Does coaching work? A meta-analysis on the effects of coaching on individual level outcomes in an organizational context

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The power of coaching: a meta-analytic investigation (2015, background): “Despite evidence that coaching works (Theeboom et al., 2013) and provides ROI (De Meuse, Dai, & Lee, 2009), there is much debate about the specific competencies, qualifications, and conceptualisations of effective coaching (Peterson, 2011).”
The Working Alliance in Coaching (2015, background): “Thus, many studies have argued a need to improve the research methodologies used and use findings from more established research areas (de Haan et al., 2013; McKenna & Davis, 2009; Theeboom et al., 2013).”
#Trending topics in careers: a review and future research agenda (2017, background): “Theeboom et al. (2014) meta-analyzed existing studies about coaching and concluded that we need a stronger theoretical understanding of how and why coaching interventions are effective.”
Challenges for the Theory and Practice of Business Coaching (2016, background): “These limitations included a heavy reliance on self-reported outcomes and a lack of control groups suggesting that it is was not possible to clearly link coaching to outcomes (Theeboom et al., 2014), stronger effects for coachee perceptions of the quality of the coach–coachee relationship than for o”