Chapter Sixteen

NEW DIRECTIONS

Perspective on Current and Future Leadership Coaching Issues

Paul Tesluk and Jeffrey Kudisch

It was not long ago that an assessment of the state of the field of executive coaching conjured to mind a “Wild West” image of a frontier that “is chaotic, largely unexplored, fraught with risk, yet immensely promising” (Sherman & Freas, 2004, 83). As the contributions in this book demonstrate, leadership coaching has emerged out of the Wild West into a defined discipline and with more promise than ever before, as witnessed by the increasing investments that organizations are making in leadership coaching and the large numbers flocking to careers in executive coaching.

Here are some clear indicators of the maturation of ...

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