Compassionate Leadership Integration Coaching
Training expands understanding.
Coaching transforms practice.
The Compassionate Leadership Certification Training provides a research-grounded framework and shared language for leading with and for compassion. Coaching creates additional space to internalize that learning and apply it directly to the realities you face every day.
Why Add Coaching to Your Learning Experience?
Deepen Awareness
Leadership moves quickly. Coaching invites you to slow down.
In dedicated reflection time, you explore:
Where reactivity and judgment arise
How you interpret others’ behavior under pressure
What vulnerability looks like in your role
How power, accountability, and care coexist in your context
Translate Insight into Action
Learning accelerates when it becomes specific.
Coaching bridges the gap between the theory and frameworks introduced in training, and
Creating the conditions for team member flourishing
Having difficult conversations
Repairing a weakened team dynamic
Making strategic decisions with courage and care
Together, you examine your real leadership situations and develop thoughtful, values-aligned responses.
Strengthen Your Leadership Capacity
Sustainable compassion requires structure.
Coaching supports you in building both the inner and outer scaffolding of compassionate leadership, including:
Reflective routines that support steadiness
Generative listening practices
High-quality connections within teams
Systems that create safety, connection, and belonging
Clear, compassionate boundaries
Personal habits that reinforce integrity and purpose
Embody durable practices that support how you live and lead.
What Participants Experience
Those who engage in coaching often report:
Greater clarity in their leadership identity
A personalized action plan aligned with their values
Increased capacity to pause before reacting
More skillful navigation of conflict and complexity
Increased courage in setting boundaries and addressing harm
The experience of being supported by a thoughtful, non-judging partner
Coaching provides a confidential, psychologically safe space to reflect honestly and grow intentionally.
Group Coaching
Group coaching deepens peer connection while addressing your specific leadership challenges.
Why Choose Group Coaching?
The Power of the Pause
In a structured coaching environment, participants practice slowing down. Instead of offering immediate solutions, group members learn to ask thoughtful, open questions that expand perspective.
Over time, this strengthens critical thinking, reduces reactive leadership, and builds discernment.
Continue the Cohort Experience
Leadership can be isolating. Group coaching sustains connection.
In a small group of 4–5 participants, you:
Share real leadership challenges
Receive structured peer coaching
Build trusted relationships
Develop an ongoing support network
The consistency of meeting together deepens trust and creates space for both depth and brief “laser coaching” check-ins when immediate support is needed.
Develop the Coaching Mindset
Group coaching is more than problem solving. It cultivates a way of being present in your leadership.
Participants practice:
• Curiosity instead of certainty
• Inquiry instead of advice
• Presence instead of performance
This mindset naturally transfers into your leadership, shaping how you support your team and influence culture.
Group Coaching Process
Each session is led by a certified coach and follows a clear structure:
One participant identifies and clarifies a current leadership challenge
Peer coaches ask open, non-advisory questions
The participant reflects, names insights, and commits to next steps
Each participant receives approximately 15–20 minutes of focused coaching per session.
This structured process builds trust, strengthens coaching mindset, and reinforces accountability.
1:1 Coaching
Individual coaching offers a more personalized and confidential experience.
You may choose 1:1 coaching if you:
Desire deeper exploration of personal leadership patterns
Prefer concentrated, individualized reflection on your action plan
Are addressing complex interpersonal or systemic challenges
Are navigating a high-stakes transition
Hold significant organizational authority
1:1 coaching allows greater depth, flexibility, and sustained focus on your specific context.
Together with your coach, you will:
Clarify your compassionate leadership vision
Examine patterns that limit your effectiveness
Develop concrete, context-specific action steps
Strengthen alignment between your inner values and outer behavior
This option is particularly powerful for leaders carrying significant responsibility or navigating sensitive dynamics.
Choosing the Right Option
Both formats support the same intention: strengthening your capacity to lead with clarity, courage, and compassion.
Group coaching offers community, peer learning, and development of coaching mindset.
1:1 coaching offers depth, personalization, and focused exploration.
Whichever path you choose, coaching ensures that your compassionate leadership practice continues beyond the training room and becomes embedded in how you lead every day.
Investment and Timing
Group Coaching
Three session group coaching package is USD $450
Each session is 90 minutes
First session is slated to start March 19
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1:1 Coaching
• Three session 1:1 coaching package is USD $750
• Each session is 50 minutes
• Sessions are scheduled with the coach you select
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Ready to Deepen Your Practice?
Compassionate leadership is strengthened through intention and practice.
Coaching offers structured time to pause, reflect, and act with greater clarity. It helps transform insight into lived leadership. It supports you in aligning your values with your decisions, your conversations, and the systems you influence.
If you are committed to embedding compassion into how you lead — not only as an idea, but as a disciplined practice — coaching is a powerful next step.
Choose the format that best supports your growth:
• Join a small group coaching circle [join now]
• Engage in individualized 1:1 coaching
If you have questions about which option is right for you, we are happy to help you discern the best fit. Please email your questions about coaching to laura@cfcl.org.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is coaching different from Compassionate Leadership Certification Training itself?
Compassionate Leadership Certification Training introduces shared frameworks, research, and tools. Coaching provides dedicated space to apply those tools to your specific leadership situations. It allows for deeper reflection, personal feedback, and sustained integration beyond the live sessions.
When does coaching begin?
Group coaching will begin March 19. Scheduling 1:1 coaching may be done with the coach you select.
How many sessions are included?
Group coaching and 1:1 coaching packages each offer three sessions.
What is the time commitment?
Group coaching sessions run 90 minutes.
1:1 sessions run 50 minutes.
Participants are encouraged to allow time for reflection and follow-through between sessions to maximize impact.
Is coaching confidential?
Yes. Confidentiality is foundational to psychological safety.
In 1:1 coaching, conversations remain strictly between you and your coach.
In group coaching, all participants commit to shared confidentiality agreements to protect trust and openness within the group.
How do I know whether to choose group or 1:1 coaching?
Choose group coaching if you value peer learning, shared reflection, and developing a coaching mindset alongside colleagues.
Choose 1:1 coaching if you prefer deeper, personalized exploration or are navigating complex, high-stakes leadership challenges.
Both options support meaningful integration of compassionate leadership practices.
What kinds of topics can I bring to coaching?
Participants commonly bring:
Challenging conversations
Team conflict or trust breakdowns
Organizational culture concerns
Questions of accountability and boundaries
Leadership identity and purpose
Navigating uncertainty and change
If it affects how you lead, it belongs in coaching.
Will coaching help with measurable outcomes?
Coaching supports shifts in behavior, clarity of action, and leadership presence. While each participant defines their own goals, many report improvements in communication effectiveness, team trust, conflict navigation, and alignment between values and decision-making.
Meet the Group Coach
Leslie S. Schreiber, M .Ed
Leslie S. Schreiber, M .Ed has a certificate in Leadership Coaching from George Mason University and a certificate in Organizational Consulting and Change Leadership from Georgetown University. She is an ICF, PCC certified leadership coach with over 600 hours of coaching. Leslie emphasizes a strengths-based approach and deepening self-awareness to create resilient leaders who can effectively integrate compassion with authority.
In her previous life, her client list included Facebook, Harvard Business School, JP Morgan, and Kraft Foods, as well as the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) and the Climate Justice Resilience Fund (CJRF).
Leslie spent the last 6 years providing full-time leadership coaching at the State Department for leaders at all levels of the organization. She created a well-received Peer Coaching Program for mid-level leaders at the Passport Agency
Meet the 1:1 Coaches
Leisl Bryant, PhD, ABPP
Leisl M. Bryant, PhD, ABPP is a psychologist, executive coach, and founder operating at the intersection of psychology, healthcare, leadership, and accelerating intelligent systems. With more than twenty years of experience spanning clinical practice, organizational consultation, and independent leadership, she advises leaders holding consequential responsibility and operating under conditions of complexity and scale.
Her work centers on cultivating mature stewardship — the capacity to hold influence and power with depth, clarity, and humanity. Integrating psychological insight, systemic awareness, and compassion as operational leadership capacities, she works with leaders shaping systems, cultures, and emerging technologies, supporting them in remaining coherent, ethically grounded, and fully human while stewarding influence in rapidly evolving conditions.
Her work extends across individual and organizational consultation, executive coaching, national and international professional programs and convenings, and immersive leadership residencies for those carrying significant responsibility. In these settings, she works with leaders facing high-stakes decisions within changing systems, including the ethical tensions, relational strain, and human cost that accompany consequential roles. Through this work, leaders develop the psychological and systemic capacities required to hold complexity without fragmentation and to exercise influence with depth, integrity, and discernment.
Alongside her clinical and systems experience, her work is informed by decades of her own contemplative practice, grounding her presence in steadiness and depth. That foundation enables her to engage leaders not only in strategy and performance, but in the deeper developmental work required to steward power responsibly, shape culture, and act with disciplined discernment.
Helene Creager
Helene is a resilience and leadership coach serving private clients and leaders across social services and the criminal justice system. She co-facilitates national seminars on Resilience and Everyday Leadership, equipping individuals and organizations to translate insight into sustainable growth.
Her work integrates mindfulness, self-compassion, compassionate leadership, and positive neuroplasticity to strengthen self-awareness, emotional regulation, and authentic leadership capacity.
As an International Coaching Federation (ICF) Certified Leadership and Executive Coach, Helene partners with clients using her unique blend of evidence-based practices and heartfelt presence to support meaningful, lasting transformation in compassionate leadership. As part of her continuous growth and development, Helene is pursuing advanced ICF credentialing.
Natalia Sarro
Natalia Sarro is a psychologist, Career Coach, and Workplace Wellbeing Specialist with over 15 years of international experience across Europe and Latin America. She specializes in coaching women leaders in healthcare, academia, and business — including physicians, professors, executives, and senior managers working in high-pressure, high-responsibility environments.
She supports them in strengthening their inner authority, making intentional career decisions, and cultivating cultures of care without burnout or self-erasure. Her coaching blends psychological depth with strategic clarity, enabling leaders to shape healthy team cultures, lead difficult conversations with confidence, and approach career transitions with discernment — building leadership paths that are sustainable, ethical, and deeply human.
Natalia is an accredited teacher with the Center for Compassionate Leadership, a Certified Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) Instructor trained at Stanford University, and a member of Women in Global Health Spain. She also delivers evidence-based leadership programs for global organizations including Mercedes-Benz, Lufthansa, Credit Suisse, and DB Schenker.
A sought-after international speaker, she contributes to global conversations on compassionate leadership and women’s wellbeing. Recent engagements include Women in Global Health Spain, the VII Symposium on Humanization in Healthcare (Cali, Colombia), the Narrative Medicine Lab at the University of Valparaíso (Chile), and the 13th ICOH Joint Conference on Occupational Health for Health Workers (Barcelona).
Justin Shelley
Justin Shelley is an experienced leadership coach, facilitator, and accredited Compassionate Leadership Teacher with the Center for Compassionate Leadership. As Founder of Justin Shelley Coaching, he partners with leaders to cultivate a more human, grounded, and effective approach to leadership — developing the awareness, compassion, and resilience needed to thrive in complex and demanding environments.
Justin draws on years of contemplative practice alongside more than 20 years of professional experience within financial services organisations, where he led transformational technology and business regulatory change initiatives.
His first-hand experience of career burnout brings genuine authenticity to his workshops and coaching. He has over 20 years’ experience in training and developing people, which he has woven throughout his career.
Justin is a ‘passionate’ ICF PCC-accredited leadership coach with more than eight years of coaching experience. Justin has supported leaders and teams across organisations including Citibank, Credit Suisse, JP Morgan, UBS, Nestlé, and Morgan Stanley.
Daniel Stane
Daniel Stane is an international speaker, senior leadership facilitator and coach specialising in developing agile, inclusive and compassionate leaders and workplace cultures.
Daniel’s mission is to inspire and guide leaders and teams operating in complex, fast‑moving contexts to embed human‑centric leadership, while sustaining high performance and wellbeing. His leadership coaching and facilitation focus on strengthening trust, collaboration and decision‑making through times of rapid change and transformation.
With a 30‑year track record across a range of sectors including tech, consumer goods, finance, education and global institutions, Daniel has partnered with organisations such as Cisco, GSK, Accenture, Kingfisher, Rothschild & Co, Toyota, Unilever and the UN.
Daniel is known for his inspiring, personable and constructively challenging style that enables meaningful, enduring behaviour change. His approach draws on practices rooted in neuroscience, emotional intelligence, cultural/generational/gender agility, mindful leadership, potential‑oriented psychology and the wisdom traditions.
Daniel is a Certified Master Coach and is certified in Inclusive Leadership, Compassionate Leadership, Mindful Leadership and EQ‑i; he holds a degree in International Business and post-grad in Strategic Marketing, and has contributed to books including The Mind of the Leader (HBR Press) and Inclusion Round the Clock.
Fluent in English, French and Czech, Daniel has worked in over 30 countries, and is able to connect well with a diverse range of nationalities and cultural contexts. He lives in London, UK, with his family.