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Written by Francine Campone

Listen: Andrea Broughton and Linda Miller Discuss their Research: Encouraging Women into Senior Management Positions: How coaching can help.

Just in time for Women's History month in the US, Francine Campone interviews Linda Miller and Andrea Broughton about the challenges faced by women executives and the specific support coaches might offer. Linda and Andrea's international study offers an insightful glimpse into salient issues for coaches working with ... Read More

Listen: Dr. Nath Discusses Building Trust and Cohesiveness in a Leadership Team

Listen to this month's interview with Dr. Deepika Nath as she discusses her case study into building trust and cohesiveness in a leadership team. Deepika talks about her case study development process and how conducting this study strengthened her own coaching processes and practices. An abstract of the ... Read More

Listen: An Interview with Mickey Gerber and Carmella Keet about the Impact of Group Coaching

Coaches Mickey Gerber and Carmella Keet discuss their study of the impact of group life coaching, which was presented at the European Coaching Conference in Geneva, Switzerland this past summer. Please listen in on the lively conversation, as they discuss the potential for applying group processes in support of ... Read More

Listen: An Interview with Irene Stein – Enacting the Role of Coach

Dr. Irene Stein took a microscopic look at what goes on in the exchange between coaches and clients. Specifically, her study, “Enacting the Role of Coach," examines the various identities that coaches take on through coaching engagements and how these identities are used in the coaching process. ... Read More

Listen: An Interview with Geoffrey Abbott Ph.D. about Coaching Ex-Pat Executives

In this month's interview, Geoffrey Abbott Ph.D. talks about his action research on the impact of evidence-based coaching with executives. Listen to a 20 minute interview with Geoffrey to hear what sparked his interest, what he found out about coaching ex-pat executives and how it has changed his work with ... Read More

Listen: An Interview with Janet Baldwin Anderson – How Do Coaches Learn to be Effective Coaches?

This month's interview with coach-researcher Janet Baldwin Anderson, Ph.D., explores a topic of special interest to me: how coaches learn to be effective coaches. Please listen in and share Janet's journey of exploration. She discusses what she discovered about training coaches and what she discovered about herself. We'd ... Read More

Listen: An Interview with Tom Krapu – Client Life Satisfaction Surveys

This month's interview is a conversation with Dr. Tom Krapu, talking about his work developing a client life satisfaction survey. Tom discusses the survey and how assessing a client's life satisfaction can be helpful to both coaches and clients. To read Tom's paper on the topic, click here. If ... Read More

Listen: An Interview with Elizabeth Topp about Presence-Based Coaching

Interviews with Real-World Coaching Researchers - Listen to this month's interview as Elizabeth Topp, Ph.D. talks about her research in developing a Presence-Based Coaching model. Listen to a 20 minute interview with Elizabeth to hear what sparked her interest, what she found along her journey and how it has changed ... Read More

Listen: An Interview with Laura Crawshaw about Coaching Abrasive Executives

This month's inaugural interview is with Laura Crawshaw, Ph.D. on her research work on Coaching Abrasive Executives. Listen to a 20 minute interview with Laura discussing her study - what interested her in the topic, what she found along the journey, and how it has changed her coaching. Or you can ... Read More

What’s on your Bookshelf?

I confess that when I visit people's homes, I take a not so subtle peek at what's on their bookshelves. This is a bit of an assumption I'm making here, but I assume that as committed coaches, we all try to keep up with what's current in ... Read More