The Intentional Design of Stewardship: A Case Study

Several essays have already been prepared based on summit conversations. Several of these essays are included in this issue of Future of Coaching. More are anticipated during the coming months—several to be included in the joint publishing enterprise of LPC and choice magazine that is to take place in early 2023.

Follow-up Projects

Several potential initiatives were presented at the summit (along with printed proposals for each initiative). One of these initiatives was something called the Coaching Quad. This on-line serve is intended to provide a diverse set of coaching resources to the professional coaching community—ranging from a library (LPC) and set of coach training organizations to web-site design and practice management tools geared specifically to those engaged in professional coaching. While this initiative has already been underway for several years, several summit participants have expressed interest in helping to make this quad a reality. Another organization has also expressed interest in establishing and sponsoring the Quad.

A second initiative concerns the investigation of a project that would provide a taxonomy of various professional coaching strategies and the particular kind of coaching issues that are effectively addressed by use of this strategy. Following a precedent established in the field of psychotherapy in the creation of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapeutic Integration (SEPI), the new initiative, which would be called the Project to Exploration Professional Coaching Integration (PEPCI), has already produced several potential taxonomies and will soon be represented in a PEPCI website.

The third initiative concerns a research project that has already been underway for several years. Under the Institute for Research on Professional Coaching (IRPC), this project concerns the development of coaches. Paralleling a major project that has been conducted by a University of Chicago team on the development of psychotherapists, the Development of Coaches project was conducted in 2009 and originally sponsored by the International Coaching Federation. The lengthy digital survey (Survey Monkey) was completed by 153 members of the professional coaching community. IRPC took over the project and conducted a second study in 2o15 using the same survey instrument. Another 58 respondents completed the survey. IRPC provided analyses of results from the 211 respondents. Ten major reports were prepared and published in LPC.