Author: Elaine Jacob (Course Facilitator)

🌟 Elaine Jacob — Lead Facilitator, XLR8 Coaching Certification Leadership Strategist | Transformation Coach | Founder of the No LIMITS Mindset Elaine Jacob is a globally experienced leadership strategist and master coach with over two decades of expertise in transforming leaders, teams, and organizational cultures. As the creator and lead facilitator of the XLR8 Leadership Performance Coaching Certification, Elaine brings a rare fusion of deep psychological insight, practical business acumen, and a bold, human-centered coaching philosophy. Her career spans sectors including international development, tech startups, corporate consulting, and humanitarian leadership, giving her a unique ability to connect across cultures and complexity. Elaine’s signature frameworks—like the ROOT Inquiry Framework™ and the No LIMITS Mindset—are used by coaches and leaders globally to unlock breakthrough performance and sustainable transformation. Elaine is known for her catalytic questions, strategic clarity, and intuitive ability to surface the invisible patterns that shape performance. She designs learning experiences that are deeply reflective, immediately actionable, and courageously transformative. In addition to her work as a coach and course creator, Elaine mentors emerging coaches, advises organizations on human-centered leadership, and writes regularly on change, reinvention, and the future of leadership. Elaine is on the Teaching Faculty of MIT Sloan School of Management's - Inquiry Driven Leadership Program and YALE School of Management's -Human Capital Strategy Program.
Aug 18

Fish

e she stumbles upon the inspiring management secrets of The Pike Place Fish Market. This effective little tale introduces readers to "Fish!" - the authors’ prescription for boosting employee morale and productivity. The fish-tossing, joke-cracking camaraderie of the market serves as the workplace ideal in this book, which is easy to read but carries a lasting punch WE recommendmthis book to executives, change agents, managers, staff members, and students. Whether you are trapped in a bad working environment or trying to improve a mediocre one, this book will inspire you to get up and change your surroundings. Fish! will be one of the most influential books you read all year.

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Jan 28

Create Positive Change

Change!!!  The Ultimate Test of a Leader! The ability to create positive change is the true test of leadership. Being able to turn around an entire organisation or large department takes even greater leadership skill. To be able to encourage...

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Dec 01

18 Things Mentally Strong People Do

I usually spend my time talking about the bad habits that rob you of mental strength. After all, it only takes one bad habit to hold you back from reaching your greatest potential. But in addition to giving up those bad habits, it's also important to perform exercises that strengthen your mental muscle, because with hard work and dedication, you can train your brain to perform at its peak.

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Nov 30

13 Things Mentally Strong People Dont Do

 5/5 How to avoid the pitfalls that can keep you from reaching your full potential. We often hear advice like, “Think positive, and good things will happen,” or, “Try your hardest, and eventually things will work out.” While such...

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Nov 18

Know Thyself: Strengths and Personality

This free personality test, which is based on the well-proven Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, provides the tools for a wide-ranging analysis of your personality, so you can know yourself better. Covering the areas of Introversion/ Extraversion, Emotional Stability, Determinism, Sexuality and...

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Nov 17

Find Your Strengths

Discover the best part about yourself At its fundamentally flawed core, the aim of almost any learning programme is to help you become who we are not. If you don’t have natural talent with numbers, your still forced to spend...

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Nov 01

Coaching Skills for Managers

Why Coach Coaching Increases Ownership of Performance â€”While the world’s workplace has been going through extraordinary historical change, the practice of management has been stuck in time for more than 30 years. The new workforce — especially younger generations — wants...

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Oct 29

What Are the 7 C’s of Clear Communication?

Your success as a coach will heavily depend on how effective you are as you communicate with your coaching clients. While the definition of effective communication may be subjective to a certain extent, there are principles that all communication must...

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