Coaching with the Brain in Mind

About the Authors

David Rock has done over 7,000 hours of executive and business coaching and has trained over 10,000 people as coaches. He launched Results Coaching Systems in 1998 and cofounded the coaching certificate programs at New York University in 2005. As well as being chief executive officer of Results Coaching Systems, David is now on the faculty at CIMBA, an international business school based in Europe, and a guest lecturer at Oxford University’s business school. He is on the board of The Blue School, building a new approach to K-12 education. At the time of writing this book, he is completing a professional doctorate in the Neuroscience of Leadership. His approach to coaching is at the heart of wide-scale coaching programs at global organizations including EDS, Ericsson, and many others. In 2006 David coined the term “NeuroLeadership” and founded the NeuroLeadership Institute that brought together neuroscientists and global business leaders for the first NeuroLeadership Summit in May 2007, followed by further summits and a journal. His expertise lies in the science underpinning coaching and how to build coaching cultures in large organizations. He divides his time between Sydney, Australia, and New York City.

 

Linda Page, Ph.D., began her first career at Princeton University, where she studied sociology, anthropology, and linguistics. She later became a psychotherapist. She administered a master’s program in counseling psychology, taught social and cognitive psychology ...