Ellen B. Van Oosten

• PhD
• Professor (Full) at Case Western Reserve University

Leadership coaching—a relational process by which a professional coach works with a leader to support their development—is a common component of learning and development portfolios in organizations. Despite broad agreement about the importance of the coaching relationship, relational processes remain undertheorized, failing to account for the growt...

Executive coaching has been touted as an effective intervention for fostering positive change in individuals and organizations. Yet coaching practice in organizations is often decoupled from a scholarly theory of change that can provide insight into how positive outcomes are achieved. In this study we drew on intentional change theory to structure...

Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) perspectives define interpersonal work experiences such as positive work relationships and high-quality connections by the mutual growth and empowerment experienced by relationship or connection partners. Listening has been implicated as a key mechanism for building such positive interpersonal work experien...

Paper presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, virtual. ***Management Education and Development Division Best Paper

Drawing upon self-determination theory (SDT; Deci & Ryan, 2002a; Ryan & Deci, Olafsen, & Ryan, 2017) and intentional change theory (ICT, Boyatzis, 2008), we offer an integrative conceptual model to define what constitutes an effective leadership coach. We propose an effective leadership coach enables sustained change on the part of the leader being...

Emotional intelligence has been considered a hallmark of successful leaders for nearly three decades. During the same period, executive coaching emerged as a beneficial resource for leader development in organizations. The purpose of this pilot study is to investigate the impact of emotional and social competence (ESC) and executive coaching on lea...

Innovative professional development approaches are needed to address the ongoing lack of women leaders in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers. Developed from the research on women who persist in engineering and computing professions and essential elements of women’s leadership development, the Leadership Lab for Women in STEM...

Emotional intelligence has been hailed as a hallmark of successful leaders since the term was popularized in the 1990s. Around the same period, executive coaching emerged as a beneficial resource for leadership development in organizations. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of emotional competence and coaching on the effectiven...

Coaching has emerged as an increasingly popular and effective way to build leadership capability within organizations through one-on-one helping relationships. The growth of coaching practice has outpaced research, necessitating that scientists and practitioners look to complementary fields to expand their knowledge. One such field is positive psyc...

El coaching compasivo, un aliado de la salud y el renuevo Coaching is a relationship-based process. When it is successful in activating a person’s healthy psycho-physiological systems, it can help that person open themselves up to new possibilities and achieve personal growth and renewal. How does it do this? By triggering a series of neuro-endocri...

In this chapter, we offer a definition of a particular type of coaching, one focused on achieving sustained, desired change in the individual being coached. We also discuss a theory of intentional change, which we suggest explains why coaching in this manner indeed leads to sustained, desired change in individuals. We explore the coaching relations...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the application of intentional change theory (ICT) at the organizational level through the lens of a case study. Design/methodology/approach This paper is a case study of Roadway Express, a leading transportation provider of industrial and commercial goods throughout North America, which embarked on...