The Naked Coach - Inside the Coaching Room

The Naked Coach - Inside the Coaching Room

The Naked Coach is a book about vulnerability and how to welcome vulnerability with acceptance and inquiry. Nine experienced coaches each demonstrate how deep insights and personal change can be produced just by observing their own nakedness. We see the nine coaches first support their clients with a safe and reflective space around sensitive client issues. The coaches then organise a reflective space for themselves to look into their own sensitivity, with an aim to learn. Coaching affects the coach as much as the client. Looking into how we are affected can make us a better coach. 

In The Naked Coach the nine executive coaches have each chosen a vulnerable theme for themselves to explore. The book builds on the thought leadership of the Ashridge Centre for Coaching and is essential reading for practising experienced coaches, students of coaching, purchasers of coaching, and HR and leadership professionals generally. 

About the Author: Erik de Haan is an organisation development consultant, psychotherapist, executive coach, and supervisor. He is the Director of the Hult Ashridge Centre for Coaching and programme leader of the Ashridge Master’s (MSc) in Executive Coaching, and the Ashridge Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Coaching and O.D. Supervision. Erik is also Professor of Organisation Development and Coaching at the VU University of Amsterdam. He has written more than 200 articles and 17 books in different languages, including Fearless Consulting (2006), Relational Coaching (2008), Supervision in Action (2011), The Leadership Shadow (2014; with Anthony Kasozi), The Gift of Coaching (2022), and Relational Team Coaching (2023; with Dorothee Stoffels).