Joel DiGirolamo is the Vice President of

Research and Data Science for the International Coaching Federation (ICF), a

professional organization of over 50,000 coaches in 156 countries. Joel leads a

research team whose goals are to advance the understanding of how coaching

works and to understand how coaching is evolving and enhancing society. Robust

research is the foundation of tools that can be used to build high performing

organizations. Joel is passionate about developing innovative and robust

research that will provide this foundation for continued exploration.

He has more than 30 years of staff and

management experience in Fortune 500 companies and is the author of two books, Leading Team Alpha and Yoga in No Time at All. Joel holds a

master’s degree in industrial and organizational psychology from Kansas State

University, an MBA from Xavier University, and a bachelor’s degree in

electrical engineering from Purdue University. He is a member of the Society

for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), the Society of Consulting

Psychology (SCP), the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Society

for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Joel is an Associate Editor for

Consulting Psychology Journal and the author of numerous academic papers and

book chapters.

In this session we cover a number of topics in

a free flowing conversation. We talk about the differences and similarities of

therapy and coaching, coaching skills and their effects of their use,

measurement methods and unexpected results in the research work and AI in

coaching as well.