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Listen to an Uncommon Conversation from March 23rd, 2009 – Executive Coaching for Results, part 3

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Listen to the recording below:

Monday, March 23rd
Time: 2:00 – 3:00pm Eastern Time

Guest: Brian Underhill, Ph.D.

Host: The Coaching Commons

Topic: How Corporations Source and Screen Executive Coaches:
War stories from the trenches

Link to Brian’s slides: www.coach-source.com/Uncommon3.ppt

Brian Underhill has spent 12 years screening executive coaches worldwide and has the scars to prove it! Hear the “behind the scenes” stories in building a pool of over 700 coaches in 37 countries to serve multi-national corporations’ executive coaching requests.
The executive coaching industry has come of age and generated even more questions. In Brian’s first two sessions, he explored this with the following questions:
  • How do organizations and coaches make the most of this powerful method?
  • What is the purpose of coaching?
  • Who should get coaching?
  • How can you tell coaches apart?
  • What is the impact of coaching?
  • How do coaches, leaders, organizations and the C-level leadership assess the impact of coaching?

Next big questions:

  • How do corporations find and screen coaches?
  • How are results measured?
  • How do you and your clients quantify and qualify your coaching results?

Please join us at the Coaching Commons for a robust, interactive discussion with Brian Underhill, author of Executive Coaching for Results: The Definitive Guide to Developing Organizational Leaders (Berrett-Koehler 2007). Brian draws upon his and his colleagues’ vast experience, best practice knowledge and original rigorous research of the practice of executive coaching in the world’s top organizations.

This Uncommon Conversation is designed for your active participation. This highly inspiring and engaging session is strongly recommended for executive/leadership development, human resources and executive coaches alike. It is a must for anyone responsible for executive coaching in his or her organization.

More about Brian Underhill’s rich experience and background:

Brian O. Underhill, Ph.D. is an industry-recognized expert in the design and management of worldwide executive coaching implementations. His executive coaching work has successfully focused on helping clients achieve positive, measurable, long-term change in leadership behavior. He has also helped pioneer the use of ‚Äúmini-surveys”, unique measurement tool to help impact behavioral change over time. Brian is the Founder of CoachSource and the Alexcel Group.

He is the author of Executive Coaching for Results: The Definitive Guide to Developing Organizational Leaders (Berrett Koehler: 2007). His most recent article on Agilent Technologies’ coaching program appears in Coaching For Leadership, Second Edition (Pfeiffer: 2006) and Best Practices in Leadership Development and Organization Change (Pfeiffer: 2005). He has been a speaker at The Conference Board, Linkage, ASTD New York and LA, HRPS New York, PCMA and other industry events.

Brian’s Partial Client List includes: Agilent Technologies, Allstate, AT&T, Babycenter.com, Biosense Webster, California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), Callaway Golf, Dell, Federal Aviation Administration, James Hardie, Johnson & Johnson, Kodak, KPMG, Labatt Breweries, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, LifeScan, Lucent Technologies, McNeil Consumer Products, MGM/Mirage, Motorola, Sony, Sun Microsystems, Tribune Company, Unum Provident Corporation and Warner Lambert.

Some of Brian’s non-profit pro-bono work has benefited the Drucker Foundation, the Josephson Institute of Ethics, St. Vincent de Paul Village, Union Rescue Mission and UCLA School of Public Health.
He holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. degree in organizational psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology (Los Angeles) and a B.A. in psychology from the University of Southern California. Brian is certified in the Marshall Goldsmith Coaching Process.

Brian lives near Silicon Valley in Northern California. You can reach him here:
(408) 779-9059
brian@coach-source.com
www.coach-source.com

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