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The Coaching Leader: How to Elevate Performance Through Everyday Conversations
2.5-Hour (Virtual)
Apr 14, 2026
Dr. David Morelli
Live on Zoom
12pm - 2:30pm EST | 11am - 1:30pm CST | 9am - 11:30am PST
$395 (US) per person
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You Will Learn: Coaching & Mentoring  |  Leadership Skills
What You'll Walk Away With
  • Master the 10 Core Capabilities of a Coaching Leader empowering you to coach anyone more effectively
  • Apply a proven, research-based coaching framework directly to your everyday conversations
  • Identify your top coaching strength and uncover growth opportunities to elevate your impact
  • Build real skills via live demonstrations, guided practice, and personalized feedback
You'll also walk away with recognized continuing education credits (CPE and SHRM), a certificate of completion, and a shareable digital badge for LinkedIn or other platforms. These can highlight your expertise to your manager and help strengthen your professional profile.
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About This Session

In today's fast-moving, high-stakes workplace, leaders who coach don't just manage performance; they unlock transformation. This highly interactive session combines leading-edge original research with practical tools you can use immediately.

You'll learn the 10 Core Capabilities that build trust, accountability, and growth, along with a cutting-edge RESPECT Coaching Styles framework that equips managers to flex their approach across different situations. Together, these give you the mindset, language, and skills to turn everyday conversations into opportunities for engagement and development and begin building a sustainable coaching culture across the organization.

By the end of this program, you'll not only understand how to lead with a Coaching Leader Mindset, but you'll have also practiced it, received feedback, and built the muscle memory to make coaching a natural leadership habit!

Topics Covered
The Coaching Leader Mindset
  • Why coaching, not managing, creates transformation, not just compliance
  • Building psychological safety and trust through curiosity and empathy
The 10 Core Capabilities of a Coaching Leader
  • The essential competencies that distinguish great coaches from good managers
  • Building trust, accountability, and growth through consistent coaching habits
  • Using feedback as fuel for motivation rather than evaluation
The RESPECT Coaching Styles™ Framework
  • Overview of the seven RESPECT styles and when to use each
  • Recognizing your dominant coaching style—and its impact on others
  • Adapting your approach based on personality, context, and goal orientation
Elevating Your Coaching Impact
  • Identifying your top coaching strength and growth opportunities
  • Creating an action plan to embed coaching into daily conversations
Dr. David Morelli

Dr. David Morelli is the co-founder of OwlHub and brings over 25 years of executive coaching and leadership development experience. He is the creator of the ground-breaking RESPECT Coaching Styles™ assessment and coaching leader certification program based on his doctoral research and subsequent discoveries.

Since being publicly introduced in 2022, RESPECT Coaching Styles™ is being rapidly adopted by Silicon Valley startups as well as Fortune 500 list companies, including one of the top 3 on the list. OwlHub also has the honor of winning the Most Innovative and Most Valuable to the Coaching Profession awards at International Coach Federation conferences for the RESPECT Coaching Style™.

David has a facilitator rating of 4.9/5.0 by executive audiences and ICF coaching audiences alike. Additionally, David is the host of the #1 podcast, OwlCast, with over 1.2 million subscribers. He holds an Executive MBA and a PhD in Business Administration with research in executive coaching and leadership.

Program Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Delivery Method: Group Internet Based (Zoom platform)
Prerequisites: None
Advanced Preparation: None
Participants will earn 3 CPE credits or 3 PDC credits
Field of Study: Personal Development
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