Leadership Coaching: Working with Leaders to Develop Elite Performance

Leadership Coaching examines the models and techniques used to develop leadership in others through a coaching relationship. Twenty-five leading international coaches critique a range of both popular and less well-known coaching models, providing new insights and practical guidance for those whose role it is to coach for optimum performance.

The book covers a broad range of topics key to coaching for leadership including: emotional intelligence, transformational leadership, public services leadership, change, and coaching an international board. It also draws on work from both the western view of leadership as well as other traditions, such as using ancient writer like Sun Tzu and African myths.

US-based contributors include Marshall Goldsmith and Barry Oshry (Power and Systems). Other contributors include: Declan Woods (Penna Consulting, London South Bank University), Jean Hartley (Warwick Business School), Ho Law (Empsy Ltd), Stuart Duff (Pearn Kandola), Ceri Roderick (Pearn Kandola), Martin Egan (Axialent),  Graham Lee (Oxford Consulting Group),  Doug Strycharczyk (AQR Ltd), Jonathan Perks (Penna Consulting), Adrian Furnham (London University), Juliette Alban-Metcalfe (Real World Consulting), Katherine Tulpa (Urban Coaching).

Jonathan Passmore is an occupational psychologist, an accredited AC coach, a coaching supervisor, and fellow of the CIPD. He has wide business consulting experience, having worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers, IBM Business Consulting and OPM, and as a chief executive and company chairman in the sports leirsure sector. He is based at the School of Psychology, University of East London, and is Director for the Coaching and Coaching Psychology programs.  He is the author of several books and editor of Excellence in Coaching and Psychometrics in Coaching (all published by Kogan Page).