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Leadership Coaching Services
Professional leadership coaching is one of the most effective tools for personalized development. It fosters self-understanding and supports transformational change — enabling leaders to access their full potential and drive business results for their organizations.
Our Global Leadership Coaching Services
Just as athletes benefit from coaching, so do leaders. Executive coaching services strengthens skills, grows mindsets, 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 leadership coach services with a boutique feel, providing global organizations with turnkey, high-quality, and consistent 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 & 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.
Expand Potential With Leadership Coaching
Benefits of Leadership Development Coaching
Leadership coaching services help both individuals and organizations. Typical benefits of coaching for an individual leader include:
- Increased self-awareness, helping leaders recognize their own strengths, weaknesses, and behaviors
- Improved relationships with others through greater understanding of motivations, approaches, and how they’re perceived
- Enhanced wellbeing & resilience with the support of a coach who can help leaders reframe their challenges
Research shows that that organizations find leadership coaching is an especially valuable investment for:
- Strengthening the leadership pipeline by preparing people identified in succession planning or talent reviews for success before or after they move into a new role
- Addressing skills gaps by providing guidance and accountability for learning or improving skills such as communication, delegation, and managing others
- Complementing retention efforts by offering coaching as a benefit to support leaders’ engagement, growth, and learning
- Reinforcing strategic or cultural capabilities by supporting key people to implement shared priorities
- Steering leaders through disruption by creating a sounding board and guide for executives making decisions in complex and uncertain environments
Coaching creates the greatest impact for organizations when interwoven into the larger leadership development strategy. Whether your organization is seeking personalized leadership coaching for senior executives and high potentials, or is interested in offering professional coaching services to leaders across your entire organization, we can help.
We Are Trusted Global Coaching Providers
Our global network of world-class coaches expand perspectives, inspire, and provide challenge and support to leaders, wherever they are in the world. They take a neuroscience-backed approach to coaching built on evidence-based best practices, proven methods, and current research on habit formation to reinforce learning and lasting change.
Partner with us to leverage our highly personalized development programs, along with 360 feedback and professional coaching, to support transformation with meaningful, measurable outcomes that go beyond just usage and satisfaction metrics — and tie to real business results.
Sessions can be delivered in-person (in the case of integrated coaching & leadership training programs), and/or virtual leadership coaching services are available.
Why Choose Our Leadership Coaching Services?
Unlike other leadership coaching providers, we do not simply act as brokers of individual coaches. Instead, we closely manage a global network of hundreds of highly trained world-class leadership coaches who are fluent in multiple languages and have unparalleled expertise.
As one of the largest global, managed leadership coaching providers, we offer rigorous, international coaching services for individual leaders, with the capacity to scale globally. You can count on a great fit and a productive coaching relationship, because our experts take your leaders’ skillsets, needs, personalities, and language into account to match each individual with the right coach.
We’re the only nonprofit global provider of leadership development solutions that brings leadership coaching services together with these key elements:
- Consistent quality, global footprint: Our executive coaching services connect senior leaders with our worldwide community of highly experienced, senior-level coaches
- Proven, research-based methods: Ensure lasting behavior change with a neuroscience-based approach built on research and a deep understanding of leadership development
- Outcomes-driven, measurable results: Go beyond usage and satisfaction metrics with coaching data tied to individual and organizational goals, ensuring tangible personal and business impact
- Accessibility & flexibility: Meet busy executives where they are by allowing leaders to connect with their coaches for support in between sessions and access research-based resources and tools
- Convenience & confidentiality: Access easy scheduling, confidential communication, and insights for organizations via our coaching platform
- Personalized support: Develop and strengthen leaders with a relationship-based approach based on our proprietary leadership coaching model
Go Deeper on Coaching
Learn the top leadership coaching challenges we hear most often from our clients and our top recommendations to overcome them: Download our report on coaching for talent development.
Impact of Our Leadership Coaching Services
What our clients are saying about our world-class leadership development coaching:
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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.
More Information on Leadership Coaching
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Discover more about our outcomes-focused, evidence-based approach to leadership coaching and what sets us apart.
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Learn how your organization can overcome common challenges with leadership coaching and integrate it into development.
Meet Our Global 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.
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;
- Advanced degrees (PhD or Masters-level) in business or behavioral science;
- Certification by ICF, CCE, or EMCC;
- Over 200 hours of accredited coach training, plus 15–20 hours of continuing education each year;
- A minimum of 5 years experience working full-time as a coach; and
- Extensive industry expertise and real-world work experience.
Many are fluent in multiple languages, as well.
Our Leadership Coaching Practice Takes Development to a Deeper Level
Our coaches spend time 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.
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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Drive business outcomes by partnering with us to create a customized leadership development program tailored to your organization’s context and culture.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Leadership Coaching
What is professional leadership coaching?
Professional leadership coaching is an effective tool that helps leaders at all levels maximize their performance and drive transformational change. Coaching can be one-on-one or take place in a small group setting — but either way, the goal is to help the leader understand feedback from others, gain self-awareness, improve critical thinking, enhance performance, and accelerate learning, all while providing needed challenge and support.
What is a leadership development coach?
A leadership development coach is a trained professional who can inspire, challenge, and support their coachee, typically an individual leader who manages people and / or tasks. The best leadership coaches typically hold coaching credentials, have a background in neuroscience or human behavior, and bring many years of work experience and industry expertise to the leadership coaching engagement. 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 unlike any in the industry.
What does a leadership coach do?
A professional leadership coach brings expertise, curiosity, and a growth mindset to every coaching session. They help a leader understand themselves better, typically help their coachee understand their 360 results, and can provide coaching for performance. Our coaches 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.
What skills do you gain from leadership coaching?
Leaders who receive professional coaching gain a better sense of self-awareness, enhance their critical thinking, improve job performance, and increase their effectiveness. Trained leadership coaching providers offer feedback and support to help leaders set goals, create action plans, and get better results.
Individual managers may also sometimes find themselves playing the role of a leadership coach when talking with a colleague or direct report. Whether you’re a professional coach or not, knowing these 6 essential leadership coaching principles is helpful.
What are different types of coaching in the workplace?
Different types of coaching for leaders include executive, integrated, team, and virtual coaching. Executive coaching is an effective way to strengthen performance for top-level leaders, giving them tools to steer their organizations, navigate competing priorities, and lead strategically. Integrated coaching blends leadership coaching sessions into broader training and development to reinforce lessons learned. Team coaching can support groups of individuals working together to foster higher trust, more effective collaboration, and improved performance. All of these types of leadership coaching can be delivered virtually, and online delivery is ideal for providing personalized leader coaching delivery to individuals and teams, wherever they’re located.
More questions? Our experts are here to help. Let’s have a conversation!
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