Executive Coaching Experts To Hold Book Signing Coinciding With Smeal Course

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (February 2, 2007) – The authors of the book The Sherpa Guide: Process-Driven Executive Coaching will be on hand next month at a State College bookstore to sign copies of their book while they are in town leading a certification program in executive coaching at Penn State's Smeal College of Business.

Authors Brenda Corbett and Judith Colemon, founders of Sherpa Coaching LLC, will begin signing books at 8 p.m. on Feb. 20 at Barnes & Noble, located at 365 Benner Pike in State College.

Corbett and Colemon are at Penn State to lead a course through Penn State Executive Programs that will confer on participants a certificate in executive coaching, a career field that is growing quickly because leadership coaches are in high demand to help managers realize their full potential and grow into the leadership roles being vacated by retiring baby boomers.

During the two-week program, the authors will show participants how to master their six-phase Sherpa coaching process and will teach the skills and techniques necessary to enable others to achieve professional success.

Upon successful completion of the program, which includes a four-week practicum, participants will receive their Sherpa Executive Coaching certification.

The upcoming program will be offered in two time-phased weeks, Feb. 18 to 23 and April 1 to 5. This is the second time the certification course has been offered by Penn State—one of only six institutions in the country to do so.

The certificate will be offered again this year on the weeks of April 29 to May 4 and June 17 to 21; Aug. 5 to 10 and Sept 23 to 27; and Oct. 14 to 19 and Nov. 25 to 29.

More details and registration information can be found online at www.smeal.psu.edu/psep/ecc.html.

About The Sherpa Guide
The Sherpa Guide sets the standard for "how to coach" books and for the field of executive coaching itself. It is written for both leaders within organizations who must coach teams for greater performance and for human resource professionals and consultants who provide executive coaching.

For more on Sherpa Coaching, visit www.sherpacoaching.com.

About Penn State Executive Programs
Penn State Executive Programs, the executive education division of Penn State's Smeal College of Business, has been serving the development needs of the world's business leaders since 1954, providing both open-enrollment and custom programs. Nearly 36,000 executives from 43 different nations have participated in programs on topics ranging from strategic leadership to supply chain management.

Penn State Executive Programs was recently ranked as the No. 1 provider in the world of customized executive education programs by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the research arm of The Economist magazine publisher. The EIU also awarded Penn State Executive Programs its Award of Excellence for open-enrollment programs, making Smeal the only U.S. provider to be rated excellent in both categories.

For more on all the offerings of Penn State Executive Programs, visit www.smeal.psu.edu/psep.