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Coaching as a Leader: How to Coach Individuals and Teams for Improved Performance

Join us for our 2026 Global Conference: Coaching as a Leader, a dynamic two-day virtual event designed for leaders and coaches who strive to make their organization a place where people can thrive.

Inspired by the book Coaching as a Leader: How to Coach Individuals and Teams for Improved Performance, the conference explores how coaching principles can be integrated into everyday leadership. Through interactive discussions and actionable frameworks, you will learn how coaching enhances self-awareness, strengthens relationships, and supports healthier, high-performing teams.

By bringing together global thinkers, real-world case studies, and practical tools, this conference offers a rare opportunity to step back, reflect, and reimagine your leadership. You’ll explore how small, intentional shifts in language, mindset, and behaviour can create meaningful change across teams and cultures - helping you build a more connected, resilient, and human-centered workplace.

Whether you’re an experienced coach, a leader developing your coaching approach, or someone passionate about people growth, this conference will help you lead with clarity, confidence, and humanity.

Key Themes We Will Explore

Why “Coaching as a Leader”
Why coaching is now an essential leadership capability and how it transforms engagement, trust, and performance across organisations.

Who Am I?
Deepening self-awareness and exploring identity, values, and authentic leadership as the foundation for effective coaching.

Letting Go of Expertise
Shifting from “knowing and telling” to leading with presence, curiosity, and partnership.

Leader Coach in the Employee Life Cycle
Using coaching to support growth, motivation, and performance at every stage of organisational life.

Words Make Worlds – The Power of Language
Understanding how language shapes relationships, culture, and the quality of leadership conversations.

Leader Coach as Team Leader
Applying coaching principles to strengthen team dynamics, collaboration, and shared accountability.

Formal Coaching as a Leader Coach
Balancing structure and authenticity while delivering meaningful impact through formal coaching engagements.

Shifting Stuck Thinking and Behaviour
Unlocking new perspectives and momentum with practical tools to help individuals move beyond unproductive patterns.

Next Steps in Developing Coaching Cultures
Embedding coaching behaviours into everyday leadership to build resilient, inclusive, and high-performing cultures.

Why Attend?

Join this conference if you want to lead with more purpose, presence, and connection. Coaching is becoming an essential leadership capability, not only for improving performance but for creating environments where people feel heard, valued, and empowered.

By attending, you will:

• Gain practical tools and research-based insights to elevate your leadership
• Learn directly from contributors to “Coaching as a Leader”
• Explore real world examples of coaching in action across individuals, teams, and organisations
• Strengthen your ability to navigate complexity with empathy and courage
• Build confidence in using coaching approaches in day-to-day leadership moments
• Contribute to conversations that shape the future of coaching and leadership globally.

Even if you can’t join every session live, you’ll have access to recordings and resources on the AC Digital Learning Hub, so you can continue learning in your own time.

Who Should Attend?

This event is for leaders and coaches committed to creating workplaces where people thrive. It’s ideal for Leader Coaches, Senior Leaders and Managers, HR and OD professionals, Executive, Leadership, Team, and Internal Coaches; Coaching Supervisors, and anyone seeking to lead with greater humanity, clarity, and impact.

Whether you're an experienced coach or a leader developing a coaching approach, this conference will expand your insight and capability.

Resources

After the conference, session recordings, slides, and other resources will be available on the AC Digital Learning Hub to all registered participants.

Meet the Speakers

Hear directly from the voices behind “Coaching as a Leader: How to Coach Individuals and Teams for Improved Performance” - an inspiring group of professionals with deep expertise in leadership, coaching, and organizational change.

Victoria Leath is a catalyst for transformation with 25+ years of diverse experience across the world, spanning business consulting, executive coaching, education & research, manufacturing, industrial projects, rental, and print & packaging industries. Victoria is the co-founder of Leader as Coach, specializing in coaching skills training for managers, leaders, and organizations. She serves as Head of Corporate Membership & Accreditation and Head of International Growth at the Association for Coaching (AC), and is the founder of Inclusive Executive Coaching & Leadership Development (IECLD), specializing in leadership development. An AC-accredited Professional Executive Coach, Victoria holds an MBA, is an Accredited PROPHET Practitioner, and combines her passion for leadership with arts and culture as a semi-professional artist. Victoria specializes in leadership coaching, and her purpose is to "inspire and stretch leaders to make a positive impact in the world."

Paul Williamson has twenty-eight years' experience working for ATG Entertainment, the world's largest live entertainment group. He has been a senior leader in Sales, Ticketing, and HR. During his time in talent development, he has designed acclaimed in-house leadership development programmes, helped to build a successful internal coaching faculty, and coached leaders at all levels within the organisation. Paul is a passionate advocate for coaching, the arts and culture, and life-long learning. He is a Chartered Member of the CIPD and holds a Practitioner Diploma in Executive Coaching from the AoEC. Paul also specialises in coaching leaders around 'the Childhood Story', based on the work of Dr Sarah Hill and David Kantor. Paul is also the Regional Chair for Great Britain at the Association for Coaching.

Ross Hunter is an MSc-qualified executive coach with over two decades of experience developing leaders and teams across elite sport, global consultancy, and FTSE 20 organisations. His coaching philosophy was shaped as Head Coach of the England Blind Cricket Team, where he learned that true coaching begins when you stop being the expert. That experience redefined how he works - creating space for leaders to think deeply, challenge assumptions, and rediscover their own solutions. Known for his blend of curiosity, challenge, and warmth, Ross helps senior leaders and teams build trust, clarity, and confidence to perform at their best. He is a co-author of The Leader as Coach, contributing the chapter Letting Go of Expertise.

Nuha Al Moosa started her career in the Hospitality industry, moving into the Banking sector, and from then on to the Energy sector, holding various roles for a period of 20 years, in the areas of sales, marketing, communications, public relations, financial institutions, in-country value (local content), and leadership & capability building. Her transition from being solely business-focused to people-centric came in 2016, when she experienced first-hand talent profiles. She is currently an Association for Coaching (AC) accredited executive coach, change practitioner, and culture catalyst.
Nuha received her BSc in Business Administration in 2005 from The American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE). As a person who values authenticity, she is fond of learning about various cultures and shifts through organic growth. She is keen to help others discover their potential and aims to continue her journey in coaching. Her message to you is: “Be curious to learn. Seek to grow as a whole.”

Tony Worgan is a leadership development and coaching expert with more than 40 years of experience spanning manufacturing, media, and global organisations. Formerly Head of Coaching and Mentoring at the BBC, he has worked with leaders and teams worldwide to navigate change, build trust, and unlock authentic performance. Holding a Master’s in Coaching Psychology and trained as a Transactional Analyst, Tony specialises in workplace relationships, group dynamics, and effective leadership. His work is driven by a simple belief: when leaders form a deep understanding of themselves and others, lasting transformation follows. His purpose is to pass it forward.

Jen Kidby has a passion for making a difference to organizations so that they can become places for people to thrive. For over 25 years, she has been applying psychology in the workplace, working with thousands of leaders in a wide range of industries as an external consultant, an internal practitioner, and a leader. She is a Chartered Psychologist, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and an accredited coach and coach supervisor.  She is the editor and co-author of Coaching as a Leader, published in collaboration with the Association for Coaching and Kogan Page. She currently works for Doane Grant Thornton LLP as the Director for Leadership Development and Succession Planning, where her role includes leading the development of a community of over 150 leader coaches across Canada. Jen currently lives in Ontario, Canada, with her husband, daughter, and two rescue cats.

Full Conference Price (incl. 30 % Super Early Bird Discount):

AC Members: £112 + VAT

Non-Members, including 1-year AC Associate membership: £192 + VAT**

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