EMERGING LEADER COACHING
World Class Globally Awarded Leadership Coaching.
You’ve been identified as a high-potential leader. That doesn’t happen by accident. It’s the result of your effort, curiosity, and the way you show up every day. But potential only becomes real leadership when you decide to grow deliberately – when you choose to step forward and build the confidence, capability, and self-awareness that others can trust.
About the coaching work
This is not about teaching you to ‘act’ like a leader nor a week long program this is deep professional development. At it’s core it’s about developing over six months your authentic leadership presence – the one that aligns with who you are and what you stand for. Our confidential work together focuses on clarity, courage, and consistency.
We’ll identify what’s working, what’s holding you back, and what needs to shift so you can lead with focus and intent.
What we’ll explore
- Building self-awareness and understanding your natural leadership strengths.
- Developing the positive mindset to lead through uncertainty and change.
- Communicating with confidence and influence.
- Prioritizing what matters most to you, your team, and your organsiation.
- Create sustainable leadership habits that last.
Each confidential coaching session is one-on-one, and focused entirley on you. We will check in on your energy levels. You’ll be challenged, supported, and held accountable to the standards you set for yourself.
Who is this for
- Managers preparing for their first senior leadership role.
- High-potential professionals ready to expand their impact.
- Leader who want to build confidence in their decision-making and presence.
Leadership isn’t a title – it’s a practice. The next phase of your career isn’t about doing more of what got you here.
This one-to-one emerging leaders coaching is for organisations who want to build a strong, healthy bench. If you are ready to lead, let’s start the conversation.
Grow your impact as a leader.
Format
6 months 1:1, blend of inperson and virtual. A highly structured, deeply personal partnership.
Investment:
$14,800 + GST
Location
Auckland, New Zealand and Virtual.
ARE YOU ELIGIBLE FOR OUR EMERGING LEADERSHIP SCHOLARSHIP?
The Emerging Leadership Scholarship (50% of the investment paid by Nick Roud Coaching)
Partner with Nick Roud Coaching to grow your next generation of leaders.
Outstanding organisations don’t wait for leadership to appear – they create the conditions for it.
The Emerging Leadership Scholarship created in partnership with Nick Roud is designed for New Zealand organisaitons that want to intentionally invest in the people who will lead their future. This is not a week long program about ticking boxes and getting a certificate at the end – it’s about developing individuals who lead with awareness, integrity, and genuine impact.
Why partner with Nick Roud Coaching?
For more than a decade, Nick has worked alongside CEOs, senior executives, and emerging leaders across Aotearoa and beyond. His award winning coaching is direct, proven, and deeply personal. Organisations choose to work with Nick because he cuts through theory and gets to what really matters – who you are as a leader and how you turn that into impact.
Through this scholarship partnership, your emerging leaders will receive
- Individualised coaching that builds clarity, self-belief, and leadership identity.
- Evidence based coaching
- Structured reflection and practical tools to strengthen decision-making and influence.
- A trusted space to test, learn, and build confidence.
- Alignment between his personal purpose and your organisation’s long-term intent.
A scholarship that provokes leadership intent.
Before sponsoring individuals, organisations are encouraged to reflect on thier deeper intent:
- Why do we want to invest in emerging leaders right now?
- What kind of future leadership culture are we striving to create?
- Are we genuinely prepared to champion, mentor, and challenge those we select?
- How do we ensure this initiative aligns with our values and our strategic direction?
These quesitons matter – because a scholarship without intent is simply another leadership program.
With intent, it becomes a cornerstone of your leadership legacy and attractiveness.
Who is this for?
The Nick Roud Emerging Leadership Scholarship suits organisations that:
- Recognise leadership potential in thier people and want to nurture it early.
- Aim to build strong internal pipelines rather than hiring leaders externally.
- Believe in authentic, value-based leadership growth.
- Are ready to invest in long-term capability, not one-off training.
Whether you’re a New Zealand enterprise, a government agency, or a growing private business, the partnership framework is tailored to your context.
The Process
- Define your leadership intent – Work with Nick to clarify your purpose, outcomes, and selection criteria.
- Nominate your emerging leaders – Identify individuals ready to step up.
- Coaching and growth – Partipants engage ina structured evidence based one-to-one coaching journey with Nick over six months.
- Review and embed – Together, we reflect on growth, impact, and how these leaders contribute to your culture.
Each scholarship pairing is shaped around your organisational context and goals.
A conversation worth starting
Leadership Doesn’t happen by accident nor overnight. It happens through clear intent, thoughtful investment, and courageous partnership.
If your organisaiton is ready to take that next step – to build a genuine leadership legacy – let’s start the conversation.
Enquire today
Contact Nick Roud Coaching to explore how an Emerging Leadership Scholarship could work within your organisaiton.
A global survey from Deloittes confirmed 76% of newly appointed managers get little to zero formal training or professional development.
Why appoint a manager and let them fail?
Invest in your biggest asset ‘your people’ with 1:1 coaching with Nick Roud and help you future leaders be Ready!
Key Coaching Features
- Emerging Leader Coaching
- Leadership Assessment
- 360 Degree Assessment
- Core Purpose Statement
- Individual Leadership Development Plan
Work 1:1 over 6 months with Nick Roud to reach personal goals and address professional challenges.
Identify your leadership strengths and development areas.
Please note; all individual sessions with Nick Roud are completely confidential.
Evidence is critical:
The first emerging leader assessment is the Roud Leadership Assessment (RLA).
Each Roud Leadership type embodies a wide range of leader thought and belief patterns, values, attitudes and behavioral tendencies. One reason we are all different, however, is that our proportion and balance (i.e degree of ‘maturity’ or ‘immaturity’ is different and constantly moving. Pressure does differnt things to different leaders.
Understanding your most developed type and where your least developed type is enables us to lay a foundation to our coaching engagement.
Get a clear view on your leadership strengths and development areas from the key stakeholders, including Board Chair, Board members, Executive leaders, indirect reports and customers.
Create an empowering Core Purpose Statement that represents the deepest and best within you.
Legacy, how will you be remembered by family, freinds, collegues. Your Core Purpose anchors you during challanging times.
Connecting the dots.
The individual leadership development plan brings together where you have been, where you are at and where you are heading.
An actionable plan which will be measured by your key stakeholders.
KEY COACHING STEPS
4 Steps
6 Months
ROI
One-to-one emerging leader coaching combines evidence, conversations, actions and forward focused behavioural change.
Nick Roud – Founder and Chief Executive Officer (MCEC). Globally Awarded CEO Coach.
+6421375630 | nick@roudcareers.co.nz
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