Executive Coaching

Accelerate growth and potential with executive coaching that leverages proven methodologies and deep personalization for lasting impact. Coaching provides the self-awareness and perspective executives need to lead the organization.

Measurable outcomes tied to personal & organizational goals, ensuring tangible impact, not just usage or satisfaction metrics

Designed for lasting behavior change, with consistent quality & a cohesive approach across the enterprise or globe

Flexibility where it matters, enabling busy executives to connect with their coaches when & how they need to

Evidence-based methodology built on neuroscience & a deep understanding of leaders and leadership development

Executive Leadership Coaching

Today’s senior leaders face more complexity, faster change, and higher expectations than ever before. They don’t just need support — they need someone to challenge their thinking, inspire growth, and provide a trusted space to reflect and evolve.

Support their cognitive and behavioral development with executive coaching services that combine research-based frameworks and neuroscience with personalized support to guide your leaders to insights, delivering tangible, measurable results for your organization.

Research consistently finds that executives who receive coaching: 

  • Are more effective leaders
  • Say coaching helped them address challenges, internalize lessons, and contribute to their organization’s success
  • Impact organizational outcomes such as strategy execution, teamwork, and change management

And research has found that the results of executive coaching include:

  • Smoother, quicker transitions into new roles
  • Improvement in team leadership performance
  • Increased emotional intelligence and self-awareness, which enables leaders to use their strengths more effectively
  • Higher levels of leader resilience
  • Improved strategic thinking skills
  • Better, stronger relationships with key stakeholders
  • Sustainable organizational change

Whether navigating role transitions, leading change, or looking to boost performance, your executives’ effectiveness impacts your entire organization’s success. Executive coaching provides a laser-focused approach specifically targeted for these key individuals in the organization, aligning with both their personal development goals and your organization’s strategic objectives.

Our approach to executive coaching addresses the leadership challenges that research shows are most critical for executive success:

  • Role transition — Navigating new roles or preparing for career shifts with clarity and confidence
  • Team effectiveness — Strengthening collaboration, performance, engagement, and retention
  • Organizational change — Building alignment and leading through transformation
  • Communication, presence, and influence — Engaging, inspiring, and motivating others
  • Managing time, stress, and energy — Developing resilience and avoiding burnout
  • Global leadership — Building skills in cultural intelligence and cross-cultural communication

And the benefits of executive coaching extend to the entire organization by:

  • Strengthening the leadership pipeline — Preparing people identified in succession planning or talent reviews for success before or after they move into a new role
  • Addressing skills gaps — Providing guidance and accountability for learning or improving skills such as communication, delegation, and managing others
  • Complementing retention efforts — Offering coaching as a benefit to support leaders; engagement, growth, and learning
  • Reinforcing strategic or cultural capabilities — Supporting key people to implement shared priorities
  • Steering leaders through disruption — Creating a sounding board and guide for executives making decisions in complex and uncertain environments

Unlike other executive coaching providers, we do not simply act as brokers of individual coaches. Instead, we closely manage a global network of hundreds of highly trained, highly professional world-class coaches fluent in multiple languages to ensure alignment with our research and unparalleled expertise. 

As one of the largest global, managed executive coaching providers, we offer rigorous coaching services for individual leaders, with the capacity to scale globally.  You can count on a great fit and a productive executive 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 executive coaching together with these key elements:

  • Consistent quality, global footprint: Connect 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 executive 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 coaching approach based on our proprietary model for systematic personal and organizational transformation

It’s quick and easy to get your leaders the support they need. Our executive coaching is tailored to the needs of the top 3 levels of organizational leadership:

  • C-Suite/Senior Executives (Leading the Organization)
  • Executives (Leading the Function or Organization)
  • Directors and Senior Managers (Leading Leaders or Leading Others)

Our flexible 4, 6, 9, or 12-month packages of readily available executive coaching can help your senior leaders with their challenges. Depending on your desired outcome, we can recommend optimal length executive coaching packages for your needs. Longer engagements allow for flexibility in scheduling and support sustained behavior change by providing ample time for reflection, integration, and real-world practice — ensuring that new habits and patterns are repeated and reinforced.

Our executive coaching packages enable your busy leaders to access world-class coaching, anytime — even outside of traditional business hours. Start a conversation with us to get started today.

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 executive coaching, driving remarkable transformations at their organizations.

But don’t just take our word for it — take theirs.

CCL worked closely with key stakeholders in our organization to explore and discover our needs and provided a solution that was designed and delivered within our specifications to a large population in a limited time-frame. The initiative was a success and additional efforts to sustain the impact are underway.

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Marc van Marrewijk

Talent Attraction & Development Manager

Novo Nordisk

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I just introduced one very small behavioral change, but it’s amazing the impact this is having on my team. Now, the first thing I always do is try to ask a question. I always start that conversation with a question.

Carrefour

Carrefour Executive

Carrefour

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My coach was objective, non-judgmental, and asked thought-provoking questions, which is what I needed and helped me to process. He was able to quickly grasp where I was coming from … and relate back to my experience, which can be hard to do in such a short amount of time.

Chris Stake

Research Operations Manager

Lurie Hospital

Coaching is an opportunity to learn more about ourselves. No matter how experienced we are, we all can use someone to help us see leadership traits and situations from a different perspective. What a great experience!

Linda Huntt

Linda Huntt

VP, Management

Institute for Defense Analyses

[I appreciated] the opportunity to have a guided conversation about current state, future state, and gaps … an external perspective that empowered me to ‘get out of the weeds’ so that essential bigger-picture planning and vision-setting can take place. Efficient approach … practical coaching. Time well spent.

Michelle Macy

Associate Professor Pediatrics

Lurie Hospital

CCL is known globally as the gold standard in leadership development for executives, so the senior leaders we approach know they will be participating in a quality initiative.

Nancy Coffee

President & CEO

The Leadership Academy

The coaching sessions are presented by real people providing real context and value that can assist in one’s workplace adaptability and self-awareness.

Kevin Camilleri

National Account Manager

Kao Australia

Impact of Our Executive Coaching Services

What our clients are saying about partnering with us to provide our world-class executive coaching services to their leaders:

increase in leadership capability
1 %
boosted job performance
1 %
drove greater business success
1 %
strengthened ability to lead under pressure
1 %

Let’s Discuss How Executive Coaching Can Support Leaders at Your Organization

Our experts are here to help. Let’s talk about how our global network of executive leadership coaches can drive business results for your organization.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Executive Coaching

Executive coaching is a learning and development approach that creates self-awareness, helps drive transformational change, and provides critical challenge and support. Our executive coaching services take a truly personal approach, building a collaborative relationship that’s customized to fit the needs and schedule of busy executives. Virtual coaching sessions are flexible, with options to meet via phone, video, or web. Through these regular sessions, the executive coach dives deep to understand the leader’s strengths and opportunities for growth and uses that insight to inform the development of innovative, personalized solutions.

By participating in executive coaching experiences, your leaders will gain increased self-awareness, a drive for transformational change, and a renewed sense of opportunity. Coaching can improve performance in key ways, including providing a greater understanding of self, others, and the larger organizational context; and an enhanced ability to communicate effectively and coach others. Our coaches provide critical support and feedback to help leaders set goals, create action plans, and enhance performance.

Executive coaches work closely with leaders to provide and interpret valuable feedback, identify challenges and opportunities, ask thought-provoking questions, act as a sounding board, and facilitate learning. By supporting leaders and monitoring progress over time, coaches are able to help grow careers and transform individuals and entire organizations. Learn more about choosing an executive coach to enhance performance.

Once you get started, our experts take your leaders’ industry, skills, language, and personality into account before pairing them with the right executive coach. Then, the coach will establish a comfortable and confidential relationship with your leaders in order to create a safe and confidential space that encourages focus, clarity, and purpose. Finally, depending on the amount of hours you purchased and your leaders’ schedules, coaches will be available for 30- or 60-minute virtual sessions to discuss, challenge, support, and give feedback.

Research has found that those who have had executive coaching are significantly more effective leaders, with increased resilience, emotional intelligence, and self-awareness. They’re able to use their strengths more effectively and with intention, and can recognize and work around their weaknesses. Executive coaching helps leaders feel they have an increased sense of self-understanding, purpose, and clarity on next steps to drive change. Of course, there is a benefit to continuing a long-term executive coaching relationship, but even a brief coaching engagement can be an effective experience that results in the ability to set clear goals and navigate the demands of leadership with confidence.

Finding the best executive coach is a personal experience and should be tailored to the individual or individuals who are participating. At CCL, our world-class coaches are among the top 3% of coaches in the world, undergoing a rigorous selection, training, and quality control process. Our experts consider your leaders’ expertise, industry, skillset, personality, and language before matching them with the right coach. 

Executive coaching is different from other types of approaches because it is relationship-based, focused on the individual and how they show up as they lead, and designed to make a personal connection that gives way to organizational transformation. Coaching is focused on enhancing current job performance — leaders work directly with an executive coach to explore ideas, examine and receive feedback, and set personalized goals. Often an executive coach will help the leader understand feedback from assessments, create and work through a development plan, and address any specific business needs or interpersonal growth areas.

More questions? Our experts are here to help. Let’s have a conversation!

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