major international oil company Problem: How to get more out of our people without relaxing the tight controls our industry needs Enterprisecoach contribution: Mish and Ronnie from the Enterpr...
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July 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
"The only thing our contractors understand," said an oil refinery engineering manager to me, "is a size 12 boot up the ass." Yet 2 days with the Enterprisecoach Network helped managers like him get results, collaboration and enthusiasm without the boot enterprisecoach.net/shifting-lea...
Sometimes amidst the hype of entrepreneurship, founders seeking to sell their businesses can overlook critical home truths enterprisecoach.net/creating-spa...
Creating space for change in business
Just over ten years ago, I sold my shares in the hi-tech business I had co-founded, and stepped out of the founder-CEO role. Recently I asked the buyer (who took over as CEO) to look back on the time ...
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July 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Sometimes amidst the hype of entrepreneurship, founders seeking to sell their businesses can overlook critical home truths enterprisecoach.net/creating-spa...
Truly successful entrepreneurs understand that innovation and business success must serve people and planet enterprisecoach.net/torontos-soc...
Toronto’s social entrepreneurs
I’m inspired by Toronto’s social entrepreneurs. As Keita Demming would say, we could drop the “social” epithet and recognize that they are really just good entrepreneurs, who understand that innovatio...
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July 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Truly successful entrepreneurs understand that innovation and business success must serve people and planet enterprisecoach.net/torontos-soc...