Associate Scientific Director
Lumanity
Coaching Practice Director
CFAR: Consulting and Coaching
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Philadelphia • Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
About the role
- Provide strategic leadership and business development focus to drive CFAR's coaching practice toward growth targets
- Balance external relationship building, strategic planning, and coach network cultivation with collaborative internal coordination
- Reports to CFAR President/CEO and supervises and works in daily partnership with Coaching Practice Manager
- Collaborate regularly with CFAR Consultants on client development and participate in firm leadership meetings and retreats
- Drive practice growth through active business development and proactively engage with consulting teams to identify coaching opportunities
- Build relationships where CFAR can become the go-to coaching provider for executive development and develop strategic partnerships for multi-executive initiatives
- Target CFAR's traditional market areas while building coach expertise aligned with these practice areas and identify new partnership opportunities
- Conduct competitive analysis and refine positioning, pricing, and differentiation strategies
- Serve as primary relationship manager for coach network, recruit coaches with specialized expertise, interview and approve new coach additions, and maintain network quality standards
- Provide thought partnership and support to coaches on complex engagements and foster referrals and business development from within the coach network
- Partner closely with Coaching Practice Manager on proposals, pricing, complex coach matching decisions, and practice performance indicators
Requirements
- 10+ years of business development and/or practice management experience in professional services
- Demonstrated success in growing a practice or business unit
- Strong network in executive coaching, consulting, or related fields
- Exceptional relationship-building and communication skills
- Experience managing professional networks or contractor relationships
- Track record of strategic thinking and execution
- Demonstrated experience/credibility in executive coaching (ICF certification preferred)
- Seeking external candidate with fresh perspective and established market relationships
- Alignment with CFAR's relationship-focused, systems-thinking approach
- Ability to navigate a matrixed organization collaboratively
- Comfort with CFAR's consultative, non-transactional client engagement style
- Respect for operational excellence and process
Benefits
- Stimulating work: You work with clients and senior leaders in their respective fields to help them align strategy, strengthen culture and to build their leadership capacity to be the best they can be.
- Influence and Impact: You have a seat at the table and your ideas, insights and leadership will influence strategy, not just execution.
- Strong culture: CFAR is a supportive, collaborative culture filled with smart, collegial team members. Humility, curiosity, and innovation are valued.
- Professional development: We care about our people. Not only is there the on-the-job experience of working with clients, we support developmental programs to enhance your ability to do your best work.
- Benefits: Flexible work environment; annual wellness benefit; technology support; opportunities for development.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
business developmentpractice managementcompetitive analysisstrategic planningcoaching expertiserelationship managementnetwork quality standardsproposalspricing strategiescomplex coach matching
Soft skills
relationship-buildingcommunicationstrategic thinkingexecutioncollaborationthought partnershipnetwork managementleadershipconsultative engagementoperational excellence
Certifications
ICF certification
