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Toward a conceptual understanding and definition of executive coaching.

R Kilburg Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 1996

A review of the literature on coaching reveals that very little empirical research has focused on the executive coaching methods used by consultants with managers and leaders in organizations. Within the framework of a 17-dimensional model of systems and psychodynamic theory, the author provides an overview of a conceptual approach to coa...

Executive coaching that wins

JH Eggers, D Clark Ivey Business Journal 2000

The development of human expertise: Toward a model for the 21st-century practice of coaching, consulting, and general applied psychology

R Kilburg Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2016

In this article, executive or leadership coaching is considered within a broad context of the history of general applied psychology. Executive coaching is briefly explored in its major applications. Advocacy of the randomized controlled trials approach to advance the science base of the field is questioned. The current scientific and conc...

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...

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...

Transformation to academic leadership: The role of mentorship and executive coaching

W Rathmell, N Brown, R Kilburg Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2019

The transition to academic leadership entails learning to utilize an enormous new collection of skills. Executive leadership coaching is a personalized training approach that is being increasingly used to accelerate the onboarding of effective leaders. Vanderbilt University Medical Center has invested in a robust coaching strategy that is...

The case for executive coaching in academic medicine

J Balser Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research in Orga... 2019

This article comments on an innovative case study in Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research titled “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 of...