The Coaching Edge

Building the Ecosystem Where Coaching Flourishes

Transform your organization from isolated coaching initiatives into a cohesive, thriving coaching culture that drives performance, collaboration, and growth.


We don’t just teach coaching — we cultivate the ecosystem that allows it to flourish.

Why Most Coaching Initiatives Fail to Take Root

Many organizations introduce coaching but struggle to make it part of everyday life.


Efforts remain fragmented — a few trained managers here, a handful of coachees there — without a shared language or consistent impact.


Teams revert to old habits, momentum fades, and leadership conversations return to business as usual.


Whether you’re a global enterprise or a growing NGO, the challenge is the same:


How do you move from sporadic coaching activity to a sustainable coaching culture that transforms how people lead and collaborate?



Our Solution:

The Coaching Edge

A Strategic Framework for Sustainable Culture Change

The Coaching Edge is a structured, multi-phase framework that guides organizations through every stage of adopting a coaching culture — from early awareness to full integration.


It blends consulting, coaching, and learning design to create alignment between leaders, HR, and internal coaches.


We help you identify where you are on the maturity path, clarify your vision, and build the systems and skills that allow coaching to thrive across your organization.

Our mission

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Who it's for

  • Managers and team leaders who want to move from directive management to empowering leadership.
  • Senior professionals seeking to enhance their ability to influence, inspire, and develop others.
  • Organizations  aiming to integrate coaching as a core leadership skill, where leaders coach and teams thrive.

Command and control are no longer viable means to lead.  Many professionals and managers feel the same but few have an effective, methodical, research-based alternative to that old style of leadership.


Caught between the pressure to deliver and the desire to empower others and create a postive workplace culture, today's leaders seek new skills to inspire collaboration and drive sustainable success while supporting their teams' wellbeing and growth.


If this resonates with you, this program was designed with your needs in mind.

The Coaching Leader Pathway

The Coaching Leader's development journey covers three levels:


Lead Self – Identity & Mindset


  • Build awareness, resilience, and presence as a Leader.
  • Gain practical Self-Leadership strategies.
  • Develop a Coaching Leader identity through emotional intelligence, mindfulness and reflective practice.


Lead Others – Core Coaching Conversations

  • Apply coaching in daily leadership: informal coaching, feedback, delegation, team management, performance, and motivation.
  • Learn to ask rather than tell and empower others to find solutions.


Lead the System – Strategic Coaching Leadership

  • Use evidence-based coaching approaches to navigate complexity, change, and organizational strategy.
  • Influence upwards, across, and within teams to smoothly align people and organizational goals.



Participants'
Outcomes

By the end of the program, participants will be able to:


  • Integrate coaching into their leadership style with confidence.
  • Discern when to apply directive or non-directive leadership styles.
  • Combine leadership skills with various coaching approaches and over 20 coaching tools to strengthen relations and foster excellence.
  • Build trust and engagement by exhibiting an authentic identity as a Coaching Leader.
  • Easily delegate, foster growth and ownership in their teams.
  • Support performance, strategy, and change with empowerment and coaching.
  • Lead tough conversations and conflict with calm and clarity.
  • Influence not just individuals, but teams and organizations.


Saba Imru-Mathieu

What’s Different About this Program?

Unlike other coaching skills trainings for managers, The Coaching Leader is the only program that combines both leadership development and coaching skills training.


This unique integration is possible because of your trainer’s dual expertise:


  • Professional coach trainer with 20 years of international experience.
  • Leadership coach and lecturer, bringing depth and evidence-based practice.


The result is a program that goes beyond skills — it transforms how leaders think, act, and influence.

Program Snapshot

  • Module 1 - Coaching at Work

    Discover what coaching at work really means, practice its foundations, and understand how coaching mindsets transform everyday leadership.

  • Module 2 - Leadership and Coaching

    Examine the difference between managing and leading, and learn how coaching bridges the gap to create more effective leadership.

  • Module 3 - Foundation Coaching Practices

    Gain confidence in using practical coaching approaches, from formal coaching to quick corridor conversations, and see how they enhance performance and feedback.

  • Module 4 - Leader's Self-Management

    Strengthen your self-awareness and emotional intelligence by exploring primal and resonant leadership, social skills, and the six styles of leadership.

  • Module 5 - Coaching to Create Safety

    Learn how coaching builds psychological safety and why this is essential for trust, innovation, and performance.

  • Module 6 - Strategic Coaching Tools

    Apply advanced coaching tools for leaders to navigate change, leverage strengths, and shape effective strategies for individuals and teams.

  • Module 7 - Coaching and Tough Conversations

    Develop the ability to coach in challenging situations, addressing power, authority, conflict, and upward influence with clarity and confidence.

  • Module 8 - A New Story

    Bring it all together by rethinking your leadership narrative, exploring group dynamics, and designing your personal plan as a Coaching Leader.

Quality

Research-based models.

Led by ICF Credentialed Coaches.

Leadership and academic background.

Program designed by Leaders Today Head Coach, Saba Imru-Mathieu, MA, ICF PCC


Format

  • In-company cohort, 8-20 participants
  • Languages: English or French
  • Online or in-person.
  • Two modules of 2 days each, spaced a month apart for on the job practice.
  • Days 1 & 2: Lead Self & Lead Others
  • Days 3 & 4: Lead the System
  • Follow-up support: 1 group coaching
  • Optional follow-up support: 1 individual coaching with our certified Coaches.


Certificate

Certificate of Achievement for succesful completion of

"The Coaching Leader" program

issued by Leaders Today Academy



Formative evaluation throughout the learning process with quizzes, classroom observations, feedback, and participant self-assessments. 


For HR Leaders and Decision Makers

If you’re responsible for developing your managers and leaders, this program offers a powerful way to raise leadership capability across your organization. It goes beyond teaching coaching techniques in isolation — it equips managers to integrate coaching into their leadership style.


Many organizations invest in leadership training or coaching skills training, but few programs successfully bring the two together. The Coaching Leader bridges this gap.


By developing leaders who can both lead and coach, your organization gains managers who engage their teams more effectively, handle challenges with confidence, and foster an environment where people perform at their best. Over time, this dual capability strengthens culture, improves retention, and drives sustainable results.

Testimonials

I already knew Saba by the collaboration we had at IDC. The fact that Saba embodies Leadership Coaching is already a success factor of this workshop. 


The Training is holistic in the way that it shows the different aspects of Leader Coach and provides very concrete, powerful and simple tools to implement.The content is based on up to date research work.



Philippe Laffaire - Professional Coach ICF PCC and Supervisor Coach, Pursens

I have participated in many corporate coaching trainings and this is the first time that after a workshop I see the immediate use and application of the tools and coaching models into real life situations. Saba has the capacity to convert deep and complex theories into easy to use tools that have the power to profoundly transform interpersonal interactions. I am certain that the tools that I acquired in this 2 day workshop will accompany me throughout my career. 

Isabel Prieto, HR professional and Career Coach

I would highly recommend the "Leader Coach - Foundations of Coaching at Work" course for anyone seeking to learn more about the theory and practice of coaching at work and further developing your skills. The course gives you immediate practical exercises to use the knowledge and skills, and learning by doing. The group feedback as well as expert knowledge of Saba Imru-Mathieu gives you the tools to further develop your own coaching style and expertise. Especially interesting to learn what makes a good Manager and a good Leader/

Anna B., Senior Manager,  International Civil Servant

Next Steps

Becoming a Coaching Leader isn’t about learning extra techniques to apply once in a while.


It’s about transforming leadership style — so that every conversation, decision, and interaction builds trust, engagement, and results.

If you’re ready to move beyond managing tasks and start leading people with confidence and impact: