Question 1

What does the entire 10-month experience look like?

Accepted Answer

Each Coaching Lab is a 10-month journey designed to build lasting growth, connection, and real coaching skills. You’ll meet monthly with a small group of HR peers, guided by two experienced coaches and HR leaders who create a trusted, confidential space for honest learning and reflection.

The experience follows a natural arc:
Months 1–2: Foundations and trust. You’ll set shared agreements, explore what brought you to the group, and clarify your HR, leadership and coaching goals.
Months 3–8: Practice and growth. You’ll learn a proven coaching model and apply it through peer coaching. Each session centers on real, current challenges from participants’ work. You’ll see coaching in action, practice your own skills, and receive supportive feedback from the group. Over time, you’ll build confidence, insight, and the ability to coach others effectively—while gaining clarity on your own real-world challenges.
Months 9–10: Reflection and integration. As a group, you'll look back on what’s shifted, celebrate progress, and determine how to carry the learning forward.

You’ll also have two private 1:1 coaching sessions during the program to focus on your individual growth and goals.

Question 2

What can I expect in a Coaching Lab session?

Accepted Answer

Every Lab session blends structure and spontaneity. A typical 90-minute session includes:

Check-in: Grounding and presence—how are you arriving? 
Live coaching: You'll share a current challenge and receive real-time coaching from facilitators and peers. 
Skill focus: Depending on the themes that emerge in the Lab, the facilitators may offer brief teachings to build specific coaching, HR, or leadership skills.
Check-out: Discussion on what resonated, what was learned, and how it applies to your own work.

The rhythm of the sessions builds both practical coaching ability and personal leadership awareness—so you leave each session more grounded, capable, and connected than when you arrived.

Question 3

When do new Coaching Lab cohorts start?

Accepted Answer

New Coaching Labs begin twice a year — typically in January or February, and again in June or July.

Question 4

How often will we meet, and when?

Accepted Answer

Coaching Labs meet virtually, once a month for 90 minutes over ten months. In our first session, we'll find a regular day and time that works monthly for everyone.

Question 5

How do you match Coaching Lab cohorts?

Accepted Answer

We curate each Coaching Lab cohort to bring together HR professionals with similar levels of experience, shared interests or challenges, and sometimes, similar industries. Our goal is to create a mix that sparks learning, trust, and meaningful connection.

Question 6

What type of industries are represented in your cohorts?

Accepted Answer

Our members come from a range of industries—tech, gaming, consumer goods, entertainment, and more.

Question 7

Do you record sessions if I can’t make one?

Accepted Answer

To honor the vulnerability of the space and protect confidentiality, we don’t record group sessions.

Question 8

I lead an HR group and want to bring an HR Coaching Lab in-house, is that possible?

Accepted Answer

Yes! Reach out and we'll discuss how to design a Coaching Lab that fits your team's size, goals, and culture.

Bringing an HR Coaching Lab in-house is one of the most meaningful investments you can make in your HR team. An internal cohort creates a powerful opportunity for your team to grow together, while also providing individual development through the included 1:1 coaching. You'll see real benefits on multiple levels:

Skill-building that sticks: Your HR team gains practical coaching skills they can apply immediately with leaders and employees—strengthening their impact and confidence in the role.
Burnout prevention: HR professionals are often the last to receive support. This program gives your team a confidential space to process challenges, share the load, and avoid the isolation that leads to exhaustion.
Team cohesion and shared language: When your HR team participates together, you build common frameworks, deeper trust, and a unified approach to people challenges.
Cost-effective development: Hosting a Lab internally offers significant value compared to individual coaching or scattered professional development.

It also sends a clear message: your organization values HR as strategic leaders worthy of the same development you provide to others.

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