Coaching Power: Leading With Coaching to Create Individual, Team, and Organizational Outperformance

by Tom Preston, Luciana Nunez

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781394293414
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	04/08/2025
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

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.

Table of Contents

Preface xv

Chapter 1 Let Us Introduce Ourselves 1

Chapter 2 Coaching Power 5

Chapter 3 Fundamentals First: Leadership in Combination with Coaching 13

Chapter 4 What People Want from Work 23

Chapter 5 Coaching Fundamentals 29

Chapter 6 The Magic of Storytelling: Emotional Leadership 45

Chapter 7 Beliefs and How They Influence Leadership Styles 57

Chapter 8 How Your Life Story IS Your Life Until Challenged 69

Chapter 9 Using Intuition as a Coach 79

Chapter 10 One-to-One Coaching 83

Chapter 11 The Art of Self-Determination: Deciding on My Way of Being 99

Chapter 12 The Power of Visualization 105

Chapter 13 The Importance of Values in Leadership and Coaching 113

Chapter 14 Personal Branding: Crafting Your Authentic Personal Brand 121

Chapter 15 Redefining Impostor Syndrome 127

Chapter 16 The Gray Zones: Coaching, Consulting, Mentoring, and Advice 131

Chapter 17 Coaching Teams 139

Chapter 18 Strategic Thinking 149

Chapter 19 Stakeholder Influencing 159

Chapter 20 The Power of Safe Feedback 165

Chapter 21 Coaching for Empowerment 173

Chapter 22 Great Team Meetings in Any Environment 181

Chapter 23 When to Get the Pros In: Hiring External Executive Coaches 185

Chapter 24 Want to Build a Coaching Culture? 199

Chapter 25 A Look into the Future: What Leaders Need to Be Future-Fit 215

Chapter 26 Artificial Intelligence: The Single Most Powerful Force Shaping the Future 233

Chapter 27 A Last Word on T.R.U.S.T 245

Notes and References 251

Acknowledgments 255

Index 257