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Heartful Leader as Coach

From Managing to Coaching to Transforming.

A programme that blends heart-based wisdom and practical coaching skills aligned with ICF competencies, empowering leaders to move from directing to enabling their teams.

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What is HLAC?

Bringing the Outer and Inner Together

Heartful Leader as Coach develops both the quality of a leader’s presence and the skills to hold effective coaching conversations. Leaders learn to bring together the wisdom of the mind and heart, and support team members in exploring their situations through thoughts, feelings and intuition - connecting with what matters and finding their own ways forward.

HLAC develops the outer practice of coaching conversations and the inner qualities that support them. Its 5Cs describe a leader who is Centered, Curious, Compassionate, Conscious and Courageous.

  • Deep listening
  • Coaching conversations
  • Mutual trust and respect
  • Collaboration across differences
  • Ownership and accountability

HLAC at a glance

Program Highlights

  • Certification

    HIL certificate of completion.

    • ICF-accredited Continuing Coach Education: 30 CCE in either format.
    • 23 Core Competencies + 7 Resource Development.
    ICF Continuing Coach Education (CCE) accredited
  • Curriculum

    Coaching skills, emotional awareness, leadership application and inner development through Heartfulness.

  • Format

    • In-person residential: 3 days.
    • Online: 8 live classes over 4 weeks, 3.5 hours per class.
  • Learning approach & resources

    Highly experiential, with 60% practice.

    • Peer coaching, reflection, feedback and real-work application.
    • Unique coaching models and tools.
  • Who it's for

    For organisations strengthening how their leaders listen, support development and build ownership in their teams.

    • People Managers and Team Leaders
    • Senior Leaders and Functional Heads
    • Emerging Leaders
    • HR and OD Professionals
  • Learning approaches & resources

    A practical and experiential learning experience that combines globally proven methodologies with Heartfulness practices.

    • Heartfulness Practices
    • Leadership Application
    • Human Awareness
    • Coaching Capability
    • The 5Cs
      • Centeredness
      • Curiosity
      • Compassion
      • Conscious awareness
      • Courage
  • What you will learn

    • Support Difficult Decisions
    • Offer Feedback with Care
    • Navigate Differences
    • Enable Ownership
    • Centre Yourself
    • Recognise appropriate support

Practise with Real Leadership Challenges

  1. ExploreA real challenge.
  2. PractiseA conversation.
  3. ReflectAnd receive feedback.
  4. ApplyAt work.

Upcoming programs

Choose the Format That Works for Your Leaders

Explore upcoming online and in-person residential cohorts. Each cohort page includes its schedule, fees and practical details.

  • In-Person Residential

    3 days

    An immersive learning experience with coaching practice, reflection and peer learning.

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  • Online

    8 live classes over 4 weeks, 3.5 hours per class

    Live coaching practice, reflection, feedback and application between classes.

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    • Online

    November 2026

    Heartful Leader as Coach

    From Managing to Coaching to Transforming

    • 14 Nov to 6 Dec 2026
    • ₹55,000 + 18% GST
    • Aspiring and established leaders in mid and large companies, CXOs, civil service and PSU leaders, nonprofit and social impact leaders, and HR & OD professionals.
Explore the full calendar

Not sure which programme is right for you?Talk to our team

Meet your coaches

Learn from Experienced Coaches and Leadership Practitioners

  • Portrait of Olga GurskayaExecutive coach, mentor and supervisor with 20+ years of multinational corporate leadership experience. Heartfulness trainer and Adizes Institute consultant.
    Olga GurskayaICF MCC
  • Portrait of Deep Ahuja SharmaExecutive and team coach with 20+ years in leadership development, coaching and coach education. Creator of signature models used in Heartful Coaching.
    Deep Ahuja SharmaICF MCC, ACTC

Continue Practising Together

Learning continues beyond the programme through monthly community meetings and a peer coaching group. Stay connected, share experiences and continue practising your coaching skills with others.

Experiences from Leaders and Organisations

  • From the HIL community

    “I came with a notion that tools and concepts that are used in corporate world are not fit for inflexible, multi-layered government organisations. However, after attending Adizes programs, I have changed my mind. A good experience and great insights.”

    Dhiraj SareenCaptain, Naval War College, Goa
  • From the HIL community

    “Profound in its simplicity. The Adizes methodology has made me a better manager.”

    Charles R. SchwabChairman, Charles Schwab & Co
  • From the HIL community

    “One of the most insightful, experienced and compelling educators of our time.”

    Stephen CoveyAuthor of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
  • From the HIL community

    “Adizes is the best kept secret in America. Discover him! The sooner you do, the better off you’ll be.”

    Ken BlanchardAuthor of The One-Minute Manager
  • From the HIL community

    “Heartfulness and Adizes a combo. The best co-designed course I have seen with heart and mind in action.”

    Anand Pavaskar
  • From the HIL community

    “These core Adizes concepts & tools will affect Implementation, a major bugbear for CEOs. Now we have practical tools for creating and maintaining a culture of “Mutual Trust & Respect”. Very operational, translating philosophy into reality.”

    Chaitanya ShroffCEO, Excel Crop Care
  • From the HIL community

    “For the senior leadership at GIPCL, the program was more than just a management workshop. It was a perfect blend of inner self-management and practical organisational tools. The experiential nature of the program - set in a serene meditation campus - allowed our team to work with more clarity, resulting in increased cohesiveness and measurable impact on both professional output and personal wellbeing.”

    Mr. K K BhattCFO, Gujarat Industrial Power Corporation
  • From the HIL community

    “Deep’s facilitation and coaching during our Leader as Coach Program at DRIV (Tenneco) was very well appreciated by all the HODs who participated. I fully recommend this programme for organisations where leaders want to start creating more leaders under them.”

    Gyan PandeyPresident & Chief Marketing Officer
  • From the HIL community

    “The methodology engages the entire organisation hierarchically and functionally. It helped to bring out various perspectives from the organisation as a whole and to harness that information constructively. It also helps decisions and opinions to percolate in the entire organisation subsequently.”

    Sunder RajanEx-CEO, Sono Koyo Steering Pvt. Ltd.
  • From the HIL community

    “Adizes is one of the truly great innovators of our times. He cuts through pretentious management principles to get to the core of what it takes to bring about effective change in organisations.”

    Kirby WarrenDean Emeritus, Columbia University School of Business
  • From the HIL community

    “The genius work of Dr. Adizes is the way he has structured such complex management problems of organisations, with such great simplicity. It keeps you excited every-time you hear them and everytime some new insight comes your way.”

    Navanit SamaiyarDirector, Clove Dental
  • From the HIL community

    “I'm sorry I did not meet Dr. Adizes earlier. My life would be less complicated now, but I know it is not too late to apply these ideas.”

    Istvanné BozókyExecutive Director, Muanyagtechnika, Budapest, Hungary
  • From the HIL community

    “Adizes methodology is useful to resolve the growing problems of an organisation. As we grow, it becomes difficult to communicate the decisions top-down with the original purpose, getting bottom-up feedback on implementation hurdles and maintain the company's values, vision and mission throughout the organisation.”

    Sarika SethiDirector & CEO, Gemini Power Hydraulics Pvt. Ltd
  • From the HIL community

    “Ichak Adizes is my favorite business author around today.”

    Jack CanfieldAuthor of Chicken Soup for the Soul and Heart at Work
  • From the HIL community

    “The concepts are so powerful that you can take them back and use them in both business and personal life.”

    Scott WelchPresident, Bowers, Schumann and Welch
  • From the HIL community

    “After attending Adizes workshop and understanding the methodology, I was completely in love with the principles. I realised that this is for us and we took a decision to engage with Adizes.”

    Atul Bhide
  • From the HIL community

    “The applicability of the Adizes concepts are both in personal life as well as in professional life. It can be applied to a small part of the organisation, in a division, in a zone or even in the whole company.”

    Amar Singh
  • From the HIL community

    “Adizes methodology is a very neutral, unbiased, grounded methodology having answers to management and operational problems that shapes up organisational behaviour leading to achieve operational excellence.”

    Shiv Tewari
  • From the HIL community

    “Curious fact was that learning started even before the course kicked off. I had a lesson in modesty and humility coming truly from the heart.”

    Svetlana Ivanova
  • From the HIL community

    “Can we beat the system in its own game - can we make a capitalist heartful? Aren't these contradictions in terms - yet watching the finale, I felt it may be possible - a prosperity for all - and building on that, dignity and power for all.”

    Sehjo Singh
  • From the HIL community

    “Be the thumb and keep all of them together.”

    Anjani Tiwari
  • From the HIL community

    “Today private institutions can have more impact in the world and since Adizes is a great methodology in making business more successful, adding Heartfulness can make companies more in sync with today's world needs and not only focused on profit.”

    Alberto Ortiz Carpinteyro
  • From the HIL community

    “Building a culture of mutual trust and respect is the key, whether it is within the family, team or company. This paramount lesson needs to be kept heartful all the time.”

    Sreejith Periyadath
  • From the HIL community

    “Understanding the value of mutual respect and trust is a key ingredient because when one person brings a talent to the team and the team respects/trusts them, then problems can become opportunities.”

    Jennifer Wilkins
  • From the HIL community

    “It is the Heartful Leader who can lead their organisation to a great height.”

    Guruprasad Hanumanthu
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    From the HIL community

    “It was a great learning experience. If one says, “What they don't teach you at Harvard,” the learning in this course justifies it one hundred percent!”

    Prabodh Darvekar

Develop a Coaching Approach Across Your Organisation

Speak with us about a Heartful Leader as Coach programme for your leaders. We can explore your development priorities and a format that fits your organisational context.