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Leadership Coaching

Unlock Your Organization’s Potential

Leadership coaching creates self-awareness, provides critical challenge and support, and helps drive transformational change.

Leadership coaching is one of the most effective tools available to take leadership development to a deeper and more sustainable level — whether focused on the individual or on your entire organization. Coaches expand perspective, inspire, and provide challenge and support like no one else. Leadership development coaching can help an individual leader, a team workgroup, or an entire workforce to unlock their full potential.

Both leadership coaching and building coaching skills can have a lasting impact on an organization’s ecosystem of leadership.

From personalized executive coaching for individuals, to coaching integrated into a development program, to building conversational skills and scaling a culture of feedback across the enterprise — our world-class leadership coaching services can help your organization navigate complexity and improve results.

And the best part? All of our high-impact leadership development coaching services can be delivered virtually, via phone, videoconferencing, or a Web platform — allowing for unparalleled flexibility to meet your needs.

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Coaching Takes Leadership Development to a Deeper, More Sustainable Level

Research has repeatedly found that leaders who receive coaching are viewed as significantly more effective and tend to be more satisfied in their jobs. Coaching also leads to increased self-awareness, improved critical thinking skills, accelerated learning, better team performance, and sustainable organizational change. 

Ignite individual, team, and organizational effectiveness by partnering with us for leadership development coaching. We’ll bring together the art and science of just-in-time, personalized development for your organization. Our assessment-rich leadership coaching approach clarifies strengths, goals, and opportunities for growth. We’re ready to partner with you to craft a coaching solution for your organization’s specific context and challenges.

Leadership development coaching at the Center for Creative Leadership
leadership development coaching through the Center for Creative Leadership

Our World-Class Leadership Coaches

Our coaches are in the top 3% of coaches in the world. They undergo a rigorous selection, training, and quality control process unlike any in the industry. Our leadership coaches have strong business acumen, excellent interpersonal skills, a high regard for confidentiality and ethics, and bring curiosity and a growth mindset to every coaching conversation. They hold advanced degrees in business or behavioral science and bring extensive industry expertise and real-world work experience. Many are fluent in multiple languages.

Our coaches spend time to getting to know your organization’s unique culture and business goals, so that they can contextualize coaching sessions. You’re ensured an excellent fit, as we take expertise, skillset, and personality into account when matching coach and coachee. In addition, we continuously monitor the effectiveness of our coach pool and the value of leadership coaching for our clients. Rather than just brokering coaches for you, we manage our coaches to assure a quality experience, and offer real-time reporting that’s flexible enough to meet your specific needs, yet broad enough to handle large global coaching and development projects.

Our Leadership Coaching Solutions to Take Development to a Deeper, More Sustainable Level

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Executive Coaching

Just as athletes benefit from coaching, so do leaders. Coaching can help uncover blind spots, strengthen leadership skills, and change behaviors that can directly impact business results. Executive leadership coaching helps support and grow leaders, especially as they transition into new roles, face new challenges, or prepare to take on more responsibilities. 

We also offer large-scale executive coaching solutions with a boutique feel. We provide global organizations with turnkey leadership coaching that includes reporting, quality management, coach supervision, and central points of contact.

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Integrated Coaching

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, motivate your leaders, and speed the adoption of new habits. Multiply the return on your investment in leadership development by increasing the likelihood of sustainable behavior change and improving performance.

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Team Coaching

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 a custom team coaching engagement to enhance team effectiveness and achieve your organization’s specific needs and desired outcomes. 

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Develop Coaching Conversations Skills & Create a Better Culture

The culture of your organization is more powerful than your strategy and more persistent than your vision. It’s the environment that enables performance — or undermines it. Our suite of conversational skills solutions start with a simple yet transformative premise: that better culture starts with better conversations. No matter the size of your organization, we can help you build skill at holding coaching conversations, drive business outcomes, and create a culture of feedback — creating lasting organizational change at scale.

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What Our Clients Are Saying

At CCL, we measure success by lives touched and impact made. That’s why the organizations we work with and the leaders we transform consistently tell us the same thing: their experience with us is a game-changer. We’ve helped thousands of organizations use leadership coaching to take their development efforts to a deeper and more sustainable level, helping to support lasting change.

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

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American Express Leadership Academy
Carrefour
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“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.”

Marc van Marrewijk
Talent Attraction & Development Manager
Novo Nordisk

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Novo Nordisk & CCL: Creating a Performance Culture by Developing Managers

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“The Center for Creative Leadership’s mission to develop leaders in their communities to have a positive impact on the world has a strong alignment with our mission, so it was obvious that there was no other group out there that we would want to work with.”

Jamie Williams
Director of Scholarships
Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation

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Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation Scholar Coaching Initiative

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Impact of Our Leadership Coaching Services

What our clients are saying about our world-class leadership development coaching:

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Meet Our Leadership Coaching Team

Andre Keil

Andre Keil, MA
Director, Coaching & On-Call Talent

Andre Keil is responsible for our U.S. executive coaching talent pool, including coach selection, onboarding, evaluation, engagement, and retention. He is an executive coach himself and is on the International Coach Federation’s Coach Training board. Previously, he ran CCL’s EMEA coaching business out of our Brussels office.

Frédéric Funck

Frédéric Funck
Director of Coaching, EMEA

Frédéric leads our coaching business strategy, coaching products innovations, coaching client satisfaction and engagements in EMEA. 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

Vandana Vishnu
Faculty & Executive Coach, APAC

Vandana integrates her in-depth coaching and facilitation experience to design and deliver integrated programs for client engagements in APAC. She. Having grown up in India, she has multiple years of experience working with women leaders from Singapore, China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, and more, allowing her a uniquely Asian perspective and insight into women’s leadership journeys and challenges.

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. We’d love to hear from you!  

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Frequently Asked Questions About 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. 

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 among the top 3% of leadership coaches in the world, undergoing a rigorous selection, training, and quality control process.

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.

Leaders who participate in professional 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.

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

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