Coaching Power - by Tom Preston & Luciana Nunez (Hardcover)

About the Book

"In Coaching Power, a team of veteran executive coaches delivers a singularly insightful and original way of looking at leadership: as a form of coaching. The authors explain this new way of leading others and offer readers a set of tools, frameworks, and mindsets to take with them in their professions. You'll discover how to succeed in a world that's evolving faster than ever, and how to navigate a workplace that can include as many as five unique generations, each of which demand a different style of leadership."--

Book Synopsis

A powerful new approach to leadership tailor-made for the 21st century

In Coaching Power, a team of veteran executive coaches delivers a singularly insightful and original way of looking at leadership: as a form of coaching. The authors explain this new way of leading others and offer readers a set of tools, frameworks, and mindsets to take with them in their professions.

You'll discover how to succeed in a world that's evolving faster than ever, and how to navigate a workplace that can include as many as five unique generations, each of which demand a different style of leadership.

Coaching Power shows you:

• The fundamentals of coaching, including listening, questioning, and intuition
• How to create and enhance high performance teams, and how to have courageous conversations
• When it's time to bring in an external coach and what to look for to ensure the right fit

Perfect for managers, executives, directors, and other business leaders, Coaching Power is also a can't-miss resource for entrepreneurs and founders seeking a powerful new way to lead others through challenging circumstances.

From the Back Cover

A POWERFUL NEW APPROACH TO LEADERSHIP THAT'S PERFECTLY SUITED TO CONTEMPORARY ORGANIZATIONS

COACHING POWER is an incisive, exciting, and inspiring new way to look at leadership. In the book, experienced business leaders and executive coaches Tom Preston and Luciana Núñez convincingly explain why all leadership is a form of coaching and how you can develop your coaching skillset to help your followers achieve their goals and fulfill their highest potentials.

The authors show you the frameworks, tools, and mindsets you need to understand and deploy to connect with a workforce that includes members from five distinct generations. You'll learn to use different styles of leadership with different people in different situations without compromising your own unique style or foregoing the use of your personal strengths.

COACHING POWER demonstrates the fundamentals of listening, observing, intuiting, and questioning and walks you through how to use those fundamentals to create high-performance teams that consistently achieve or exceed their objectives. It's the perfect book for directors, managers, executives, entrepreneurs, and other leaders who want to bring out the best in everyone they work with.

"All leaders today are expected to have coaching skills as part of their leadership repertoire. This book is a treasure trove for anyone looking to develop, improve, and refine their coaching skills."
--JAYNE OPPERMAN, CEO, Consumer Relationships, Lloyds Banking Group

"As businesses transform and adapt to unprecedented levels of change, this book gives the reader new ways to engage, access creative solutions, and navigate uncertainty. A real game changer for leaders."
--CHRISTINE SIEMSSEN, Chief Marketing and Digital Officer, Danone

About the Author

TOM PRESTON
Tom has been an Executive Coach for the past 22 years, having founded The Preston Associates, one of the world's leading boutique Executive Coaching firms. Tom has worked with some of the best leaders of commercial organizations across multiple sectors and geographies.

During his career, Tom led the management buy-out of a major commodity-trading firm of which he became an executive. He was also Managing Director of a private equity fund and the Chief Operating Officer of an investment bank in Asia. His coaching style is business and results-focused, empathetic yet challenging. Tom uses his extensive executive experience to inspire leaders to deliver their full potential within a business.

LUCIANA NÚÑEZ
Luciana is an Executive Coach with over 20+ years of international experience as a leader and CEO. Her journey offers her a firsthand understanding on the pressures, challenges, and exhilaration of leading in today's complex business world.

Luciana works with CEOs, senior leaders, and teams across industries to craft purposeful strategies and cultures that drive extraordinary results. Her executive career spans Fortune 500 companies in the CPG, tech, and healthcare sectors, including Danone, Bayer, and Roche.

This rich perspective has shaped her core belief: no matter how brilliant the ideas, genuine engagement with people is the key to business success.