"What's really driving the boom in Executive 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 fall off."
— says John Kotter, professor of leadership at the Harvard Business School.
"Executive Coaches are everywhere these days. Companies hire Executive Coaches to shore up executives or, in some cases, to ship them out. Division heads hire them as change agents. Workers at all levels of the corporate ladder, fed up with a lack of advice from inside the company, are taking matters into their own hands and enlisting Executive coaches for guidance on how to improve their performance, boost their profits, and make better decisions about everything from personnel to strategy."
— TIME Business News
"If ever stressed-out corporate America could use a little couch-time, it's now. Trust in big companies is at an all-time low. Baby-boomers have been burned; Gen Xers aren't expecting the Corporation to take care of them. Under the circumstances, employees are much likelier to go outside and get independent advice to help them be better managers."
— says Karen Cates, assistant professor of organizational behavior at Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
"The demand for Executive Coaches has skyrocketed over the past 5 years... today's executive coach (EC) is intended to help leaders and potential leaders across the rocky, wild, and challenging road of organizational growth in today's dynamic and unstable work environment."
— The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology — American Psychological Association
"Coaching is the only cost-effective way to reinforce new behaviors and skills until a learner is through the dangerous results dip. Once through the dip, when the new skills bring results, they will become self-reinforcing."
— Training and Development Journal
"Corporations believe that coaching helps keep employees and that the dollar investment in it is far less than the cost of replacing an employee."
— Fitzhugh professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
above two quotes from TIME Magazine (Sept 25, 2000) article about Executive Coaching
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