Coaching

With C-suite executives and emerging leaders facing unprecedented challenges, one-on-one executive coaching is essential for developing leadership skills within your C-suite and fostering personal growth. Our executive coaches, many of whom have C-suite or functional leadership experience, help senior executives enhance their impact, results, leadership presence, and emotional intelligence. Each coaching session is tailored to the specific needs of the client, whether C-suite executives navigating team dynamics or senior leaders seeking to improve decision-making and strategic thinking. Our certified coaches bring years of experience to help business leaders achieve their full potential.

Leadership can be a lonely experience, especially at the top. Our executive coaching services provide critical support for effective leadership development and career transitions, helping clients refine their leadership skills, enhance their emotional intelligence, and navigate career challenges to achieve sustained success.

Our research shows that aligned, trust-based teams with clear goals outperform others by 23.5%. Our data-driven diagnostics help benchmark your team against top-performing teams globally, identifying strengths to build upon and gaps to address in order to accelerate sustainable team performance.

Our extensive team coaching practice involves expert coaches working with key stakeholders across the entire organization. By fostering skill development and cultivating a growth mindset, we enhance team dynamics and ensure that every team member contributes to the organization’s goals.

Group coaching offers a cost-effective way to provide wider access to coaching that is thought-provoking and impactful. It encourages the sharing of insights across business areas and helps identify systemic issues affecting multiple groups. Our coaching programs promote collaboration, develop a coaching mindset, and foster a culture of support and challenge.

These programs create a safe space for experimentation, ideation, and innovation, which is especially valuable for high-potential individuals on a path to leadership roles. With structured goal setting and professional development, our coaching services deliver scalable benefits and enhance understanding of key challenges to address.

The most effective leaders employ a diverse range of leadership styles to address a variety of challenges. A key part of their toolkit is the ability to coach others, whether they are their team members, clients, or stakeholders. Knowing when and how to coach, guide, and mentor is fundamental to leadership and organizational success.

Many leaders default to a directive approach, particularly if they lack coaching training. Coaching is a learnable skill, and we help develop it in leaders at all levels. Our methodologies ensure they gain the coaching experience needed to drive professional growth throughout your organization.

A new form of leadership is required—leadership that inspires peak performance with the support of coaches. We believe coaching is essential to successful leadership development and that training future coaches is vital to our growth as a global provider of coaching services.

For these reasons, Heidrick & Struggles is an ICF-accreditor of coaches, offering certification through client organizations, three U.S. universities, and global programs. More than 1,300 coaches have graduated from these programs worldwide.