Biography
Ellen B. Van Oosten, Ph.D. is Professor in the Department of Organizational Behavior and Faculty Director of Executive Education at the Case Weatherhead School of Management. She is also Director of the Coaching Research Lab, a scholar-practitioner collaboration to advance coaching research founded in 2014. Her research interests include coaching, leadership development, emotional intelligence and women’s leadership in STEM fields. She teaches in the MBA, Executive MBA and leads the Weatherhead Coach Certificate Program, the Leadership Institute for Women in STEM and Manufacturing Program and several company specific programs. She is also the author of numerous academic and practitioner articles and co-author of the award-winning book - Helping People Change: Coaching with Compassion for Lifelong Learning and Growth – with colleagues Richard Boyatzis, PhD and Melvin Smith, PhD.
Why I support the Compassion Coalition
In 2019, I co-authored a book, Helping People Change: Coaching with Compassion for Lifelong Learning and Growth which makes the case for an approach to helping others through coaaching anchored in compassion.
