This is the third post in a four-post series – The Invisibles: What Your Boss Wants You To Know. You can read the first post here. You can read the second post here. Whenever I kick off an executive coaching engagement, I spend 30 minutes one-on-one with the boss of the person being coached. Over

This is the second post in a four-post series – The Invisibles: What Your Boss Wants You To Know. You can read the first post here. Whenever I kick off an executive coaching engagement, I spend 30 minutes one-on-one with the boss of the person being coached. Over the years, and across hundreds of these

I’ve been an executive coach for the past 16 years — literally, the longest I have held any single job title in my entire career. In that time, I have touched the professional (and, by extension, personal) lives of more than 300 leaders. For every corporate leader I have coached, I have interviewed that person’s