Coach in Residence

Build Leadership Capability.
Strengthen Succession Readiness. Sustain High Performance.

John Buchanan’s Coach in Residence program helps organisations strengthen leadership capability, improve business performance and build succession readiness from within.
Rather than relying solely on external training or one-off leadership programs, John works alongside executives, emerging leaders and teams inside the organisation - helping them develop the skills, systems, behaviours and coaching capability required for sustainable high performance.
The objective is not simply to improve performance today. It is to build an organisation that is better prepared for tomorrow’s leadership challenges, transitions and succession needs.
The Coach in Residence program is designed to improve organisational performance by helping individuals, leaders and teams define what their best performance looks like and develop the capability to achieve it consistently. A measurable improvement in performance is an important outcome. But the deeper goal is to help leaders and teams make better use of the resources they already have - including time, talent, skills, data, relationships and investment, while developing new organisational capabilities.

One of the most important of these is high-performance coaching. Coaching has always been an essential part of the leadership toolkit. Today, it is even more important. 
Effective coaching requires leaders to understand their people, build strong relationships, create accountability and develop capability in others. This allows organisations to move beyond dependence on individual leaders and create a stronger pipeline of people capable of stepping up when opportunities, growth or leadership transitions occur. That is the foundation of succession readiness.

About the Coach in Residence Program

A succession plan identifies who might fill an important role in the future. Succession readiness asks a more important question: are they ready to perform?
John Buchanan works with organisations to turn succession planning into practical leadership development. Through coaching, observation, accountability, capability development and real-world application, emerging and existing leaders are given opportunities to build the behaviours and skills required before a transition occurs.
The result is a stronger leadership pipeline, greater organisational resilience and less reliance on individual people.

From Succession Planning to Succession Readiness

The Elements

  • Individual sessions to provide us a snapshot of the individual through organisational profiles, performance assessments and interview.

  • Coaching framework for individual, leader and team development. Delivered through group workshops and then accountability session follow-ups.

  • As part of the ‘What’s your Everest’ framework, we assess the team’s current position relative to world-class standards. This assessment guides priority-setting for the team’s Everest vision, delivered through group workshops and follow-up accountability sessions.

  • We conduct sessions with each leader, observing their behaviors, actions, time management, and individual coaching. The review includes insights from ‘What’s your Everest’ learnings and agreed-upon delivery evidence, observed during daily work interactions with staff, peers, and higher-level management.

  • These group sessions focus on accountability and personal responsibility. Participants discuss their commitments and actual achievements. The Coach in Residence facilitates these sessions, emphasising work practice standards and team performance culture.

  • The course will provide various resources, including the “If Better is Possible” eBook, Set Plays learning module, “What’s your Everest” Playbooks, Peak performance assessment tool, and leadership topics. These resources will be accessible through an online portal.

  • Every quarter, a special guest will conduct a Master Class on topics relevant to leadership and coaching. These topics may cover handling difficult conversations, managing super-egos, building resilience in the workplace, and effectively dealing with data and information overload.

  • The course includes regular active walking sessions where the leadership cohort, coaches, and experts engage in conversation while walking. The topics discussed are relevant to individuals and occasionally the group.

  • Add-on segment:
    Part 2 of the ‘Coach in Residence’ program is a 4-month intensive course aimed to ensure ongoing sustainability and support for the program and leadership outcomes.

    We will select at least two individuals within your organization to receive comprehensive training in program delivery and support.

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What’s Included

  • Coaching two days per week
  • Executive leadership support
  • Delivery and facilitation
  • Custom organisational resources
  • Monthly progress reporting
  • Value-add services and products
  • On-site and regional delivery
  • Internal capability development

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Building Succession Capability From Within

Succession readiness cannot be created by a document alone.
It requires organisations to identify potential, develop capability, transfer knowledge and give people opportunities to perform before critical leadership transitions occur.
The Coach in Residence model supports this by embedding coaching and leadership development into everyday work.
John works with executive leaders and teams to:
  • identify and develop emerging leadership capability
  • strengthen executive and leadership performance
  • prepare people for greater responsibility
  • develop coaching capability within leaders
  • improve knowledge and capability transfer
  • build accountability and performance disciplines
  • reduce key-person dependency
  • strengthen leadership pipelines
  • support planned leadership transitions
  • create a sustainable high-performance culture

Why John Buchanan?

John Buchanan brings a high-performance coaching perspective developed through decades of working with elite teams, leaders and organisations.
His approach focuses on a simple but demanding question:
Within succession readiness, that means looking beyond who might occupy a role next and focusing on whether the organisation is actively developing people who are capable, confident and prepared to perform when their opportunity arrives. The aim is to leave the organisation with stronger leaders, stronger internal coaching capability and a more sustainable approach to performance.

If better is possible, what needs to change to achieve it?

Having names on a succession plan is not the same as having leaders ready to step up. The John Buchanan Coach in Residence program helps organisations turn leadership potential into leadership readiness, while improving performance today. Build the leaders you need next, before you need them.

Is Your Organisation Succession Ready?

Talk to John about how Coach in Residence can support your organisation’s succession readiness, leadership development and
high-performance capability.

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