Coaching World Issue 17: February 2016 | Page 22

Odile Carru, MBA, PCC Odile is a certified Executive and Corporate Coach. She serves large international companies and executive private clients. She is the president of ICF South Florida. Learn more at www.differentcoaching.com. Marc Weinstein, Ph.D. 22 Coaching World Marc is a clinical professor and director of Florida International University’s master of science program in human resource management. He is also the vice president of the Core Leadership Area for the Greater Miami Society for Human Resource Management (GMSHRM). Odile and Marc collaborated in organizing GMSHRM’s Career Development Day at Florida International University in April 2015. In addition to offering a workshop titled “How to Succeed in Your First Professional Steps: A Coaching Approach,” Odile led a team of ICF coaches who volunteered their time and service for over 100 students from southern Florida. New Opportunities for Coaching in Organizations The numbers speak for themselves: According to the 2013 Executive Coaching Survey, conducted by the Center for Leadership Development and Research at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University’s Rock Center for Corporate Governance, and The Miles Group, 34 percent of CEOs and 51 percent of senior executives receive coaching. Meanwhile, according to Building a Coaching Culture, ICF and the Human Capital Institute’s (HCI) 2014 study of coaching in organizations, 43 percent of respondents reported that their organizations employed internal coaches and 60 percent said coaching was available to their high-potential employees. While L