“Who exactly seeks out a coach? Winners who want even more out of life.” Chicago Tribune
“Executives and HR managers know coaching is the most potent tool for inducing lasting personal change.” Ivy Business Journal
“Increasingly, nonprofit executives and managers are finding coaches a terrific sounding board and source of help in a demanding and complex job.” Nonprofit World
“The goal of coaching is the goal of good management: to make the most of an organization’s valuable resources.” Harvard Business Review
“What’s really driving the boom in coaching, is this: as we move from 30 miles an hour to 70 to 120 to 180……as we go from driving straight down the road to making right turns and left turns to abandoning cars and getting motorcycles…the whole game changes, and a lot of people are trying to keep up, learn how not to fall.” John Kotter, Professor of Leadership, Harvard Business School
”I never cease to be amazed at the power of the coaching process to draw out the skills or talent that was previously hidden within an individual, and which invariably finds a way to solve a problem previously thought unsolvable.”John Russell, Managing Director, Harley-Davidson Europe Ltd.
“I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their full potential.” Bob Nardelli, CEO, Home Depot
Recent studies show business coaching and executive coaching to be the most effective means for achieving sustainable growth, change and development in the individual, group and organization.” HR Monthly
“A major benefit of coaching is having someone who helps you see your strengths and weaknesses and uses them to accomplish your goals.” Minneapolis Star-Tribune
“Using [coaching] instead of sending executives and managers to seminars two or three times a year can be more beneficial to ongoing career development, not to mention less expensive…” – PC Week
“Coaching takes a holistic view of the individual: work, corporate values, personal needs and career development are made to work in synergy, not against one another.” British Journal of Administrative Management
“Coaching started in the business world to help stressed out executives cope with their professional and personal lives, and it still thrives in the corporate environment. But, increasingly, individuals are turning to coaches for help with every sort of problem.” Boston Globe
“If you want to build your business and at the same time have a rewarding personal life, you call a coach.” Denver Post
“A personal coach can help you by getting you to spell out what it is that you really want and then working with you to make the changes that actually enable you to get there.” The Vancouver Province
“Xerox Corporation carried out several studies on coaching. They determined that in the absence of follow-up coaching to their training classes, 87% of the skills change brought about by the program was lost.” Business Wire
“[A coach] is part advisor, part sounding board, part cheerleader, part manager and part strategist.” The Business Journal
