Contribution to Other Books

Philippe has also contributed to several books:  Evidence Based Coaching Handbook (2006), Excellence in Coaching (2006), Best Practice in Performance Coaching (2007), The Routledge Companion to International Business Coaching (2008), The Coaching Relationship (2010), The Psychology of Coaching and Mentoring (2013), 52 Activities for Successful International Relocation (2015), Positive Psychology in Coaching (2015), Leading School Improvement (2016), Mastering Executive Coaching (2019),  L’Art et la Pratique du Coaching Professionnel (2019), Succeeding as a Coach (2021), Positive Psychology Coaching in the Workplace (2021), La Revanche du Cerveau Droit (2022), Coach Me! Your Personal Board of Directors: Leadership Advice from the World’s Greatest Coaches (2022), and The Ethical Coaches’ Handbook (2023).

In Mastering Executive Coaching, Philippe has contributed a chapter titled “Delivering value through cross-cultural team coaching”.

Co-authors include Jonathan Passmore, Marshall Goldsmith, Manfred Kets de Vries, Peter Hawkins, and David Clutterbuck among others.

Here is an excerpt from the book, Philippe’s chapter introduction:

Weaving a cultural perspective into the coaching of executive teams is crucial, not only because executive teams are increasingly culturally diverse but also because when teams tap into their hidden intercultural potential, they become more creative and more effective.

Yet, executive team coaches able to integrate interculturalism into their craft remain until now the exception rather than the norm.

In this chapter, I will build upon my previous work in this area (2003, 2010), and introduce a process (10-Co steps) for coaching intercultural teams, focusing on executive teams in particular. Most of all, my aim here is to invite advanced practitioners to more systematically leverage cultural differences and to offer them a practical way to do so by using the Cultural Orientations Framework (COF) assessment. The case studies in particular should give you a sense of how coaching across cultures can be deployed in practice and how culture enriches the executive team coaching process.

I will refer to the traditional view of diversity (i.e., external/internal diversity) and will introduce the notion of explicit/implicit diversity. I will argue that all teams are culturally diverse, at least in some latent fashion, and that therefore team coaching needs to become intercultural team coaching. I will also suggest that coaching executive teams with lasting impact implies embracing the holographic/organic/complexity paradigm and addressing complexity faced by senior teams from multiple, interconnected perspectives ranging from the physical to the spiritual (Rosinski, 2010). The cultural perspective works best in combination with other perspectives, which together form a powerful, integrated, global form of team coaching.