Coach Goh Hyun-sook of Coaching Management Institute Wins Both Coach Award and Book Award at the 18th Coaching Festival

Coaching Management Institute Announces Continuous Coaching Expansion Through Strength Development and Coach Training

‘Coach of Coaches’ Ko Hyun-sook, CEO Coach of Coaching Management Institute, simultaneously won the Coach of the Year Award and Book of the Year Award at the 18th Korea Coaching Festival (hereinafter Coaching Festival).

Selected as ‘Coach of the Year,’ Ko Hyun-sook, CEO Coach of Coaching Management Institute, is a leading executive coach and leadership expert in Korea who has worked for the past 20 years to promote and expand coaching within Korean society. Through various methods such as coaching, consulting, lectures, and writing, she has nurtured talent and supported organizational development, training over 700 professional coaches and establishing herself as the ‘Coach of Coaches.’

Furthermore, CEO Coach Ko Hyun-sook translated the book Lead with Strengths (original title: It’s the Manager) by the US Gallup company, which contains coaching techniques leaders need to know to build strength-based organizations, and won the Grand Prize for the Book of the Year Award. She announced that she will donate the 3 million KRW prize money to the Korea Coach Association and KCN, the coaching group at Kookmin University.

CEO Coach Ko Hyun-sook said, “This award is even more meaningful as it coincides with the 10th anniversary of the founding of Coaching Management Institute. I want to share this joy with Jim Clifton, Chairman of US Gallup and the original author of Lead with Strengths. As the mission of Coaching Management Institute is ‘the role of coaches in Korean society,’ I will humbly and steadily continue on the path of coaching and become a thinking partner for leaders in Korea.”

At the Coaching Festival held over two days from Wednesday, November 10 to Thursday, November 11, Coaching Management Institute successfully concluded the award ceremony for CEO Coach Ko Hyun-sook (Professor at Kookmin University Business School) along with presentations on organizational performance cases.

Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, Coaching Management Institute is committed to fulfilling its mission of ‘the role of coaches in Korean society’ and contributing to the development of coaching. In 2022, it plans to strengthen programs such as the ‘Strengths Course,’ ‘Professional Coach Training Course,’ and ‘Coaching Supervision School,’ as well as operate various coaching programs.