What Are People Saying about Coaching?

“Rooted in sports, coaching is about creating results and reaching peak performance.”

Enterprise Magazine, Using a Coach/Mentor for Business Success. April 15, 2005

“Executive coaches, who typically work with big CEOs are brought in as (mostly) agenda-free surrogate mentors. That's become especially important in this mobile age when it's rare to find a lifelong veteran available to offer support and guidance.”
Fast Company Magazine, Are you Being Coached? February 2005

“Business coaches teach the importance of a proper work-life balance, showing them how to work less and manage time effectively to be able to take a holiday, as well as imparting practical business necessities such as how to recruit staff, delegate responsibility and achieve a better income.”
Start Up Magazine, Business Coaching Franchise Looking to Expand, May 20, 2005

"Coaching develops leaders in the context of their current jobs, without removing them from their day-to-day responsibilities."
Harvard Business Review, What an Executive Coach Can Do For You
June 13, 2005

“It is hard to doubt that coaching delivers benefits. It fosters relationships, feedback, care, conversation, collaboration, answers, and bonding between veterans, experts, and novices. So how could coaching be anything but good for individuals and organizations?”
Careers Journal, Wall Street Journal Growth of E Coaching Provides More Options, November 28, 2005

"A whopping 98.5% of coaching clients said their investment in a coach was well worth the money, according to an International Coaching Federation survey. 'Coaching is the most potent tool for inducing positive personal change, ensuring better-than-average odds for success and making the change stick for the longer term.' The Ivey Business Journal recently stated."
BC Business Magazine, April 2001.

“Asked for a conservative estimate of the monetary payoff from the coaching they got...managers described an average return of more than $100,000, or about six times what the coaching had cost their companies.”
Fortune Magazine, Executive Coaching—With Returns a CFO Could Love, February 19, 2001

“I never cease to be amazed at the power of the coaching process to draw out the skills or talent that was previously hidden within an individual, and which invariably finds a way to solve a problem previously thought unsolvable.”
John Russell, Managing Director, Harley-Davidson Europe Ltd.

“Executive coaches are not for the meek. They’re for people who value unambiguous feedback. All coaches have one thing in common, it’s that they are ruthlessly results-oriented.”
Fast Company Magazine

“Across corporate America, coaching sessions at many companies have become as routine for executives as budget forecasts and quota meetings.”
Investors Business Daily

“[A coach is] part advisor, part sounding board, part cheerleader, part manager and part strategist.”
The Business Journal, April 10, 2000

“Between 25 percent and 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies use executive coaches.”
The Hay Group, an international HR consultancy

“Coaching is the number two growth industry right behind IT jobs, and it’s the number one home-based profession.”
Start Up Magazine

“What’s really driving the boom in coaching, is this: as we move from 30 miles an hour to 70 to 120 to 180...as we go from driving straight down the road to making right turns and left turns to abandoning cars and getting on motorcycles...the whole game changes, and a lot of people are trying to keep up, learn how not to fall off.”
John Kotter, Professor of Leadership, Harvard Business School

“Inside every successful business person is an even more ambitious one trying to get out. He or she just needs a little help.”
Australian Financial Review, Someone to Watch Over You, September 9, 2000

“A coach may be the guardian angel you need to rev up your career.”
Money Magazine

“For Stephen MacMillan, it's all about coaching his team to stay ahead of the pack. So one of the first things he did when he took the helm as chief executive of Stryker (SYK) last January was to set a new goal for the maker of orthopedic implants and medical devices: to be the fastest growing medical tech company in the orthopedics field. Just one year later, the 42-year-old MacMillan has met that objective.”
Investors Business Daily, Stryker's Stephen MacMillan February, 7 2006

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