ONGOING RESEARCH

The Boss Whispering Institute is committed to evidence-based practice and conducting ongoing research in the field of coaching abrasive leaders. To that end, we have affiliated with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), Australia, to conduct a longitudinal study of the Boss Whispering® method. For further information, please contact us.

RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS

• “Boss Whispering: The Science & Practice of Coaching Abrasive Leaders”, Coaches & Mentors of South Africa (COMENSA), November 7, 2012
• Keynote address to the Eighth International Conference on Workplace Bullying & Harassment, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 13, 2012
• “Solving the Problem of Abrasive Leaders”, Human Resource Professional Association of Canada, Toronto, Canada, February 2, 2012
• “Boss Whispering: Coaching Abrasive Leaders”, The Australian Psychological Society, Melbourne, Australia, December 8, 2011
• “Intervening With Abrasive Leaders”, Human Resource Institute of New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand, November 22, 2011
• "Coaching Abrasive Leaders: An Emerging And Essential Specialty", The British Psychological Society's First International Coaching Psychology Congress, London, England, 2010
• "Intervening With Workplace Bullies: A Call to Researchers", Seventh International Conference on Workplace Bullying & Harassment, Cardiff, Wales, 2010
• "Workplace Bullying: What Is It And What Can We Do About It?". Health Canada International Conflict Day Keynote Presentation, Ottawa, Canada, 2009
• "Coaching Abrasive Leaders: A Solution To Workplace Bullying", Annual Conference of the Society of Consulting Psychology, San Diego, California, 2009
• "Rehabilitating Abrasive Leaders Through Executive Coaching & Organizational Intervention", Sixth International Conference on Workplace Bullying, Montreal, Canada, 2008
• "Coaching Abrasive Executives: A Solution to Workplace Bullying", International Coach Federation European Coaching Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 2008
• "Ethical Considerations in Qualitative Coaching Research", International Coach Federation Research Symposium, San Jose, California, 2005
• "Developing Executive Insight: A Psychoanalytically-Informed Approach To Coaching Abrasive Executives", International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations Annual Symposium, Baltimore, Maryland, 2005

COACHING-RELATED PUBLICATIONS

• Coaching Abrasive Leaders: Contradictory Tales of the Big Bad Wolf, in Workplace Bullying: Symptoms and Solutions, edited by Noreen Tehrani, Routledge Publishers, London, pending publication early 2012.
• Coaching Abrasive Leaders: Using Action Research to Reduce Suffering and Increase Productivity in Organizations, Crawshaw, L., International Journal of Coaching in Organizations, Autumn, 2010
• The Abrasive Boss & Workplace Bullying: A Case For Conflict Resolution?, Crawshaw, L. Association for Conflict Resolution Newsletter, March, 2010.
• Workplace Bullying? Mobbing? Harassment? Distraction By A Thousand Definitions, Crawshaw, L., Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research Special Issue on Workplace Mobbing & Bullying, Autumn, 2009
• Taming The Abrasive Manager: How to End Unnecessary Roughness at Work. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Management Series, Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2007
• Ethical Considerations in Qualitative Coaching Research, Crawshaw, L., Proceedings of the Third International Coaching Research Symposium, November 2005
• Coaching Abrasive Executives: Exploring the Use of Empathy in Constructing Less Destructive Interpersonal Management Strategies. Doctoral dissertation, Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, July 2005