UCLA School of Education & Information Studies

UCLA Professional Leadership and Coaching Academy

The academy is committed to refining individuals’ leadership and coaching identities in order to provide equitable and relationship-centered support in systems. We welcome applicants from education and non-education based fields.

UCLA Professional Leadership and Coaching Academy is an intentionally diverse online academy designed to build cognition and center voices through relationships and equity consciousness. Participants will explore personal and social identities, trauma sensitivity, trust, and conflict, as related to individual and systems work.

Learning and networking will be generative as participants develop their leadership and coaching skills, tools and resources.

Academic Information

Our Commitment

  • Equitable and relationship-centered coaching
  • Navigating growth and learning individually, collectively, and through systems
  • Brave and safe spaces are intentionally designed to encourage psychological safety, interpersonal trust, and diverse and divergent thinking and feeling

Our work is informed by the following themes:

  • Exploring identity through cultural mapping and intentional storytelling and how identity impacts all of our interactions
  • Developing interpersonal trust and psychological safety for diverse individuals in order to explore issues of equity, justice, and inclusion
  • Awareness of systems thinking and the impact of systems on individual and group 

Outcomes

Participants will complete the Professional Leadership and Coaching Academy with:

  • A refined coaching identity with developed consciousness in becoming a more effective leader to provide equitable and relationship-centered support based in systems thinking principles
  • A generative coaching plan based on the participant’s development in a coaching continuum that reflects each participant’s unique strengths and systems
  • A resource toolkit for personal and professional growth i.e. website, TedTalk, a guide to resources
  • Knowledge of and application for different adult learning theories, the neuroscience of coaching, and socio-cultural theories

  • Individuals committed to refining their leadership and coaching identities in order to provide equitable and relationship-centered support in systems. We welcome applicants from education and non-education based fields.
  • The Professional Leadership and Coaching Academy will be accepting 24 participants for this cohort.

Program Fees

  • Cost: $2,400 per person
  • Early Bird Registration by December 2nd: $2,150
  • Team Discount: A 25% team discount is available for eligible applications registering from the same organization with three or more participants. Discounts cannot be combined.

Registration Deadline: January 3, 2025

Registration

Contact Nancy Lee Sayre at sayre@seis.ucla.edu for more information.

Program Schedule and Details

  • Five-Month Online Program
  • Thursday evenings (4:00-6:00pm) and Saturday mornings (9:00am-12:00pm) once a month starting in January.

Dates

Thursday Evenings (4:00-6:00)

January 9, 2025
February 27, 2025
March 27, 2025
April 24, 2025
June 5, 2025

Saturday Mornings (9:00-12:00)

January 11, 2025
March 1, 2025
March 29, 2025
April 26, 2025
June 7, 2025

Contact Us

Director, Professional Development and Partnerships

Carrie Usui Johnson usui@seis.ucla.edu

Office of Student Affairs

(310) 825-8326

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