This text seeks to identify the characteristics of successful leadership and shows how these qualities can be developed. "The Reflecting Glass" surveys the field of executive coaching, including its origins, the theoretical framework underpinning it, the forms it can take and the value it adds. The book provides a detailed methodology for working one-to-one with people at the top of organizations in order to help them become fully effective. Executive coaching has experienced exponential growth in the late 1990s but with little critical appraisal of the activity. By describing and benchmarking good practice, "The Reflecting Glass" should be of interest to those in leadership positions considering executive coaching for themselves, as well as the HR professional.