Leadership Coaching Certificate

CLOE's Leadership Coaching Certification consists of four courses that cover a range of topics, including foundational leadership coaching skills, assessment and feedback, advanced skills and a practicum.

• Managers who strive to become better at managing and developing their employees
• Leaders who wish to create a culture of development and growth in their organizations
• Individuals making the leap into leadership coaching either as an internal coach or an external coach
• Current coaches who would like to enhance their coaching skills

You will learn the technical and relational sides of coaching to yourself and others, including how to:

• Use assessment instruments to identify strengths that should be cultivated and highlighted as well as gaps and blind spots that need to be addressed.
• Leverage active listening and asking powerful questions to create insight, foster reflection and learning, uncover meaning, create accountability and ownership, and defuse defensiveness.
• Gain clarity about your coaching philosophies and beliefs, while applying this focus to the coaching process.
• Provide thoughtful and impactful feedback that is balanced between constructive and positive.
• Create development plans that enhance performance and evoke excellence.
• Develop and follow a coaching process that will enhance performance and optimize business results.
• Capitalize on and understand the impact of neuroscience in relationships and coaching.
• Learn to use advanced coaching concepts to include theories, practices, models and frameworks that inform the coaching process. 
• Quickly gain and maintain trust in relationships.
• Gain skill and confidence through hours of practice both in class and with real-world clients.
• Benefit from peer learning through skill practices, modeling and interactions.
• Build strong people management skills through coaching.

Lead program facilitator:

Online program begins Fall 2025
Cost: Check back for updates.

Contact CLOE at mgt-cloe@buffalo.edu for more information.

Virtual Open House: Check back for updates.