--- title: Executive Coaching description: This topic covers the methodologies used to develop leadership capabilities and performance in senior professionals. Learners will understand coaching frameworks, active listening techniques, feedback delivery, and strategies for guiding executives toward their professional goals. category: business-entrepreneurship subcategory: management-and-leadership difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/executive-coaching --- # Executive Coaching This topic covers the methodologies used to develop leadership capabilities and performance in senior professionals. Learners will understand coaching frameworks, active listening techniques, feedback delivery, and strategies for guiding executives toward their professional goals. ## Available Resources 4 Books • 2 Websites • 1 Papers ## Podcasts ### 1. Coaching for Leaders **Author:** Dave Stachowiak Weekly interview podcast hosted by Dave Stachowiak since 2011, featuring authors and experienced leaders on managing people, giving feedback, coaching conversations, delegation and leading through career transitions. Listeners pick up practical techniques for developing their own leadership and coaching the people they manage. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en-US | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://coachingforleaders.com **Tags:** leadership, management, coaching-skills, professional-development, workplace-communication ## Papers ### 1. The Effectiveness of Workplace Coaching: A Meta-Analysis of Learning and Performance Outcomes from Coaching **Author:** Rebecca J. Jones, Stephen A. Woods, Yves R. F. Guillaume Meta-analysis of coaching delivered by internal and external coaches, reporting an overall effect of 0.36 on organizational outcomes (skill-based 0.28, affective 0.51, results 1.24) and finding internal coaches outperformed external ones. **Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://publications.aston.ac.uk/id/eprint/25642/ **Tags:** workplace-coaching, coaching-effectiveness, meta-analysis, organizational-psychology, leadership-development ## Websites ### 1. ICF Code of Ethics **Author:** International Coaching Federation Full text of the ethical standards binding ICF professionals: four core values and twenty-eight standards covering client and sponsor agreements, confidentiality limits, conflicts of interest, AI disclosure, and role transparency when coaching borders consulting or therapy. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://coachingfederation.org/credentialing/coaching-ethics/icf-code-of-ethics/ **Tags:** coaching-ethics, icf, professional-standards, confidentiality ### 2. 2025 ICF Core Competencies **Author:** International Coaching Federation The professional standard the International Coaching Federation credentials against: eight competencies across four domains, from ethical practice and coaching agreements through active listening and evoking awareness. Updated September 2025 following a job analysis of 3,000+ coaches. This is the closest thing coaching has to a syllabus, and it is free from the source rather than an SEO blog's paraphrase. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://coachingfederation.org/credentialing/coaching-competencies/icf-core-competencies/ **Tags:** coaching-competencies, icf, coach-credentialing, active-listening ## Books ### 1. What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful **Author:** Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter Goldsmith catalogues twenty interpersonal habits that stall already-successful executives — winning too much, adding value, claiming credit — then sets out his behavior-change method: 360-degree feedback, apology, advertising the change, follow-up, and feedforward. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1401301304?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** executive-coaching, behavior-change, leadership-development, feedback, interpersonal-skills ### 2. Co-Active Coaching, Fourth Edition: The Proven Framework for Transformative Conversations at Work and in Life **Author:** Henry Kimsey-House, Karen Kimsey-House, Phillip Sandahl, Laura Whitworth The core text of the Coaches Training Institute lineage, organized around four cornerstones and the contexts of listening, intuition, curiosity and self-management. Includes designed alliances, levels of listening, and annotated transcripts of full coaching conversations. While GROW is a directive, goal-structured method, Co-Active is the relationship-and-presence school, and the listening-levels model here is the best written treatment of the active-listening skill. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1473674980?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** co-active-coaching, coaching-models, active-listening, coaching-conversations ### 3. Coaching for Performance, 6th edition: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership **Author:** Sir John Whitmore, Tiffany Gaskell The book that introduced the GROW model (Goal, Reality, Options, Will). This sixth edition, revised by Tiffany Gaskell after Whitmore's death, covers coaching mindset, awareness and responsibility, questioning sequences, and measuring coaching return on investment. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1399814907?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** grow-model, coaching-models, performance-coaching, questioning-techniques, leadership-development ### 4. The Prosperous Coach **Author:** Steve Chandler, Rich Litvin Steve Chandler and Rich Litvin argue that coaching practices grow through direct conversation and referral rather than marketing funnels. The book covers creating clients, pricing, and holding bold conversations that convert prospects into committed paying clients. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1600250300?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** coaching-business, client-acquisition, sales-conversations, pricing, executive-coaching --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/executive-coaching