The Coaching Leader

build skills and create a coaching culture

Leaders who want to increase their effectiveness

In person or virtual

Facilitator to participant ratio 1:12

Bring out the best in people by developing coaching skills and creating a coaching culture.

The Coaching Leader program is built from the success of our My Conscious Leadership senior executive program, where coaching capability consistently emerged as a defining leadership skill for sustainable performance, engagement, and succession.

As leaders, we have hundreds of conversations each year that directly shape outcomes, relationships, and culture. The Coaching Leader program equips leaders to maximize the value of those conversations by developing practical coaching skills that can be applied immediately in real work situations.

This one-day, immersive program develops leaders’ ability to coach rather than direct: strengthening trust, autonomy, and accountability, resulting in driven, productive, and high-performing teams. This investment directly supports sustainable profit, greater agility, and a capacity to successfully reach an organization’s objectives in complex and changing environments.

Class size

Eight hours over one day

Format

Best for

Duration

A proven formula to create a consistent coaching culture.

What participants learn in our The Coaching Leader program

The Coaching Leader program helps leaders develop the essential human skills required to coach effectively in today’s organizations.

Leaders perform best when they are equipped with practical tools, structured processes, and opportunities to practice in a safe, application-focused environment. This program was developed by credentialed coaches with extensive real-world leadership experience and refined through Leadership Design Studio’s work with senior executives.

The result is a proven approach that increases productivity, strengthens relationships, and supports the development of capable, confident future leaders, driving the successful execution of organizational objectives.

The Coaching Leader program teaches coaching skills through a proven, structured, industry-recognized approach grounded in Leadership Design Studio’s Coaching Leader Framework™ ©. This framework will provide leaders with both the mindset and the process required to create consistent, high-quality coaching conversations.

The Coaching Leader Framework™ ©

Leaders learn how to coach through five core practices that guide how they show up in conversations:

Connect – Establish a safe, respectful space where people feel seen, heard, and valued
Observe – Listen beyond words; notice tone, emotion, and behaviour while suspending judgment
Ask – Use powerful, open-ended questions to encourage reflection, ownership, and insight
Challenge – Offer observations and invite new perspectives while balancing support and stretch
Holding – Resist the impulse to solve or direct; create space for others to think, learn, and act

These practices help leaders shift from giving answers to developing thinking; creating self-reliance and accountability in others.

The GROW Coaching Model

To support structure and clarity in coaching conversations, leaders are trained to apply the GROW model:

Goal – Clarify what the person wants to achieve in the conversation
Reality – Explore the current situation with facts, awareness, and perspective
Options – Expand thinking and identify possible paths forward
Will – Commit to clear actions and accountability

Used together, the Coaching Leader Framework™ © and GROW model provide leaders with a practical method for accelerating learning, development, and performance, while ensuring coaching conversations lead to action. Over time, this shared approach establishes consistent coaching behaviours that reinforce a strong, sustainable coaching culture across teams and the organization.

As a result of participating in The Coaching Leader program, participants will be able to:

Develop skills to accelerate the learning and development of their team
Integrate coaching skills into everyday leadership conversations to increase effectiveness and impact
Apply The Coaching Leader Framework™ ©: Connect, Observe, Ask, Challenge, and Holding, to guide high-value coaching conversations
Use the GROW coaching model to create clarity, establish agreements, and initiate action
Strengthen communication skills that build self-reliance, ownership, and accountability in others
Establish an environment of trust, commitment, and autonomy across their teams
Discover and develop the potential of others, identifying and preparing future leaders through coaching