Coaching is a well-established developmental tool for senior managers and leaders, but
almost no research has examined the value of coaching for young, emerging leaders.
This paper presents two studies examining the impact of leadership coaching among university
students.
Study 1, a waitlist-controlled experiment, revealed that students who worked with a
professional coach (compared to those in the waitlist group) exhibited larger changes in leader
identity, self-concept clarity, humility, sense of purpose, satisfaction with life, and psychological
distress.
Study 2 supported the validity of these changes through observations of growth by
peers, underscoring the developmental value of coaching for young, emerging leaders.
Read the full academic paper here from the International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring
2021, Vol. 19(2), pp.24-37. DOI: 10.24384/m3az-y271