Frederic Hudson is a Rockefeller and Danforth fellow, and earned his doctorate from Columbia University in New York.
In 1973 he was founding president of the Fielding Institute of Santa Barbara, a learning organization whose mission was providing graduate degrees to midlife adults through an innovative self-directed learning model that embraced the intersection of change and development in the learning paradigm.
Widely respected for his contributions to adult training in management, organization development, and education, in 1986 he left Fielding to co-found (with Pamela McLean, a Ph.D. psychologist and executive coach) the Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara, a training center for professionals. The Hudson Institute focused on renewal and resilience at work and at home. At this time, mentoring was the primary model to help people sustain change.
In the 1980s, Hudson and McLean were delivering life map strategy seminars and included mentoring in the program, which organically and thoughtfully shifted in 1990 to use the word coaching to house the concepts of dealing with core values and how to employ them.
The domains of knowledge informing Hudson’s and McLean’s work include adult development, humanistic psychology and philosophy, adult learning systems, human and organizations systems thinking, and transformational change theory.
The four essential ingredients in good coach training, as described by McLean, include
1) theory and concept
2) understanding self as coach
3) understanding coaching process
4) coaching practice.
The completion of the Life Launch course is the first ingredient students must apply to be accepted into the coach training program – and not all are accepted.
Dr. McLean has lead the Hudson Institute since 2001 and Dr. Hudson serves in an advisory capacity.
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