Coachability:

The Leadership Superpower

By Kevin Wilde

“Much has been written about being a coach; almost nothing about being coachable. This marvelous book fills this gap and offers any leader tips on how to seek, respond, reflect, and act on being coachable.

Kevin’s clever insights and useful tools make this a must-have for any leaders.”

Dave Ulrich

Rensis Likert Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan;
Partner, The RBL Group

“This is a brilliant book, illuminating and providing answers about a huge void in the literature of leadership development and talent management. Using his 34 years as a highly successful CLO, and now a university fellow teaching executive MBAs, the author shares penetrating insights into the causes of all leaders’ success or failure.

Coachability: The Leadership Superpower is at once an extremely insightful treatise about a vital capability for new and experienced leaders everywhere, it is also an enormously helpful gift to all coaches and leadership development professionals.”

John Zenger

CEO, Zenger Folkman; bestselling author, The Extraordinary Leader and The Extraordinary Coach

Become a More Coachable (and Effective) Leader

Avoid blind spots and expand your career potential and leadership effectiveness. Regain that early career habit: coachability! Coachability: The Leadership Superpower combines notable research, best-practice strategies, and stories of leaders on all parts of the coachability spectrum.

Author Kevin Wilde has been developing leaders for major corporations, executive MBA leadership courses, and coaching hundreds of new and experienced leaders for over thirty years.

“Today’s world belongs to the most coachable and the most open learners. Kevin Wilde, in his pragmatic book, Coachability: The Leadership Superpower, gives you tools to grow and to succeed in today’s hyper-learning-rich world.”

—Kevin Cashman, Global Co-Leader, CEO & Enterprise Leader Development, Korn Ferry, bestselling author, Leadership from the Inside Out and The Pause Principle

“Kevin Wilde nails the real reasons that promising careers of leaders get derailed. After personally witnessing surprising failures, Kevin uses his vast corporate experience to help today’s leaders avoid career trouble and accelerate their impact and growth with practical and proven insight. If you want to succeed as a leader, I recommend reading this book as quickly as possible.”

—Kevin Oakes, CEO, Institute for Corporate Productivity, bestselling author, Culture Renovation

More Reading & Resources

You’re invited to explore The Coachable Leader website for resources, blog posts, research notes, and a self-assessment to help you on your journey of coachability.

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