Advancing Executive Coaching: Setting the Course for Successful Leadership Coaching

Origins of the Study

The rapid growth in the popularity of executive coaching over the last decade is remarkable, and is largely due to personal experience and anecdotal evidence of its benefits to the individual being coached and, more recently, to the organization. In that time, organizations increasingly began to shift beyond the use of coaching for executives at risk of derailing and increasingly toward its use to support high-performing executives and high-potential leaders, realizing that these latter two groups, if their development as leaders could be accelerated, could return substantial additional value to their organizations.

But with no concerted, centralized plan to manage and align coaching efforts, apply consistent best-practice ...