Coaching

Coaching helps researchers clarify their role, make better decisions, and lead themselves and their teams with greater confidence. It creates space to reflect on priorities, values, and direction in the complexity of academic life.

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Coaching offers researchers a chance to pause and take a step back to view their work, with greater perspective. In an environment where it’s common to juggle a large number of tasks, roles, and expectations, coaching helps you find your own path to efficiency, prioritization, and decision-making. It’s not about universal advice, but a process in which you clarify for yourself what’s truly important to you what your values are, where you’re headed, and what you want to say yes to (and what not). Coaching supports not only individual development but also more conscious team leadership, better communication, and the ability to build collaboration on shared goals and values. In this way, it helps you function more meaningfully and effectively in the scientific environment.

What Can Coaching Offer to Researchers?

Clarifying Priorities, Values, and Decision-Making

Coaching helps you define what truly matters in your work and align your daily decisions with your core values. This makes it easier to prioritize and confidently say yes or no, while staying aligned with what is most important to you.

Gaining Perspective and Strategic Direction

Coaching creates space to step back from day-to-day demands and view your career or research from a broader perspective. This helps you make more intentional and strategic decisions about your future direction.

Enhancing Communication and Team Leadership

Coaching supports you in developing clearer, more constructive communication within your team. It also strengthens your ability to lead others through dialogue, feedback, and shared ownership of goals.

Conscious Management of Your Work and Energy

Coaching helps you become more aware of how you manage your time, workload, and energy. This awareness enables more sustainable working habits and a better balance between performance and wellbeing.

Who is Coaching Suitable for?

Ph.D. students, postdocs, and early-career researchers who want to clarify the direction of their careers
Researchers transitioning into new roles (e.g. from individual contributor to team leader)
Principal investigators and research group leaders who want to discover new ways to lead and develop their teams
Researchers navigating multiple roles, responsibilities, and expectations who want to streamline their work
Anyone who makes important career or project-related decisions
Anyone seeking a more intentional, sustainable, and reflective approach to working in science

What Topics Does Coaching Address?

Setting priorities and managing workload effectively
Clarifying career direction and long-term goals
Preparing for grant applications or new research projects
Building, shaping, and leading research teams
Improving communication and collaboration within teams
Strengthening confidence and clarity in your role as a researcher or leader
Navigating challenging situations or conflicts
Making complex decisions about opportunities and partnerships
Aligning your work with your values and what matters most to you

Try Coaching for Yourself!

At different points in a scientific career, it’s natural to encounter periods of uncertainty, pressure, or important decision-making. Coaching can offer a space to pause, reflect, and approach these moments with greater clarity. You can also think of it as trying something new – a focused conversation that helps you explore your thinking and discover new perspectives. Even a single session can bring valuable insights, and you can decide what works best for you from there.

In 2026, we signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Czech ICF Chapter, to jointly support the development of coaching in the scientific environment. Together, we will be organizing events, workshops, and networking opportunities focused on coaching and leadership in science. You can explore upcoming opportunities in the Events section of our website.

We also collaborate with a network of trusted coaching professionals. If you are considering coaching, we are happy to help you find a suitable coach or discuss whether coaching is the right fit for your current situation. Feel free to reach out – we will help you take the first step!