Julie Starr is an expert and thought leader in the field of coaching. Since 2002, her best-selling book The Coaching Manual has supported the evolution of the coaching profession through simple, powerful principles and practical approaches. Her books are translated into many languages and are required reading on coach training programmes around the world. With over 20 years and thousands of hours coaching experience, Julie supports CEO’s and...

Since the age of twelve, Evan Smoak was Orphan X: raised and trained as part of off-the-books operation designed to create deniable intelligence assets -- i.e., assassins. Now his past is catching up to him -- someone at the very highest level of government has been trying to eliminate every trace of the Orphan Program. Striking back, his target is the man who started the program and who is now the most heavily guarded person in the world: the President...

"Both mentors and mentees realize many benefits from mentoring, as do organizations that encourage, structure, and support mentoring. Effective mentors develop the leadership capacity of their mentees while increasing their own skills. They transfer their knowledge and expertise back into their organizations. They nurture the alignment between employee aspirations and organizational imperatives, and they create depth and loyalty within their organizations....

A talented runner fully committed to Olympic dreams, Sabrina Rice's future was shattered by a devastating diagnosis. Several years later, she has new goals and dreams that have nothing to do with running-- until the day she sees Brandy Philip running across the community college campus, easily outpacing security. Sabrina immediately recognizes world-class speed, and it's all the more painful that it belongs to a teenage graffiti artist. Is God calling...

A business parable designed as a systematic guide to creating powerful mentoring relationships based on intergenerational mentoring.

When Peg, Meg, and Teg were first summoned Over Where, vast and varied life experience (along with wide reading choices) helped them adjust to a world where they were the only humans, magic was real, ships could fly, and reincarnation was a confirmed fact. But there are still questions to be answered. Before they are done, Meg the retired librarian, Teg the archeologist-turned-mage, and the multi-talented, ever surprising Peg will deal with kidnappings,...

"Engage your employees with a mentoring program that spans across the generations. With a workforce full of varying degrees of experience, the focus is often on the challenges of balancing a multigenerational staff. But what can be overlooked is what these generations can learn from each other. Senior members in organizations have expressed that they continually want to learn--and not only teach. These findings lead Reitman and Benatti to create the...

Tired of being singled out at her mostly-white private school as someone who needs support, high school junior Jade would rather participate in the school's amazing Study Abroad program than join Women to Women, a mentorship program for at-risk girls.

The notion that only the most experienced members of an organization can guide a few promising go-getters no longer applies in today's business world. In this book Emelo advocates for a vastly different mentoring practice. Drawing from a rich career, he explains why organizations should consider all employees potential mentors, making everyone both advisors and learners. It offers a blueprint for success with a model that benefits more than the select...