Graduate School Alliance for Executive Coaching

Membership

GSAEC membership is encouraged and available for academic institutions. Initial projects involve establishing a consensus on the knowledge base for executive and organizational coaching, and defining curricula standards for graduate academic courses and programs. GSAEC also links with and exchanges knowledge and experience with similar academic standard-setting organizations for executive and organizational coaching around the globe.

Why do graduate institutions join GSAEC?

To be on the leading edge of a new intellectual frontier.
To learn what other institutions are doing regarding coaching and coach education.
To develop and establish academic standards for coach education.
To align with a group that shares a common purpose and characteristics.
To collaborate and share ideas about best practices in executive, organizational, and leadership coaching.
To co-create the future of graduate-level coaching.
To develop and enjoy the synergistic impact of sharing resources among institutions.
To engage in research regarding the development of coaches, the practice of coaching, and the discipline of the field of coaching studies.
To gain access to information about relevant events and opportunities.
To bring together colleagues for networking in an academic field that is relatively sparsely populated.
To shape the future of a profession.
To provide representatives with the opportunity to meet and establish relationships with scholars who represent professions outside their usual contacts.
To be open to influence from and to offer influences to a broad range of scholars, researchers, and academic colleagues.
To help legitimize coaching within the institution and with other academics.
To make linkages throughout the world.

How to be part of GSAEC:

Do you support the purpose and Mission of GSAEC? (see Mission statement—click here)
Are you a regionally-accredited university, college, graduate school and/or department of such an institution?
Do you offer courses or programs that add executive, organizational, or leadership coaching skills or principles to students’ existing professional education?

OR courses or programs intended to educate professional executive, organizational, or leadership coaches?
OR courses or programs that utilize executive, organizational, or leadership coaching in higher education?
Are your coaching courses or programs based on an academically-recognized body of knowledge that is nonproprietary in nature?

If you answered YES to all four questions above, you may be eligible for Institutional Membership.

Benefits of Institutional Membership:

May designate two representatives to attend Annual General Meeting and any other general meetings of the Alliance.
Representatives may be nominated for offices and positions on Board of Directors.
May cast one vote (per institutional member) at Annual General Meeting and any other general meetings of the Alliance and in elections and other GSAEC decisions.
Representatives may serve as Committee Chairs.
Institution listed and linked to GSAEC website and in other publications.
Representatives receive newsletters and communications as part of GSAEC community.
Reduced prices for events, publications, and other GSAEC products.

2011 Fees: $1500 per annum

Please click here for the Institutional Member application.

Individual Member

Do you support the purpose and Mission of GSAEC? (see Mission statement—click here)
Have you demonstrated an active interest in the field of executive, organizational, or leadership coaching?

If you answered YES to both questions above, you are eligible to apply for Individual Membership.

Benefits for Individual Members:

May attend Annual General Meeting and any other general meetings of the Alliance as a nonvoting member.
May be nominated to serve as a full member of the Board or a Committee of GSAEC.
Listed in and linked to GSAEC website and in other publications.
Receive newsletters and communications as part of GSAEC community.
Reduced prices for events, publications, and other GSAEC products.

2010 Dues: $150 per annum

Please click here for the Individual Member application.

Student Member

Do you support the purpose and Mission of GSAEC? (see Mission statement—click here)
Are you enrolled as a full- or part-time student in a regionally-accredited university, college, or graduate school?
Have you demonstrated an interest in the field of executive, organizational, or leadership coaching?

If you answered YES to all three questions above, you are eligible to apply for Student Membership.

Benefits for Student Members:

May attend Annual General Meeting and any other general meetings of the Alliance as a nonvoting member.
May serve as a GSAEC Committee Member.
Listed in and linked to GSAEC website and in other publications.
Receive newsletters and communications as part of GSAEC community.
Reduced prices for events, publications, and other GSAEC products.

2010 Dues: $50 per annum

Please click here for the Student Member Application.

If you are interested in becoming a Sponsoring Organization, please contact our Executive Director:

John L. Bennett, Ph.D., PCC, CMC
President
Graduate School Alliance for Executive Coaching
McColl School of Business
Queens University of Charlotte
1900 Selwyn Ave.
Charlotte, NC 28274
704-337-2210 (O)
704-224-4222 (M)
bennettj@queens.edu