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Coaching Leaders: How to Meet Leaders Where They Are with Skill, Presence, and Play

Discover how to coach leaders with Co-Active Training Institute’s world-renowned skills and tools.

This live 60-minute webinar teaches coaches how to shift their stance, deepen their presence, and bring the right skill, playfulness, and humanity to their work with mid-level and senior leaders navigating complex organizational environments and their pressures.
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Time: 9:00–10:00 a.m. PT / 12:00–1:00 p.m. ET / 6:00–7:00 p.m. CET
Duration: 60 minutes
Format: Live online webinar (recording included)
Cost: Free

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Transforming Leadership’s High-Stakes World with Co-Active Coaching

As a coach, you already lead with presence, curiosity, and relational intelligence. You know how to listen deeply, hold space with care, and meet people where they are. These are more than skills. They’re how you're wired as a coach.

But when you step into the room with a leader responsible for organizational growth, health, and reputation, something shifts. The stakes feel higher. The complexity is nuanced. The pressure to be useful, practical, strategic, even fast, can crowd out the qualities that make your coaching transformative.

Coaching leaders well means learning to hold all of it at once: the person and the system, the goal and the growth, the urgency and the relationship.

So, if you’ve asked or wondered

  • What needs to change when I move to coaching leaders?
  • How do I keep play, curiosity, and humanity alive when the pressure to problem-solve is so high?
  • How do I help leaders access their authentic voice and emotional intelligence when there is acute pressure to perform?
  • When should I coach for development, and when does the leader just need a thought partner?

Then this webinar is for you. You’ll learn tools and ground your confidence to do your best work with leaders navigating increased responsibility, influence, and complexity.

What You’ll Learn in This Webinar

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The Being and Doing of a Leadership Coach

Strengthen your ability to balance presence with courage—speaking truth to power, letting go of the need to solve, and meeting leaders as peers. Learn how to translate Co-Active concepts into business-relevant language and work skillfully with patterns like over-control, reactivity, or avoidance.
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Coaching the Leader in Context

Understand how a leader’s role, level, and organizational horizon influence their behavior, and how to coach across multiple perspectives—supporting leaders in seeing their impact, their environment, and what may be outside their awareness.
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Vulnerability, Authenticity, and the Saboteur

Learn how leadership coaching is less about having answers and more about building the capacity to stay present in uncertainty. Support leaders in expanding their range through experimentation, strengthening authenticity, and recognizing both reactive patterns and creative potential—within themselves and others.
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The Logistics of a Leadership Coaching Engagement

Get a practical overview of what a leadership coaching engagement looks like: contracting, structure, stakeholder dynamics, and how to set yourself and your client up for meaningful work.

Coaching Practices from a Co-Active Coach and Marketplace Leader

This webinar will help you bring Co-Active skills to leadership coaching with greater confidence. You'll leave with sharper presence, a clearer sense of what kind of support to offer in the moment, and the freedom to bring your full self into sessions while keeping play, curiosity, and humanity alive.

Live with Christina McFadden , CPCC, MCC

Christina has been inside the rooms where leaders make hard calls. She brings that lived understanding, along with years of experience in coaching, teaching, and facilitation, to every conversation about what it takes to coach well at the leadership level.

Practical Insights + Next Steps

You'll leave with a better understanding of what leaders need from a coach, and practical tools you can use in your very next leadership coaching session.

Recording Included

Can't make it live? Register anyway to access the full replay and revisit the webinar on your own time.

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Your Workshop Leader

Christina McFadden, CPCC, MCC

Christina is a Co-Active faculty member and leadership coach with over 20 years of leadership experience. As an early employee at multiple startups, she has navigated the kind of complexity, pressure, and high-stakes decisions that her clients now bring to their coaching sessions, and that firsthand understanding shapes everything about how she works. She studied at Oxford University and Stanford University and currently teaches at UC Berkeley and Microsoft.

She works with executives, teams, and organizations navigating growth and complexity, and also supports coaches in developing their own presence, range, and confidence. In the room, she creates spaces that are honest, playful, and deeply human, where leaders can show up fully and take courageous steps forward.

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Why Organizations Seek Out Co-Active Trained Coaches

For 30+ years, CTI has trained 150,000+ coaches across 120+ countries. Organizations recognize Co-Active trained coaches because our methodology develops transformation specialists who work well in any context, from one-on-one coaching to large-scale organizational change.

  • 150,000+ trained globally
  • ICF accreditation
  • Proven methodology backed by neuroscience
  • Delivered by master faculty who actively coach
When you're Co-Active trained, you bring a credibility and depth that organizations recognize and value.
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