PRAISE for Do Your Best Coaching

“Do Your Best Coaching is a great, useful addition to the field of coaching for practitioners of all levels! Utilizing their own coaching experiences over many years, Hess and Daley offer coaches ways to bring heightened intentionality and presence to their work. New coaches will find practical approaches on how to cultivate successful coaching engagements, while experienced coaches will find practical tips and innovative ways to refresh their coaching approach.”

– Pam McLean, Pam McLean, PhD, MCC, Founder and Chief Knowledge Officer, Hudson Institute of Coaching, Author of Self as Coach, Self as Leader: Developing the Best in You to Develop the Best in Others.

“In Do Your Best Coaching, Hess and Daley make an important contribution to the field of coaching. If you aspire to be a great coach, this book is a must- read. It provides a very thorough and practical guide to successfully navigating every aspect of a coaching engagement. Read it mindfully and take the opportunity to push pause while you reflect on how you are engaging your clients and how you can, with increased rigor, intentionality, and deep presence, add more value to your clients.”

– Bob Anderson, Founder, The Leadership Circle, Co-author of Mastering Leadership and Scaling Leadership

“A terrific guide for all coaches! Full of useful tips and practices that are brought to life with real coaching stories we can all relate to and learn from. Well-written and researched, Do Your Best Coaching will quickly become a critical resource for coaches new and seasoned!”

– Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, ThinkersSO #1 Executive Coach and New York Times bestselling author of Triggers, Mojo, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There

“Authors Julie Hess and Laura Daley bring their presence and truth as they share their experiences, and distilled learnings, in service of offering an ‘Intentional Engagement Framework’ to support and inspire coaches, at any level, to bring deep value to their work. This is a book that is sturdy in its practicality while grand in its call for the devotion of service that our coaching clients hope and deserve to find.”

– Dorothy E. Siminovitch, PhD, MCC, Author, Coach, Speaker, Director of Training for Gestalt Coaching Program-Istanbul/Toronto

“I love teaching coaching, but my students often have questions about how to manage the coaching relationships. I now have the answers! Do Your Best Coaching is a guide for coaches to manage everything from securing contracts to graciously ending relationships … and handling the sticky situations in-between. Full of examples, tools, checklists, and relatable stories, it is an essential resource you will continue to refer to throughout your years of coaching.”

– Dr. Marcia Reynolds, MCC, Author of Coach the Person, Not the Problem

“Do Your Best Coaching is essential for executive coaches. It offers a smart, thoughtful approach to managing engagements brought to life through stories, practices, and examples. It also captures the experience of internal leadership coaches and provides them with applicable insights and considerations that are often missing from coaching books.”

– DeAnne Aussem, Managing Director, Well- being Leader and Founder of PwC’s Leadership Coaching Center of Excellence