Sullivan, Jeannette S.

Drawing from the wildly successful use of the executive coaching model in the private
sector, this session will describe how one public institution created their own coaching program,
and equipped not faculty or administration, but rather students to coach each other. This study
explored the motivation of the coaches to devote their time to this effort without financial reward
or recognition. The presenter designed, proposed, promoted, and instituted s2s Coaching.
The purpose of this case study was to explore the perspective of student coaches in the s2s
Coaching program at Palm Beach State College following completion of training in the spring
term of 2013. An additional research question was to assess the coaches’ perspective of the
coach training and their motivation or interest in becoming a student coach. Lastly, the
recommendations of the coaches for future coach training sessions are assessed. Coaches were
interviewed and document review was included in the methodology.
Among the findings that emerged was the discomfort that the coaches felt in maintaining a
professional or institutional role while delving into potentially personal matters, which in their
normal discourse would make them a friend. This fuzzy line between coach and friend
engendered discussion and recommendations for future training and discussion of this topic with
the other coaches. The findings are revealed by a discussion of these categories.

The purpose of this research was to determine if a relationship exists between
McGregor’s Leadership Theory and subjective states of well-being among higher
educational leaders in state and community colleges in Florida. The underlying
supposition was that the preference for what Douglas McGregor called Theory X or
Theory Y assumptions, indicate intrinsic assumptions about human nature and are linked
to subjective happiness. Quantitative data were collected through electronic
administration of two surveys and demographic questions to higher educational leaders at
28 state and community colleges in the State of Florida. These instruments measured
levels of well-being through the PERMA-Profiler instrument and preferences for Theory
X or Theory Y using the Theory X and Theory Y Managerial Assumptions Inventory.
Multiple correlation and regression analyses were used to address the research questions.
This study detected no relationship between well-being and happiness in this sample.