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Executive Coaching as an Intervention in Talent Management

Date: 
Sat, 09/13/2008 - 8:30am
Location: 

Benedictine University, Kindlon Hall, Room 164 (Get Directions)

Speaker: 
Brian Underhill, Ph.D., Coach Source
Fee: 
Members – Free, Non-Members – $15

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The executive coaching industry has come of age. But how do organizations and coaches make the most of this powerful method? What is the purpose of coaching? How can you tell coaches apart? How are coaching results measured?

Learn from Brian Underhill, one of the authors of the just released Executive Coaching for Results: The Definitive Guide to Developing Organization Leaders. In the book, Brian Underhill, together with his co-authors, Kimcee McAnally and John Jay Koriath draw upon their vast experience, best practice knowledge and original rigorous research of the practice of executive coaching in the world’s top organizations.

In this presentation, Brian Underhill will talk about executive coaching and its role in the Talent Management process as a leadership development intervention. Brian will be discussing the three points below –

  • How great companies use coaching to develop and accelerate leadership
  • What to expect from a great coaching engagement
  • Measuring coaching results: best practices

The presentation will end with Q&A followed by book purchase/signing for those interested in purchasing the book, Executive Coaching for Results: The Definitive Guide to Developing Organization Leaders.


Presenter: Brian O. Underhill, Ph.D.
Brian O. Underhill, Ph.D. is an industry-recognized expert in the design and management of worldwide executive coaching implementations. His executive coaching work has successfully focused on helping clients achieve positive, measurable, long-term change in leadership behavior. He has also helped pioneer the use of “mini-surveys”—a unique measurement tool to help impact behavioral change over time. Brian is the Founder of CoachSource and the Alexcel Group.

Brian is the author of Executive Coaching for Results: The Definitive Guide to Developing Organizational Leaders (Berrett Koehler: 2007). His most recent article on Agilent Technologies’ coaching program appears in Coaching For Leadership, Second Edition (Pfeiffer: 2006) and Best Practices in Leadership Development and Organization Change (Pfeiffer: 2005). He has been a speaker at The Conference Board, Linkage, ASTD New York and LA, HRPS New York, PCMA and other industry events.

Clients
Acushnet, Agilent Technologies, Allstate, AT&T, AT&T Wireless Services, Babycenter.com, Biosense Webster, Bombardier Aerospace, Cadence Design, California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), California State Automobile Association, Callaway Golf, Dell, Federal Aviation Administration, James Hardie, Johnson & Johnson, Kodak, KPMG, Labatt Breweries, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, LifeScan, Lucent Technologies, Lutheran Brotherhood, Marathon Petroleum, McNeil Consumer Products, MGM/Mirage, Motorola, Neutrogena Corporation, Nortel, Sony, Southern California Edison, Sun Microsystems, Tribune Company, Unum Provident Corporation, US West Wireless and Warner Lambert. Some of Brian’s non-profit pro-bono work has benefited the Drucker Foundation, the Josephson Institute of Ethics, St. Vincent de Paul Village, Union Rescue Mission and UCLA School of Public Health.

Education
Brian has a Ph.D. and an M.S. degree in organizational psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology (Los Angeles) and a B.A. in psychology from the University of Southern California. Brian is certified in the Goldsmith Coaching Process.

Contact Information
Brian lives near Silicon Valley in Northern California with his wife Lisa, Kaitlyn (5) and Evan (2).
+1 (408) 779-9059
brian@coach-source.com
www.coach-source.com