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Angela Passarelli

Associate Professor of the Practice of Business Administration
Fuqua School of Business

Selected Publications


Competencies for Those Who Coach Physicians: A Modified Delphi Study.

Journal Article Mayo Clinic proceedings · May 2024 The rapidly evolving coaching profession has permeated the health care industry and is gaining ground as a viable solution for addressing physician burnout, turnover, and leadership crises that plague the industry. Although various coach credentialing bodi ... Full text Cite

Communication quality and relational self-expansion: The path to leadership coaching effectiveness

Journal Article Human Resource Management · July 1, 2023 Leadership coaching—a relational process by which a professional coach works with a leader to support their development—is a common component of learning and development portfolios in organizations. Despite broad agreement about the importance of the coach ... Full text Cite

Ethical considerations for the use of multisource feedback in coaching

Chapter · January 1, 2023 The use of multisource (360-degree) feedback has become a routine component of leadership and executive coaching engagements. In practice, multisource feedback is intended to enhance self-awareness and provide direction for developmental activities that im ... Full text Cite

When fixing problems kills personal development: fMRI reveals conflict between Real and Ideal selves

Journal Article Frontiers in Human Neuroscience · January 1, 2023 Many coaching approaches aim to change behavior by increasing self-knowledge. However, self-knowledge can be difficult to achieve. One hypothesis (e.g., Jung, Rogers) is that self-knowledge is challenging because there is inherent conflict between differen ... Full text Cite

USING EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING THEORY TO PROMOTE STUDENT LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT IN PROGRAMS OF EDUCATION ABROAD

Chapter · January 1, 2023 In this chapter, the authors focus on how students learn and the role of the educator in that process and begin by providing an overview of Experiential Learning Theory (ELT) and its key concepts: the cycle and spiral of learning from experience, learning ... Full text Cite

HOW LEADERS AND THEIR COACHES DESCRIBE OUTCOMES OF COACHING FOR INTENTIONAL CHANGE

Journal Article Consulting Psychology Journal · January 1, 2022 Executive coaching has been touted as an effective intervention for fostering positive change in individuals and organizations. Yet coaching practice in organizations is often decoupled from a scholarly theory of change that can provide insight into how po ... Full text Cite

The Appreciative Team Huddle: Real-Time, Best-Self Feedback in Student Teams

Journal Article Management Teaching Review · December 1, 2021 Team experiences afford opportunities for students to expand their self-knowledge based on peer feedback, yet feedback processes tend to be cumbersome and difficult to manage. Thus, educators often provide feedback only on the team’s work output. The purpo ... Full text Cite

Can you hear me now? The influence of perceived media richness on executive coaching relationships

Conference Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings · January 1, 2020 Full text Cite

Leadership coach effectiveness as fostering self-determined, sustained change

Journal Article Leadership Quarterly · December 1, 2019 Drawing upon self-determination theory (SDT; Deci & Ryan, 2002a; Ryan & Deci, Olafsen, & Ryan, 2017) and intentional change theory (ICT, Boyatzis, 2008), we offer an integrative conceptual model to define what constitutes an effective leadership coach. We ... Full text Cite

Pitfalls in Organizational Neuroscience: A Critical Review and Suggestions for Future Research

Journal Article Organizational Research Methods · January 1, 2019 The potential of neuroscience to be a viable framework for studying human behavior in organizations depends on scholars’ ability to evaluate, design, analyze, and accurately interpret neuroscientific research. Prior to the publishing of this special issue, ... Full text Cite

Assessing Leader Development: Lessons From a Historical Review of MBA Outcomes

Journal Article Journal of Management Education · February 1, 2018 Graduate management education seeks to enhance the likelihood that graduates will be effective leaders, managers, or professionals. This requires programs that are designed to enable students to develop the related competencies, and increasing regulatory p ... Full text Cite

Vision-based coaching: Optimizing resources for leader development

Journal Article Frontiers in Psychology · January 1, 2015 Leaders develop in the direction of their dreams, not in the direction of their deficits. Yet many coaching interactions intended to promote a leader's development fail to leverage the developmental benefits of the individual's personal vision. Drawing on ... Full text Cite

On Becoming an Experiential Educator: The Educator Role Profile

Journal Article Simulation and Gaming · January 1, 2014 Background. Becoming an experiential educator involves more than just being afacilitator or matching learning style with teaching style. Experiential educationis a complex relational process that involves balancing attention to the learner and tothe subjec ... Full text Cite

A study of developing emotional, social, and cogntive competencies in 16 cohorts of an MBA program

Conference Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings · January 1, 2013 Full text Cite

Visioning in the brain: an fMRI study of inspirational coaching and mentoring.

Journal Article Social neuroscience · January 2013 Effective coaching and mentoring is crucial to the success of individuals and organizations, yet relatively little is known about its neural underpinnings. Coaching and mentoring to the Positive Emotional Attractor (PEA) emphasizes compassion for the indiv ... Full text Cite

The Learning Way: Learning from Experience as the Path to Lifelong Learning and Development

Chapter · November 21, 2012 Lifelong learning requires the ability to learn from life experiences. This chapter describes the theory of experiential learning, whereby knowledge is generated from experience through a cycle of learning driven by the resolution of dual dialectics of act ... Full text Cite

Examination of the neural substrates activated in memories of experiences with resonant and dissonant leaders

Journal Article Leadership Quarterly · April 1, 2012 Given the relevance of leadership in organizational life, we designed an exploratory study to assess the neural mechanisms involved in memories of interactions with resonant and dissonant leaders (a follower-centric study). Subjects in advanced professiona ... Full text Cite

A Strengths-Based Approach to Outdoor and Adventure Education: Possibilities for Personal Growth

Journal Article Journal of Experiential Education · August 1, 2010 Outdoor and adventure education has been shown to result in positive psychological outcomes. This paper connects positive psychology—specifically, strengths-based education—to important outcomes in outdoor and adventure education. Strengths-based education ... Full text Cite

Inspiring the development of emotional, social and cognitive intelligence competencies in managers

Chapter · January 1, 2010 Leadership educators must ask themselves two fundamental questions when designing developmental programs. First, what competencies make leaders eff ective (that is, what do we want our students to learn)? Second, how can we inspire students to develop them ... Full text Cite

WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIC PRACTICES FOR WOMEN AND ORGANIZATIONS

Journal Article Consulting Psychology Journal · January 1, 2008 This article presents a comprehensive perspective of leadership development that addresses the unique needs of women in organizations. The authors propose 7 categories of leadership development practice and examine the opportunities and obstacles in each o ... Full text Cite