engMosteo Chagoyen, Leticia PilarExecutive Coaching: An Exploration of the What, How and Who of Coaching Practices from a Cognitive-Emotional and Cross-Cultural PerspectiveART-2017-132136Executive coaching, as part of leadership development programs, has gained significant momentum despite scarce empirical evidence on its impact and key factors. The overarching objective of this doctoral dissertation is providing a novel contribution to the understanding of how coaching processes work by examining three differentiate yet complementary core dimensions (what, how, and who of coaching practices), using a mixed-methods approach. By systematically analyzing how is built the coaching connection, we provide robust insights on how the ‘magic’ of coaching works, what coaches essentially do and could do better, and how clients perceive processes and indeed respond to coaching interactions.2017http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/170918http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/170918oai:zaguan.unizar.es:170918EDAMBA J. 1 (2017), 107-124All rights reservedhttp://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess