The skill development of executive coaches remains more an art than a science. Building on the models of skill acquisition and expertise development, this qualitative, descriptive study involved 26 executive coaches, with and without formal coaching credentials. The data from the advanced...

This qualitative, exploratory and descriptive study identifies words, terms, and phrases used by external executive coaches to describe their coaching style, and to develop a model for describing the coaching styles used by executive coaches. The researchers accessed archival records of the...

Both executive coaching and management consulting are relatively new disciplines, early in their development as professions. They share ambiguous social status, lack of clearly defined and agreed-upon professional standards or accreditation criteria, and low barriers to entry. A broad range of...