The hottest thing in management is the executive coach--part boss, part consultant, part therapist. Who are these people? And what are they doing in your company?

“Corporate coaching is one of the stranger wrinkles in management these days--one of the hottest things in human resources” states Fortune Magazine. “It's a movement that is spreading in some of the unlikeliest corners of corporate America , including IBM, AT&T, and Kodak. Some companies don't want to talk about it.”

Coaches are everywhere these days. Companies hire them to shore up executives or, in some cases, to ship them out. Division heads hire them as change agents. Workers at all levels of the corporate ladder, fed up with a lack of advice from inside the company, are taking matters into their own hands and enlisting coaches for guidance on how to improve their performance, boost their profits, and make better decisions about everything from personnel to strategy.

Could a Corporate Coach help your organization?

Tune in Saturday, May 13th when our guest will be Colleen Fitzgerald, President of Coaching Creates, will talk about the advantages of coaching in helping you develop leaders and leadership in your organization.

Colleen is concerned about the imminent leadership turnover in non-profits and for profits and is providing coaching to leaders who want to take their effectiveness to the next level while learning how they can be an effective coach to others. Colleen is working with boards, individuals and management teams.

She says… “Tiger Woods has a coach, Olympic athletes have coaches. I've benefited from working with my coach. We need more leadership than ever before, and I'd like to use my coaching skills to help this community be leaderful .”

Since 1985, Colleen has coached and consulted with decision makers from over 90 companies and organizations, from our own City Hall to Warsaw Poland , from Eureka Springs Arkansas to Belfast Ireland .

In 1971, Colleen earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh and taught middle school for four years. She worked for the City of Milwaukee as a Community Relations Analyst in the early 1980's. She completed a three year leadership program from the Center for Authentic Leadership in Atlanta in 1996.

She has taught leadership for UW-Milwaukee's Executive MBA program and Marquette University 's Adult Continuing Education program. Three articles written by Colleen on practical applications of leadership have been published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. A fourth has been submitted to a business publication.

Colleen is a member of the International Association of Coaches, the Institute of Executive Development , Coachville, Inc., and the Association for Psychological Type Institute and is certified to use the Myers Briggs Type Indicator.