The authoritative Ridler report presents "the voice of organisational sponsors of coaching" from a wide range of large UK businesses. The 2016 report has recently been published and includes some interesting findings.
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72% of organisations expect to increase their spending on coaching in the next two years, for both external and internal coaching.

Leadership development continues to be a problem area in UK businesses. Whilst it is consistently regarded as inadequately or even poorly done, the majority of leaders (over 74%) consider that enhancing leadership capability would improve an organisation's prospects. (See our earlier article At the Helm of Unbalanced Ships).

Leadership development programmes in the UK, Europe and US, tend to focus on developing skills (such as managing people, strategic management, etc), those we think of as DOING skills OR, less frequently, to developing the  individual leader's personal strengths and capacities (such as developing EQ, authenticity, etc), the BEING skills. It is rare that these are addressed together in an integrated way.