The wisdom of Karol M. Wasylyshyn: An introduction to the trusted leadership advisor.

It is an honor and a privilege to publish Karol M. Wasylyshyn’s article, “The Trusted Leadership Advisor: Another View from the Bridge between Business and Psychology.” As a Fellow of the Society of Consulting Psychology, Karol is certainly a distinguished member of the profession. She is also a pioneer of executive coaching who has helped to shape the discipline through her plethora of articles and books and professional presentations that serve as a travelogue to her vast experience advising senior leaders. At my request, Karol’s Wisdom Paper begins with a bit of autobiographical history to help you appreciate the nonlinear path that led her into psychology as a second career, and then into the emerging field of executive coaching. This is important groundwork for appreciating how she metamorphosed from an executive coach to a trusted leadership advisor. The remainder of her paper is devoted to explaining the role of a trusted leadership advisor and how to become one. She explicates three ways of being in how an advisor interacts with a client and four distinct actions an advisor can use to guide a client, and brings these ways of being and actions to life through examples and references to the literature on coaching, clinical and developmental psychology, business, and even art and poetry. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved)
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Source Type: research