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Frank Bresser Coaching (1999 - 2019)

The greatest highlights of Frank Bresser´s work
as a self-employed Coach and Consultant:

10 International Coaching Awards
20 years of Coaching Experience
More than 40 Coaching Publications


On 1 March 2020, Frank embarked on a new journey: He took up a very exciting and fascinating full-time job in Cologne / Düsseldorf in a highly exquisite service provider environment. T
herefore he is not active and available as a freelance coach, consultant and author any more today (and this website became non-profit).

Frank Bresser
Cologne, Germany
Email: mail(at)frank-bresser.de  Mobile Number: +49 (0)179-4338876
10 International Coaching Awards
The Global HR Excellence Award 2011 was his first Award and, for him, the greatest highlight among all distinctions received so far. It was conferred to him at the World HRD Congress in Mumbai in a very colourful, vivid award ceremony by the former Secretary to the Government of India of the Department of Public Enterprises.  Further awards followed - welcome, nice, further encouragements for his coaching work:

Global HR Excellence Award 2011 (WHRDC)

Global Coaching Leadership Award 2013 (WCC)

CV HR & Training Award 2016 "Best Coaching & Consultancy Service, Germany"(CV Magazine)

CV Global Excellence Award 2017 (CV Magazine)

FM Global Award 2017 (Finance Monthly)

2017´s Coaching Top 50, 2017 (CV Magazine)

CV HR & Training Award 2017 (CV Magazine)

100 Top Global Coaching Leaders Award 2018 (WHRDC)

FM Game Changers Award 2018 (Finance Monthly)

AI Global Excellence Award 2018 (AI)

101 Top Global Coaching Leaders Award 2019 (WHRDC)

20 Years of Coaching Experience
With all kind of coaching forms:  One-to-one coaching (life and business coaching), team coaching, coaching as a management & leadership style, coaching skills trainings, coaching culture initiatives, coaching programme development and consultancy

Pioneer in the development of systematic and strategic design, implementation and improvement of coaching programmes as a distinct discipline

Coaching & consultancy for individuals as well as for global companies (e.g. development of a comprehensive coaching culture programme for the 700 top managers of a leading global entreprise)

Numerous keynotes on national and international conferences

Conducted leading-edge research projects on the implementation and improvement of coaching in companies/ organisations and on the situation of coaching across the globe (You e.g. find a free download of the results of the Frank Bresser Consulting Global Coaching Survey here)

Founding Member of the Association for Coaching (London)

For a while in the core team of coaching legend Sir John Whitmore  (with exciting coaching culture initiatives, e.g. in the United Arab Emirates)

Worldwide media coverage of his work (in particular by HR and Coaching media; his work was e.g. three times the cover story of the German magazine"Training aktuell")

University and training qualifications: German-Austrian Resonanz-Coach-Diploma; MBA with Distinction (London, with "Coaching in Business" as the topic of his Master Thesis); French Law Diploma; Language Studies in English and French; German High School Graduation "Abitur" (average grade: 1,0).

10 Internationale Coaching-Awards >>>
20 Jahre Coaching-Erfahrung >>>
40+ Coaching-Fachveröffentlichungen >>>

More than 40 Coaching-Publications
as well as author of a recently published, German series of four Comedy & Satire Novels (released in 2019).

Here is a selection of his coaching specialist publications up to the beginning of his comedy-&-satire-novel mammoth project:

Bresser F. and Wilson, C. (2016) What is coaching? Chapter 1 in Excellence in Coaching: The Industry Guide, Kogan Page, 3rd edition, London and Philadelphia
(A 4th edition is already worked on and probably due out in 2021.)

Bresser. F. (2016) Coaching across the globe: The latest developments to 2013. Kapitel in Coaching in Perspective, Hans Reitzels Forlag, 2nd edition, Copenhagen

Bresser, F. (2016) Die aktuelle Bedeutung von Coaching-Programmen. Kapitel in: Coaching-Praxisfelder: Praxis und Forschung im Dialog, Springer VS, Wiesbaden, 2nd edition, 2016

Bresser, F. (2016) Coaching in Unternehmen systematisch und strategisch nutzen: Die neuen Coaching-Programme der 2. Generation. Chapter in: Zur Differenzierung von Handlungsfeldern im Coaching, Springer VS, 2016

Bresser, F. (2013) The global business guide for the successful use of coaching in organisations - 2013 Edition (2nd edition). BoD, 2013

Bresser, F. (2013) Coaching across the globe. BoD, 2013

Bresser. F. (2013) Coaching across the globe: The latest developments to 2013. in Fellowship (APAC-Magazine), Singapore

Tulpa, K. and Bresser, F. (2013) Coaching in Europe. Kapitel 2 in Diversity in Coaching, Kogan Page, 2nd edition, London and Philadelphia, 2013

Bresser, F. (2012) Tendenzen in der Coaching-Praxis und -Forschung weltweit. Kapitel in: Coaching entwickeln – Forschung und Praxis im Dialog. Wiesbaden, VS Research, 2012
  • Please click here to see the complete selection of his coaching specialist publications

    Bresser, F. (2012) The 10 key success factors for the effective use of coaching in organisations. Contribution to: Coaching Resource Guide 2012 (APAC/ICF), Singapore


    Bresser, F. (2012) The current practice of coaching in companies. International Coaching News (Magazin), 2012, London


    Bresser, F. (2011) How to successfully use coaching in companies. Coaching at Work, Serie von 4 Artikeln, Jan to Okt 2011, London


    Bresser, F. (2009) A global phenomenon. Choice, Toronto, Sep 2009


    Bresser, F. (2010) Der Stand der Coaching-Forschung weltweit und im deutschsprachigen Raum - ein direkter Vergleich. DVD/ CD, Keynote von Frank Bresser auf dem Schweizer Coaching Kongress, Auditorium Netzwerk, 2010


    Bresser, F. (2009) Full Report: The state of coaching across the globe - Results of the Global Coaching Survey 2008/2009. Frank Bresser Coaching & Consulting, free download as PDF-file either on various websites of large coaching associations or here on this website (just click to start the download)


    Bresser, F., Bouch, A. and Stradmann, L. (2009) A world of difference. Coaching at Work, CIPD & People Management, 2009


    Bresser, F. et al. (2008) Executive coaching and mentoring. ICFAI University Press, Hyderabad, India


    Bresser, F. (2008) Europaweite Aufbruchstimmung (Coaching in Europe). in Personalwirtschaft,  Ausgabe 07/08


    Bresser, F. et al. (2008) Gemeinsam zur neuen Organisationsform. in Personalwirtschaft,  Ausgabe 01/08


    Bresser, F. et al (2007) Coaching-Markt(beobachtungen). managerSeminare-Dossier, Jan/Feb 2007


    Bresser, F. (2006) Coaching-Kultur. Coaching at Work, CIPD & People Management, May 2006


    Bresser, F. (2006) Coaching erfolgreich implementieren. ManagerSeminare, March 2006


    Bresser, F. (2006) Coaching in business: 10 key factors for success, AC Bulletin, Issue 7, Jan 2006


    Bresser, F. (2005 und 2006) Best implementation of coaching in business. Coach the Coach, Fenman Ltd., Issues 20 and 21, Section "Coaching today", Dec 05 & Jan 06, two-part article


    Bresser, F. (2005) Master thesis: Implementation of coaching in business. University of East London, August 2005


    Bresser, F. (2005) The 12 dimensions of coaching. Coach the Coach, Fenman Ltd., Issues 15 and 16, Section "Coaching today", Aug & Sep 06, two-part article


    Bresser, F. (2004) Coaching - Spitzenleistung fördern und ermöglichen. Cologne


plus Frank`s 20-Years-Coach-Jubilee-Special released in 2019:
The Publication of a (German) Series of four Comedy & Satire Novels!

German Title: "Autsch! oder: Was mache ich hier eigentlich?"  by Frank Bresser
(translated: "Ouch! or: What the heck am I actually doing here?")
As an alternative to the four single volumes above, there is also a complete anthology containing all the four:

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