What is a leadership coach?
Leadership coaching develops the capacity to inspire, decide, and bring people along. It serves managers stepping into new responsibilities, executives navigating complexity, and entrepreneurs building a team. The work focuses on presence (authority, listening, impact), decision-making in uncertain environments, communicating a vision, managing conflict, and developing others. A leadership coach acts as a demanding yet supportive mirror: helping you spot your blind spots and expand your behavioural range. It is among the most sought-after forms of coaching at the executive level, with documented impact on team engagement.
Why work with a leadership coach?
- Strengthen your leadership presence
- Make faster, better decisions
- Align vision, team, and execution
- Navigate major career transitions
Approaches and methods
Leadership coaches frequently use 360° feedback, analysis of real management situations, work on values and purpose, and established leadership frameworks. Coaching is usually confidential and tied to specific objectives — onboarding, team scaling, organisational transformation.
How much does a leadership coach cost?
Leadership and executive coaching commonly runs between €150 and €350 per hour, and can go higher for very senior executives. It typically takes the form of a multi-month programme, often company-funded. Free discovery session available on EraCoach.
How does EraCoach ensure quality?
Every coach on EraCoach is vetted by hand by our team: identity, certifications, background and code of ethics. Reviews are left only by clients who completed a session.
Frequently asked questions
- For managers stepping into new roles, executives facing complex decisions, and entrepreneurs structuring a team. It applies to any level of responsibility, from middle management to the executive committee.
- Training delivers knowledge to a group. Leadership coaching is individual and tailored: it works on your actual behaviour, your real situations, and your blind spots — producing lasting behavioural change.
- Yes — confidentiality is a core ethical principle (ICF and EMCC codes of conduct). Even when the company funds the programme, session content stays private; only the agreed objectives may be shared.
- Typically a programme of 6 to 12 sessions over 4 to 9 months, with regular progress check-ins and a final review aligned with the goals defined at the outset.
- Yes, video sessions are very common at this level, especially for executives with demanding schedules or international contexts. In-person remains possible for select sessions.
