"This book reviews the full coaching outcome research literature to examine the arguments and evidence behind the use of executive coaching. Erik de Haan presents the definitive guide to what works in coaching and what changes coaching brings about, both for individual coaches and for...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Highlights of the book -- Introduction -- An interlude before Chapter 1 -- 1 Does executive coaching work? Is coaching worth the effort? -- Part A: some controversies -- Controversy 1: how universal and generalisable are the...

Based on fieldwork conducted at the outset of the current economic downturn, this paper examines the experiences of a group of unemployed managers and professionals in their fifties. Following a review of existing literature, the authors use a narrative methodology to explore how these people...

The economic crisis of 2008/2009 has increased unemployment among managers, particularly older managers, a group under-researched empirically. This longitudinal study assesses the efficacy of executive coaching for a group of unemployed professionals who participated in an intensive coaching...