conservationcoaching.com

What It Is

Conservation Coaching is not a large-scale online course platform in the traditional sense. Instead, it offers leadership development and coaching services for professionals in conservation and environmental fields. Its focus is on helping emerging and mid-career environmental leaders increase their impact while also dealing with the stress, burnout, boundaries, and self-care challenges that often come with mission-driven work.

Core Content and Format

Its core offering is the “Leadership Development Programme,” which is designed around a coaching-based approach rather than short-term knowledge delivery. The programme includes 1 individual assessment, 4 live knowledge-sharing sessions, 4 individual coaching sessions, and 4 group coaching sessions, with recordings provided to accommodate different time zones. Development topics include self-awareness, values and strengths, resilience, work-life balance, strategic thinking, communication and influence, relationship management, conflict handling, and building high-performing teams. In addition, it offers individual coaching, group coaching, and customized organizational solutions, such as team building, conservation strategy development, coaching skills for managers, and building a coaching culture.

Pricing and Credentials

The website publishes some pricing for individual coaching: the 3-month Exploration & Awareness package costs £700, the 6-month Behaviour Change package costs £1400, and the 9–12-month Long-Term Impact package requires consultation. Prepayment discounts are 5%, 10%, and 15%, respectively. Pricing for the leadership development programme and organizational solutions is not disclosed. The coaching team appears credible: Tori Jeffers is an ICF PCC-certified coach with a master’s degree in conservation and biodiversity and more than 1000 hours of coaching experience; Kathleen Harkins is an ICF ACC with over 25 years of experience in learning and development, organizational development, and change management. The programme does not state whether a completion certificate is issued.

Pros and Cons

Its strengths lie in its highly focused positioning and its ability to understand the complex adaptive challenges found in environmental organizations, NGOs, and conservation projects. The programme runs over a longer period and emphasizes reflection, practice, and behavioral change. The combination of one-on-one and group coaching is also useful for working through real leadership scenarios. Its weaknesses are that transparency is still limited: details such as teaching language, platform, schedule, refund policy, and pricing for some offerings are missing. It is also more oriented toward leadership and psychological resilience, so it is not suitable for those looking for technical courses in areas such as ecological monitoring, GIS, or species conservation.

Who It’s For and Access From China

It is suitable for new leaders, executive directors, project leads, and people within environmental NGOs, conservation organizations, foundations, or related institutions—especially those who feel burned out, are going through a transition, or want to increase their impact. Access from mainland China cannot be determined from the main text alone, so it should be marked as unknown. If participating in cross-border online coaching, users should further confirm the time zone, language, payment methods, and availability of the video conferencing tools.