“I had my first experience with leadership coaching about twenty years ago, when my then-chair of the board suggested that I needed a coach, and should get one ‘soon.’ The old saying about polishing the rough edges had come up in a conversation over breakfast. I recall joking, ‘Me? Rough edges?’ She didn’t smile. I got a coach and started polishing.” Thus begins this disquisition on how to coach successfully. by Mark Light, MBA, PhD