Why would a successful executive hire a coach?
Coaching lecture series "Coaching - Research and Practice"
Diane Brennan
Diane Brennan, coach og president of International Coaching Federation, ICF: Coaching Chief Executives: a case study.
Diane Brennan, MBA, MCC will use a case study in this workshop to illustrate the key issues of building trust, establishing credibility and demonstrating measurable organisational benefits if coaches are to work successfully at the level of Chief Executive (CEO).
Central questions are:
- What value could this relationship yield for the individual or the organization?
- What measures or methods might apply?
The case study relates how a hospital CEO needed to adjust his leadership style as the organisation traveled from an economic crisis situation to an inexplicable era of widespread demodulation to its present stable and successful position.
This journey required the CEO, with the help of the Executive Coach, to reassess and adjust his leadership style thus providing powerful messages and insights of how to work effectively in a range of organizational contexts and cultures.
Further information
Reinhard Stelter, Coaching Psychology Unit, University of Copenhagen
The lecture is part of a series of lectures titled "Coaching - research and practice", which is sponsored by the EMCC. The lecture series aims to build a bridge between research and praxis in coaching and at the same time embed coaching practices in the research discourse. The intention is to hear from researchers, who explore coaching from a business, health or sports related angle. The Coaching Psychology Unit at the University of Copenhagen was established in order to launch and coordinate interdisciplinary research, education and dissemination in coaching.