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When Shadows Fall: Using Psychodynamic Approaches in Executive Coaching.

R Kilburg Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2004

This article makes the major point that events, feelings, thoughts, and patterns of behavior that are outside of the conscious awareness of executives can significantly influence what they decide and how they act. It provides a succinct overview of the conflict and object relations approaches to understanding psychodynamics and embeds the...

Destined to Lead: Executive Coaching and Lessons for Leadership Development

K Wasylyshyn Palgrave Macmillan 2014

This is a book of cases that may represent best practices.

Executive coaching: A continuum of roles.

R Witherspoon, R White Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 1996

Legacy reflections: Ten lessons about becoming an executive coach.

RJ Lee, MH Frisch Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2015

This article presents 10 important lessons about becoming an executive coach that the author gained in the course of a long career as a consultant, educator, and executive coach: (1) Shape your own set of best practices through multifaceted learning; (2) Convey a concise understanding of coaching; (3) Be clear about who is the client; (4)...

The Foundations of the Person-Centered Approach.

CR Rogers Education 1979

Discusses the theory and research behind this approach, which deals with attitudinal qualities that are effective in releasing constructive and growthful changes in individual personality and behavior. Relates approach to the formative tendency of the universe, suggesting it as a possible means to transcend consciousness in new, spiritual...

From Here To Certainty: Becoming CEO And How A Trusted Leadership Advisor (TLA) Helped The Client Get There

K Wasylyshyn Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2017

An in-depth case study is used to illustrate the transition senior consultants can make from the role of executive coach to a role conceptualized by the author as trusted leadership advisor (TLA) in long-term engagements with senior business executives. In this engagement, spanning several years, the client ultimately became CEO of a glob...

Trusted Leadership Advisor: A Commentary On Expertise And Ethical Conundrums

R Kilburg Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2017

This article represents Karol Wasylyshyn’s (see also Wasylyshyn, 2015) second installment in what I sincerely hope will be an ongoing effort to illuminate the theory and practice of executive coaching with the most senior leaders in organizations. In both of these articles, she has chosen to differentiate this work, carried out by what sh...

Developing self-compassion in leadership development coaching: A practice model and case study analysis

K Wasylyshyn, F Masterpasqua International Coaching Psychology Review 2018

Compassion, and especially self-compassion, are commonly understood as being antithetical to leadership and organisational success. In this article, a review of research from different scientific disciplines indicates that these positive affiliative emotions are as much a part of human survival and wellbeing, as are the need for personal ...

Beyond The Client/Coach Dyad In Coaching Senior Business Leaders

J Blanton, K Wasylyshyn Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2018

Theory and research in executive coaching have typically focused on the characteristics and methods of coaches and on the dyadic relationship of the coach and client. Little attention has been given to individuals such as the boss and human-resources (HR) executive who are directly or indirectly involved in the coaching process. These key...

The Trusted Leadership Advisor: Defined, Unpacked, Encouraged

K Wasylyshyn Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2019

The role of trusted leadership advisor (TLA) is defined as it was originally conceptualized. This role is filled by highly experienced executive-development professionals working in long-term engagements with senior business leaders who have come to value this resource and want to leverage it to ensure their ongoing leadership effectivene...

Winning the rodeo: How executive coaching helped an academic physician succeed in a senior-leadership role.

K Wasylyshyn Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research in Orga... 2019

This article comments on an innovative case study in Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, entitled “Transformation to Academic Leadership: The Role of Mentorship and Executive Coaching,” by W. Kimryn Rathmell, Nancy J. Brown, and Richard R. Kilburg (see record 2019-52290-001). The case study offers “a first-person account...