The Leadership Agility Coaching Certification Program in Chinese

We are excited to announce that our Leadership Agility Coaching Program is now available in Chinese!

Rachel Wang

Bill Joiner, lead author of the award-winning book, Leadership Agility, and creator of this well-tested coaching program, has authorized Rachel Wang of Shanghai to lead this program in Mandarin. Rachel has already very ably led two cohorts of this program with outstanding results. She is now preparing for a third cohort of this 5-month, weekly session program to begin 16 January 2027.

Rachel Wang is a senior leadership and team development consultant and coach who specializes in "vertical" leadership development, helping leaders grow the perspectives and skills needed to deal with rapid change and complexity. 

Rachel has over 14 years of experience in talent, leadership, and team development, working with both multinational and Chinese organizations. She designs and facilitates programs that use leaders’ real work as a basis for reflection, experimentation, and growth. She also helps cultivate a growing community of Leadership Agility practitioners in China.

Before moving into leadership development, Rachel spent over 13 years gaining business and leadership experience in several multinational companies.

Rachel is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and a WIAL Professional Action Learning Coach (PALC). She is certified by the US company, ChangeWise, as a Leadership Agility Coach and a Leadership Agility 360 Coach. She holds a Master’s degree in Management Science from Shanghai University.

Why Leadership Agility Coaching?

Now more than ever, companies are feeling the need for a more agile form of leadership. 

The in-depth research by ChangeWise on leadership agility has resulted a practical road-map for developing agile leaders. As leaders grow, they evolve through “levels of agility” based in well-established stages of adult development. As leaders develop through these levels, they become more agile: more strategic, collaborative, and creative, as well as more proactive in learning from their experience.

Leadership Agility® Coaching is a highly interactive online program for experienced coaches. Through self-paced video learning, lively breakout exercises, and group discussion, you will learn how to integrate this sophisticated vertical development methodology into your practice.

This program is for leadership development professionals, leadership coaches, and Agile coaches alike.

For case studies illustrating the benefits of Leadership Agility Coaching, go here.

How many continuing ed credits can I earn?

International Coach Federation (ICF) CCEUs: 40

PROGRAM MODULES

This program includes three modules, each with its own set of group sessions. Each module is a prerequisite for the one after it. 

Foundation Module – The Leadership Agility Lens

2 sessions:

• The Leadership Agility Framework  Discuss the Leadership Agility model, participate in a robust conceptual/experiential “deep dive” exercise on agility levels, and discuss implications for coaching.

• Diagnosing Agility Levels & Power Styles  Group exercise diagnosing clients’ “agility levels” and “power styles.” 

Methods Module

Pre-Work for Methods Module: Content-rich mini-webinars and brief reflection questions in a workbook (about 1-hr. prep for each group session)

7 Weekly Group Sessions, including an in-depth Orientation Session

[Although we encourage those who enroll to attend throughout, we have developed a make-up process that allows you gain the value from and get credit for a few missed sessions].

• Introduction to Leadership Agility Coaching & Creating a Coaching Agenda  Learn and begin to use our proprietary methodology for creating a powerful coaching agenda.
• Working with “Levels of Reflective Action”  Of all ingredients in the “secret sauce” of Leadership Agility Coaching, working with “levels of reflective action” is the most high-leverage. Large group discussions and break-out exercises on how to do this.
• Stakeholder Agility—Expert to Achiever  Discussion of a real-life instructor case, but mostly coaching and feedback exercises working on this shift.
• Stakeholder Agility—Achiever to Catalyst  Discussion of a real-life case, but mostly coaching and feedback exercises working on this shift.
• Context-Setting Agility  How to use specific questions to help leaders shift their context-setting from Expert to Achiever and then to Catalyst, when leading change or improving team performance. Coaching exercises and feedback.
• Creative Agility  How to help leaders shift from Expert to Achiever and then to Catalyst in creative and analytical problem-solving. Coaching exercises and feedback using real-life teaching cases.
• Self-Leadership Agility  How to facilitate new levels of self-leadership agility. Preparation for the Coaching Clinic.

Coaching Clinic Module:  Six weekly 2-hour sessions

Participants each bring “learning cases” using a simple, 2-page template. Each receives in-depth feedback and get ideas for how to use the Leadership Agility framework in challenging coaching situations.

Capstone session - sharing and celebration of learnings from the program

WHAT PARTICIPANTS ARE SAYING

"This has been an awesome experience. Working with the Leadership Agility Compass, the leadership agility levels and the three 'action arenas' has added a new precision to my coaching."

"This program has been incredibly exciting. I already knew how to ask powerful questions. But now I know how to tailor them to my client's agility level, and I learned new questions and methods that are agility-level-specific."

"I highly recommend this program to coaches who want to help clients up-level their ability to lead transformative change."

"Kudos for designing and facilitating such an effective program! It was a real source of energy and positivity."

"This was an extraordinary experience. The Leadership Agility framework layers in so well with other approaches I work with, like resilience and emotional intelligence."

"I feel very enthused. Learning the central importance of reflective action and how to work with a leader's "power style" broadened my perspective on coaching and made me more effective."

"This was a very special experience. Really amazing. I've looked forward to each session. Among other things, I got fantastic feedback on my coaching that felt stretching yet safe.”

FOR MORE, INCLUDING PRICING, EARLY-BIRDS & REGISRATION FORM

Click the button below to access Rachel Wang's site for the Leadership Agility Coaching Program in Chinese. To apply to this program, please use the form here, immediately below the button.