This special issue of Consulting Psychology Journal focuses on an emerging niche area of consulting psychology: assisting elite performers, those at the highest levels of their specialized area of human endeavor, to maximize their performance and perhaps become the best of the best.
The articles in this special issue provide a view into psychological coaching with five distinct perspectives deriving from five different types of elite performers: CEOs in the world's most influential organizations, Olympic athletes, top-level performance artists, military special-operations personnel, and surgeons and emergency-room physicians, whose performance literally has life-or-death consequences.
Guest Editor
Table of contents
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Introduction
- Introduction to the Special Issue on Coaching Elite Performers
Stewart E. Cooper
Articles
- Coaching C-Suite Executives and Business Founders
William H. Berman - Coaching Olympic Athletes with Sport Psychology
Karen D. Cogan - Coaching Performing Artists
Gene M. Moyle - Coaching Military Special-Operations Forces
Carroll H. Greene III - Coaching Surgeons and Emergency-Room Physicians
Barbara J. Walker
Editorial
- Stargazing: Everyday Lessons from Coaching Elite Performers
Robert B. Kaiser
