Guide · English
Coaching a senior leader is a different job from coaching a career changer. The hours are scarcer, the stakes are visible to other people, and the client is unusually good at sounding fine. The tools below are the ones that hold up in that setting — and the cadence that keeps them from becoming paperwork.
What it is: The executive logs where hours actually go for one week.
Why it works with executives: Nothing changes a priority conversation faster than the leader seeing that their stated number-one priority received four hours out of sixty.
What it is: The client names the concrete blockers behind a stalled goal and rates how movable each one is.
Why it works with executives: Senior leaders rarely lack ambition; they lack a way to separate the constraints they own from the ones they don't.
What it is: Eight life areas scored 1–10, repeated across the engagement.
Why it works with executives: Executive burnout is usually visible in the wheel months before it is visible in performance.
What it is: A large goal is cut into an outcome, the behaviour behind it and the first measurable move.
Why it works with executives: It converts board-level intent into something the leader can act on before the next session.
What it is: A short summary of the client's reflections since the last call, delivered to the coach before the meeting.
Why it works with executives: Preparation for a senior client is expensive. A brief turns 30 minutes of re-reading notes into three.
Executive clients discuss reorganisations, colleagues and their own doubts. Any tool you introduce has to answer three questions before the first session: where is the data stored, who can read it, and what happens to it when the engagement ends. In Coach Club the answer is: inside the EU, only you and the client, and the client keeps export and deletion rights for their own records afterwards.
Executive coaching tools are structured instruments a coach uses to make an executive's situation visible: self-assessments such as the Wheel of Life, time-allocation audits, obstacle mapping, goal breakdowns and stakeholder feedback. Digital versions add history, so the coach can see movement across an engagement instead of a single snapshot.
Three do most of the work. A time-reality audit exposes the gap between stated priorities and the calendar. An obstacle map turns vague pressure into named, workable constraints. A weighted Wheel of Life keeps the whole person in view when the role dominates. Everything else tends to be a variation on those three.
Every 4–6 weeks. More often and reflection turns into reporting; less often and you miss early signals such as sliding energy or a quietly abandoned priority.
No. In Coach Club the AI writes a brief for the coach — it summarises what the client already wrote and flags what changed. It never coaches the client and never issues advice in the client's name. The conversation stays human.
It can be, with the right setup. Coach Club stores data inside the EU under GDPR, the client owns their own records, and they can export or delete everything from their own login even after the engagement ends.
No card required. See also the Wheel of Life guide and pricing.
