The Future of Coaching

We live in challenging times which require a shift in human thinking and relating. Hetty has written such a warm, generous and beautifully written book that shows how every coach needs to embrace 'next generation coaching' in order to make a greater contribution to organizations, their stakeholders as well as the needed shift in human thinking and relating. Read it, for it will open your thinking and your heart, and change your practice. - Peter Hawkins, Professor of Leadership, Team and Executive Coach, Entrepreneur and author of many best-selling books on Leadership and Coaching, including Leadership Team Coaching (Kogan Page, 2014) and Creating a Coaching Culture (Open University Press, 2012) Hetty's eleven essays weave together a quilt of 25 years of experience in coaching and personal development, offering the reader insightful, informative and challenging ideas to enhance ones practice as an agent of change in the mission of building better lives for our clients and a better world for us all. - Professor Jonathan Passmore, University of Evora, Portugal The great movement in coaching within the coming decade is from coaching as a discrete activity aimed at individual change to coaching as a force for institutional and societal change. Hetty Einzig's book is one of the most significant contributions to this evolution of coaching. - Professor David Clutterbuck, Special Ambassador and Co-founder, European Mentoring and Coaching Council I regard Hetty as one of the founders of the coaching profession, with a deep understanding of the evolution, characteristics and practice of purpose-driven coaching in the workplace. With decades of experience coaching and training leaders and their teams, across many countries and cultures, Hetty is a respected authority on developing the consciousness, values and agility required by coaches and leaders in today's complex world. Hetty's ideas and insights are important for coaches, HR professionals and leaders everywhere. - Sir John Whitmore, Founder of Performance Consultants International and author of Coaching for Performance (Nicholas Brealey, 2010) With subtlety, eloquence and wisdom, Hetty Einzig invites us to engage in a deep and much-needed reflection about coaching in today's complex world. Hetty Einzig effectively illustrates how we can embrace paradoxes and a multifaceted reality, how we can promote integration, raise our consciousness, and develop a global ambition for coaching & leadership in service of the world at large. - Professor Philippe Rosinski, bestselling author of Coaching Across Cultures (Nicholas Brealey, 2003) and Global Coaching (Nicholas Brealey, 2010), Belgium; first Master Certified Coach in Europe Hetty Einzig's new book will have a profound impact beyond the coaching community and into political and diplomatic spheres. Why? Because world leaders now need a better understanding of human dynamics, especially our inability to manage anxiety and fear and our alarming tendency to groupthink. This book offers a pragmatic path to deeper understanding to enable us to cultivate joy, Feminine Intelligence and the inner skills for outer action. - Dr Scilla Elworthy, Founder, Oxford Research Group; Founder, Peace Direct; Councillor of the World Future Council Hetty's essays invite and challenge us with wisdom and insight into a new generation of coaching that is fit for the times. The book is like a carefully-chosen collection of premium wines. The mix includes exquisite and unique flavors, and connections to the traditions of great winemakers. There is pleasure and learning in the consumption. - Geoffrey Abbott, PhD, QUT Business School, Brisbane, Australia This book is a beautiful collection of 'wisdom' essays that sheds new light on the coaching profession. It challenges coaches to step up to the real challenges facing leaders today and work as thinking partners to engage fully with leaders in the messy VUCA world in which we all struggle. Hetty Einzig has drawn on deep personal experience and a real breadth of theory to produce a must-have book for coaches who want to make a real difference. - Professor Simon Western, CEO Analytic-Network Coaching Ltd; author, Coaching and Mentoring: A Critical Text (SAGE, 2012), and Leadership: A Critical Text, 2nd edition (SAGE, 2013); President Elect, International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations Hetty's insights are captured in a beautiful and challenging patchwork of coaching essays not only to be intellectually admired. The essays covering a variety of critical issues ranging from leadership, gender, social justice and environment transform into a magic carpet; transporting the coach-leader through our complex world, challenging coaching paradigms of individual success and effectiveness. The book invites us to join a journey in coaching mastery that holds a collective vision for a socially responsible world with the coach as agent for social change. - Dr Stanley Arumugam, Senior Leadership Advisor, ActionAid International, South Africa This beautifully written and rich collection of essays comes just when we need it- when so many of us feel daunted by these challenging times. Hetty compellingly captures the lay of the current and future landscape in which we operate as coaches and leaders, with all its challenges, and opportunities. And generous wise elder that she is, Hetty then inspires us all to wake up and step up. I dare you not to be stirred, to remain immune to her call to action. - Liz Hall, Editor of Coaching at Work, Co-Editor of The International Journal for Mindfulness and Compassion at Work, and author of Mindful Coaching (Kogan Page, 2013)