Marcia Ruben, Ph.D. and Debra Pearce-McCall, Ph.D. Abstract Can recruiting our senses, mind, brain, and body accelerate the odds of reaching a critical leadership development goal?  How might this information assist executive coaches in working with clients? As part of a two-year research professorship, Dr. Marcia Ruben, with assistance from Dr. Debra Pearce-McCall, designed and implemented an applied exploratory research …

Lifetime Achievement Award Presented to Dr. William Bergquist for his Stewardship of Professional and Organizational Development Ceremony held via zoom May 27, 2021 at 10am Eastern   Dr. William Bergquist was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his incredible accomplishments across three major industries/fields:  Academia, Psychology, and Coaching. The ceremony was a celebration of the adventurer and world traveler he is, with …

This case study draws insights on the perceived value of “Coaching for student success” and assess the impact on the different aspects of emotional intelligence.

My client is a beautiful example of an individual with a trait that the Polish psychologist and physician Kazimierz Dąbrowski called “psychomotor overexcitability.”

A pdf version of this article can be downloaded here. __________ Why Use Assessments in Your Coaching Practice Coaching for personal growth and development is a hot topic. Especially as people are learning to navigate a new reality during the pandemic. Our social constructs are out of sync, making our inner compasses feel skewed. The need for skilled coaches with …

Published in, and reproduced with permission from, choice, the magazine  of professional coaching www.choice-online.com by Suzi Pomerantz  originally published in June 2010. Is your coaching really consulting? Maybe if it was, you’d be making a six-figure income! Check your contracts, coaches! Does your contract include language referencing the descriptors of a coach as “guide” or “trusted advisor,” or is the …

Published in, and reproduced with permission from, choice, the magazine  of professional coaching www.choice-online.com by Suzi Pomerantz and Steve Gladis originally published in June 2009. Coaching is not about money, yet “money is important, if only for financial reasons,” to quote Woody Allen. Sponsors contact executive coaches when an executive’s behavior begins to interfere with corporate progress, morale or culture. …

Many of us became coaches because we wanted to significantly impact the lives of those around us. We noticed that we were gifted at helping others reach their potential and we made the decision to devote our careers to doing so. In order to create lasting change in a client’s life, we must learn to coach the client not their …

Understanding that the brain's natural tendency to simulate the future is a flawed process can be the first step in helping a client overcome the dissonance created by unrealistic expectations.

Whether our clients say it or not, how they feel about what they bring to us for coaching plays an essential role in the coaching itself.