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"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 Magazine
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"Between 25 and 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies use executive coaches." Recent survey by The Hay Group,
an international human resources company
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"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.
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"Asked for a conservative estimate of the monetary payoff from the coaching they got, these managers described an average return of
more than $100,00, or about six times what the coaching had cost their companies." Fortune, 2/19/01, "Executive Coaching –
With Returns a CFO Could Love"
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"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 on motorcycles... the whole game
changes, and a lot of people are trying to keep up, learning how to not fall off." John Kotter, Professor of Leadership, Harvard Business School
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"Across corporate America, coaching sessions at many companies have become as routine for executives as budget forecasts and quota meetings."
Investors Business Daily
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"... [A coach is] part advisor, part sounding board, part cheerleader, part manager and part strategist."
The Business Journal, April 10, 2000
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"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, fed up with a lack of advice from inside
the company, are taking matters into their own hands and enlisting coaches for guidance on how to improve their performance,
boost their profits, and make better decisions about everything from personnel to strategy." Fortune, May 21, 2000
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"A coach may be the guardian angel you need to rev up your career." Money magazine
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