Leadership Coaching as a Transformative Process in the Military

This paper examines the nature and impact of a leadership coaching program - a key component of a leader development course for the United States Air Force. To assess coaching training methods and understand participant voices, a three-phased qualitative convergent approach was used that analysed student survey data and instructor interviews via manual coding and NVivo software. The findings and answers to the research questions help frame leadership coaching as a transformative process that is values-based and best used in holistic/developmental ways for increasing leadership capacity in military leaders.