Global Business of Coaching

David Lines is the owner founder of David Lines & Associates, Singapore.Christina Evans is Deputy Director in the Business School at the University of Roehampton - London, UK.

"This expert and wide-ranging work defines coaching while illuminating its difference to other personal and developmental business approaches. It charts the historical evolution of coaching as a profession and speculates upon its future development. This book will enhance your appreciation of what you offer as a coach, raise to mind the models and influences that shape your practice, while illuminating how you might develop yourself as a coach and develop your coaching as a business. As an interesting aside it will locate you and what you offer within the global community and business of coaching. The expanding market of the Middle East and Asian context of coaching is likewise appraised. Simply, this book is essential reading for practising coaches and progressive teachers of coaching alike." Professor Paul Barber, Middlesex University, UK

• Part 1: A Meta-Analysis of Coaching: Roots, Theories and Models Examined through a Critical Lens1. Introduction 2. A Meta-Analysis of Coaching: Identifying the Main Phenomena within the Field 3. Unpacking the Needs of Coaching (Demand vs Supply of Coaching)Part 2: Coaching in Practice: Tensions and Dilemmas in Gaining Entry to the Field and Practising as a Credible Coach in Different Contexts 4. Coaching Qualifications, Credentials and Governance 5. Narratives of Coaching in Different Contexts 6. Narratives of being a Customer and Consumers of Coaching Conversations 7. Reflexivity and Reflective Practice in Coaching: How Coaches Learn and Develop from their PracticePart 3: Contemporary Debates and Dilemmas: Coaching as a Business vs Coaching as a Respected Profession 8. Tensions between the Business of Coaching and the Development of a Profession9. Reflecting Back looking Forward: Speculating on the Future for Coaching