Good Bye: Leading Change Better by Attending to Endings

A leader who understands that ending well makes what comes next more likely to succeed and holds the key to successful change and healthier organizations. This book shows you why this matters, and what to do about it.

Alison Lucas is a professionally certified (ICF PCC) Executive Coach with two decades of experience working with leaders across all three sectors, and around the globe. Alison’s first career began with 15 years of commercial leadership experience in FMCG and business consultancy. Alison blends her considerable commercial business background with her coaching and systemic experience to equip leaders to navigate change in their complex and uncertain world.

Lizzie Bentley Bowers is a PCC-level Executive Coach with a Masters in Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology, who has been coaching leaders and teams for over 15 years, challenging them to unearth what is really going on and support them to see what else is possible and work out how to get there. Keen to make the most useful leadership thinking accessible and applicable to all leaders she is the founder of the leadership hub Towards Leadership, author of the Strengths Stacker journals, host of the Leadership Letters podcast and a regular contributor to Coaching Perspectives magazine.

Having observed as senior leaders in their previous careers, and subsequently as coaches, the impact of poorly managed endings reverberating through the systems they work in, Alison and Lizzie developed Endings for Beginnings, a methodology to help leaders stop avoiding and start attending to endings.