Yi-Ling Lai (PhD, CPsychol) is the Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of HRM and Organisational Behaviour at University of Southampton. Yi-Ling had several years in management consultancy prior to her academic career. Yi-Ling’s research mainly focuses on the psychological evidence in the coaching process. Recently, she also draws on theories in social psychology in studying the relations between executive coaching, power dynamics and business ethics in the organisation.