The Professional Coaching Series
About the Book Series
This series brings together leading exponents and researchers in the coaching field to provide a definitive set of core texts important to the development of the profession. It aims to meet two needs - a professional series that provides the core texts that are theoretically and experimentally grounded, and a practice series covering forms of coaching based in evidence. Together they provide a complementary framework to introduce, promote and enhance the development of the coaching profession.
Internal Coaching: The Inside Story
2nd Edition
By Katharine St John-Brooks, Julia Duncan
November 14, 2025
Internal Coaching: The Inside Story provides a window into the world of internal coaching: the challenges and rewards for the coaches themselves and the ways in which organisations can ensure that they can get best value for money from their investment in them. Internal coaching is booming yet ...
Coaching Strategies for Corporate Innovation: A Systemic Approach to Coaching Teams and Leaders
1st Edition
By Ivan Yong, Sam Lee
September 24, 2025
Drawing upon the authors' own extensive experiences within the field, and melding startup dynamics with corporate innovation, the book equips readers to navigate the complexities of this emerging innovation practice. Collaboration between large corporations and innovative startups represents a ...
A Guide to Formulation in Coaching
1st Edition
By David A. Lane, Sarah Corrie, Louise C. Kovács
June 25, 2025
Lane, Corrie and Kovács present a foundational text for coaches wishing to improve their coaching practice through use of formulation. A Guide to Formulation in Coaching examines the nature and purpose of formulation and how to develop effective formulations that can inform and improve practice. It...
An Integral Approach to Transformative Leadership: Dancing Through the Storm
1st Edition
By Dorrian Aiken
September 08, 2023
This essential new book is a practical "how-to" guide to enhancing the quality of relationships between leaders and individuals in organisations – the proven key to maximising performance, building resilience, and retaining talent. Integral vision, seen through each of the four quadrants described ...
The Evidence-Based Practitioner Coach: Understanding the Integrated Experiential Learning Process
1st Edition
By Lloyd Chapman
May 05, 2023
The Evidence-Based Practitioner Coach gives a descriptive, phenomenological understanding of human development through the lens of the Integrated Experiential Learning Process, and how it can be applied in coaching.Aimed at coaches who would like to ground their experience in an evidence-based ...
Developing and Sustaining a Successful Family Business: A Solution-Focused Guide
1st Edition
By Louis Cauffman
March 18, 2022
This practical and important book offers ideas, examples, and suggestions that address the challenges inherent to developing and sustaining a successful family business. It explores the complex dynamics involved in working with loved ones and how to pass a business on to a new generation. ...
Supporting the Family Business: A Coaching Practitioner's Handbook
2nd Edition
By Manfusa Shams
December 29, 2021
This fully updated second edition provides evidence-based, solution focused techniques for applying coaching in family business settings. Manfusa Shams has demonstrated the critical connection between coaching skills, family business functions, experiential and reflective learning. Edition updates...
Coaching Self-Organising Teams: Helping Teams Flourish
1st Edition
By Ro Gorell
December 22, 2021
There is a tendency to assume that teams will naturally know how to self-organise and optimise their collective talents. This thoughtful and engaging book explores the practicalities of coaching teams and some of the challenges that naturally occur because of who we are as human beings. Part of ...
Coaching with Careers and AI in Mind: Grounding a Hopeful and Resourceful Self Fit for a Digital World
1st Edition
By Adina Tarry
July 04, 2018
Coaching with Careers and AI in Mind presents an integrated overview of life and career options for individuals caught in the transition to a new world of work - impacted by the fourth digital revolution - and the tension this creates. The book synthesises extensive career coaching experience, ...
Coaching in Islamic Culture: The Principles and Practice of Ershad
1st Edition
By Raja'a Allaho, Christian van Nieuwerburgh
August 14, 2017
This book is the result of a collaboration between two authors who share a passion and commitment for coaching. Its aim is to enthuse readers and provide guidance about the appropriate use of coaching within Islamic culture. The intention is to provide a culturally relevant coaching framework for ...
The Cross-Cultural Coaching Kaleidoscope: A Systems Approach to Coaching Amongst Different Cultural Influences
1st Edition
By Jennifer Plaister-Ten
July 15, 2016
Coaching has emerged from a Western, largely Anglo-American, perspective that may not be appropriate across cultures, given the multi-cultural nature of societies and workplaces today and the working practice of virtual teams. This has repercussions for the coaching profession. There is little ...
Coaching on the Axis: Working with Complexity in Business and Executive Coaching
1st Edition
By Marc Simon Kahn
June 04, 2014
This book offers an approach to business and executive coaching that properly aligns the practice in the culture of business through the use of a relational "coaching axis" that helps to manage the complexity of the organisation and the individual as dual clients. Business and executive coaching ...