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The Executive Coach In The Corporate Forest

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If you like fables or allegorical type business books, you will like this one. Written as a business fable, The Executive Coach in the Corporate Forest offers picturesque view of the challenges addressed in Executive Coaching. A quick read, the issues and answers provide a foundation for anyone wondering about the value of executive coaching. Time well spent.

I coach a lot of executives and political appointees in the Federal government and often find new clients don't understand what is executive coaching and what kind of impacts it can have on them and their organizations. Steve's book helps speed up the process in a succinct, easy to read way that is not time consuming. I find that giving my clients this book up front helps us move quicker and go deeper to achieve the results they want to achieve. I recommend this book to all practicing coaches as a useful tool to speed client engagement.

I highly recommend this book to everyone who is interested in becoming a great leader! The narratives in this book strike a very familiar note and are most revealing of the complex relational struggles that confront leaders. Gladis does an excellent job illustrating the best communication strategies for meeting and overcoming these challenges. Steve Gladis becomes your leadership coach in this book, helping you successfully inspire, coordinate, and influence the people you work with. I really enjoyed reeading this book and I have already incorporated a lot of what I learned from the book in my personal and professional endeavors. I think you will find this book to be extremely valuable too!

Gary L. Kreps, Ph.D.
Eileen and Steve Mandell Professor of Health Communication
Chair, Department of Communication
Director, Center for Health and Risk Communication
George Mason University

A must read for those unfamiliar with or unsure of the value of executive coaching. Dr. Gladis's use of scenario-based examples demonstrates the entire coaching process in a poignant, simple manner, from the pre-coaching interview to the final evaluation and review. The examples enable readers to understand exactly how an experienced executive coach helps a qualified client find his/her own path to the next level, both personally and professionally. If someone has found that he/she has stalled in their professional advancement, it is very likely that an executive coach could be the answer. An extremely quick read and well worth the investment.

Gladis takes the reader inside the mind of the coach and the
coached and makes him feel like a witness to a host of
human foibles. His parallel stories are laced with real people who, while
successful in many ways, hit a rough patch in their lives and are compelled
to face up to some deep seated issues that are holding them back.
In his gentle, humorous but unyielding view that people must embrace the
light and the shadow within themselves, Gladis makes it clear that there are those who can lead
us back to our highest purposes when we have lost our way.