20 August 2025
It has long been argued that domain expertise isn’t essential to coaching success. Many coaches would agree that what matters in coaching isn’t what we know about the client’s world, but how well we support their thinking. As such, coaching efficacy has largely been attributed to craft, with little value placed on how much expertise or experience the coach brings to the client’s context.
Yet for many clients, a coach’s experience does matter, and it plays a subtle but significant role in how they choose, relate to, and engage with their coach. To better understand this dynamic, this issue of Coaching Research in Practice explores a recent study examining the perceived value of workplace experience among both clients and coaches.
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Written by Kerryn Griffiths, PhD, PCC and Global ReciproCoach Coordinator
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