Change Management Coaching
Change Management Coaching
Coaching for leaders taking their people through a restructure, integration, or transformation.
Coaching for leaders taking their people through a restructure, integration, or transformation.
Tell us who you are developing and the outcome you need. We will tell you honestly whether coaching fits.
Book a Free CallChange management coaching develops the leaders who carry a restructure, integration, or transformation. Plans get most of the effort, but resistance comes from people. Stratos Coaching coaches Directors, VPs, SVPs, and C-suite executives to lead people through the change.
Our coaches are current and former C-suite leaders with 25+ years of experience. Every change management coaching program runs on The Altitude Framework. We baseline each leader, define where the business needs them, and build a cadence that turns insight into changed behavior.
Thirty minutes is enough to scope the group, outcomes, cadence, and proof of impact.
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Your leaders work with a coach who has held an enterprise role at or above their level and can pressure-test their thinking.
Every change management coaching engagement is scoped to your change and its timeline. Three common shapes:
Company-sponsored programs are custom-priced to the cohort and the outcomes, quoted in one 30-minute call. See industry ranges in our cost of executive coaching guide.
Our coaches have held the kinds of roles your people are stepping into.
Book a Free CallChange management coaching helps a leader carry people through a major organizational change: a restructure, an integration, a new operating model, or a cultural shift. The coach works on the human side that frameworks miss: communicating the change, holding steady under resistance, and keeping the executive team aligned.
Change management coaching is coaching for the leader who takes an organization, and its people, through significant change. Most effort goes into the plan, yet the resistance comes from people.
Change management coaching works on what the plan cannot address. The leader learns to explain the why, hold their nerve under pushback, decide with incomplete information, and keep the team aligned.
Change management coaching differs from consulting: a consultant designs the change, and the coach develops the leader carrying it.
Leaders need change management coaching when success depends on people following them as well as on a project finishing. Common moments:
A change management coaching engagement is scoped to the change and its timeline. It includes a baseline of the leader and the change, a goal for how the leader needs to lead the change, and a cadence that tracks each phase. It also covers the conversations ahead: the all-hands, the skeptical manager, the anxious team.
The coach works through active inquiry, coaching the person as well as the problem. Change rarely matches a template, so the leader needs sharper judgment. When the whole leadership team leads the change, this pairs with team coaching, and it runs on The Altitude Framework.
Change management coaching fits the leaders on the hook for a change: VPs and SVPs owning a transformation, C-suite executives sponsoring enterprise change, and founders reshaping a scaling company. In a company-sponsored program, it also supports senior managers carrying the change day to day.
The buyer is often a CHRO, Head of Talent, or transformation sponsor.
Change management coaching is priced to the change's scope and engagement length. As a reference, senior coaching runs $300 to $1,000+ per session, with six-month engagements between $5,000 and $20,000+. Company-sponsored programs are commonly budgeted at $10,000 to $15,000 per leader per year. We give you the exact number in one call; see our cost of executive coaching guide for full ranges.
Change management coaching helps a leader carry an organization through a major change by working on the human side. That covers communicating the change, holding steady under resistance, deciding with incomplete information, and keeping people aligned.
Consulting designs the change: the structure, timeline, and process. Coaching develops the leader who carries it, focusing on communication, resilience, and alignment. The two are complementary.
During restructures, mergers and integrations, new operating models or systems, leadership transitions, and cultural change. The test is whether success depends on people following the leader as well as on a project finishing.
VPs and SVPs owning a transformation, C-suite executives sponsoring enterprise change, and founders reshaping a scaling company. In a company-sponsored program, it can also support senior managers carrying the change day to day.
It is priced to the scope of the change and the engagement length. As a reference, senior coaching runs $300 to $1,000+ per session and six-month engagements $5,000 to $20,000+. Sponsored programs are often budgeted at $10,000 to $15,000 per leader per year.
Tell us the change you are carrying and where the resistance is. In 30 minutes we will map a change management coaching engagement.
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