Twice per year, The Coaching Fellowship selects between approximately 100 young high potential women leaders each time in the social impact sector to become our fellows. Fellows receive executive level coaching at a massively reduced rate so they may focus deeply on personal and leadership development, attaining their goals, and changing the world in the process. In addition, fellows join our network of 600+ women impact leaders around the world.
Learn more about how we got started and why we’re doing this.
Fellows receive a total of 11 hours of intensive 1:1 leadership coaching sessions over a period of 6 months via phone/Skype/WhatsApp with one of our highly experienced and certified coaches.
There are two parts of the program:
Part One: 8 intensive coaching sessions over 4 months
Part Two: 3 coaching sessions over 2 months
Program costs: Thanks to the generosity of our coaches and funders, we are able to offer this program at a highly subsidized rate, but not for free. In our efforts to support as many women leaders a possible, we are offering a volunteer tiered pricing system for our program fee that allows you to select the price that best works for you. For full information on our pricing options, please click here.
NOTE: Typically such a coaching engagement costs between $5,000 and $7,000. Through the incredible generosity of our coaches, who offer their services completely pro-bono, we are proud to be able to offer fellowship places at this rate. Fellows’ contribution go to The Coaching Fellowship’s operational costs, so as a 501 c 3 non-profit organization we may continue to support many more incredible young women leaders in the future.
The Coaching Fellowship is open to any young woman leader and women-identifying individuals based anywhere in the world, who is today transforming our world for the better.
We are looking for a candidate who is:
Typically, our fellows earn less than $100,000 per year in a high potential leadership position of a nonprofit, social impact organization or public institution that has demonstrated impact in their community and the world.
Disclaimer: We have a requirement that a fellow in the TCFS program is emotionally and mentally stable before joining our program. If you have experienced significant emotional trauma, a traumatic event, and have been in recovery or treatment in the last 12 month, we recommend that you consider applying for our fellowship program after at least 12 months post-recovery.
Coaching is a wonderful process for opening up transformation and going deep, but the serious concern is that it can also trigger traumatic emotions if you are recovering and healing from trauma, and because our coaches don’t have therapeutic training to support that, it could potentially harm you, and we would never, ever want that for anyone.
If you have any questions regarding this requirement, please reach out to us at hello@tcfs.org.
We are continually working hard as an organization to welcome, embrace and support all people.
The Coaching Fellowship shall not discriminate present nor future participants on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, political affiliation, educational background, or military status, in any of our activities or operations.
A coach is NOT the same as a mentor, consultant, or career counselor.
A mentor/consultant will set out to train or give you direct advice in support of the professional goal or project you are attempting to accomplish. A career counselor will help you to hone professional development skills such as creating a resume or cover letter, and give you direction on your career path.
A Coaching Fellowship coach, on the other hand, will work with you to reach your personal and professional goals. They will guide you and help you to focus on your strengths, rather directly advising you. They will enable you to grow, motivate you and hold you accountable to your goals.
Here’s a helpful chart to further clarify what a coach is:
Your coach will:
Your coach will NOT:
We match a fellow with a coach as much as possible based on timezone compatibility, and also consider a coach’s experience and fellow’s needs. Note: a coach may be in a completely different country than the fellow - so far our coaches are based in 23 countries and we continue to expand with each program.
All our coaches are professionally trained, highly experienced in leadership development, and very dedicated to supporting our fellows. They come from very different backgrounds than our fellows, and are experts in helping our fellows help themselves. Our coaches are completely committed to our fellows’ success and growth. They are here to help our fellows gain better understanding of their strengths and blind spots, both personally and professionally.
You can hear personal stories from our fellows who have completed the program on our blog. Or reach out to us with your questions at hello@tcfs.org.
January 11, 2021 | Applications OPEN for 2021 Cohort 1 Program |
January 27, 2021 | Open Enrollment Call #1 |
February 17, 2021 | Open Enrollment Call #2 |
March 5, 2021 | Applications CLOSE for 2021 Cohort 1 Program |
April 5, 2021 | Application results announced to all applicants |
April 16, 2021 | Applicant deadline to accept Fellowship place |
May 3, 2021 | Fellows and Coaches Introduced |
May 3 - 7, 2021 | Fellows Onboarding Calls |
Week of May 3rd, 2021 | Introduction call with coaches |
Week of May 10th, 2021 | Launch/Discovery Session Week |
June 2021 – TBD | Open Fellows Call |
July 2021 – TBD | Open Fellows Call |
August 2021 – TBD | Open Fellows Call |
September 3, 2021 | Part One Coaching ends |
September 6, 2021 | Part Two Coaching begins |
September 2021 – TBD | Open Fellows Call |
October 2021 – TBD | Open Fellows Call |
November 1 - 5, 2021 | Closure Session Week |
November 5, 2021 | Program ends |
December 1, 2021 | Fellowship Graduation Celebration |
NOTE: Please take note of the dates above and plan ahead carefully. If you are selected to join our 2021 Cohort 1 program, you are expected to follow and honor the program timeline.
Have more questions about our program? Check out our FAQ page for more information.