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Hear what Global Leaders and the Media have to say about the Power of Coaching

■ “To create a high-performance team, we must replace typical management activities like supervising, checking, monitoring, and controlling with new
    behaviors like coaching and communicating.” Ray Smith CEO, Bell-Atlantic
■ “Does coaching work? Yes. Good coaches provide a truly important service. They tell you the truth when no one else will.” Jack Welch, Former CEO of
    General Electric
■ "What makes a great coach? credibility, creativity in solving problems, effectiveness in communication, as well as “an understanding that the details
    create success” — that small things usually make the difference between good and great." Atul Gawande - Harvard Gazette
■ "There was a moment in sports when employing a coach was unimaginable—and then came a time when not doing so was unimaginable. We care
    about results in sports, and if we care half as much about results in schools and in hospitals we may reach the same conclusion." Personal Best - New
    Yorker Magazine
■ "Once seen as the last step for an executive about to fall off the ladder, leadership coaches now help smooth a promotion, teach outsiders about their
    new culture, and tune up talent." - CNN Money
■ “Using coaching instead of sending executives and managers to seminars two or three times a year can be more beneficial to ongoing career
    development, not to mention less expensive…” – PC Week
■ “Coaching takes a holistic view of the individual: work, corporate values, personal needs and career development are made to work in synergy, not
    against one another.” – British Journal of Administrative Management
■ “If you want to build your business and at the same time have a rewarding personal life, you call a coach.” – Denver Post
■ “A study featured in Public Personnel Management Journal reports that managers (31) that underwent a managerial training program showed an
    increased productivity of 22.4%. However, a second group was provided coaching following the training process and their productivity increased by
    88%. Research does demonstrate that one-on-one executive coaching is of value.” – F. Turner, Ph.D.
■ “Xerox Corporation carried out several studies on coaching. They determined that in the absence of follow-up coaching to their training classes, 87% of
    the skills change brought about by the program was lost.” – Business Wire
■“In a 2004 survey by Right Management consultants, 86 percent of companies said they used coaching to sharpen skills of individuals who have been
    identified as future organizational leaders.” - Excerpt from “What An Executive Coach Can Do For You” – Harvard Business School.
■ “Business coaching is attracting America’s top CEOs because, put simply, business coaching works. In fact, when asked for a conservative estimate of
    monetary payoff from the coaching they got… managers described an average return of more than 00,000, or about six times what the coaching had
    cost their companies.” - FORTUNE Magazine
■ "I never cease to be amazed at the power of the coaching process to draw out the skills or talent that was previously hidden within an individual, and
    which invariably finds a way to solve a problem previously thought unsolvable." ― John Russell, Managing Director, Harley―Davidson Europe Ltd.
■ "The business demand for coaching is nearly doubling each year. Out of the $80 billion being currently spent on corporate education, FLI Research
    estimates that $2 billion is spent on executive coaching at senior executive levels in Fortune 500 companies." ― Business Wire
■ "Even modest improvements can justify hiring a coach. An investment of $30,000 or so in an executive who has responsibility for tens of millions of
    dollars is a rounding error." ― Jerome Abarbanel, VP of Executive Resources, Citibank
■ "What's really driving the boom in coaching, is this: as we move from 30 miles an hour to 70 to 120 to 180......as we go from driving straight down the
    road to making right turns and left turns to abandoning cars and getting motorcycles...the whole game changes, and a lot of people are trying to keep
    up, learn how not to fall." ― John Kotter, Professor of Leadership, Harvard Business School
■ "In one study, executive coaching at Booz Allen Hamilton returned $7.90 for every the firm spent on coaching." ― MetrixGlobal LLC
■ "Many of the World's most admired corporations, from GE to Goldman Sachs, invest in coaching. Annual spending on coaching in the US is estimated at
    roughly Billion Dollars." ― Harvard Business Review 
■ "I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum capabilities." ― Bob Nardelli, former CEO, Home Depot
■ "I'll bet most of the companies that are in life―or―death battles got into that kind of trouble because they didn't pay enough attention to developing
    their leaders." ― Wayne Calloway, former Chairman, Pepsico, Inc.
■ "In research conducted over the past three years we've found that leaders who have the best coaching skills have better business results." ― VP of
    Global Executive & Organizational Development at IBM
■ "We have done lots of research over the past three years, and we have found that leaders who have the best coaching skills have better business
    results." ― Tanya Clemens, V.P. of Global Executive & Organizational Development at IBM
■"Executive coaches are not for the meek. They're for people who value unambiguous feedback. All coaches have one thing in common, it's that they are
    ruthlessly results―oriented." ― Fast Company
■ "Personal coaches are a hot commodity among executives these days. Never mind the mansion, the Mercedes, the membership in the exclusive country
    club. In corporate America today, the sign that you have truly arrived ― or at least that you are being groomed for arrival ― is an executive coach. Your
    own personal coach, that is. Even if the coach's assignment is to render you less obnoxious, his or her presence at your elbow signals that you are
    regarded by the company as entirely too valuable to fire or shoot." ― Training
■ "In a recent study, training alone improved leadership skills by 22%. When combined with Executive Coaching, improvement jumps to 77%." ― Fortune
■ "Who exactly seeks out a coach? Winners who want more out of life." ― Chicago Tribune
■ "Once used to bolster troubled staffers, coaching now is part of the standard leadership development training for elite executives and talented up-and-
    comers at IBM, Motorola, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and Hewlett Packard. These companies are discreetly giving their best prospects what star athletes have
    long had: a trusted adviser to help reach their goals." ― CNN.com
■ "For years, CEOs of some of the most successful and largest companies have relied on executive coaches. Henry McKinnell, CEO of Pfizer, Meg Whitman,
    CEO of eBay, and David Pottruck, CEO of Charles Schwab & Co., are just a few who rely on a trusted adviser". ― The Business Journal
■ "The Business demand for coaching is nearly doubling each year. Out of the $80 billion being currently spent on corporate education, FLI Research
    estimates that $2 billion is spent on executive coaching at senior executive levels in Fortune 500 companies."― Business Wire
■ “The benefits of coaching appear to win over even the most cynical clients within just a few weeks.” ― Money Magazine
■ "Employees at Nortel Networks estimate that coaching earned the company a 529 percent "return on investment and significant intangible benefits to
    the business," according to calculations prepared by Merrill C. Anderson, a professor of clinical education at Drake University." ― Psychology Today
■ "Across corporate America, coaching sessions at many companies have become as routine for executives as budget forecasts and quota meetings." ―
    Investors Business Daily
■ "More executives are beginning to request the service for themselves…as the negative connotation of coaching as a form of punishment for poor
    performance is replaced by the growing perception that coaching can help an individual or group to build sustainable professional and personal skills,
    better learn, overcome challenges, reach stretch goals and integrate leadership training." ― US Careers Journal
■ "Recent studies show business coaching and executive coaching to be the most effective means for achieving sustainable growth, change and
    development in the individual, group and organization." ― HR Monthly
■ "Executive Coaches are everywhere these days. Companies hire them to shore up executives or, in some cases, to ship them out. Division heads hire
    them as change agents. Workers at all levels of the corporate ladder are enlisting coaches for guidance on how to improve their performance, boost
    their profits, and make better decisions about everything from personnel to strategy." ― TIME Business News
■ "Corporations believe that coaching helps keep employees and that the dollar investment in it is far less than the cost of replacing an employee. ―
    David A. Thomas Fitzhugh, professor of Business Administration" ― Harvard Business School
■ "Employers are shocked at how high their ROI numbers are for coaching. He recalls a large employer in the hospitality industry saved between $30
    million and $60 million by coaching its top 200 executives." ― Accenture, Alastair Robertson, Manager of worldwide leadership development
■ "The Manchester survey of 140 companies shows nine in 10 executives believe coaching to be worth their time and dollars. The average return was
    more than $5 for each spent." ― The Denver Post
■ "Executive coaches often are brought in to help a star player navigate a new role or advance faster inside a company. Other businesses, however, hire a
    coach to fix a manager’s flaws, such as poor interpersonal skills. View an Executive Coach As an Aide, Not an Enemy." ― The Wall Street Journal
■ A Conference Board study concludes that Corporations are investing more time and money in leadership development due to concerns that the future
    supply of top executive talent may prove inadequate for their needs
■ “Career management coaches can identify missing skills or style difficulties and other pragmatic tips.” ― New York Times
■ “….many companies….offer coaching as a prerequisite to proven managers, in the understanding that everyone can benefit from a detached observer.”
    ― Harvard Business Review