Coaching the whole person requires a “whole coach.” Interdisciplinarity is required—this is part of the job description for a professional coach.

What is required for someone to be generative? What do we need to engage in deep caring?

This issue of The Future of Coaching focuses on a somewhat elusive but critical theme operating in our world: the institutionalization of knowledge. Building on concepts coming from the sub-discipline called “the sociology of knowledge”, our theme this quarter concerns ways in which knowledge is framed in the various societies in our contemporary coaching world and the even more specific …

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.

What occurs, when an organizational leader confronts the complexity, unpredictability and turbulence of a postmodern world? I propose that this leader becomes a learner.