EQ is both a valuable metric and an essential caveat for executives and their coaches. IQ by its nature typically bears upon technical skills (including strategy at the higher levels of an organization) and, accordingly, serves traditionally talented individuals well as they progress to higher levels of responsibility.5 Gordon5 (2010) stresses the importance of coaches using EQ and its underlying notion that emotional competency is at least as important as intellectual competency as an indispensable component of the organization member's individual development program. NL