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Cahterine Fitzgerald, Ph.D., is an organizational psychologist and principal of Fitzgerald Consulting, a company that offers executive coaching to senior executives. She has worked with such clients as Fannie Mae, the International Monetary Fund, the National Cooperative Bank, and the World Resources Institute. Fitzgerald has been an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University and the University of Maryland and has taught courses on executive coaching in the U.S. and internationally. She is coeditor of DEVELOPING LEADERS.

Jennifer Garvey Berger, Ed.M., consults and teaches in the areas of adult development, personality differences, and transformational learning. She has worked with such clients as the American Bankers Association, the Massachusetts Department of Education, the U.S. Navy, and the YMCA. A faculty member at the Bard Institute of Writing and Thinking and the Association for Psychological Type, Berger also teaches at Harvard and Georgetown universities and is coeditor of ACTS OF INQUIRY IN QUALITATIVE RESERACH. She is completing her doctoral degree in adult development at Harvard University.

From publisher

From start-up entrepreneurs to CEOs of Fortune 100 companies, today's busines leaders are turning to executive coaches to help them face the enormous challenges of staying competitive in a fast-changing marketplace, motivating an increasingly diverse workforce, and delivering improved bottom-line results. Organizations, too, are realizing how effective executive coaching can be in helping their leaders address specific skill deficits, enhance performance, and grow into expanded leadership roles. Yet until now there has been no comprehensive resource professionals could turn to for sound advice on this emerging field.

In this cutting-edge volume, Catherine Fitzgerald and Jennifer Garvey Berger have assembled sixteen chapters by an elite group of seasoned professionals-executive coaches who have worked with senior executives around the world and human resource managers who have designed successful executive coaching programs in organizations. These contributors consider the key aspects of the craft of executive coaching: principles and guidelines for practitioners, techniques for supporting complexity of mind in executives, tips for dealing with failure in coaching, and a reflective practice approach for coaches. EXECUTIVE COACHING: PRACTICES & PERSPECTIVES offers strategies for dealing with different client populations, getting executive coaching started within an organization, linking coaching with business strategy, integrating the use of internal and external coaches, and avoiding common mistakes in executive coaching-everything you need to know now about this exciting coaching arena.