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Empower Leaders Through Coaching

Guide leaders with the essential skills and agility needed for lasting success.

Coach Exemplary Leaders with Proven LPI® Insights

Coaching is essential for effective leadership, which is why many organizations seek coaches to unlock their leaders’ potential. Instead of starting from scratch, leverage our proven Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® model and Leadership Practices Inventory® (LPI®). Our tools help you focus on client conversations and accelerate goal achievement because they are:

Backed by Research

Developed by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, our program is based on over 40 years of research, making it a trusted model for leadership development.

Behavior-Focused

Our tools evaluate leadership actions beyond personality traits, emphasizing decision-making, team motivation, and conflict management as observable behaviors.

Actionable

The program identifies five key leadership practices that enhance leadership skills through practical application and concrete feedback.

Coach Your Leaders with Confidence

Coaching individuals toward effective leadership is our mission. To make that happen, we make sure you have all the tools you need to create a great leadership coaching experience—and give you the credentials to make an impact. Gain the confidence, knowledge, and skills you need to guide leaders toward greatness by becoming an LPI Trained Coach.

Become a Trained Coach

Leadership Solutions for Coaching Professionals

Explore our comprehensive range of leadership solutions, including 360° feedback and self-assessment insights, designed to enhance your coaching practice and drive meaningful growth in your clients' leadership journeys.

Leadership Assessments

LPI® 360

Unlock leadership potential with insightful 360° feedback.

LPI® Self Empowered™

Empower leaders at all levels with self-assessment insights.

LPI® Self

Gain critical development insights in our self-assessment.

Empower Leadership in an Ever-Changing World

For over 40 years, The Leadership Challenge® has been the trusted assessment tool for coaches, empowering them to develop impactful leaders who are equipped to lead with lasting impact.

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Proven

The Five Practices Model and The Leadership Practices Inventory are scientifically reliable and valid, supported by over 40 years of empirical research, more than 5,000 case studies, and 750+ additional research studies.

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Transformative

The Leadership Challenge integrates the scientifically validated LPI assessment, personalized insights from the development report, and transformative facilitation and coaching experiences to deliver an immediate and lasting impact on your leaders’ performance.

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Trusted

Drawing on Kouzes and Posner’s groundbreaking research and bestselling book, The Leadership Challenge has empowered over 1.65 million leaders across 70 countries. Backed by Wiley’s 200 years of publishing excellence, the impact is worldwide.

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Actionable

The Leadership Challenge distills complex leadership theory into actionable behaviors. Paired with customized learning and coaching, it empowers individuals to unlock their leadership potential, transcending background or experience level.

*Data taken from Great Leadership Creates Great Workplaces

Praise for The Leadership Challenge®

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“The Leadership Challenge really helped us hone in on building great leaders that we know could create the workplace environments that young people and employees thrived in.”

Greg Kimbrough, National Director of Leadership Development
Boys & Girls Club of America