Coaching Leadership: Building educational leadership capacity through partnership 3rd Edition

Leadership is not simply something we do—it is something we learn.

Grounded in more than three decades of national and international research and practice, this fully revised third edition of Coaching Leadership offers a powerful approach to leadership learning through coaching. It shows how coaching can deepen reflection, strengthen professional relationships, and create meaningful change in schools.

Through essential coaching skills, new practical tools, and reflective activities, with real-life case studies, leaders are invited to inquire into their own practice—individually or in partnership with coach or mentor—to develop the dispositions needed for today’s schools, including moral purpose for equity, culturally responsive practice, and a strong sense of efficacy and agency.

Both practical and research-informed, this book is for leaders committed to learning, partnership, and leading change through action research.

“Coaching Leadership bridges a persistent gap in the school leadership literature: between what we know about leadership and how it can be enacted in practice. Robertson offers a coherent and compelling account of leadership as learning, illuminating how individual capabilities and collective capacity are cultivated in schools.”—Niclas Rönnström (PhD/Docent) Associate Professor, Stockholm University