Advancing Executive Coaching: Setting the Course for Successful Leadership Coaching

Introduction

Executive coaching—the professional practice of coaching leaders—is one of the consulting world’s significant success stories. Emerging in the 1980s, executive coaching channeled the prevailing Zeitgeist by melding individual growth initiatives, leadership theories, and the use of outside consultants into a rapidly expanding practice area. Initially performance problem driven, coaching has shed any perceived stigma, which has been largely replaced by an aura of perquisite and potential, further stoking its growth. Those of us with a significant track record of offering coaching to our corporate and organizational clients have discovered that providing tailored, just-in-time development to busy leaders one by one is both possible ...