Positive Psychology in Coaching: Applying Science to Executive and Personal Coaching

This is both a scholarly, and practical, how-to coaching book that features empirically based and immediately usable applications for executive and personal coaches. It is a logical companion manual to the Auerbach coaching book, Personal and Executive Coaching. The research summaries from key positive psychology founders and experts support the coaching applications. Author examples and the contributors cases of positive psychology coaching are interspersed throughout the chapters as sidebars. Useful forms and tools are included in the appendix. This new volume is an excellent resource for the new or experienced coach and particularly engaging as a textbook for positive psychology and coaching courses.

Sandra L. Foster, PhD, PCC, is a business coach and peak performance psychology expert now based in Charleston, South Carolina, after living and working in Europe for eight years. She is a licensed psychologist, a Chartered British Psychologist, and holds the International Coach Federation Professional Certified Coach Credential. She has been a College of Executive Coaching senior faculty member since 2001. She was a principal in Korn/Ferry International s Leadership & Talent Consulting group, based in London and then in Los Angeles, before returning to independent coaching and consulting practice. Her clients are executives, emerging leaders, and entrepreneurs, as well as musicians, actors, and writers. Dr. Foster received her doctorate from Stanford University and served on the faculty as acting assistant professor and consulting associate professor. She speaks internationally on performance enhancement for leaders and positive psychology in coaching. Dr. Foster is the co-author of two sport psychology books and numerous scholarly articles and book chapters.

Dr. Jeffrey E. Auerbach, MCC, began coaching in 1986. He designs and delivers executive coaching programs, wellness coaching programs, internal coaching programs to build a coaching culture, and emotionally intelligent leadership programs globally. Although based in California, he has worked with clients in Canada, Mexico, Europe, the Middle East, Australia, India, Singapore and Korea.

Auerbach serves on the International Coach Federation Global Board of Directors, recently holding the office of Vice-President. He has also served as both President, and for five years as an International Board Member of the Association of Coach Training Organizations, an organization that has had a long strategic relationship with the International Coach Federation. He has served on the ICF Governance Workgroup, and also served on the Editorial Board of Coaching: International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice. An expert on emotional intelligence in the workplace Dr. Auerbach is a frequent speaker at academic and professional conferences on peak performance and emotional intelligence.

Auerbach is the author of the classic coaching book, Personal and Executive Coaching, as well as, Seeing the Light: What Organizations Need to Know - The State of the Coaching Industry Report, and the editor of Building Competence in Personal and Executive Coaching. His upcoming book (2014), co-authored with Dr. Sandra Foster from Stanford, is Positive Psychology and Coaching: Applying Science to Executive and Personal Coaching.

Other professional involvement includes: two years as the Co-Chair of the American Psychological Association's Society of Consulting Psychology Conference; four years as a Steering Committee Member of the American Psychological Association Healthy Workplace Awards; and Steering Committee Member of the Executive Coaching Summit. He holds a Ph.D. in Psychology and is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, the Chicago School of Psychology, and Antioch University.

Auerbach is particularly passionate about the power of coaching, emotional intelligence and positive psychology to uplift humanity.

Past non-profit, government and corporate coaching clients include Mayo Clinic, US Air Force, MCI, Tri-Counties Regional Center, Pfizer, Los Angeles Retirement System, SAGE, CenturyLink, Allergan and Wells Fargo.

Dr. Auerbach is available for keynote presentation on executive coaching, emotional intelligence, well-being, peak performance and creating a high performing coaching culture.