Cultivating Potential: Coaching Skills for Leaders

Cultivating Potential is a practical and uplifting coaching skills program for leaders who want to bring out the best in their people, strengthen working relationships, and create organisations where people feel trusted and empowered. In complex and fast-changing environments, leaders can no longer rely solely on directive approaches. Cultivating Potential for leaders provides a powerful alternative—helping you guide rather than tell, spark insight rather than impose answers, and cultivate the capacity of your team to navigate uncertainty with confidence.

Designed and delivered by Dr Josie McLean, Cultivating Potential equips leaders with the mindset and capabilities needed to hold meaningful conversations that unlock potential. This program introduces practical frameworks grounded in the science of complexity and living systems, supporting leaders to see their teams as capable, adaptive contributors rather than passive recipients of instruction. Through simple but transformative coaching techniques, participants learn how to foster agency, build psychological safety, and encourage personal accountability.

The program blends short inputs with hands-on practice, reflection, and real-world application. Leaders explore how to ask powerful questions, listen deeply, and create the conditions that allow ideas, creativity and ownership to emerge. They also learn how coaching approaches reduce the burden on managers, strengthen collaboration, and improve performance outcomes across the organisation.

Cultivating Potential works effectively as a standalone program or as an adjunct to Josie’s broader Purposeful Cultures and Changing Naturally suite of organisational change programs. Whether you are new to coaching or seeking to refine your skills, you’ll leave with practical tools, a renewed sense of clarity, and an increased ability to support your people through challenge and change.

By helping your leaders build coaching skills, your organisation develops resilience, adaptability and a stronger sense of shared purpose. If you're ready to lift your leadership impact and help your people thrive, Cultivating Potential offers a grounded, evidence-based pathway forward.