Leadership Coaching

 

Pathway to Leadership Coaching Success

Working professionals and graduate students can earn credentials in leadership coaching through K-State:

• Take LEAD 720: Leadership Coaching (six weeks, online), and earn 40 hours of International Coaching Federation (ICF) Continuing Coach Education.
• Make progress on the Leadership Coaching Microcredential by completing three courses (9 credit hours).

Why Leadership Coaching?

The case for coaching skills extends well beyond formal coaching practice. At its core, coaching is about listening deeply, asking powerful questions, and helping another person find their own clarity, direction, and motivation. Those capabilities translate across an enormous range of professional and personal contexts.

Through Leadership Coaching courses, you'll:

• Demonstrate foundational competence in leadership coaching aligned with ICF ethics and competencies
• Apply contemporary leadership and coaching theory to professional practice
• Practice core coaching skills, including active listening, empathy, trust-building, inquiry, and client-centered goal development
• Distinguish coaching from advising, mentoring, consulting, and therapy
• Analyze coaching through scholarly, ethical, interpersonal, and leadership lenses
• Give and receive constructive feedback on coaching practice
• Reflect on personal development as a coach and leader
• Examine the role of coaching in organizations, communities, and society
• Develop a research-informed perspective on leadership coaching

The Value of Coaching

Coaching is increasingly recognized as an essential leadership capacity. In today’s complex professional environments, leaders are expected not only to make decisions and manage performance, but also to develop people, foster trust, support learning, and create conditions for meaningful growth.

Leadership coaching helps professionals move beyond simply giving advice or solving problems for others. Instead, coaching invites deeper listening, more powerful questions, and greater respect for the client’s agency, creativity, and capacity for self-directed change.

Leadership Coaching Microcredential

Explore the requirements for the leadership coaching microcredential that will provide you with the knowledge and skills to coach individuals and groups using professional coaching frameworks grounded in leadership theory.

In addition to the microcredential, students will earn 40 hours of International Coaching Federation (ICF) approved Continuing Coach Education. The ICF-approved hours reflect a commitment to the highest professional coaching standards.