Executive Coaching

This issue of DLQ focuses on the central issue of coaching in organizations to improve performance, productivity as well as collaboration and cohesion. We start with the awareness that unlike many other professional services that organizations call upon coaching remains unregulated – and explore the pros and cons of that.

Brian Underhill gives us an industry overview of the coaching sector, and Rolf Pfeiffer in Europe and Jeff Nally from the US offer their insights on the main bodies and structures coaches and coaching firms operate within.

We are delighted to have some reflections from Mark Thompson, one of the world’s most respected and sought-after coaches. While Marlene Uetz brings some neuroscience perspective to why coaching works; and Olivier Malafronte tackles how AI is reshaping the sector.

Prof Susan Goldsworty from IMD in Switzerland, who weaves coaching through her programmes share her views and experiences on how coaching positively influences and impacts both people and organizations. While Victor Maguire and Zia Best tell us how the BIPOC sector is benefitting from coaching too.

Finally, we have Dan Feldman guiding us through how coaching has worked at the GIANT Co, and Pil LeNir on peer coaching and some closing thoughts from Henry Mintzberg on communityship.

As always lots to spark thinking and hopefully inspire action