We are ourselves a rich source of expertise regarding many matters. While we don’t always fully appreciate this expertise and often distort or make poor use of this personal expertise, it is there for our use – thanks to our capacity to process at multiples in our brain at the same time, and thanks to the recent expansion in the human brain of an advanced mental processing system (the prefrontal cortex).

For the third time in the history of The Library of Professional Coaching (LPC) we are offering “A Best of . . .” volume of Curated. In this instance, we are also providing a theme that brings the selected essays together in a coherent manner. The theme is: Coaching Trends and Strategies. In past editions of Curated, we have worked …

  The gods bound Kingu Condemned him, severed his arteries. And from his blood they formed mankind. Ea then toil imposed on man and set gods free. There is an ancient Hebraic account of the creation of humans. The Babylonian creation-myth accords to we humans a divine status—yet assigns us work and deprives us of the freedom given to the …

For many years, technologies such as the printing press and electric light bulb have been almost indispensable in our lives. The printing press enabled us (perhaps even forced us) to become readers, while the light bulb meant that our night times have no longer become a time when we simply fall asleep. Similarly, in recent years we have grown accustomed …

This Thirtieth issue of the Future of Coaching brings together two important themes: (1) stewardship and (2) leadership development. They are brought together within the context of nurturing the field of executive coaching. Furthermore, the essays contained in this issue build on outcomes from a summit conference on executive coaching that was held in April of 2022. Called the New …

Leadership development was one of the three primary themes identified In preparation for the New Executive Coaching Summit (NECS) held during April of 2022 at a Bed and Breakfast Inn located in Harpswell Maine. Consideration was given throughout this 2 ½ day meeting to the nature of and promotion of leadership development, as well as its relationship to the field …

Br[ef biographies of all participants in the in-person and virtual meetings of the New Executive Coaching Summit are presented.

At an executive coaching summit, I witnessed agility and collaboration in response to a technological challenge. I witnessed leadership that was being exhibited by senior-level executive coaches who are usually doing the coaching about leadership, but in this instance were engaging in leadership themselves. It was amazing!!

As the last session in a three-day New Executive Coaching Summit (NECS) a virtual session was held on Friday, April 29, where a summary report of the NECS meeting was presented and virtual attendees where invited to share their own thoughts. While the virtual session was scheduled for three hours, technical problems prevented the full participation of in-person and virtual …

When we founded the Future of Coaching, we intended to include one or more tools in each issue (or at least most issues). While we kept with this practice for several years, we have decided more recently to devote entire issues of the Future of Coaching to the presentation and description of professional coaching tools. We use the term “Tool …