Rethinking Coaching Critical Theory and the Economic Crisis

Coaching is being proposed as the best method to encourage a change in the ideologies that have brought about the credit crunch. The authors#x19; concern is to show how coaching can widen its intellectual range to become a progressively more effective technique within organizational life.

Anglique du Toit is the led Academic in Coaching at the University of Sunderland, UK, and an international Executive Coach at Board Level in both the public and private sectors. She is the Managing Editor for the International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching and on the Advisory Board of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMMC, UK). Sturart Sim is retired Professor in Critical Theory, University of Sunderland, UK, and now Visiting Professor in Critical Theory at Northumbria University, UK. He has published widely in the field of critical theory and philosophy, and is the author of 26 books, including most recently The End of Modernity.

PART I: INTRODUCTION
Rethinking Coaching
PART II: COACHING
Coaching as Theory and Practice
Who Benefits from Coaching?: Case Studies
The Limitations of Coaching
PART III: THEORY
The Rise of Critical Theory
Scepticism in Public Life
PART IV: THEORY INTO COACHING
The Market Paradigm: What Went Wrong?
A New Dawn: Applying Critical Theory to Coaching
Coaching and the Whistleblowing Dilemma
Conclusion: Radical Coaching and Business as Usual