One-to-One Leadership Coaching
Leadership coaching at humanKIND is for leaders who want to lead with clarity, responsibility, and alignment — without abandoning themselves in the process.
This work isn’t about becoming a better version of a role. It’s about understanding how you lead, what drives your decisions, and where misalignment is quietly costing you energy, integrity, or fulfillment.
Coaching creates space to slow down, tell the truth about what’s happening, and choose how you want to lead going forward.
When Leaders Come to Coaching
Leaders often come to this work during moments of tension or transition. Not because they’re failing, but because the way they’ve been leading no longer feels sustainable or honest.
This can include:
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Burnout or leadership fatigue
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A growing sense of misalignment or dissatisfaction
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Navigating change, growth, or increased responsibility
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Difficulty setting boundaries or making clean decisions
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Success that looks right on paper, but somehow feels hollow
Coaching supports leaders who are ready to stop "performing" as leaders and start engaging with leadership more intentionally.
What Coaching at humanKIND is
Coaching at humanKIND is a developmental relationship grounded in wholeness.
Outcomes matter, and accountability is part of the work. But the focus is on the leader as a whole human being — not a role, a title, or a performance to maintain. This work supports leaders in integrating how they think, feel, decide, and act, so leadership becomes more grounded, coherent, and sustainable.
Coaching creates space to step out of inherited expectations and performance-driven habits, and to see what’s actually happening. As clarity increases, leaders move out of reaction and into response. Decisions become cleaner, boundaries strengthen, and leadership feels less like something to manage and more like something to inhabit.
Coaching is not an expert voice telling you what to do. The role of the coach is to hold space for clear seeing, honest reflection, and intentional choice. Leaders are naturally capable of learning, growth, and responsibility. Coaching works because it treats that capacity as real and supports leaders in using it.
Over time, this work helps leaders reconnect ambition with care, power with responsibility, and success with fulfillment — so leadership no longer requires self-abandonment to succeed.
How Coaching Typically Works
Every coaching engagement at humanKIND is designed around the individual. There’s no fixed program or prescribed path. This intentionally bespoke structure exists to support depth, consistency, and real change — not to force progress.
While each relationship is shaped by what the leader is navigating, coaching engagements typically include:
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An initial 90-minute discovery session
Time to slow down, clarify what’s happening, and identify where leadership feels misaligned or stuck. -
Two to three coaching sessions per month
Virtual 45–60 minute conversations focused on real-time leadership decisions, patterns, and choices. -
Between-session support
Real-time feedback, insight, and accountability to support reflection and action as situations unfold.
This isn’t about following someone else’s playbook. It’s about creating meaningful, lasting change that reflects your values, your leadership style, and what you’re actually trying to build.
Leadership Insight Tools - iEQ9
As part of some coaching engagements, James may incorporate the iEQ9 Professional Assessment to support self-awareness and clarity.
The iEQ9 is a professional Enneagram-based assessment that helps leaders understand how they think, decide, and respond under pressure. It brings visibility to habitual patterns, blind spots, and growth edges — not as labels, but as starting points for reflection and choice.
Used well, the assessment deepens coaching conversations. It helps leaders see their patterns more clearly, take responsibility for their impact, and expand the range of responses available to them.
The assessment is never used to categorize, limit, or define who someone is. It’s one tool among many, and only used when it meaningfully supports the coaching work.
What Coaching Is Not
Clarity matters here.
This is not therapy. Coaching does not focus on diagnosis, healing past wounds, or treating mental health concerns.
It is also not consulting. Coaching does not involve providing solutions, strategies, or recommendations based on content expertise. If this is the help you're looking for, take a look at our functional advisory and consulting work.
Leadership coaching is not corrective or performance management coaching. The aim is not to fix behaviour, but to support development and responsibility.
Coaching works best when leaders are willing to reflect honestly, take ownership, and engage with change over time.
Is This the Right Work for You?
Leadership coaching at humanKIND works best for leaders who:
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Are willing to be honest about their experience
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Want clarity without quick fixes
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Are ready to take responsibility for how they lead
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Value depth, reflection, and real-world action
If you’re looking for answers to be handed to you, this may not be the right fit. If you’re ready to engage with leadership as a personal and ongoing practice, it may be.