# For Technical Leaders: Leadership Training & Coaching — front left

> Leaders are developed. Knowing is not the same as doing. Training builds the theoretical foundation; coaching bridges the knowing-doing gap.

## The Challenge

High-performing technical contributors are routinely promoted because they excel in their craft. Yet most step into leadership positions with minimal support, training, or acknowledgment that leading people is a completely different discipline from building software.

When you are accustomed to having the answers, letting go is difficult. But holding on creates operational bottlenecks, stifles team autonomy, and burns out the leader. Treating leadership as a deliberate craft enables leaders to amplify their teams rather than constrain them.

## Offerings

### Leadership Training

Practical, structured foundations covering:

- Role transitions from individual contributor to engineering leader.
- Clear speech acts: assertions, requests, promises, and explicit accountability boundaries.
- Effective feedback, delegation, and performance discussions.
- Team topology and managing cognitive load.

### Leadership Coaching

ICF-accredited executive and leadership coaching:

- 1:1 confidential sessions for new and experienced technical leaders.
- Pragmatic focus on real challenges: decision-making under uncertainty, peer relationships, and team alignment.
- Bridging the knowing-doing gap: turning leadership concepts into daily practice.

From $340/h for one-on-one coaching.*

*$250/h for startups.

To explore leadership training or coaching, submit an inquiry at [/start](https://frontleft.co/start).

## What's the difference between training and coaching?

There's nothing wrong with theory and frameworks. But theory rarely survives first contact with the real world. Coaching isn't about handing people more models or filling in skill gaps on a competency matrix. It's about helping people wrestle with the complexity of their own context and apply what they know in ways that work.

[Read: Coaching, the overlooked link in leadership development](https://read.frontleft.co/p/coaching-the-overlooked-link-in-leadership)