Connecting the Dots: Coaching Research from Past to Present to Future
This session offers a look at prior coaching research, as well as studies which are in progress, showing how changes in research trends reflect changes in the field of coaching. The presentation incorporates strategies for participants to find coach-related research in a variety of media, and presents a perspective on how using recent research can help coaches become more effective practitioners. Session objectives:
1. To understand how coaching-related research can be useful to practitioners, entrepreneurs and scholars.
2. To inform participants of a process for accessing coaching-related research and venues for sharing their own research inquiries with others.
3. To educate participants on research illustrating how coaching is viewed by the global media.

Francine Campone, EdD, PCC, offers coaching and consulting to mature professionals making mid-life and mid-career transitions. Her practice draws on a thirty-year career in higher and adult education and formal coach training, complemented by training in humanistic mediation, group dynamics and facilitation, and Constructive Living Practice. A member of the Fielding University and University of Texas at Dallas faculties, Francine developed and teaches a course in research for coaches, as well as graduate classes in evidence-based coaching. Dr. Campone served as co-chair of the review process and co-editor of the Proceedings of the ICF Research Symposium in 2004, 2005 and 2006. She hosts the Research Special Interest Group for the International Coach Federation and is engaged in an on-going research project with colleagues studying the development of coaches. Dr. Campone also serves as Docent to the Research Repository for The Foundation of Coaching. She recently published Connecting the Dots: Coaching Research Past, Present and Future in The Philosophy and Practice of Coaching (2008, Wiley & Sons). Contact: Francine@reinventinglife.com