Coaching looks different when your client is a mid-level or senior leader navigating real organizational weight. You already know how to listen deeply, hold space with care, and bring genuine curiosity to every session. And yet, when the person across from you carries responsibility for a companyโs growth, culture, and reputation, something in the room changes. The stakes feel higher. The pressure to be practical, fast, and strategic can crowd out the qualities that make your coaching work.
Coaching leaders well means learning to hold the person and the system, the goal and the growth, the urgency and the relationship. Co-Active Training Institute’s free Learn & Lead Webinar on June 30 is built to help coaches do exactly that. Led live by Christina McFadden, CPCC, MCC, a Co-Active faculty member with more than 20 years of leadership experience, this 60-minute session is designed to change how you work with leaders.
Ready to bring your full self into leadership coaching sessions? Register for our free Learn & Lead Webinar on June 30 – Coaching Leaders: How to Meet Leaders Where They Are with Skill, Presence, and Play.
Who This Webinar Is For
This webinar is for coaches who already lead with presence and curiosity and want to go deeper when the client holds organizational power. Coaching leaders is its own discipline, and the questions coaches ask in this space deserve direct, grounded answers.
This Is for You If You’ve Wondered…
- What needs to change when you move to coaching leaders: The relational skills are the same. The context, stakes, and complexity are not.
- How to keep play and humanity alive under pressure: When leaders feel the weight of performance, coaches feel it too. This webinar addresses how to hold your ground and stay human.
- How to help leaders access authentic voice and emotional intelligence: Particularly when they face pressure to have answers rather than questions.
- When to coach for development vs. when to be a thought partner: Knowing the difference is one of the most useful things a leadership coach can develop.
If any of these questions are on your mind, this webinar was made for you. And it directly builds off the Co-Active skills youโve already developed.ย
What the Webinar Covers
This 60-minute live session covers four areas that shape what it means to coach leaders well. Each one is grounded in Co-Active methodology and designed to be immediately applicable in your next leadership coaching conversation.
Four Areas of Focus
- The being and doing of a leadership coach: How to balance presence with courage, translate Co-Active concepts into business-relevant language, and work with patterns like over-control or reactivity in the room.
- Coaching the leader in context: How a leader’s role, level, and organizational horizon influence their behavior, and how to coach across multiple perspectives so leaders can see their impact more clearly.
- Vulnerability, authenticity, and the Saboteur: How to support leaders in expanding their range, strengthening authenticity, and recognizing both reactive patterns and creative potential within themselves and in others.
- The logistics of a leadership coaching engagement: A practical overview of contracting, structure, stakeholder dynamics, and how to set yourself and your client up for meaningful work from the start.
87% of organizations report that executive coaching delivers a high return on investment, and leaders who work with skilled coaches see that impact across engagement, performance, and retention. This webinar gives you the specific tools and frameworks to be that coach.ย
What You Walk Away With
Coaching leaders well takes more than good instincts. It takes a clear framework for reading complexity, knowing when to hold space and when to speak directly, and staying grounded when the pressure in the room is high. This webinar gives you that framework.
Practical Takeaways
- A sharper read on what leaders need from you: Whether the session calls for development coaching, a thought partner, or something else entirely, you will leave with a clearer sense of how to assess the moment and respond with confidence.
- Tools to work with patterns like over-control, reactivity, and avoidance: Practical, immediately applicable skills for some of the most common dynamics coaches encounter with leaders.
- The freedom to stay playful and human: Even when the stakes are high, you will know how to keep curiosity and humanity alive in the room.
The global coaching industry is projected to reach $20 billion, reflecting how deeply organizations are investing in coaching at the leadership level. Coaches who can work with confidence in that space are well positioned to meet that demand.ย
Meet Your Webinar Host
Christina McFadden, CPCC, MCC is a Co-Active faculty member and leadership coach with more than 20 years of leadership experience. As an early employee at multiple startups, she has navigated the complexity and high-stakes decisions her clients now bring to their sessions, and that firsthand understanding shapes everything about how she works. She studied at Oxford University and Stanford University and currently teaches at UC Berkeley and Microsoft.
Ready to bring your full self into leadership coaching sessions? Register for our free Learn & Lead Webinar on June 30 – Coaching Leaders: How to Meet Leaders Where They Are with Skill, Presence, and Play.