Executive Coach & Coach Training Programs
Executive Coaching and Coach Training Programs
In a fast-paced, ever-evolving business landscape, having top talent isn’t enough: today’s leaders must be able to adapt to changing strategies, priorities, and ways of working to ensure that their organizations can continue to stay ahead of the curve.
Executive Coaching employs best-practice tools and methods to ensure that coaching leads to sustainable individual, team, and organizational performance improvement.
Executive Coaching Services
Individual Coaching
Enables leaders to maximize their personal and professional potential through a process of self-discovery, insights generation, and new practices for sustainable behavioral change.
Programmatic Coaching
Involves multiple coaching engagements within an organization managed by Heidrick Consulting's Coaching Center of Excellence
Integration Coaching
Ensures a successful transition of leaders placed in new and higher level positions.
Coach Training Programs: Building Internal Capabilities
Leader as Coach
Builds internal capability by providing participants the coaching skills to enhance relationships within teams, between departments, and with key stakeholders. Leaders use their newfound coaching skills to motivate, support, and realize personal and organizational success.
Coach Certification Programs
International Coach Federation (ICF)-accredited programs designed for individuals who want to develop coaching skills and apply them to help achieve personal and organizational goals. It is ideal for anyone who seeks to become an executive coach or a leader who is interested in incorporating coaching into their leadership skills.
We are passionate about building internal coaching capability. Programs are available that clients can join through open enrollment (at Rutgers University or American University), or can run internally within their organization.
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Leadership Coaching for Organizational Performance (LCOP) Based in the United States Twelve-day program Meets ICF academic requirements to apply for Associate Certified Coach (ACC) or Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential. To learn more or register: New Jersey (Rutgers University) Washington DC (American University) For organizational internal programs, contact us. |
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Accredited Coaching Programme (ACP) Available globally Six-day program Meets ICF academic requirements to apply for Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential. To learn more, contact us. |
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Accredited Coaching Programme (ACP) Based in Europe; Bremen Language, German Eighteen-day program Meets ICF academic requirements to apply for Associate Certified Coach (ACC) and Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential. To learn more, view the brochure and contact us. |
Executive Coaching Leadership
Sharon Sands PartnerSharon Sands is a partner in Heidrick & Struggles’ London office and the global head of Leadership Assessment, Development and Coaching for Heidrick Consulting. She designs and manages some of the firm’s largest global leadership performance programmes.
With more than 20 years of experience as a leadership consultant and executive coach, and a deep understanding of behavioural complexity in organizational systems, Sharon’s combined depth of knowledge in behavioural sciences and her commercial background, helps leaders shape the organisations they lead and accelerate performance. She works closely with Heidrick & Struggles’ Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice as well as CEO succession and acceleration programmes across all sectors.
Following a successful career in the engineering sector primarily focused on process re-engineering, Sharon’s passions for process and for performance through people motivated her to retrain in behavioral sciences. As a result of this training, she was invited to lead the learning and development function for retail in a prestigious automotive organization, achieving recognition as the global leader in sales and leadership development.
Sharon then set up and ran a successful behavioral change consultancy for 12 years, working with FTS100, PE, and some SME clients in pharmaceuticals, finance, technology, automotive, health, and government, designing award winning development initiatives. She is proud to say that many of those clients are now Heidrick Consulting clients, having transitioned Co Company into Heidrick & Struggles vie acquisition in early 2016.
Sharon continues to contribute to the field of coaching and leadership development. She has been a research board member for the EMCC and provides pro-bono coaching for the New Entrepreneurs Foundation (NEF). Sharon is currently supporting the largest global empirical research project to date on behalf of the Harvard Medical School on the impact coaching has on performance.
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