Coaching for HR & People Leaders

You are the person everyone else goes to, but who’s in your corner?

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HR and People leaders hold the organization’s hardest conversations: the performance issue nobody wants to name, the executive whose behavior everyone tolerates, the layoff, the investigation, the founder’s blind spot that’s quietly costing you your best people.

You carry what you can’t repeat. You advocate for a culture you may not have the authority to enforce. And you are expected to be steady while absorbing everyone else’s instability.

HR leaders tend to put others’ needs over their own as a rule. That instinct is what makes you good at this. It is also, over time, what wears you down.

Since 2014, Reboot has worked with thousands of leaders across the globe, including CHROs, Chief People Officers, and People leads at organizations from ten people to ten thousand.

WHY PEOPLE LEADERS CHOOSE REBOOT

Nathan Barry

“I highly recommend the team at Reboot. They’ve been such a help to me that I’ve hired them for my entire leadership team.”

Nathan Barry CEO, Kit

Reflection Questions for HR Leaders

HR leaders tend to put others' needs over their own as a rule. If you're an HR leader, here are a few journaling prompts to settle into — ones that can help you take stock of yourself and the weight of your role.

What's at Stake? Optimizing for Wholeness at Work

Moving towards a more authentic and human style of leadership.

What Are the Group Norms in Your Organization?

Group norms ensure we have a safe and productive experience together. Set yours intentionally.

Understanding a Team's Natural Development Process: The Tuckman Team Development Model

A working model that makes navigating team leadership a little less daunting.

Recipe for a Non-Violent Workplace

Moving towards a more authentic and human style of leadership.

How Early Do You Need to Create Culture in Your Company?

Culture and values answer the question: "how do we behave?" Culture is created in how you act and what behaviors happen between and amongst those in the company.

Leading Consciously: Staying Relational with Presence and Attunement

When we feel safe, we work better together.

Reboot Podcast Episode Wisdom for Work #32 – Beyond the Review: Rethinking How We Talk About Performance at Work

The Reboot podcast showcases the heart and soul, the wins and losses, the ups and downs of startup leadership. On the show, Entrepreneurs, CEO’s, and Startup Leaders discuss with Jerry Colonna the emotional and psychological challenges they face daily as leaders.

The Arc of Growth: What's Needed as Your Company Goes from Ten to Two Hundred People

What becomes important internally as the team grows in size?

THE CHALLENGES THAT COME WITH THE ROLE

Responsibility without authority. You’re accountable for culture, engagement, and retention, and you frequently lack the power to change the thing actually causing the problem, often because that thing is a member of the executive team.
You’re expected to be the emotional infrastructure. The organization outsources its feelings to you and then wonders why you seem tired.
The seat at the table is conditional. Many People leaders spend real energy proving the function’s strategic value before they can do the strategic work, and that proving is exhausting in a way that rarely shows up in a job description.
You coach everyone and are coached by no one. You develop other people’s leadership full-time. Your own development is usually the line item that gets cut.

OUR DISTINCTIVE APPROACH

Reboot’s approach was shaped by a conviction that the quality of your leadership is inseparable from the quality of your self-understanding.

People leaders often arrive at coaching expecting to work on the organization — the exec team, the culture problem, the founder. That work happens. But it tends to open onto something else: your own relationship to conflict, to being needed, to setting a boundary, to being the one who is fine.

The organizational patterns you’re trying to change and the personal patterns you carry are usually connected. Coaching is where you get to work both.

COACHING VS. CONSULTING

There’s no shortage of people who will sell you a framework: an engagement survey, a values exercise, a competency model, an operating cadence. Some of it is useful.

But you already know most of the frameworks. What’s harder is the political and personal reality of implementing them: how to tell a CEO something they don’t want to hear, how to maintain boundaries when the organization has learned you don’t have any, how to keep your own values intact within a company that’s compromising on its own.

Reboot’s leadership coaching meets you there.

Practical Skills + Radical Self-inquiry

The practical half: influencing an executive team you don’t manage, giving hard feedback upward, designing group norms that people actually follow, building culture deliberately rather than by accident, knowing what a team needs at each stage of its development.

The deeper half: noticing what you do with your own anger, understanding why you find it easier to advocate for others than for yourself, examining the part of you that needs to be the steady one, and figuring out what you actually want from your career rather than what the organization needs from you.

Our Formula

Practical Skills + Radical Self-Inquiry + Shared Experiences
=
Enhanced Leadership + Greater Resilience

WHO WE WORK WITH

CHROs and Chief People Officers
VPs and Heads of People, Talent, and Culture
HR business partners and People operations leads
First People hires building the function from nothing
L&D and organizational development leaders
People teams as a group, through leadership team development

MORE THAN A DECADE OF MEASURED SUCCESS

The International Coaching Federation’s 2024 research:

%

increase in individual performance

%

increase in team performance

%

increase in organizational performance

You spend your working life making the case for developing other people. This is the part where someone makes it for you.

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HOW WE SUPPORT PEOPLE LEADERS

Beyond Traditional Business Coaching

Working with a Reboot coach, you’ll develop the capacity to:

Influence at the executive level without waiting for permission
Say the true thing to the person who most needs to hear it
Hold boundaries in a role that’s designed to erode them
Build culture intentionally rather than reactively
Stay whole in a job that asks you to carry a great deal

The Inner Work of Leadership

We believe that work does not have to destroy us. Work can be the way in which we achieve our fullest selves.

That belief is probably why you got into this work in the first place. Coaching is a place to reconnect with it — and to be, for an hour at a time, the person receiving support rather than the one providing it.

PARTNERING WITH REBOOT FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION

Many People leaders find us because they’re looking for coaches for someone else — a founder who needs support, an executive who’s struggling, a leadership team that isn’t functioning. We do that work through Reboot for Organizations, team experiences, and 360° Reviews.

If that’s why you’re here, we’d be glad to help. We’d also gently suggest that you consider whether you’re on the list.

WORKING WITH A REBOOT COACH

Our 1:1 coaching contracts are month-to-month, with rates varying based on session length and frequency. A typical engagement includes two 60- or 80-minute sessions per month, with access to your coach between sessions.

WHY REBOOT?

Reboot was founded on the belief that in our work lies the possibility of the full realization of human potential. We believe that helping clients develop managerial skills is important, but not enough to create the transformation they’re seeking. To be a leader, you must also cultivate a fearless willingness to look deeply through self-inquiry.

We believe better leaders make better humans, and better humans create more humane organizations and places of systemic belonging. That’s your work too.

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BOOKS

For over a decade, Reboot has guided leaders through the complex terrain of business and personal growth. These books capture the essence of our coaching methodology, helping you navigate the intersection of personal growth and professional excellence with humanity, courage, and purpose. They offer a roadmap to becoming not just a more effective leader, but a more complete human being.

Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up

The Art of Being Human at Work

Reunion: Leadership and the Longing to Belong

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