The CLA Coaching Center
Executive coaching, run with rigor and visible to you.
Every leader gets a private workspace. Every coach works from a proven CLA method. Every sponsor sees clear progress, without compromising confidentiality.
ROI figure: industry research by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Association Resource Centre.
Why it pays off
Coaching that shows up in the business.
Leadership effectiveness
Leaders turn insight into visible behavioral change against their most important challenges.
Team performance
As leaders become more effective, the impact reaches their employees, peers, and supervisors.
Organizational alignment
Leadership behaviors connect to business priorities, so change spreads beyond one individual.
Three views, one engagement
Everyone sees what they need. No one sees more.
For leaders
A private workspace: sessions, a co-created development plan, check-ins, anonymous Supporter feedback, the Complexity Toolkit, and an AI thinking partner.
For coaches
Certified in the CLA method, supported by supervision, and working from one shared engagement tracker.
For sponsors
A live dashboard: who is being coached, sessions held, assessments and plans completed, and who their coach is.
Our coaching philosophy
Leaders grow in the work, not away from it.
We coach leaders through the real challenges in front of them, using the pressure of the moment to build lasting capability. Our coaches pair deep business experience with behavioral science, and they hold leaders to real change, not just good conversations.
How we coach
The thinking behind the tools.
Dan Fisher, PhD, Managing Partner
Who we coach
When leaders call us
Scaling: leaders whose role has outgrown the way they have always led.
Transitions: new executives, promotions, and onboarding into a bigger seat.
Board scrutiny: CEOs and C-suite leaders under heightened expectations.
Turnarounds: capable leaders whose performance needs to change course.
Confidentiality by design
Line of sight for sponsors. Privacy for leaders.
- Who is in coaching, and with which coach
- Number of sessions held
- Assessments and development plan completed
- Check-in participation
- Supporter feedback rounds completed
- What is discussed in sessions
- Development plan content
- Assessment results and check-in answers
- Supporter ratings and comments
- Conversations with the AI thinking partner
Our AI tools can also be imported into your company's own Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Copilot, so leaders' conversations stay within your organization's approved, secure environment.
The CLA method
Learning that happens in the real work.
Leaders move through a cycle of experience, reflection, experimentation, and integration. Three conditions turn that cycle into lasting change: Challenge, Feedback, and Support.
Challenge
We push leaders to try new approaches and step beyond their comfort zone.
Feedback
Colleagues rate progress every 45 days, so change is seen, not assumed.
Support
A coach and the whole CLA bench stand behind every leader.
Trusted by
Organizations whose leaders we have coached.
About CLA
Business expertise, combined with behavioral science.
Contemporary Leadership Advisors helps organizations become faster, more adaptive, and higher impact. Beyond coaching, CLA works on leader assessment, leadership development, team performance, change management, culture transformation, and organization design, and wrote the book on leading through constant change, The End of Leadership As We Know It.
Considering CLA for your leaders?
Tell us about the leadership challenge. We'll show you how coaching, and the Coaching Center, would work for your team.