You’ve likely felt it during coaching sessions — even if you couldn’t quite name it. It shows up in moments where nothing seems to shift. But underneath it lies one of the greatest opportunities of our time — if you know how to work with it.
The Leadership Paradox
Today’s conditions demand higher consciousness. But they also make it nearly impossible to access.
Today’s challenges require an enormous amount of presence, innovation, and ingenuity.
Yet these same challenges — complexity, pressure, and constant change — are pushing even the most highly capable leaders into patterns of reactivity.
This is why traditional coaching falls short for today’s leaders.
It’s no longer enough to focus on what leaders do — their goals, strategies, and behaviors. To meet today’s leaders where they are, we must coach at a level beyond circumstance, or we risk reinforcing the very patterns keeping them stuck.
The solution is to coach the paradox directly — at the level of consciousness itself.
A LIVE Online Coaching training
Earn 21 CCEUs
The level of consciousness a leader is operating from determines everything — what they notice and what they miss, whether they react defensively or stay grounded, whether they tighten into control or open into creativity, and ultimately, what becomes possible in how they lead.
Unlocking Leaders is designed to teach you what traditional coaching techniques miss, so you can unlock the consciousness that creates new possibilities. It’s like getting access to the source code of change.
This course will enable you to:
Coach at the level of consciousness itself.
At the same time, you’ll learn how to access a higher level of consciousness in your own coaching — becoming more aware of the unconscious patterns and behaviors shaping how you show up and respond. These times are calling us into a new kind of coaching — one where expanding your consciousness is the single highest leverage move you can make as a coach.
Meet the faculty for this training
Jim Dethmer
Leadership Coach and Teacher, Co-Author of The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
Jim Dethmer is a world-leading transformational and visionary coach. He is a founding partner at The Conscious Leadership Group, and co-author of The 15 Commitments to Conscious Leadership. Jim has been coaching and teaching for over 30 years, dedicating his incredible presence to the expansion of conscious leadership in the world.
Bob Anderson
Pioneering Leadership Coach, Co-Author of Mastering Leadership
Bob Anderson is the founder, Chairman and Chief Development Officer of The Leadership Circle and the Full Circle Group. For 35 years, Bob has dedicated his career to exploring the intersections between leadership and mastery, competence and consciousness, spirituality and business. He works with CEOs and leadership teams to help them improve their leadership effectiveness and is the co-author of the book, Mastering Leadership.
Joyce Chen
Leadership Coach
Jim Fallon
Leadership Coach
Unlocking Leaders 2026
Unlocking Leaders is a 5-month online leadership coach training program, taught by world-renowned coaches and teachers, including some of the most influential voices in transformational leadership.
Each session is live, so you’ll have the opportunity to interact in real time with the esteemed faculty. Of course, everything is recorded and downloadable, so you can watch on your own schedule, and come back to the teaching again and again for deeper learning.

14 Live Video Workshops
Learn live with our world-class faculty during 90-min workshops, with breakouts, Q&A, + coaching demos.

Earn 21 CCEUs
Accredited for 21 CCEUs by the ICF (19 for Core Competencies and 2 for Resource Development).

3 Live Mastery Sessions
Integrate and embody the principles of the program in deep practice space.

14 Developmental Inquiry Sessions
Deepen your own development — the heart of your coaching capacity — in sessions dedicated to exploring your personal evolution.

Workbooks & Transcripts
Receive full transcripts for all live sessions, plus a workbook to help you integrate and apply your learning.

Experiential Practice Groups
Practice all the tools and methods you’re learning in carefully curated practice triads.

Fully Downloadable
All 17 live sessions are recorded and can be watched via replay or downloaded afterwards.
Higher-consciousness coaches are about to become sought after in an AI-dominated world. As AI coaching becomes more prevalent, there’s one question on all of our minds…
Will AI replace human coaches?
Yes. And no.
Research has proven that AI can guide goals and generate strategies — sometimes better than we can.
But AI has a ceiling. A place beyond which it cannot go.
In fact, if you ask it to go beyond process and procedure — into the realm of presence, awareness, and consciousness — AI coaching can actually push clients back into a lower level of awareness.
AI can only operate at the rational level. It can solve complicated problems, but it cannot navigate complexity. And navigating complexity is the whole game now.
Today’s leaders don’t need more computer-generated information. They need coaches who can step into a uniquely human realm — and unlock the capacities required to navigate what’s ahead.

The Program Curriculum
What graduates say about our programs
And learn how to awaken the deeper intelligence leaders need now.
Join us for this transformative journey if…
- You already work with leaders — this will give you the tools to help leaders get unstuck, overcome the paradox of our times, and meet complexity with confidence..
- You want to work with leaders, this will give you the framework to coach at the level of consciousness, taking leaders where they need to go.
- You work with clients in any area — executive, life, well-being, relationships — and you recognize the transformative potential of coaching at the level of consciousness.
Join the waitlist and get a free Masterclass recording now
30 Day Money Back guarantee
Unlocking Leaders will deliver on everything we’ve told you about on this page.
If you’re not satisfied with it for any reason, simply contact us at [email protected] within 30 days of the course start, and we will issue you a full refund.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this only for leadership or executive coaches?
While the examples and applications focus on leaders, the core skills you’ll develop — working at the level of consciousness — apply across many coaching contexts.
How is this different from other coaching or leadership trainings I’ve taken?
Most coaching and leadership trainings focus on getting clients to take new actions.
Unlocking Leaders focuses on something deeper: the level of consciousness those actions are coming from.
Through elegant frameworks and techniques that work on the deepest levels, you’ll learn how to:
- Recognize the state your client is operating from in real time
- Work directly with the patterns that shape how they perceive and respond
- Support shifts in awareness that lead to new thinking and behavior
You may find that approaches you’ve already learned become even more effective after this training, because now they’re being applied at the level where transformation actually occurs, rather than only at the level of strategy or behavior.
How will this change the way I coach or work with clients day-to-day?
This training shifts both where you coach from and where you can coach your clients to. You’ll learn to track your own state of consciousness as well as your client’s, and how each state shapes what we can see, access, and act on. From there, you’ll learn how to guide consciousness shifts, rather than staying focused only on goals or behaviors.
In practice, this often means:
- Spending less time trying to “solve” the problem
- Recognizing reactive patterns more quickly (in both you and your client)
- Asking questions that open up new awareness, not just new actions
Your sessions are likely to become both simpler and more impactful — because you’re working closer to the source of change.
What experience level do I need to take this training?
Can this realistically fit alongside a full-time job or client load?
Also, because the work integrates directly into how you already coach, it often reduces effort over time.
How long will I be able to access the downloads of the training?
Are the workshops live or pre-recorded?
Will I receive CCEUs?
Can I receive CCEUs even if I can’t attend the workshops live?
Is this training certified?
What is your refund policy?
Is there a group discount available?
Do you offer scholarships?
Yes, there are a limited number of scholarships available. Fill out the form here to apply.


















