Coaching for Educational Leadership
Tailored support for educational professionals
Coaching at Educere is designed to support educational professionals who want to reflect on their leadership journey, strengthen their skills and set purposeful goals. Whether you're new to a leadership role or looking to grow in confidence and clarity, coaching provides a structured, supportive space to explore the professional challenges and opportunities you face. The process is collaborative and empowering, enabling you to think more clearly, act more decisively and align your leadership with your values.
Using the well-established GROW model (Goal, Reality, Options, Will), coaching sessions are tailored to help you identify key priorities, explore potential solutions and build practical strategies for progress.
From leading staff teams and managing change to planning the next step in your career, coaching with Educere equips you with tools, insight and self-belief to help you in leading with greater intention, confidence and resilience.
What to Expect from Educational Coaching
At Educere, coaching is a supportive and thought-provoking process designed to unlock your potential. Each session provides a structured space to focus on your professional goals, whether that means clarifying your leadership vision, navigating a difficult situation, or developing practical strategies for change. Coaching conversations are guided by skilled questioning and active listening, helping you to reflect more deeply and move forward with intention.
This is not about being told what to do! It's about being supported to find your own answers. Coaching builds confidence, enhances self-awareness and strengthens your ability to lead with clarity and purpose. Sessions are paced to suit you, and we work collaboratively to ensure that the focus remains relevant, constructive and aligned with your personal and professional growth.
The GROW Model Explained
Educere’s coaching approach is grounded in the GROW model, a trusted framework used to guide structured coaching conversations. GROW stands for:
G – Goal: What do you want to achieve?
R – Reality: Where are you now in relation to that goal?
O – Options: What are the possible ways forward?
W – Will: What will you do next?
This model allows us to explore challenges clearly and constructively, helping you break complex issues into manageable steps and identify realistic, meaningful actions. Whether you’re building confidence, planning career development, or improving team dynamics, the GROW model ensures that every session has direction, focus and purpose.
What to Expect
Respect, Clarity & Collaboration
Each coaching relationship at Educere begins with a free 30-minute introductory session. This provides an opportunity to discuss what you hope to achieve and to ensure that coaching is the right fit for your needs. Full coaching sessions are 50 minutes long and can be delivered either face-to-face or online, offering flexibility to suit your schedule. A minimum of six sessions is normally recommended to allow sufficient time for reflection, progress and meaningful outcomes. Each session is is delivered with a commitment to confidentiality, professionalism and ethical standards.
Empathy, authenticity and insight
“AT Lawrie is an outrageously gifted coach and mentor. She has a special ability, in addition to her empathy, authenticity and insight, to help people see the best version of themselves- and how to be that person. She is a talented generator of lasting and meaningful self-belief and resourcefulness.”
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If you’re an educational leader who wants to improve how you lead, manage change more effectively, or prepare for the next stage in your career, coaching can offer powerful support. It’s particularly helpful if you're feeling stuck, uncertain or overwhelmed, but equally valuable if you're simply seeking time and space to reflect and grow.
Coaching is suitable for headteachers, deputies, middle leaders and aspiring senior staff. You may be newly appointed and seeking reassurance, or experienced but ready for new challenges. Wherever you are in your journey, coaching offers an opportunity to invest in yourself and in the leader you want to become.