A descriptive study of the impact of executive coaching from the perspective of the executive leader

Executive coaching is a new and emerging professional practice in human performance improvement. The overall goal of executive coaching is to develop the skills and knowledge of the leader to ensure leadership excellence which improves individual and organizational performance. As might be expected from a new profession, the practice of executive coaching is ahead of the study of the process. The purpose of this study was to explore and describe, through a descriptive case study, the impact of executive coaching as experienced and described by the participants. A literature review on executive coaching showed that executive coaching has proven to be a successful leadership development program producing extraordinary results. The results of this study also indicated through eleven emergent themes that executive coaching is a successful learning-centered leadership developmental strategy.