Professional Coaching as an Interdisciplinary Art and Science

This is a special issue for us—the Twentieth we have produced in our digital publication called The Future of Coaching. It all began with a meeting that both of us attended in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A dozen senior coaches met to discuss ways in which to more effectively steward the growing and changing human […]

Posted by Bill Bergquist
On November 22, 2019
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Coaching to Contradictions

In The Future of Coaching we endeavor to present a wide variety of topics—ranging from an issue on the evidence for coaching to an issue on coaching and vulnerability. We are also beginning to offer issues that come in diverse formats. The issue that immediately preceded this one, for instance, consisted completely of coaching tools […]

Posted by Bill Bergquist
On July 12, 2019
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Coaching Physicians: Part Two

We are offering several different perspectives on the coaching of physicians in this issue.

Posted by Margaret Cary
On August 27, 2018
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Coaching Physicians: Part One

Jack and I created A Whole New Doctor as an experiment with the strong hypothesis that providing coaches to medical students would make a difference in their lives (like providing coping skills and reducing pressures that lead to depression or learning how to engage in team leadership and mindset shifts).

Posted by Margaret Cary
On March 28, 2018
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Vulnerability and The Dynamics of Professional Coaching

We have provided you, our reader, with some thought-provoking essays for your own reflection regarding vulnerability in yourself and your clients.

Posted by Bill Bergquist
On January 16, 2018
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The Terrain of Organizational and Executive Coaching

In the eighth issue of this digital magazine we focused on Personal and Life Coaching – the one-on-one coaching that so clearly defined the field during its earliest years (in the 1970s and 1980s) and that still is the major player in the arena of professional coaching. In this issue, we turn to a parallel […]

Posted by Bill Bergquist
On January 27, 2017
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The Future of Coaching: Trends that Illustrate the End is Near

I don’t believe the well-meaning, innovative and highly skilled pioneers of the coaching industry could have predicted the trends that are now occurring in coaching.

Posted by Rey Carr
On November 7, 2015
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Coaching in the Professions: Challenges and Culture

In this issue of The Future of Coaching, we look at coaching in the professions

Posted by Bill Bergquist
On April 14, 2015
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The Challenges Facing Contemporary Professional Coaches and Their Clients

Serving as an organizational coach, I met over lunch recently with a client who has just moved into a position of leadership in his high tech corporation. Robert is now Vice President of Human Resource Development, having previously served as director of his corporation’s “Leadership Academy.” Robert must now learn about HR policy formation, compensation, […]

Posted by Bill Bergquist
On September 22, 2011
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Collaborating for Survival and Success: Organizational Coaching Strategies to Meet Unique Opportunities and Challenges

Organizational boundaries as we knew them in the 20th Century are becoming sources of “troubling ambiguity.” Boundaries that once steadfastly defined economies, societies, industries, companies, and employees are being redrawn, reconceived and redesigned.

Posted by Bill Bergquist
On September 15, 2011
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