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Vertical Leadership Development

Expanding mindsets, not just skill sets


Workplace Coaching Levels 1 and 2

For leaders building capable and adaptive teams

This Program is designed for middle and senior level leaders, organisational development and business partners, trainers and facilitators. This leadership development program will enable participants to:

  • Create meaningful coaching relationships
  • Listen beyond the words being spoken
  • Support deeper reflection and awareness
  • Challenge thinking with care and curiosity
  • Help others move towards purposeful action
  • Develop yourself as an adaptive and reflective practitioner

Completion of both programs (Level 1 and 2) provides 5 days of coach-specific education aligned to the ICF Core Competencies and can be used as part of an individual's evidence when pursuing an ICF credential.

What's included:

✅ 5 days of coach-specific education
✅ Level 1 + Level 2 structure
✅ ICF competency alignment
✅ Essential ethics component
✅ Coaching practice
✅ Observation
✅ Written feedback from experienced coaches


What makes our program different? We ask you 'Who are you as a coach?' and challenge you to not only learn how to coach, but to explore how you naturally coach and how to intentionally expand beyond that.

To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be challenged by what we hear.

Level 1 - Learning to hold transformative conversations

  • Focus: Complete suite of foundational coaching skills
  • Pre-work: reading material prior to the workshop
  • Workshops: 3 full days face to face
  • Peer coaching groups and field work: self directed and documented coaching practice sessions and reflective practice
  • Coaching in Action: 90 minute virtual session

By the end of this Program, leaders will be able to:

  1. Understand when coaching is the right approach and confidently distinguish it from mentoring, consulting and managing.
  2. Build trust and create the conditions for open, meaningful coaching conversations.
  3. Apply the ICF Core Competencies to coach with structure, confidence and purpose.
  4. Use practical coaching frameworks and powerful questions to help others uncover their own solutions.
  5. Support people to move from insight to meaningful action and accountability.
  6. Develop awareness of your own coaching style and identify the capabilities that will strengthen your impact.

Day 1 - 3

Building the capability to coach with confidence

  • coaching mindset
  • coaching conversation structure
  • listening
  • questioning
  • awareness
  • ethics
  • practice foundations

Human potential unfolds through awareness.

Level 2 - Becoming the coach others need

  • Focus: Advanced coaching skills and integration
  • Pre-work: Reading material prior to the workshop
  • Workshops: 2 full days face to face
  • Peer Coaching Groups: Self directed and documented coaching practice sessions and reflective practice
  • Coaching in Action: 90 minute virtual session

By the end of this Program, leaders will be able to:

  1. Coach through complexity by working confidently with resistance, competing perspectives and uncertainty.
  2. Flex your coaching style to meet the needs of different individuals and contexts.
  3. Integrate ethical practice, clear contracting and professional coaching standards into every coaching relationship.
  4. Use advanced coaching techniques to deepen awareness, challenge assumptions and support sustainable change.
  5. Strengthen your coaching capability through structured observation, feedback and reflective practice.
  6. Clarify your personal coaching philosophy and the unique contribution you want to make as a coach.

Day 1 - 2

Deepening your coaching impact

  • contracting
  • advanced listening
  • working with beliefs and identity
  • challenge and accountability
  • systemic awareness
  • adapting coaching style
  • integration

Because when humans connect
authentically, everything changes.

Our Accredited Coaches and Facilitators

Our accredited coaches are united by a shared belief that meaningful development begins with the quality of the coaching relationship. Our approach is grounded in the International Coaching Federation (ICF) core competencies and combines evidence-based coaching practice with deep human understanding. We work alongside leaders as thought partners, supporting them to increase self-awareness, challenge existing assumptions, expand their perspective and translate insight into purposeful action.

We believe effective coaching engages both the head and the heart. Our coaches support leaders to explore the thinking patterns, behaviours and decisions that shape their leadership, while also creating space to work with emotions, values, identify and the deeper motivations that influence how people lead.

Drawing on adult development, systems thinking and Theory U principles, we support leaders to move beyond simply solving immediate challenges and instead develop the capacity to respond differently to complexity. Our coaches bring extensive experience across executive leadership, organisational development, psychology and systems coaching.

Every coaching engagement is tailored to the individual and their context. Our coaches bring curiosity, challenge and compassion and will:

  • Partner with you to clarify goals, explore opportunities and support meaningful progress toward your desired outcomes
  • Establish relationships built on trust, confidentiality, self-awareness and personal ownership
  • Apply and share evidence-based coaching frameworks and approaches tailored to your unique context and development needs
  • Listen deeply and challenge constructively to help uncover patterns, assumptions and barriers that may be limiting your growth
  • Support you to understand yourself and your role within the broader systems and environments you influence
  • Create a safe and courageous space for reflection, vulnerability and purposeful action enabling you to lead with greater impact and effectiveness


James Koch

Co-Founder | CEO


Steph Tramontin

Head of Consulting


Carl Harman

Senior Consultant


Nic Frank

Senior Consultant

Unfolding starts with a simple truth: awareness is the first step towards change.

Our Values