If you’re thinking about hiring an executive coach, consider these six things to fully maximize your coaching’s value. The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential ...

If you ask most coaches about the difference between psychotherapy and executive coaching, most will say that psychotherapy is focused on the past, while executive coaching is focused on the future.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The author of many tech books, Michael Ashley covers AI and Big Data. Several years ago, I hired an executive coach. To my dismay, ...

Everyone could use an executive coach — even executive coaches. Such is the thinking of Christine Tao and Lori Mazan, co-founders of Sounding Board, a two-year-old, San Francisco-based marketplace ...

Can an AI be your mentor? That’s what a startup called Practica believes. The company, which evolved out of a marketplace for one-on-one executive coaching, has now launched an AI system built on top ...

There is a growing realization that insights from psychology can be used to better understand and improve communication skills, team dynamics, and leadership ability. Overall, organizations that ...

After a decade as CEO of Child Care Aware of America, Lynette Fraga stepped down to reflect on where she was in her career. She initially imagined it as a six-month sabbatical, but it evolved into a ...

Years ago, executive coaching was stigmatized as “remedial help for underperformers.” More recently, it’s transformed into an elite, high-cost activity, often reserved for the highest-status ...

In my first year of coaching, I was sitting at a bar with one of my mentors after work when he said to me, “Carol, you have trust and intimacy issues.” Unbeknownst to me, he had been working to help ...

As coaches, we universally understand and appreciate the power and impact of coaching. In our coaching practices, we have all witnessed the learning, adaptability and positive changes in developmental ...