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Leadership Coaching Services
Professional leadership coaching is one of the most effective tools for leadership development. It fosters self-understanding and supports transformational change — enabling leaders to access their full potential and drive business results for their organizations.
Expand Potential With Leadership Development Coaching
Our coaching services are focused on the outcomes leaders and organizations need most.
Whether your organization is seeking personalized leadership coaching for senior executives and high potentials, or is interested in coaching for your entire organization, we can help. Our world-class leadership coaches expand perspective, inspire, and provide challenge and support like no one else. We take a neuroscience-backed approach focused on using proven methods and current research on habit formation to reinforce learning and lasting change.
Integrating our leadership coaching services strategically into larger talent development initiatives will help you support your leaders and sustain behavior change. Partner with us to leverage our highly personalized development programs, along with 360 feedback and professional coaching, to support lasting leader transformations with meaningful, measurable outcomes that go beyond just usage and satisfaction metrics — and tie to real business results.
Our Leadership Coaching Services
Just as athletes benefit from coaching, so do leaders. Executive coaching strengthens skills, enables sustained behavior change, and provides needed support as they transition into new roles, face new challenges, or prepare to take on more responsibilities.
We also offer large-scale executive coach services with a boutique feel, providing global organizations with turnkey, high-quality and consistent leadership coaching that includes reporting, quality management, coach supervision, and central points of contact.
Development shouldn’t end when participants finish their coursework. Ensure the valuable lessons learned will be remembered, applied, and internalized in the months following the program with integrated coaching and leadership training.
Reinforce and reaffirm skills, help leaders understand feedback, and speed the adoption of new habits.
Leadership coaching integrated into development multiplies ROI by increasing the likelihood of sustainable behavior change and improved performance.
So much goes into teamwork. Team member relationships, shared experiences, and interpersonal awareness all affect the effectiveness of team collaboration.
Workplace team coaching increases self-awareness of behaviors and their impact on team dynamics, equipping teams to collaborate more effectively and take on complex challenges together.
Partner with us for custom team coaching to enhance team effectiveness and achieve your organization’s goals.
Go Deeper on Leadership Coaching
Download our report to learn how your organization can overcome common challenges with leadership coaching and integrate coaching services into your larger development strategy to maximize ROI.
What Our Clients Are Saying
As a top-ranked provider of leadership development, we’ve shaped the industry for more than 50 years and are trusted globally to design and deliver solutions that enable individuals and organizations to reach their full potential. Clients around the world — including 2/3 of the Fortune 1000 — have partnered with us for professional leadership coaching, driving remarkable transformations at their organizations.
But don’t just take our word for it — take theirs.
Impact of Our Leadership Coaching Services
What our clients are saying about our world-class leadership development coaching:
say they’re more effective as a leader
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say they are better able to contribute to their organization’s success
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say their job performance has improved
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Meet Our Leadership Coaching Experts
Patricia Overland, MS, PCC
Director of Coaching Talent, Americas
Patricia brings more than 20 years of experience in leadership coaching services — including design, delivery, and global oversight of complex coaching engagements — to her role. She is responsible for all CCL coaches in the Americas, including coach selection, onboarding, evaluation, engagement, development, and retention.
Frédéric Funck
Director, Executive Coaching Programs
Frédéric leads our executive coaching programs and coaching community across the globe. He is a member of Forbes Coaching Council and has written numerous articles and white papers on the future of leadership coaching. Frédéric is also chair of a coaching think tank of 60 prestigious organizations in EMEA and serves a keynote speaker specializing in the topics of peak performance and flow.
Vandana Vishnu
Faculty & Director of Coaching, APAC
Vandana leads our coaching talent for the Asia Pacific region, maintaining the quality of coaching engagements for our clients and working closely with 120+ coaches. She’s a leadership facilitator and coach with 22 years of experience. She is deeply committed to developing inclusive leadership processes in organizations to positively influence the business outcomes and development of human potential in the workplace.
Let’s Discuss Your Leadership Coaching Needs
Our experts are here to help. Let’s talk about how leadership development coaching can drive business results for your organization.
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More About Our Professional Leadership Coaching Services
Our World-Class Leadership Coaches
Our community of coaches are selected from the top 3% of applicants from around the world. They undergo a rigorous selection, training, and quality control process that’s unlike any in the industry. They’re highly credentialed, with deep understanding of business context and human behavior, and highly trained by accredited coaching training programs. All have:
- Strong business acumen, excellent interpersonal skills, and a high regard for confidentiality and ethics;
- PhD or Masters-level degrees in business or behavioral science;
- Over 200 hours of accredited coach training, plus 15–20 hours of continuing education each year;
- A minimum of 5 years of full-time experience as a coach; and
- Extensive industry expertise and real-world work experience.
Our Leadership Coaching Practice Takes Development to a Deeper Level
Our coaches spend time to getting to know your organization’s unique culture and business goals, so that they can contextualize leadership coaching sessions. You’re ensured an excellent fit, as we take expertise, skillset, and personality into account when matching coach with coachee.
In addition, we continuously monitor the effectiveness of our coach pool and the impact of leadership coaching for our clients. Rather than just brokering coaches for you, we manage our coaches to assure a quality experience, and we offer real-time reporting that’s flexible enough to meet your specific needs, yet broad enough to handle large global leadership coaching and development engagements.
Frequently Asked Questions About Leadership Coaching
What is professional leadership coaching?
Professional leadership coaching is an effective tool that helps leaders at all levels drive transformational change and maximize performance. Coaching can be one-on-one or take place in a small group setting online — either way, the goal is to help the participant gain self-awareness, improve critical thinking skills, enhance performance, and accelerate learning, while providing needed challenge and support. Learn more about the 6 essential principles of leadership coaching that we’ve found to be most effective when coaching others.
What is a leadership development coach?
A leadership development coach is a professional who can expand, inspire, challenge, and support their coachee. They are experienced individuals who have impressive credentials, spending time with participants to better understand an organization’s challenges and culture, so that they can provide an effective experience. At CCL, our world-class coaches are selected from the top 3% of applicants from around the world, undergoing a rigorous selection, training, and quality control process.
What does a leadership coach do?
A leadership coach brings expertise, curiosity, and a growth mindset to every coaching session. They spend time getting to know a coachee’s organizational culture and context, unique personal challenges, and development goals to ensure the support they’re providing is relevant and effective. For more context on what they offer, read The 6 Essential Principles of Leadership Coaching.
What skills do you gain from leadership coaching?
Leaders who participate in professional leadership coaching gain a better sense of self-awareness, enhance their critical thinking skills, improve job performance, and get the tools needed to drive sustainable organizational change. Coaches provide critical support and feedback to help leaders set goals, create action plans, and enhance performance.
What are different types of coaching?
Your organization should consider leveraging each of the different types of coaching in the workplace, including executive, integrated, team, and virtual coaching. First, executive coaching is an effective way to strengthen performance for top leaders, giving them the tools they need to make key transitions that impact their performance. Secondly, integrated coaching is an approach that blends coaching sessions into a broader leadership development program, and reinforces lessons learned in training. Next, organizations should leverage team coaching for all levels of leadership to foster healthy interactions, effective collaboration, and high performance. Each of these types of coaching can be delivered virtually, as online coaching is an ideal option for delivering personalized coaching to individual leaders and teams that are hybrid or remote, as well as for those who need to find a way to easily integrate development and follow-up into a hectic schedule.
More questions? Our experts are here to help. Let’s have a conversation!
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