Coaches as Leaders
Leverage Your Leadership as an Instructional Coach!
An online course and community designed for experienced coaches ready to lead!
Are you an experienced coach ready to lead?
Have you been coaching for more than 3 years and you’re ready to leverage your leadership in your role as a coach, and beyond?
Even experienced coaches often don’t see themselves as leaders, but you lead by:
- Advocating for the needs of teachers
- Advocating for the work of coaches
- Supporting the implementation of school-wide goals at the teacher and classroom level
- Providing a division or school-wide view of teaching and learning to school leaders
Hi! I'm Kim!
After being an instructional coach in international schools for over 15 years, I’ve spent the last decade supporting coaches and school leaders in developing a thriving coaching culture in The Coach Certificate and Mentorship Program, and through my private consulting services.
What I’ve learned is that even with a strong coaching program, and leadership support, coaches need to embrace their leadership capacity to truly make an impact in their school community.
Coaching is a special role, with a unique viewpoint. You work directly with teachers and leaders. You are an expert in pedagogy and adragogy. You have the potential to influence school-wide change through the relationships you build. You know exactly how to maximize the capacity of every staff member on campus.
But, you will only truly leverage this potential once you recognize and embrace your informal leadership as a coach. The exact leadership skills you’re building right now will support you in your coaching role and beyond!
Here's Why You Need to Take Coaches as Leaders
When you first start out coaching, you are often able to make a big impact by working with individual teachers...
But over time, you need to embrace your leadership to:
- Scale your impact from 1:1 to groups and teams
- Become embedded in the curriculum development structures in your school
- Connect teachers to each other to create a coaching culture
These aspects of coaching as leadership are easy to miss. You can try to stay at the 1:1 individual coaching level, but you will soon run out of time and capacity to work with every teacher individually.
To truly grow a coaching culture you need to leverage your leadership!
Why now?
Your leadership can't wait!
Coaching can only be successful when it has the support and structures needed to align with school goals AND make a visible impact on student learning. YOUR voice is needed to lead this work.
Advocate for Coaching
Reduced funding and budget cuts can force schools to make hard decisions – and often a coaching program is the first to go. Don’t let this happen in your school community!
Develop Sustainable Structures
Develop a macro view of your coaching program to create sustainability within the existing structures of your school.
Engage ALL Educators
Strategically differentiate your coaching support so that all educators can see the benefits in engaging with you.
Scale Your Impact
Don’t get stuck working 1:1. Make an even bigger impact in your school community when you scale your work to groups and teams.
What's Inside?
This course is designed for experienced coaches ready to leverage their leadership. You'll learn the systems & structures that make coaching sustainable so you can make a bigger impact in your school community.
Access the Syllabus for ALL the details!
This course focuses on the key areas of leadership that instructional coaches can leverage within their role - and beyond.
Find out what you’ll learn in the course, including:
- an overview of the course & outcomes
- each of the key themes & topics included
- weekly schedule for the global cohort
By the end of the course, you'll...
Strengthen Your Leadership Mindset
See coaching as an essential part of systems change – and recognize your leadership capacity to shape a coaching culture.
See the Big Picture
Partner More Effectively with Leadership
Navigating the dynamics of working with school leaders to align your work for broader impact.
Scale Your Impact
Strategically leverage your current coaching practice to become embedded within curriculum and development planning processes in your school
Bonus!
Additional bonus content for our global cohort participants.
Lead Professional Learning
Confidently lead professional learning in a variety of contexts: within your school community & beyond!
Support All Stakeholders
It's not just a course, it's a community!
How does the community work?
Office Hours
Three (3) 20-min sessions with Kim to get all your questions answered!
- Designed to personalize your learning
- Discuss anything related to coaching – within the course, and beyond.
- Bookable using Calendly
Real Time Community Calls
Learning doesn’t happen in isolation! Connect with other course participants in our global cohort calls.
- Build your personal learning network
- Connect with other coaches
- Based on participant time zones
We want you to have the best possible experience in our global cohort. We encourage you to participate in the real-time opportunities that make the most sense for you to make it work for your schedule.
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Course Details & Pricing
Registration Open 27 Mar - 5 Apr 2026
Cohort Runs: 27 Apr - 28 June 2026
Price $750
Immediate access as soon as you purchase:
- Content designed specifically for experienced coaches, ready to leverage their leadership
- self paced access - all content available immediately
- personal support with 3 office hours sessions with Kim
- 3 real-time virtual global cohort meetings to debrief & discuss your learning
- asynchronous conversations within our global cohort community for the duration of the course