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A major supportive element of coaching-based research is cross-cultural generalizability. When particular findings are derived from a non-Western academic study, they arguably lend even greater support to certain aspects of the literature within the scholarship of coaching than those drawn from typi...

Do people respond differently to coaching as they get older? This was the question that Lois Tamir and Laura Finfer of Leadership Excellence Coaching sought to answer in an article recently published in Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research. The authors carefully reviewed a selection...

Attitudinal and behavioral changes on the part of a coachee are often thought to be the hallmarks of a successful coaching intervention. Two useful proxies for determining these kinds of changes are receptiveness to feedback on the part of the coachee and the development of a coachee's level of self...

Megan Buchter was named the Director of the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit. In this role, Buchter will work to advance the strategic priorities of the Fowler Center in the areas of research, education, and applied work with local, national, and global companies. Read more....

The Academy of Management selected a symposium organized by Weatherhead School of Management faculty Melvin Smith, PhD and Ellen Van Oosten, PhD, as “Best Symposium” in the Management Education and Development Division. Smith and Van Oosten presented the 90-minute symposium, titled “Desired Outcome...

Susan Burnoski, BS '07, MAcc' 07, was recently promoted to Principal at Apple Growth Parnters. Burnoski has been with the company for 12 years. She currently leads the firm’s auditing team, responsible for scheduling, hiring, onboarding and management. Read more....

On Monday, August 12th, the Fowler Center welcomed Megan Buchter as the new Director of the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit. Megan has been part of the Fowler Center for over ten years, first as a student volunteer while doing her CWRU undergrad degree in economics where sh...

For the second time Weatherhead’s Professor David Cooperrider has been included and named as one of the world’s 45 top “Change Champions”—change management theorists and pioneers in the field of Organization Development. The list includes thought leaders such as MIT’s Edgar Schein, Dave Ulrich at Un...

With a focus of investing in strong leadership, Dealer Tire and KeyBank have chosen to support future business leaders at Weatherhead through two important scholarship opportunities. The Dealer Tire Scholarship to support graduate students interested in Business as an Agent of World Benefit and the ...

On July 31, Fowler Center Scholar Annie Morino and Kent State University teammate Garima Jha, presented their project for the EDGE Fellowship Program at the MidTown Tech Hive. As part of the program, EDGE Fellows help Northeast Ohio companies validate and pursue new business ideas. Annie and Garima...