Thanks to the generosity of the Harnisch Family Foundation we are offering up to $100,000 per year in coaching research grants.
The two billion dollar a year coaching industry rests on a limited research and evidence base: just a handful of rigorous studies have been published to date. There are only a few areas in psychology, business, or clinical sciences where one good research study has a broad and long-lasting impact. Hence, there is a pressing need to develop an extensive research literature that forms the basis of understanding of what makes coaching effective, and what best coaching practices optimize coaching outcomes.
The coaching field needs to have greater clarity and evidence to establish not just if coaching works, but how. We need to know what methods work best with which groups of people, comparisons of different methods, and excellent exploration of just what does happen in coaching sessions that generates positive outcomes.
Our grants offer the opportunity to researchers, graduate students, and coaching practitioners to engage in coaching research. We want to draw good students and researchers to consider developing your interests in this area.
Further, we are also encouraging research through conferences, an annual international research forum, and growing an international communicty of coaching researchers.
If you are interested in pursuing coaching research and don’t know where to begin, please visit our Center for Research, review coaching research resources and articles, and consider focusing on this new an important area of inquiry. Please look at the results of the first annual coaching research forum and the 100 coaching research ideas.
We welcome quantitative and qualitative researchers to join us in advancing the profession and practice of coaching.
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