Professional Coaching for Movement Leaders

Fill out our Coaching Application form below and we’ll pair you with a professionally certified life & leadership coach!

As a part of this program, leaders who are accepted receive:

  • 4 - 8 one-on-one coaching sessions with a coach trained in social justice-centered leadership development

  • A judgement free space to set goals, explore fears, overcome challenges and make action plans that work.

  • Access to periodic leadership development workshops and opportunities to connect with a diverse community of emerging movement leaders

Peer Coaching

The Peer Coaching Program brings together diverse leaders for a six-session, circular, deep leadership development program. Participants join virtually, for 1.5-3 hours per week, for a cohort seminar and workshop on key leadership and management skills, including relationship building, emotional maturity, and self-awareness.

In each group seminar, folks meet in small groups to strengthen their relationships, discuss challenges in work and life, and coach each other on how they can show up more skillfully as a leader in whatever context they find themselves in, personally or professionally.

To coach one another, all participants will contribute to creating a peer coaching pedagogy, including understanding key questions developed in The Coaching Habit & the GROW Coaching framework.

We will also work with participants to develop personal leadership growth goals to evaluate how we grow in our practice of leadership throughout the program.

Explore our leadership coaching offerings and pricing by following this link.

PLIEF’s Leadership Coaching Curriculum

Research Collaborative

PLIEF will lead a first-of-its-kind longitudinal study on best practices and the long-term value of investing in youth leadership development programs. Our goal is to create an evaluation index, open-source resource center, and technical support operation that helps organizations strengthen their youth leadership development programs over time.

These are some questions to consider:

  • What existing frameworks and conceptual models exist for youth civic leadership development and youth social justice leadership development?

  • What does research find about effective means of building youth civic and social justice leadership?

  • What research exists about sustaining young staff in movement and political work (sustainability, burnout culture, nonprofit industrial complex, etc)?