Individual coaching
Deeply personalized support for leaders navigating complexity
A coach is your supportive reflection partner that can help you grow into a new role, tackle daunting challenges, manage relationships, and change unhelpful patterns.
Many people come to coaching carrying enormous responsibilities, doubts, emotional overloads, and decision fatigue.
We’ll work with you to bring awareness to where you're stuck and strengthen your capacities to reach your goals and realize new possibilities for your life. Your coach will support you to build inner clarity of your strengths and growth areas while offering practices that encourage you to more confidently step outside your comfort zone.
Who individual coaching is for
- Executive directors and senior leaders
- Managers leading teams and collaborations, and navigating growth or transitions
- Emerging leaders stepping into more responsibility
- Activists and movement leaders working under pressure
- Changemakers seeking clarity about the next steps in their career
- Anyone wanting to strengthen clarity, confidence, and sustainable leadership practices
How it works
- A virtual individual coaching program is typically 8-12 months, meeting every 3-4 weeks (60 minutes)
- Sessions are available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Mandarin, Cantonese, German, Dutch, and Indonesian
- Get matched with a coach based on your goals, language and time zone
- Practices after every session for you to try right away
Examples of what you can work on
- Strengthening clarity and strategic thinking
- Dealing with conflict and tension with more intention
- Letting go of perfectionism or outdated patterns
- Managing stress, overwhelm, or burnout
- Building confidence and making grounded decisions
- Setting boundaries and rebalancing work-life rhythms
- Delegating more effectively
- Reconnecting with purpose and leadership identity
- Navigating partnerships and co-leadership roles (we’ve worked with 20 co-directors!)
What individual coaching participants say
Something sustainably changes in you after this program. It was a great experience. My coach was patient, always actively listening and the questions she used to ask were on point. This program gives you personal growth in a professional environment, which (in the best way) reflects again on your personal life. Alongside gaining the trust needed and the ability to actually delegate, I also developed goals targeting time management, strategic thinking, choosing where to put my effort and much more. I reached and surpassed these coaching goals.
I learned to value my own unique qualities, overcoming prejudices based on an unfounded, fictitious ideal of what leadership should look like. My coach was very generous, caring, and patient with me. The process has been very enriching. I am convinced of the value of this learning and the necessity of applying it.
The program has immense value to me. My coach was a good fit for me and I came out of my sessions more enlightened about myself and with new energy. My goal was to be able to create and maintain a healthy work-life balance, so that I can confidently lead by example and I mostly reached this goal. Carving out this sacred space for me has been key to a work-life balance. I have begun to make changes within our organization that hinge around the wellbeing of my staff, and I am able to do this from a position of personal experience and experimentation.
I very much appreciated my time with my coach. He had an impressively full arsenal of tools to challenge me while allowing me to drive the process. I felt seen and heard and held — and also pushed when necessary. I feel like I am more accountable to myself and make better choices about what I need to care about — and what I need to let go of.
I would describe it as enriching, eye-opening, and leading to the development of foundational practices which are already serving me in many aspects of my life.
Lucie Doumanian
Formerly Deputy Executive Director at Social Media Exchange, LebanonFlorencia Vallino
Executive Director, Andhes, ArgentinaRebecca Zausmer
Social purpose entrepreneur, UKMarianne Mollman
Director Regional Programs, Fund for Global Human Rights, USAOpen Society Foundations grantee, 2024
If you’re interested in our coaching program, you can fill out the contact form below. Our Coaching Lead, Márcia Kodama, will get in touch and guide you through our intake process.