--- title: "Home" description: "The Coachable Leader site is a resource for leaders wanting to learn more about improving their coachability and coaches trying to help leaders improve." featured_image: "https://www.thecoachableleader.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Coachable-Leader.jpg" url: "https://www.thecoachableleader.com/" date_modified: "2025-07-30T12:42:02-04:00" --- # Discover the Power of Leadership Coachability ## A resource for leaders, executive coaches, and talent development practitioners to learn about improving coachability. [DISCOVER THE CASE FOR COACHABILITY](https://www.thecoachableleader.com/resources/the-case-for-coachability/) [Check out the latest with Coachability Notes](https://www.thecoachableleader.com/blog/) --- ![The Coachable Leader Icon - sleuth](https://www.thecoachableleader.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Coachable-Leader_Icon-A.png) The Coachable Leader Why is it that some hardworking and skilled leaders end up derailed or plateaued below their potential? Too many leaders develop blind spots and succumb to faulty assumptions. Keeping a strong level of *coachability* is a critical part of leadership that can help you to become a better overall leader. Unfortunately, coachability is often overlooked by leaders, resulting in blind spots that can lead to career derailment. --- ## Dive Deeper Into Coachability: ### I’m a Leader Interested in improving my coachability ### I’m a Coach or Talent Development Professional Interested in helping others improve their coachability --- ABOUT KEVIN WILDE The Coachability Quest Kevin Wilde has been on a mission to dive deeper into the science and practical application of leadership coachability. He has spent a career helping leaders grow to be their best: - Thirty-four year corporate career, including Chief Learning Officer, General Mills and Global Leadership Development, General Electric. - Executive Leadership Fellow, Univ. of Minnesota, teaching Executive MBA leadership courses and researching career derailment and leadership coachability - Business advisor in the talent development field, including the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) and GP Strategies/Learning Technology Group (LTG) - Awards include Chief Learning Officer of the Year, 2007, #1 Leadership Excellence Magazine, #1 Global Learning Elite CLO Magazine [MEET KEVIN](https://www.thecoachableleader.com/about/) ![Kevin Wilde Headshot](https://www.thecoachableleader.com/wp-content/uploads/Kevin-Wilde-Headshot-1-e1665679243546.jpg) --- AVAILABLE NOW! Coachability: The Leadership Superpower Helping you become a more coachable leader—no matter your career stage, training, or experience. - Establishes the case for coachability - Credible research - Practical insights relevant to you - Simple tactics to practice Learn More Buy Now ![Coachability book cover mock-up](https://www.thecoachableleader.com/wp-content/uploads/Coachable-Leader-Book.png) ![Coachable leader reader's choice award.](https://www.thecoachableleader.com/wp-content/uploads/Untitled-120-x-120-px.png) ![Coachability Book earns Gold Medal - Business Leadership Category - North American Book Awards](https://www.thecoachableleader.com/wp-content/uploads/Gold-Medal-Business-Leadership-Category.png) ![MIPA Book Award](https://www.thecoachableleader.com/wp-content/uploads/book-awardMIPA_Finalist_silver.png) [![Literary Titan Book Award](https://www.thecoachableleader.com/wp-content/uploads/Literary-Titan-Award.png)](https://literarytitan.com/2023/03/24/coachability/) [![getAbstract book award for learning impact 2023.](https://www.thecoachableleader.com/wp-content/uploads/ga-short-list-book-page-1.png)](https://journal.getabstract.com/en/2023/07/01/learning-impact-2023-the-longlist/) --- ## Praise for the Book: “Much has been written about being a coach; almost nothing about being coachable. This marvelous book fills this gap and offers any leader tips on how to seek, respond, reflect, and act on being coachable. Kevin’s clever insights and useful tools make this a must-have for any leaders.” Dave UlrichRensis Likert Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan; Partner, The RBL Group “Coachability: The Leadership Superpower is at once an extremely insightful treatise about a vital capability for new and experienced leaders everywhere, it is also an enormously helpful gift to all coaches and leadership development professionals.” John ZengerCEO, Zenger Folkman, bestselling author, The Extraordinary Leader and The Extraordinary Coach “Today’s world belongs to the most coachable and the most open learners. Kevin Wilde, in his pragmatic book, Coachability: The Leadership Superpower, gives you tools to grow and to succeed in today’s hyper-learning-rich world.” Kevin CashmanGlobal Co-Leader, CEO & Enterprise Leader Development, Korn Ferry; bestselling author, Leadership from the Inside Out and The Pause Principle “Kevin Wilde nails the real reasons that promising careers of leaders get derailed. After personally witnessing surprising failures, Kevin uses his vast corporate experience to help today’s leaders avoid career trouble and accelerate their impact and growth with practical and proven insight. If you want to succeed as a leader, I recommend reading this book as quickly as possible.” Kevin OakesCEO, Institute for Corporate Productivity; bestselling author, Culture Renovation --- ![The Coachable Leader Icon - man thinking](https://www.thecoachableleader.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Coachable-Leader_Icon-D.png) SELF-ASSESSMENT Check Your Coachability The Coachability Practices Review (CPR) self-assessment is designed to help you assess your current level of coachability and consider opportunities for improvement.  - Takes less than ten minutes to complete - Automatically generates a report and resources [TAKE THE ASSESSMENT](https://www.thecoachableleader.com/resources/cpr-assessment/)