Advancing Executive Coaching: Setting the Course for Successful Leadership Coaching

Moving Forward

The Lifespan of the Study

Work on the Coaching Impact Study began in mid-2004, and in the intervening years we worked with six formal participant organizations—Wachovia, Deloitte, Credit Suisse, Booz Allen Hamilton, Citi, and Assurant—gathering and feeding back data on over three hundred coaching engagements. By mid-2009, after five years in total, we announced the study’s retirement and began to wind down data collection with remaining participant organizations. We closed the study feeling that we had accomplished our primary mission of examining some of the workings of the coaching process from start to finish and making a useful contribution to the field of coaching and the growing foundation of research underlying it.

One key ...