Executive Leadership Coaches

Individual coaching is a key part of learning how to be a better leader at UNC Kenan-Flagler.

Executive leadership coaches advise students in these ways:

• Use a first-year student's multi-rater feedback from their most recent job plus their Personal Leadership Development Plan and resume to provide coaching
• Provide feedback as trained evaluators or assume facilitator roles as part of a simulation
• Debrief second-year students one-on-one after they complete an internship, to help them further develop their leadership skills before graduation

Our director of leadership development recruits coaches who fit these criteria:

• Personal career success and industry experience
• Effective communication skills, especially listening skills
• Sensitivity to cultural differences
• Ability to be observant and reflective, to learn from experience and help others do the same
• Skill in providing constructive feedback
• Eagerness to commit their time to coaching
• Flexibility
• Proficiency with electronic communication
• Ability and interest in tailoring their feedback to student needs
• Commitment to maintaining confidentiality

In addition to coaches, other prominent business people volunteer their time as:

• Subject matter experts to one or more student teams that are providing strategic consulting advice to businesses
• Board members for mock board presentations by students before they deliver their final consulting presentations
• Advisors who identify a leadership opportunity for an MBA to develop their skills in a business or community project
• Speakers in question-and-answer sessions that are part of the "Lessons of Experience" series, sessions with small groups of MBAs in which industry leaders share what they learned about leadership from both their successes and failures