ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book looks at the relevance of the legacy of the past experience and then consolidates this legacy in the present aided by a scientific underpinning. It deals with a vision of the future and the world of work in the age of artificial intelligence. The book helps the coaches to have a career review in terms of self-evaluating how fit for practice they are, going forward. Career coaching is particularly suited to convergent academic and experiential scrutiny which– combined–supports the proposition of a practitioner–researcher role in coaching. The practitioner–researcher model is one such framework that aims to end the academic vs. practitioner divide and put forward criteria that help differentiate the quality of coaching practice and the attainment of a certain level of quality, against competencies comparable to those of the academic researchers.
