Preface

Leadership coaching is a journey. A journey in terms of the progress a leader makes towards achieving success. A journey in terms of the distance coaching has traveled to evolve into an evidence-based practice. A journey in terms of the adventure on which we embark as we explore leading-edge thinking to advance our understanding of executive coaching. Though these journeys began decades ago when coaching emerged as an accepted mode of leadership development, we, as practitioners and researcher professionals, have a responsibility for setting the course to enrich our own and our organizations’ coaching programs and contributions to the knowledge of the coaching field.

Executive coaching is a relatively new discipline evolving from an ...

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