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In this episode, my guest is Dr. Michel Moral, an executive-turned-clinical psychologist – turned coach, who had a great impact on the development of the field of supervision in coaching. Michel has been active in the field of coaching for long years now, published extensively (this includes more than 10 books for example), and has shared his knowledge actively. In this conversation we reflect on his past, his perspective on the development of supervision and the whole coaching field, and of course some of his research activities. 

Professor Robert – Bob – Garvey PhD, FHEA, FRSA, is one of Europe's leading academic practitioners of coaching and mentoring and an experienced coach/mentor. A prolific writer with a number of books under his belt, one of the original founders of EMCC, the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and an exceptional researcher. He was the MBA director at Durham University, Director of the Coaching and Mentoring Research Unit at Sheffield Hallam University. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and of the Royal Society of Arts… and even more.

In this episode we cover a wide range of topics, including ideas around the dimensions of contracts in coaching, the concept of the “skilled coachee” to start with. Further key points are the “truth positions in research” and the discourses regarding the coaching profession that provide a rich opportunity of reflection for practitioners and researchers alike.  

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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.

In the second episode my guest is professor Jonathan Passmore. If you have

not heard of him previously, Jonathan is an internationally renowned expert in

coaching research and practice. He is the professor of coaching at Henley

Business school, and Senior VP CoachHub, the digital coaching platform. Over a

40 year career he has worked in government, not for profits and the commercial

sector, including PricewaterhouseCoopers, IBM and OPM, focusing on

organisational change, coaching and leadership development. He is a chartered

psychologist, holds five degrees and is a master coach and a team coach and

coaching supervisor. He has published widely with over 100 scientific papers,

100 + book chapters and 30 books. His most recent books include: The Coaches

Handbook (2021), CoachMe: My Personal Board of Directors (2022), and The

Coach Buyers Handbook (2023). 

In this episode he shares insights in around a number of topics. First we

talk about the history of coaching and mentoring and he outlines four pivotal

points in the formation of the helping professions. How did we get here?

Continuing the historical idea, in the second part we discuss the impact of

technological development on the profession. How does digitalization change the

process and business of coaching, and what are the typical challenges that

coach-tech companies need to handle (e.g. data safety) when running their

business.

We talk about research as well, and revolve a bit around the active

ingredients of the coaching conversation and the enablers of coaching success.

My first guest is Erik de Haan, who is the Director of Ashridge's Centre for Coaching with over twenty years of experience in organisational and personal development. He is a prolific writer and is known in the coaching world for his commitment to research and for his talent in uncovering intriguing insights about the coaching process.

Our conversation has a flow, starting with Erik’s background and how he was called to the profession of coaching. We discuss how certain ideas in physics are related to coaching, like levels of aggregation, how to “flirt with a hypothesis” and what could practitioner coaches do to be more conscious in engaging and being involved with research. Erik reflects on some research results around effectiveness and the coaching relationship.

You may take a look at why I invited Erik to the series at the following blog post

You can find a lot more about Erik on his personal website

If you are interested in getting involved in the world of coaching research, you may check EMCC Global’s research page on getting involved