Connect deeply. Build engagement. Transform results.

Most leaders operate in expert mode – solving problems, providing direction, and feeling pressure to have the answers. While well-intentioned, this approach often creates bottlenecks, reduces ownership, and limits engagement.

Leaders Who Ask supports a deliberate shift in how leaders lead. By building coaching capability and purposeful questioning skills, leaders move from telling to asking – creating the conditions for greater accountability, confidence and performance.

When leaders ask better questions, they spend less time stuck in the detail and more time having the conversations that matter. The right conversations happen more often, and the right work gets done – faster and with greater ownership.

Why Leaders Who Ask?

Today’s leadership environment is complex and demanding. Hybrid work, increasing expectations and constant change require leaders to think differently about how they enable performance.

Many leaders find themselves:

  • Overloaded and firefighting, rather than leading strategically
  • Struggling to sustain engagement, particularly in hybrid or remote teams
  • Avoiding performance conversations due to uncertainty about how to approach them
  • Missing opportunities to develop people in the flow of work
  • Working harder than necessary by trying to control outcomes

Questions engage people. They create insight, accountability and momentum. Coaching-style leadership is underpinned by the ability to ask well and to listen with intent.

When leaders add coaching skills and questioning techniques to their leadership toolkit, they build cultures where people step up, take responsibility and contribute at a higher level.

What this program develops

Through practical, highly interactive learning, Leaders Who Ask equips leaders to:

  • Shift from directive leadership to coaching conversations that build engagement and productivity
  • Use micro-coaching – small, intentional moments that build insight, ownership and confidence
  • Ask purposeful questions in everyday interactions, from corridor conversations to meetings and check-ins
  • Empower people to think, decide and take ownership
  • Lead meetings that leverage collective intelligence
  • Navigate challenging conversations with confidence and clarity
  • Build trust, psychological safety and accountability in everyday leadership

This program is not about long, formal coaching conversations. It focuses on micro-coaching –the short, purposeful questions leaders use in the flow of work. These everyday interactions, when done well, create insight, shift behaviour and compound impact over time.

This is not about turning leaders into coaches. It’s about helping them lead more effectively through the questions they ask, especially in moments that matter.

This program is sometimes described as ‘leader as coach’ – but the focus is on practical, everyday leadership conversations, not formal coaching roles.

Program design: Learning that sticks

eaders Who Ask is designed around how leaders actually learn and apply new skills.

Option 1: Face-to-Face Experience

A dynamic, in-person learning pathway for organisations seeking immersive development.

  • Workshop 1: Leaders Who Ask – Fundamentals (full day)
    Develop core coaching skills, questioning frameworks and practical tools.
  • Workshop 2: Leaders Who Ask – In Action (half day, approximately six weeks later)
    Reinforce learning through application, reflection and real-world challenges.

Option 2: Distributed Learning (Live Online)

An intentionally designed online experience delivered in 120-minute sessions over time, ideal for dispersed teams and organisations wanting sustained behaviour change.

This approach enables leaders to practise skills between sessions, reflect on impact, and embed new habits in real work.

Why this works

  • Neuroscience-informed design: Spaced learning improves retention and transfer
  • Social learning: Leaders learn with and from each other
  • Immediate relevance: Every session connects directly to current leadership challenges

The impact

Leaders who complete Leaders Who Ask lead with greater confidence, clarity and calm.
Teams experience stronger engagement, clearer accountability and better conversations – not because leaders are doing more, but because they are asking better questions.

Our leaders gained new insights into how they engage their people by reflecting on their behaviours, responses and leadership patterns through the Leaders Who Ask framework. Leaders are now better equipped to empower others to take ownership and accountability, strengthening our culture and supporting delivery of our strategic objectives.
Director People and Culture, TAFE

This program created a meaningful shift in how leaders approach conversations for development. Leaders adopted a more collaborative mindset and empowered team members to problem-solve and set their own path. A secondary benefit was bringing leaders together who wouldn’t normally work together, strengthening cross-functional relationships.
Director, Customer Relations, National Sporting Organisation

The experiential element of Leaders Who Ask was powerful. Leaders developed and tested new skills in a safe environment while forming deeper connections with each other. The program reinforced the importance of having meaningful conversations – and truly listening.
Chief Executive Officer, Health Organisation

As we shifted to more frequent, informal one-to-one conversations, new skills were required across the organisation. Leaders Who Ask gave our leaders the confidence and capability to ask questions that open conversations. Corrinne was engaging and held people’s attention in a virtual environment.
Executive Director, Human Resources, Financial Services Organisation

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