Coaching Young People for Leadership

Mark Jamieson is an award-winning coach specialising in leadership. After 25 years leading professional service firms, he set up his own executive coaching consultancy, The Jamieson Partnership, focusing on working with women in leadership. His consultancy work with national youth and homeless charity Centrepoint inspired him to practically connect coaching and leadership to wider youth development ideas. This led him away from mainstream coaching into a period of research and pro bono pilots focused on bringing high-level leadership coaching to unserved youth communities. Mark is an expert in evaluation and has published works about the impact of leadership coaching.

• Prologue Part 1: Theory - Making the case for youth leadership Chapter 1: A new definition of leadership Chapter 2: The opportunity Chapter 3: Why we need youth leadership and what qualifies young people to lead Part 2: Practical - How to coach young leaders Chapter 4: Coaching approaches for distinct leadership groups Chapter 5: The youth leadership coaching model Chapter 6: Stage 1 - Authentication Chapter 7: Stage 2 - Development Chapter 8: Stage 3 - Ambition Chapter 9: Impact and conclusions - interviews with young leaders

The world has an immense deficit of wise leaders. Leaders of the future need Compassion, Courage, Curiosity and Connectedness — yet none of these attributes are typically taught in leader education.The time to acquire these attributes is at an early stage in a leadership career and the coaching profession has a responsibility for making that happen. If we don’t, we will have failed not just the young leaders, but the great social, economic and environmental challenges that can only resolved by visionary, engaged leaders. Here is a starter kit…David Clutterbuck, David Clutterbuck Partnership