Baylor’s Leadership Development Coaching Program
Leadership coaching is one of the most effective ways to accelerate professional growth. Through one-on-one coaching, leaders build confidence, strengthen leadership skills, navigate change more effectively, and prepare for new responsibilities.
While coaching was once primarily available to senior executives, Baylor is committed to making this development opportunity accessible to leaders at all levels. In partnership with EZRA, we offer confidential, one-on-one coaching with experienced, certified external coaches.
The Leadership Development Coaching Program includes six months of confidential coaching with personalized support tailored to each participant’s goals, challenges, and leadership journey.
What Is Coaching?
The International Coach Federation (ICF) defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.
In practice, coaching is a participant-focused process where the coach serves as a thought partner by asking insightful questions, offering objective perspective, providing accountability, and challenging participants to grow.
Coaches do not prescribe solutions or direct participants on what to do. Instead, they help participants develop approaches aligned with their own goals, strengths, and leadership style.
Who Should Apply?
Participants often report increased confidence, improved communication, stronger leadership presence, and greater effectiveness navigating workplace challenges. Those who seem to benefit the most include:
- Newly promoted leaders or those in a transition
- Leaders navigating change or significant challenges
- Self-motivated leaders seeking additional development opportunities
Common Coaching Topics
Coaching balances long-term leadership development with the day-to-day challenges leaders face. Common topics include:
- Managing conflict
- Developing others
- Emotional intelligence
- Motivation and engagement
- Inclusive leadership
- Accountability
- Collaboration
- Confidence
- Resilience
- Trust
How It Works
Because space is limited, participants are selected through an application process designed to create a diverse cohort representing different roles, experience levels, and areas of the university.
Coaching is provided through the EZRA app or website. All coaching conversations are confidential. HR receives only participation information and high-level program feedback.
Participants choose from a selection of coaches based on their goals and interests and may change coaches at any time.
At the beginning and end of the program, participants and their managers complete a brief assessment measuring growth across ten leadership competencies.
Although the number of coaching sessions is unlimited, most participants meet with their coach every one to two weeks, depending on goals and schedule.
Coaching sessions are 45 minutes and conducted virtually by video.
Timeline
Program dates vary slightly each year, but generally follow this schedule:
- Applications are announced in the May issue of Leading@BU and remain open for several weeks beginning in mid-to-late May.
- Applicants are notified of decisions by the end of July.
- The program begins in late August or early September and runs for six months.
