Rather than reflecting on where the state of personal and life coaching are right now, we are looking at trending that has been done over the past five years and projecting these trends forward.

The field of professional coaching has matured during the past decade. Now seems to be an appropriate time to offer a status report concerning the past, present and future of this emerging human service endeavor.

A person is assigned this form of leadership because the organization in which he or she works is confronting a major challenge (the enemy) that is very strong and quite menacing.