The Coaching Hall of Fame
What is The Coaching Hall of Fame? A place where key influencers, leaders, and contributors to the coaching field are recognized and encouraged.
These may be names from the past or emerging leaders whose work is largely unheralded as of yet. Who do you think belongs in the Coaching Hall of Fame and why?
Dale Carnegie - Success Merchant of the 1930’s
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) was an American writer who published “How to Win Friends and Influence People” in the late 1930s during the aftermath of the Depression. According to Deloshon and Potter (1982), Carnegie’s 1937 book stated that “training is rooted in learning by doing” and “based on self-assuredness and acceptance of oneself as a person […]
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Malcolm Knowles - Self-Directed Learning as a Foundation for Coaching
Malcolm Knowles (1913-1997) was an American adult educator and acknowledged as the founder of adult education as a separate discipline.
Thanks to Jim Clarkson for this nomination. You can read more about Malcolm Knowles in Jim’s comment of May 15, 2008.
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Edgar Schein: Process Consultant or Coach?
Edgar Schein (born 1928) is a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management who is credited with inventing the term “corporate culture.” In 1969, Schein wrote Process Consultation which introduced the concept of process consultation that describes one of three roles of the organizational consultant. The process consultation modes contain many of the characteristics of […]
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Napoleon Hill - Pioneer Motivational Coach
Napoleon Hill (October 26, 1883-November 8, 1970) was the American author of Think and Grow Rich (1937), one of the earliest and best selling personal-success books of all time. Chapters in this book include: imagination, organized planning, persistence, power of a mastermind group, and the sixth sense as the door to wisdom.
Though it wasn’t called […]
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John Wooden - Greatest Coach of All Time in Any Sport
John Wooden (born October 14, 1910) was coach of the UCLA Bruins basketball team from 1948 to 1976 and the most winning coach in basketball history. You might ask, what does this have to do with coaching outside of sports? Check out Wooden’s Pyramid of Success and 12 Lessons for Leadership(www.coachjohnwooden.com/puramidpdf.pdf). Both speak to self […]
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Peter Drucker: Death of a Coach
Peter Drucker (November 19, 1909-November 11, 2005) was a management guru of Austrian descent. Back in the fifties and sixties, he said a manager’s job was to develop the staff. His 1969 book The Effective Executive is deemed a classic.
Byrne (2005) wrote on his passing:
November 11, 2005, at the age of 95, Peter F. Drucker died peacefully in […]
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Martin Heidegger: Philosopher Extraordinaire
Martin Heidegger (September 26, 1889 - May 26, 1976) was a German existential philosopher. His inclusion in the Hall of Fame is due to Heidegger’s theories about the nature of biological existence, language, and human action, which influenced Flores and the development of ontological coaching.
Heidegger used the concept of ‘transparency’ to refer to what is so […]
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Fernando Flores - From political refugee to coach pioneer to senator
Fernando Flores (born 1943 in Chile) is the originator of an ontological approach to coaching, and mentor to Julio Olalla, Rafael Echevarria, and James Flaherty. Influenced by Maturana, Heidegger and Searle, he produced a new understanding of language and communication and, according to Alan Sieler, invented the term ontological coaching.
Flores was an important minister in […]
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Abraham Maslow - Founder of Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology
Abraham Maslow, (1980-1970) most known for his ‘hierarchy of needs’, is a key influencer on the field of coaching. Maslow, and other humanistic psychologists, believed that people were free, creative individuals with an enormous capacity for growth and self-realization. He believed that all have a natural drive to healthiness and self-fulfillment, which he called the […]
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Tim Gallwey - From Tennis Coaching to Business Coaching
Tim Gallwey (born 1938 in California, USA) blended humanistic and transpersonal psychology principles with performance models from sports in 1974 to create the Inner Game model of coaching. His philosophy was that “the opponent within is more formidable than the one outside.”
Sir John Whitmore and Graham Alexander, coaching pioneers from the United Kingdom, introduced Gallwey’s […]
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Alfred Adler - Grandfather of Coaching?
Alfred Adler (February 7, 1870 – May 28, 1937) was an Austrian medical doctor and psychologist, and founder of the school of individual psychology. Linda Page, founder of the Adler Learning International, described Adler as the “grandfather of coaching, though he never used the word in his work”. Though Adler was one of the co-founders of psychoanalytic psychology with […]
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Thomas Leonard - A Masterful Synthesizer Who Popularized Coaching
When you think of the International Coach Federation, Coach U, the International Association of Coaches, and CoachVille who’s name comes to mind? The visionary behind all of these was Thomas Leonard. Generous and competitive, Thomas was a synthesizer of ideas.
I remember hearing about his Attraction Program in 1997 and signing up knowing that it […]
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Carl Rogers - a Key Influence on the Coaching Field?
Coaching is all of what Carl Rogers thought therapy should be. Carl Rogers was an Esalen psychotherapist who was a leader in humanistic psychology and the Human Potential Movement. His greatest influence on the coaching field was his client-centered approach, though he died in 1987 just before coaching took root.
His approach was about the […]
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Sir John Whitmore - Race Car Driver, Business Owner, and Coach
Sir John Whitmore, of the United Kingdom, is a former champion professional race-car driver, a businessman, a sports psychologist and a pioneer in the coaching field. John got started in coaching in the early 1980’s when he introduced Tim Gallwey’s “Inner Game” techniques used in the sports world in Europe. In 1992 John published “Coaching […]
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Laura Whitworth - from Accountant to Coach Pioneer
Laura Whitworth helped shape the coaching industry with her boldness, creativity, humanness, and asking only that each person find meaning in life by playing their “Bigger Game”. Her accomplishments are many: co-founder of the Coaches Training Institute (CTI), founding member of the Personal Professional Coaches Association (PPCA), co-founder of the Alliance of Coach Training Organizations (ACTO) […]
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*Virtual Dialog for February* Topic: Where Did Coaching Come From | The Players & The Roots
[ February 12, 2008; 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] Call Topic: “Where Did Coaching Come From? The Players, the Roots & other Interesting Tidbits”
About the Call: Have you ever it said that the “roots” determine the “fruits?” It’s true, isn’t it? You can hang peaches or pomegrantes on a pecan tree all you like, and it will still only be a pecan tree.
It’s on […]
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