ABSTRACT
Increasing numbers of mental health professionals have already gravitated into coaching, and even more are expected to enter this exciting and challenging area of practice in the near future for the many reasons noted in chapter 1. Mental health professionals who aspire to practice executive coaching will parlay their clinical skills and apply them to various leadership and organizational challenges and aid executives and their work teams to become more productive and effective. Many will find this experience gratifying and rewarding as they discover how to apply their clinical sensitivity to the corporate world; others will find this experience frustrating as they discover the many ways in which coaching is different from clinical practice and the legal and ethical ambiguities that they must confront (Campbell, 2001).
