Coaching for Professional Development

Christine Eastman's book does something genuinely unusual: it puts Arthur Miller, Shakespeare, and John Cheever to work inside a professional coaching framework. Rather than leaning on case studies or corporate anecdotes, Eastman uses classic literary narratives — failure, alienation, loss — to open the kinds of coaching conversations that business-speak tends to close down. The Routledge imprint and a Universities Association for Lifelong Learning recognition signal real academic credibility. The honest caveat is that the audience is narrow by design; a coach looking for a practical toolkit with worksheets will feel stranded. But for practitioners or academics ready to think differently about how narrative builds self-awareness in organizational settings, it offers a perspective few other books in the field attempt.