Dianne R. Stober & Anthony M. Grant 
Evidence Based Coaching Handbook 
Putting Best Practices to Work for Your Clients

The first reference to bring scientifically proven approaches to
the practice of personal and executive coaching

The Evidence Based Coaching Handbook applies recent
behavioral science research to executive and personal coaching,
bringing multiple disciplines to bear on why and how coaching
works. A groundbreaking resource for this burgeoning profession,
this text presents several different coaching approaches along with
the empirical and theoretical knowledge base supporting each.

Recognizing the special character of coaching-that the coaching
process is non-medical, collaborative, and highly contextual-the
authors lay out an evidence-based coaching model that allows
practitioners to integrate their own expertise and the needs of
their individual clients with the best current knowledge. This
gives coaches the ability to better understand and optimize their
own coaching interventions, while not having to conform to a
single, rigidly defined practice standard.

The Evidence Based Coaching Handbook looks at various
approaches and applies each to the same two case studies,
demonstrating through this practical comparison the methods,
assumptions, and concepts at work in the different approaches.

The coverage includes:

* An overview: a contextual model of coaching approaches

* Systems and complexity theory

* The behavioral perspective

* The humanistic perspective

* Cognitive coaching

* Adult development theory

* An integrative, goal-focused approach

* Psychoanalytically informed coaching

* Positive psychology

* An adult learning approach

* An adventure-based framework

* Culture and coaching

Table of Content

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Contributors.

Introduction (Anthony M. Grant and Dianne R. Stober).

Part I: Single-Theory Perspectives.

Chapter 1: Coaching from the Humanistic Perspective (Dianne
R. Stober).

Chapter 2: People Are Complex and the World Is Messy: A
Behavior-Based Approach to Executive Coaching (David B.
Peterson).

Chapter 3: Adult Development Theory and Executive Coaching
Practice (Jennifer Garvey Berger).

Chapter 4: Cognitive Coaching (Jeffrey E. Auerbach).

Chapter 5: Psychoanalytically Informed Executive Coaching
(Seth Allcorn).

Part II: Integrative and Cross-Theory Approaches.

Chapter 6: An Integrative Goal-Focused Approach to Executive
Coaching (Anthony M. Grant).

Chapter 7: An Adult Learning Approach to Coaching (Elaine
Cox).

Chapter 8: Positive Psychology: The Science at the Heart of
Coaching (Carol Kauffman).

Chapter 9: Coaching from a Cultural Perspective (Philippe
Rosinski and Geoffrey N. Abbott).

Chapter 10: An Adventure-Based Framework for Coaching (Travis
Kemp).

Chapter 11: Coaching from a Systemic Perspective: A Complex
Adaptive Conversation (Michael Cavanagh).

Chapter 12: Toward a Contextual Approach to Coaching Models
(Dianne R. Stober and Anthony M. Grant).

Appendix: Workplace and Executive Coaching: A Bibliography from
the Scholarly Business Literature (Anthony M. Grant).

Author Index.

Subject Index.

About the author

DIANNE STOBER, PHD, consults, teaches, and conducts research
in the areas of coaching and adult learning. She is on the faculty
of the Organizational Management/Organizational Development
Master’s Program at Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara,
California. Trained as a clinical psychologist, she maintains an
active coaching practice with individuals and organizations, while
also consulting on designing and providing executive and managerial
development programs. She can be reached at dstober@fielding.edu.

ANTHONY M. GRANT, PHD, is the founder and Director of the
world’s first university-based Coaching Psychology Unit at the
School of Psychology, in the University of Sydney, Australia. His
Ph D is in coaching psychology and he is a registered psychologist.
He is both an academic and a practitioner and his coaching research
and practice have been frequently featured in the national and
international media.