“Here Be Dragons”: Exploring the Terrain of Professional Coaching Research

The Bookshelf is also unique in this issue. We offer not the review of a single book, but rather an expansive bibliography on all of the peer-reviewed articles reporting on coaching research from 2008-2012—a crucial period of time following the International Coaching Research Forum (see the interview with Lew Stern for more on the Summit). This bibliography was prepared by Lew Stern (and his colleague, Sunny Stout-Rostron) in 2012 and serves as a wonderful bookend for this issue of The Future of Coaching: we begin with a Lew Stern interview and end with his exhaustive bibliography on coaching research. We hope you find these diverse offers to be of value to you in your own endeavors as a professional coach or user of coaching services.

This issue of The Future of Coaching is dedicated in memoriam to our dear colleague, Gordon Lee Salmon (1942-2014)

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Table of Contents

Lew Stern Interview: Research on Professional Coaching [Bill Carrier]

The Coaching Research Agenda: Pitfalls, Potheads and Potentials [William Bergquist]

The Coaching Impact Study [Cambria Consulting]

Sherpa: 2014 Executive Coaching Survey Report [Sherpa Coaching]

Research on Coaching: A 2005 Retrospective [Bush and Lazar: IJCO]

The Marketing of Professional Coaching: An Eleven Year Perspective [Lazar and Bergquist]

The Bookshelf: Bibliography of Coaching Research [Stern]