In this article, we focus on a specific type of personal and professional development practice -executive coaching - and present the most extensive systematic review of executive coaching outcome studies published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals to date. We focus only on coaching provided by...

Drawing on evidence from a unique dataset of in-depth qualitative interviews with 12 female CEOs (and 139 male CEOs) of global corporations we explore what enables some women to become CEOs. By drawing on our data from male and female CEOs we set the scene by comparing the advice they would give...