leadership coaching and development programs
Lasting growth for the people your teams look to every single day.
Most leadership development programs get remembered fondly and applied never; yours doesn’t have to. Henley coaches you and the people you lead, and runs the whole thing start to finish.
Inside-Out Leader Development (IOLD)
For organizations building one shared set of tools their people leaders actually use, from individual contributors through directors.
- 9-month program, cohort-based
- Two multi-day in-person immersions
- Sustained 1:1 coaching alongside cohort learning
- Virtual touchpoints between sessions to sustain momentum
Leader Potential & Development (LeaderPaD)
For organizations building a bench of high-potential leaders, with real feedforward data on who’s ready for what’s next.
- A validated leadership potential assessment and multi-rater survey
- Sustained 1:1 coaching built around assessment results
- A career development plan, owned by the participant
- A structured accountability check-in after the program ends
Leadership Coaching
For people leaders who want individual coaching, without a full cohort program.
- One-on-one coaching, 6 to 12 months
- 360-degree, multi-rater assessment, often paired with tools like the Enneagram
- Development plan built around your specific goals
- Dedicated, certified coach
Need something that doesn’t fit these three? Contact us to build a custom engagement around your organization’s specific needs and budget.
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20+ years designing leadership coaching and development programs for organizations across technology, energy, healthcare, and public sector industries in Seattle, Washington and the greater Pacific Northwest.
Program management
We run the program with you, start to finish
Bringing leadership development into an organization asks a great deal of the person who champions it. Our program managers take on the work of running it, so your attention can stay with the people you’re developing.
Book an Intro Call01Before launch
- Program design shaped with your talent and HR leads
- Participant selection, including applications when needed
- Coach matching for participants
- Baseline 360 and multi-rater assessments when needed
02While it runs
- Scheduling for every session and coaching call
- Participant communication and reminders
- Venue and logistics for in-person immersions
- Manager check-ins that reinforce growth back at work
03For your sponsors
- Progress reporting throughout the program
- A results summary at the close, ready to bring to your leadership team
04After it ends
- A structured accountability check-in once the program closes
- Post-program survey data you can share upward
- An online community of other Henley leaders to continue the work
- A partner ready when the next cohort begins
Many of our client relationships run for years, some for more than a decade. Leaders keep growing long after a program closes, and we keep walking alongside them.
The evidence
Why leadership coaching and development programs actually work
Why content alone does not work
70% is roughly how much new information people forget within 24 hours without reinforcement
Coaching interrupts that forgetting curve by returning to real decisions weeks and months after the content was introduced.
The Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve, a foundational finding in learning psychology
Why cohort learning works
People learn more effectively through social interaction than isolated instruction
Cohort-based programs let leaders test new tools against real peers facing real, similar problems.
Bandura’s social learning theory
How Henley’s programs are built around this
IOLD
Combines cohort-based content, sustained 1:1 coaching, and nine months of reinforcement.
LeaderPaD
Pairs structured, multi-rater feedback with sustained coaching, since feedback that isn’t reinforced fades the same way content does.
The business case
Why this work matters to the business
A leader’s own growth is one of the highest-leverage investments an organization can make.
of a team’s engagement is shaped by its manager.Gallup
of participants across Henley’s coaching engagements anticipate staying with their organization 18 months out, a real signal for retention, not just satisfaction.
Henley Leadership Group program results
IOLD, by the numbers
average rating out of 10
of participants still applying the tools in day-to-day leadership
feel more empowered to do their best work
report a positive impact on job performance
report increased desire to stay with their organization
Based on results from enterprise engagements over five years and 500+ leaders.
LeaderPaD, by the numbers
years of continuous program history
program satisfaction and 99% coach satisfaction
estimated annual net savings through retention and promotion outcomes, after program costs
report openness to mobility for the right opportunity, up from 61% the year before
strongly agree they have confidence in continued developmental support after the program ends
How the programs work
How these leadership development programs work
IOLD
Cohort-based program
Cohort learning comes first
Leaders move through the program together, testing tools and language against real, shared challenges.
Coaching runs the length of the program
Sustained 1:1 sessions across nine months, not a single workshop day.
The tools become shared
Leaders carry common tools and vocabulary back into daily work, so it spreads past the individual.
LeaderPaD
Assessment-led program
Assessment comes first
Multi-rater feedback and a validated leadership assessment establish a real, honest picture before any development plan gets built.
Coaching builds on what the data shows
Sessions focused on the specific gaps and strengths the assessment surfaced.
A development plan carries the work forward
Built with the participant, revisited as the program progresses, and shared with the organization to support what comes after.
In their words
Leadership development program
client testimonials
Our coaches
Meet Henley Leadership Group’s certified coaches
Every cohort and engagement is matched to a specific coach based on your organization’s specific needs.
Meet the Full TeamICF-certified coaches on staff
Countries where we have coached leaders
Professionals coached to date
From first call to results
The leadership coaching & development process
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Book a call
We learn about your organization’s goals and where a program like this fits.
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We scope the right fit
IOLD, LeaderPaD, Leadership Coaching, or a custom design, sized to your organization and timeline.
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The program launches
We manage it all: assessment, coaching, and development planning, on a defined timeline.
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You get the results
Data-backed check-ins throughout, and a satisfaction survey at the end.
Common questions
Leadership coaching programs, answered
Leadership coaching is a structured coaching relationship focused on how a leader manages, communicates, and develops the people around them. It can happen one-on-one or as part of a broader cohort program, depending on the organization's goals.
IOLD is built to spread shared tools and a shared leadership language broadly, from individual contributors through directors, so self-aware leadership becomes part of how an organization operates. LeaderPaD is narrower and more diagnostic, built around identified high-potential leaders who need clear feedback data and coaching focused on readiness for their next role.
Leadership Coaching is a one-on-one engagement for an individual leader, without the cohort structure or organization-wide rollout that IOLD and LeaderPaD are built around. It's the right fit when one leader needs support, not a broader program.
Leadership Coaching is built for people leaders and managers across an organization. Executive Coaching is built specifically for senior executives navigating organization-wide, systems-level responsibility. Learn more about Executive Coaching & Development.
Henley manages the full program: coach matching, scheduling, assessments, and check-ins, so your team isn't running logistics on top of everything else.
We use a range of assessments that will best fit the leaders needs, which may include Leadership Circle 360, Enneagram, Collective Leadership Assessment, or Fascinate.
Selection happens in partnership with your talent and HR leads. For IOLD, that often means a broad cross-section of an organization, and can involve an application. For LeaderPaD, participants are typically leaders already identified as high-potential.
IOLD runs 9 months. LeaderPaD runs 6 to 9 months, with a structured check-in after the program formally ends. Leadership Coaching runs 6 to 12 months.
Yes. Both IOLD and LeaderPaD were originally built inside a specific organizational context and have since been adapted for others. A custom engagement is also available when neither standard track is the right fit.
Cost depends on cohort size, program length, and scope. We'll walk through options on a discovery call.
Both programs have run at large scale, but the core design works for smaller cohorts too. What matters more than headcount is genuine organizational commitment to the work.
Yes. Both programs are stronger when a participant's manager is engaged, since development that isn't reinforced day to day tends to fade. We build manager check-ins into the process for this reason.
Through a combination of participant and coach satisfaction data, assessment results tracked over time, and organizational outcomes like retention and promotion, depending on the program.
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