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THE COACHING LEADER: HOW TO ELEVATE PERFORMANCE THROUGH EVERYDAY CONVERSATIONS
with Dr. David Morelli
April 14, 2026
3-Hour (Virtual)
Skills Acquired
  • Master the 10 Core Capabilities of a Coaching Leader empowering you to coach anyone more effectively
  • Apply a proven, research-based coaching framework directly to your everyday conversations
  • Identify your top coaching strength and uncover growth opportunities to elevate your impact
  • Build real skills via live demonstrations, guided practice, and personalized feedback
Topics Covered

The Coaching Leader Mindset

  • Why coaching, not managing, creates transformation, not just compliance
  • Building psychological safety and trust through curiosity and empathy

The 10 Core Capabilities of a Coaching Leader

  • The essential competencies that distinguish great coaches from good managers
  • Building trust, accountability, and growth through consistent coaching habits
  • Using feedback as fuel for motivation rather than evaluation

The RESPECT Coaching Styles™ Framework

  • Overview of the seven RESPECT styles and when to use each
  • Recognizing your dominant coaching style—and its impact on others
  • Adapting your approach based on personality, context, and goal orientation

Elevating Your Coaching Impact

  • Identifying your top coaching strength and growth opportunities
  • Creating an action plan to embed coaching into daily conversations

In today's fast-moving, high-stakes workplace, leaders who coach don't just manage performance; they unlock transformation. This highly interactive session combines leading-edge original research with practical tools you can use immediately.

You'll learn the 10 Core Capabilities that build trust, accountability, and growth, along with a cutting-edge RESPECT Coaching Styles framework that equips managers to flex their approach across different situations. Together, these give you the mindset, language, and skills to turn everyday conversations into opportunities for engagement and development and begin building a sustainable coaching culture across the organization.

By the end of this program, you'll not only understand how to lead with a Coaching Leader Mindset, but you'll have also practiced it, received feedback, and built the muscle memory to make coaching a natural leadership habit!

Dr. David Morelli is the co-founder of OwlHub and brings over 25 years of executive coaching and leadership development experience. He is the creator of the ground-breaking RESPECT Coaching Styles™ assessment and coaching leader certification program based on his doctoral research and subsequent discoveries.

Since being publicly introduced in 2022, RESPECT Coaching Styles™ is being rapidly adopted by Silicon Valley startups as well as Fortune 500 list companies, including one of the top 3 on the list. OwlHub also has the honor of winning the Most Innovative and Most Valuable to the Coaching Profession awards at International Coach Federation conferences for the RESPECT Coaching Style™.

David has a facilitator rating of 4.9/5.0 by executive audiences and ICF coaching audiences alike. Additionally, David is the host of the #1 podcast, OwlCast, with over 1.2 million subscribers. He holds an Executive MBA and a PhD in Business Administration with research in executive coaching and leadership.