Robert F. Hicks, PhD, is a clinical professor of organizational behavior at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the founding director of the Organizational Behavior, Coaching, and Consulting program at the Naveen Jindal School of Management. Dr Hicks is a licensed psychologist with a clinical and organizational psychology background. He holds an appointment as a faculty associate in the Department of Psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center and is the executive coach for clinical chairs.

1. Becoming a Master-Level Practitioner 2. The Foursquare Coaching Framework: A Schema for Coaching 3. Support-for-Thought: Connecting with and Engaging the Client 4. Support-for-Thought: Setting the Agenda and Clarifying the Narrative 5. Challenge-for-Thought: Constructing a Well-Formed Outcome 6. Challenge-for-Thought: Eliciting Self-Talk and Beliefs 7. Challenge-for-Thought: Changing Contaminated Self-Talk and Counterproductive Beliefs 8. Support-for-Action: Strengthening Motivation for Change 9. Challenge-for-Action: Generating Movement 10. The Coaching Alliance: Putting the Framework in Context 11. Neuroscience and the Framework 12. Leadership, Organizational Change, and the Framework 13. Coaching: The Big Picture