Leadership Coaching
Expand your impact. Elevate how you lead.
Leadership growth is not about fixing flaws—it’s about unlocking the next level of your potential.
As responsibilities expand and complexity increases, even the most accomplished leaders can feel stretched, isolated, or uncertain. Our coaching creates a trusted, confidential space to think clearly, speak honestly, and reconnect with your deepest values and aspirations.
Together, we clarify the leader you want to be, not just in moments of calm, but under pressure. You will build the courage to make hard decisions, the resilience to navigate conflict, and the confidence to lead with authenticity and confidence when it matters most.
Clients often describe not just gaining new skills, but feeling more grounded, more aligned, and more capable of leading meaningful change without losing themselves in the process.
Here are just a few reflections from our clients:
“The coaching was extremely personalized to me -- my level of experience, my academic unit, my position, my needs, etc. This means that the time I spent with my coach was targeted and very efficient.”
”It has been extremely helpful to talk over instances where I felt I could have done better and discuss strategies for staying focused on the big issues. I have also learned new ways to interact with my reports and to consider a broader range of ways of dealing with issues.”
“I have become much more self-aware of my role as a leader and have developed systems to promote a positive and innovative group culture an mentor my trainees.”
Leadership Coaching Packages
Transformational 6-to-12 month opportunities for faculty and senior leaders.
Grounded in research on adult development and Gallup’s work on top performers, our coaching helps you develop your unique leadership skill set—your leadership signature—so you can lead with greater confidence, influence, and effectiveness in your specific context.
We help leaders in higher education to develop a compelling, motivating and authentic leadership vision. To gain clarity on strengths and developmental goals. To create strategies to reach those goals. And do deepen and enhance critical skills including communication, trust building and emotional intelligence.
Each coaching relationship is tailored to your needs and can include:
A full strengths inventory and interpretation
Structured goal-setting, action planning, and progress tracking
Stakeholder check-ins to support alignment
Interview-based 360 feedback to accelerate insight and growth
Our coaching packages include bi-weekly, confidential one-hour meetings, curated articles, ALG-designed resources, and ad-hoc email and meeting support between coaching sessions.
Jumpstart Leadership Coaching
Gain confidence quickly in a new role.
Jumpstart Coaching is a short, focused, one-to-one coaching experience designed to help you gain clarity and confidence—quickly. Through five, one-hour sessions confidential sessions with an expert coach, we’ll help you to build strengths, tackle your challenges, and achieve your goals.
With a jumpstart package you will get:
One-to-one coaching with an experienced executive coach.
Uncover your unique combination of strengths with the CliftonStrengths assessment, integrated into your coaching conversations.
Structured goal-setting and leadership visioning will carry you forward into the upcoming semester or year.
Practical tools, frameworks, and strategies you can immediately apply in your role.
Learn about how we’ve grown university leaders through jumpstart coaching:
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An Ivy League university wanted to support new department chairs who go through a steep learning curve as they transition into their leadership roles. ALG created the “Jumpstart” coaching for them.
Now in its fourth year, with two universities participating, it has impacted 10s of chairs, easing their transition, enhancing their self-awareness, collaboration skills and time management contributing to long-term success and greater engagement in their roles.
Cohort Programs
Invest in your faculty leaders over time. Build leadership that lasts.
Read just a few of our success stories with cohort programs:
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A leading scientific research institute partnered with the Academic Leadership group to develop and deliver a customized six-month program focused on developing skills to excel as lab leaders and mentors. The program combined 1:1 coaching, in-person leadership development workshop and mentor-supported goal alignment. Outcomes included both individual impacts including a more positive mindset, proactivity, and new tools to navigate the complexity of their roles. It also impacted team performance enhancing communication and collaboration.
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A program chair and his senior administrator identified a need to help support faculty as they assumed larger leadership roles within the university. We designed a customized 1:1 leadership coaching program, focusing on individualized, strengths-based development and leader-as-coach and developer of post-docs. Topics of exploration included leadership styles, managing multiple priorities (teaching schedules, publication priorities, managing a team), long- term individual vision, and being an authentic leader. Program participants reported greater role clarity, increased ability to lead others, a feeling of momentum towards relevant publications—and being able to sleep better at night. This program is now in its sixth year.
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Women in engineering and STEM academia face underrepresentation in leadership roles, with only 13% of department heads being women. SWE aimed to address this gap by equipping women with leadership skills and fostering their professional growth through a leadership development program called ALWE. The Academic Leadership Group (ALG) partnered with SWE to design and deliver a leadership coaching component for the ALWE program. This component was tailored to the unique needs of women in engineering and STEM fields, focusing on enhancing self-awareness, building leadership skills, and fostering a supportive network among participants.
Our multi-year cohort coaching programs are a strategic investment in your leadership bench. We help you develop high-potential leaders over time—not through one-off workshops, but through sustained coaching, peer learning, and real-time application to the challenges they’re facing right now. The result is stronger leadership capacity, better decision-making, healthier culture, and a pipeline of leaders who can carry your strategy forward through complexity and change. You’re not just developing individual leaders—you’re reducing leadership risk across the institution.
Multi-year cohort coaching programs help you:
Retain and grow top talent
Reduce burnout and role overload
Improve collaboration and decision-making
Create continuity through leadership transitions
Strengthen execution against strategic priorities
Ensure faculty feel confident, supported, and equipped to succeed
This interactive video includes focused interviews of some of our ALG coaches. Dive in and learn more about who we are and why we coach.
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