About

Sunny Stout-Rostron Associates was established in 2011 through a collaboration between an experienced team of executive coaches and leadership consultants. Their aim is to develop individual and organizational leadership and management capacity through practitioner-based coaching, consulting, facilitation and learning interventions. Sunny Stout-Rostron Associates are well known for their ability to help leaders and managers, and coaching psychologists, consultants and supervisors “to learn through their experience”. Learning and developing wisdom from experience is their business focus. Their mission is to facilitate experiential work-based learning in individuals, teams and organisations.

Sunny coaches at senior executive and board level, and has a wide range of experience in leadership development and business strategy. With over 25 years’ international experience as an executive coach, Sunny believes there is a strong link between emotional intelligence and business results – she works with executive leaders and their teams to help them achieve individual, team and organizational goals. Sunny has played a leading role in building the emerging profession of coaching, and her passion is to develop the knowledge base for coaching through research and the critical reflective practice of dedicated practitioners. She has developed a range of international programmes for leaders and business coaches in the corporate, legal and education fields.

She is Executive Director of Sunny Stout-Rostron Associates, Advisory Board Member with the Professional Development Foundation UK (PDF), and Founding Fellow and Research Advisor at the Institute of Coaching at Harvard. She completed her doctoral research in Executive Coaching with Middlesex University London, and continues to lecture and supervise research at several graduate schools of business to contribute to the development of executive coaches.

In collaboration with other  practitioners, Sunny set up the Manthano Institute of Learning (Pty)  Ltd, whose aims included the promotion and development of academic and practitioner  coaching research in South Africa. She developed a succession of  strategic leadership and management development programs within the corporate sector in South Africa, the UK and USA.  Clients  included British Airways, Johnson & Johnson, The SAS Institute, Pick n Pay,  SASOL, Standard Bank, The Foschini Group, Eskom, Legal Resources Group, Cummins  Filtration International and VWSA.

Sunny completed her Professional Doctorate (D.Prof) in Executive Coaching at Middlesex University London in 2006.  She is an active member of the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches  (WABC), an Honorary Life Member of Coaches and Mentors of South Africa  (COMENSA), and a founding faculty member in South Africa for the Thinking  Environment methodology (developed by Nancy Kline).

Sunny lectures at several  universities, including the business schools of the University  of California at Berkeley,  and in South Africa at the  University of the Witwatersrand, the University  of Stellenbosch, and the  Da Vinci Institute of Technology. In addition, she frequently speaks at  conferences in the USA, UK, Australia  and South Africa.

Sunny’s books include: Leadership Coaching for Results: Cutting-edge practices for coach and client (Knowres, 2014), Business Coaching International: Transforming individuals and organizations (Karnac 2009/2013), Business Coaching Wisdom and Practice: Unlocking the secrets of business coaching (Knowres, 2009/2012), and Accelerating Performance: Powerful new techniques to develop people (Kogan Page, 2002). Her most recent book is available both online and in print.

She is also a contributing author to Family Enterprises: How to Build Growth, Family Control and Family Harmony (Globe Law and Business, 2014), the UK Handbook on the Psychology of Coaching and Mentoring (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013); Positive Psychology as Social Change (Springer, 2010); Trends in Developing Human Capital (Knowres, 2010); The Complete Handbook of Coaching (Sage, 2009/2013); Developing Human Capital (Knowres 2010); and Sharing the Passion: Conversations with coaches (Advanced Human Technologies, 2006)