About the Authors
David Rock has done over 7,000 hours of executive and business coaching and has trained over 10,000 people as coaches. He launched Results Coaching Systems in 1998 and cofounded the coaching certificate programs at New York University in 2005. As well as being chief executive officer of Results Coaching Systems, David is now on the faculty at CIMBA, an international business school based in Europe, and a guest lecturer at Oxford University’s business school. He is on the board of The Blue School, building a new approach to K-12 education. At the time of writing this book, he is completing a professional doctorate in the Neuroscience of Leadership. His approach to coaching is at the heart of wide-scale coaching programs at global organizations including EDS, Ericsson, and many others. In 2006 David coined the term “NeuroLeadership” and founded the NeuroLeadership Institute that brought together neuroscientists and global business leaders for the first NeuroLeadership Summit in May 2007, followed by further summits and a journal. His expertise lies in the science underpinning coaching and how to build coaching cultures in large organizations. He divides his time between Sydney, Australia, and New York City.
Linda Page, Ph.D., began her first career at Princeton University, where she studied sociology, anthropology, and linguistics. She later became a psychotherapist. She administered a master’s program in counseling psychology, taught social and cognitive psychology in a doctoral program in the United States, and founded a coaching school—Adler International Learning—in 1998 in Toronto, Canada. The school now has a presence in the United States and Europe. The multidisciplinary demands of coaching practice and neuroscience research and theory bring together many strands of her career and intellectual interests. Linda has been a member of the Society for Psychotherapy Research for many years. She helped organize research symposia for the International Coach Federation and now serves on the Research Advisory Board of The Foundation of Coaching. As a board member for the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations, she helped develop a series of symposia that bring together small groups of business leaders, coaches, and trainers to develop mutual understanding of the challenges facing organizations internationally. She has also served on the boards of the Association of Coach Training Organizations and the Graduate School Alliance for Executive Coaching, which is developing a graduate-level curriculum for coach education. She is a regular contributor to The Journal of Individual Psychology and serves on the editorial board of The International Journal for Coaching in Organizations.
IN THE AUTHORS’ WORDS
The two of us come from very different backgrounds and, indeed, different parts of the world. We see this as an advantage because coaches come from many different backgrounds, each with its own “bedrock” that, taken together, constitute the foundation of coaching. We intend in this book to remind us all of the foundational concepts that we are familiar with and to acquaint ourselves with other, less familiar bedrock. At the very least, we hope to participate in a dialogue that develops a common language and helps us understand one another. And we intend to help create a discipline of coaching by making sure that we acknowledge the contributions of those on whose shoulders we stand. For that reason, we have included many more references than is typical for books of this type. Further, we hope to build on the existing foundation of coaching by adding neuroscience as an evidence base for the discipline and profession of coaching.
Neither of us is a neuroscientist. Neither are we primarily scholarly theory producers, weaving together research data for academic texts and journals, although we both contribute in this way. We are both most interested in applying neuroscience discoveries to coaching and to leadership skills in general. That is, we are interpreters who hope to encourage people to make practical use of what is known about the brain. Ultimately, we have written this book because of the positive impact that understanding the brain has had on our own coaching practices as well as on our ability to train better coaches.
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