Leadership isn't meant to be done alone.
Every leader needs an outside perspective to give them clarity and accountability.
Our one-on-one or small group coaching gives you or your team a personal coach to help you with the big picture systems, long-term goals and day-to-day challenges of leadership.
We believe personal growth and leadership are intertwined, never-ending endeavors. Our coaches and clients build long-term relationships, walking with you through the highs and lows of your organization’s journey.
Tired of leading alone?
Our experienced leadership coaches are here to help.
What leaders are saying about personal coaching:
Experienced coaches with big hearts.
Each of our coaches has years of experience in leadership, systems thinking, and coaching. But they also have a deep passion for guiding other leaders to become their best. Because when leaders are at their best, everyone around them can thrive.
Wherever you are in your leadership journey, our coaches are here to walk with you as you face today’s challenges and pursue your biggest goals for the future.
Our Values
Our coaches and clients hold each other accountable to...
Authenticity
- We create an environment where both coaches and clients allow our true selves to be seen.
- We take full responsibility for our own lives and choices.
- We work to move our secret self and our private self into one integrated true self.
Integrity
- When we give our word, we keep it. If we don’t, we take accountability.
- We are competent and reliable, and take responsibility for the impacts – positive and negative – of our decisions.
- We consistently align our lives with our guiding principles.
Courage
- We regularly challenge ourselves to leave our comfort zone.
- We consistently engage in hard conversations and embrace honest feedback.
- We welcome adventure and challenge, and we’re not afraid to make hard choices.
- We do hard things even when we’re scared, asking for support from our team.
Love
- We prioritize people over ideas and concepts.
- We are clear, direct, and honest in our communication.
- We listen before we speak, and we maintain a culture of genuine trust.
- We create an environment where all voices are heard and valued, intentionally overcoming our default programming regarding diversity.
Curiosity
- Rather than relying on old learning, we stay up to date on the current thinking in spiritual formation, business, and other disciplines.
- We have practices that encourage asking questions, exploring, experimenting, and changing perspectives.
- We regularly practice deep listening, perspective taking, and inquiry.
- We remind ourselves of the value we place on imagination and fun.
FAQ
What is coaching?
At The Leader’s Journey, we believe that coaching is a relationship between equals that focuses on the client’s growth and learning. Coaching creates a safe and challenging interpersonal environment that helps leaders develop clear, focused goals and then provides shame-free accountability around reaching those goals.
To hear a more comprehensive answer to this question, check out Episode 17 of our podcast.
What can coaching do for me and how does it work?
Coaching can help you solve a problem, get unstuck, reach important goals and practice new skills and ways of being while increasing your self-awareness and growing your emotional intelligence.
The process of coaching is highly customizable based on the needs of the client. However, typically it involves at least two things:
1. Helping you see your organization’s system and to see yourself in the system
2. Helping you grow your emotional maturity so you can deal with the anxious reactivity of the system without being crushed by it.
Usually, we toggle back and forth between understanding the system better (the corporate work of discernment and leadership) and seeing yourself better (the individual work of personal growth).
We believe that adults learn in a fairly simple way: we gain information, we practice in real life and then we reflect on our practice. Then we repeat, with support, until we start to see real change.
A coach can help share information from a pool of expertise, can help you decide how to practice and give you support for your practice, and then can help you reflect in a way that helps you learn from both success and failure. We believe this kind of learning is at the heart of discipleship.
Your coach’s role is to help you clarify your goals and keep them in front of you with enough focus, accountability, support and challenge that you can disrupt your autopilot (the way you habitually show up) and make real changes in your life.
Your role is to supply the goals, the authenticity, the courage, and the hard work. Each session should end with a clear sense of how you can be in action until the next session.
How does coaching compare to counseling?
In some ways coaching and counseling (or psychotherapy) overlap. Both use an interpersonal relationship and a set of skills to help people change. Both are interested in the client’s growth and learning. Both may focus on a person’s past, present or future to help them better understand themselves and their relationships. They are overlapping disciplines that share a knowledge base, a set of skills and ethical commitments.
There is one main difference between coaching and counseling: a counselor is uniquely trained and skilled to deal with issues related to mental health and mental disorders. If you are primarily wanting to deal with depression, anxiety, or some other mental health issue, you will need to work with a counselor. If you have a mental health diagnosis but are wanting to work on issues related to your current goals for your life or work or increasing your emotional intelligence, you may want to add coaching to your therapeutic routine.
Coaching is not the appropriate setting for depth work, personality restructuring, addressing serious relationship problems, or managing emotional emergencies.
Can you be both my coach and my therapist?
We cannot. Even though our coaches are trained and licensed as professional counselors, ethical considerations require that we keep counseling and coaching work completely separate. If your coach believes you would benefit from working with a counselor, they will tell you so and give you personalized recommendations.
What can I expect to happen in the coaching process?
Although people’s goals may differ, here are some things that we do with virtually all of our coaching clients:
● Co-create a coaching climate that is both safe and challenging.
● Clarify your goals and the resources you’ll need to get there.
● Explore the process of confronting the “autopilot” that keeps us from making changes or fully living out our guiding principles.
● Encourage the adoption of new or renewed practices that help you experience a new way of being.
● Learn the basic concepts of emotional maturity through the lens of living systems using personal instruction, reading, and interactive learning.
● Design experiments for change and growth, supporting you as you make changes and evaluate your learning.
What can I expect a coaching session to be like?
You will typically meet with your coach via Zoom for 45-50 minutes. Your coach will send a link before each coaching call. Depending on your location, your coach may give you the option to meet in-person.
You and your coach will spend the first session or two getting clear about your goals and objectives so they can get an idea of your history, or first formation. After that, you will check in at the beginning of each session and review what you have done since oyur last meeting. You will build the agenda together based on what your coach has prepared for our session and what you want to focus on.
At the end of each session, you will take on some form of practice, experiment or homework to enhance your learning between meetings.
How often do we meet?
We usually recommend meeting twice in the first month and then monthly after that, unless you want to accelerate your work by meeting more often. This is a very customized process so feel free to ask your coach for what you want.
How do I pay?
Our coaches fees range from $100-$200/hr, potentially discounted for those who indicate that they need the adjusted fee. You can put a credit card on file (we use Square to keep your information safe and secure) or you can arrange for our accountant to invoice you after each session.
Can you also coach a group or a team?
Definitely! In many ways, the process is very similar—working on shared goals in a safe and challenging environment. In a group context, your coach will also help facilitate communication as a way of supporting a “defined and connected” way of interacting.
Your coach will translate, reframe, and encourage team members to experiment with different ways of expressing themselves and listening deeply to each other.
If you’re interested in group or team coaching, let us know and we can customize an experience that will meet your needs.
What experience do your coaches have?
Visit our Team page to explore each coach’s bio and learn more about their unique backgrounds and experiences.
Become the leader you were created to be.
Step out of the day-to-day grind and learn to lead with clarity, calm, and confidence. Start your personal coaching journey today by requesting a leadership coach.
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