Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to the questions healthcare leaders ask most often.

Choosing a coach, investing in leadership development, or introducing coaching into an organization is an important decision.

Below are answers to the questions we are asked most frequently by physicians, healthcare professionals, healthcare organizations, and healthcare coaches.

If your question is not answered here, we'd be happy to continue the conversation.

Executive Coaching

Executive Coaching questions

What is executive coaching?

Executive coaching is a confidential, structured partnership that helps leaders think more clearly, make better decisions, strengthen relationships, and navigate complex professional challenges.

Unlike mentoring, coaching does not focus on giving advice based on personal experience.

Unlike consulting, coaching does not provide solutions or reports.

Instead, coaching helps you develop the awareness, judgement, and leadership capabilities needed to solve the challenges you face within your own context.

Who do you work with?

We primarily work with:

  • Physicians
  • Healthcare professionals
  • Clinical leaders
  • Medical directors
  • Department chairs
  • Healthcare executives
  • Healthcare organizations
  • Physician and healthcare coaches
Do you only work with physicians?

No.

Although physicians remain our primary audience, we also work with healthcare professionals, healthcare executives, multidisciplinary clinical leaders, healthcare organizations, and healthcare coaches.

Is coaching confidential?

Yes.

Confidentiality is fundamental to every coaching relationship.

Our coaching is delivered in accordance with the International Coaching Federation Code of Ethics, creating a trusted space where clients can think openly, reflect honestly, and explore leadership challenges with confidence.

How long does a coaching engagement last?

Concierge Executive Coaching has a six month minimum engagement.

This gives enough time to address an immediate leadership challenge while also strengthening the patterns and practices around it.

Longer or organization-sponsored engagements are available depending on individual and organizational needs.

What is the retainer for Concierge Executive Coaching?

$2,500 USD per month.

Engagements have a minimum six month commitment.

What if I'm interested but not ready for a longer engagement?

A paid Strategy Session may be a better starting point if you need focused support around one immediate leadership question without entering a longer engagement.

Investment: $250 USD, payable at booking.

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Organizations

Organizations questions

Do you work directly with healthcare organizations?

Yes.

We partner with healthcare organizations to develop leadership capability through executive coaching, sponsored coaching programmes, leadership development initiatives, keynote speaking, workshops, and executive education.

Every engagement is designed around the organization's goals and leadership priorities.

Do you provide in-house coaching?

Yes.

Organizations may sponsor confidential executive coaching for individual physicians, leadership teams, or leadership cohorts.

Coaching can be integrated into broader leadership development programmes where appropriate.

Can leadership programmes be customized?

Absolutely.

Every programme is designed around the specific needs of your organization, audience, and leadership objectives.

Speaking

Speaking questions

What topics do you speak on?

Current keynote topics include:

  • Building the Future of Healthcare Leadership
  • The Clinician-to-Leader Transition
  • Beyond Burnout
  • Ubuntu Leadership in Healthcare
  • The Inner Work of Leadership
  • Leading Through Change

Presentations can also be tailored to your event.

Do you speak internationally?

Yes.

Presentations are delivered virtually and in person for healthcare organizations and conferences internationally.

Mentor Coaching

Mentor Coaching questions

Do you offer mentor coaching?

Yes.

Ubuntu Doctor Coaching offers ICF-aligned mentor coaching for physician and healthcare coaches seeking professional development, credential renewal, or greater coaching confidence.

Individual and group mentor coaching are available.

Is coach training available?

Coach training is currently in development.

Join the waitlist to receive updates and early access when programmes launch.

Ubuntu

Ubuntu questions

What is Ubuntu?

Ubuntu is an African philosophy often expressed through the phrase:

“A person is a person through other people.”

Within healthcare leadership, Ubuntu reminds us that leadership is measured not only by individual achievement but also by what leaders make possible in the people, teams, and systems around them.

Ubuntu-informed leadership complements evidence-informed leadership by emphasizing relationships, trust, collaboration, and shared responsibility.

What does Ubuntu-informed leadership mean?

Ubuntu-informed leadership integrates contemporary leadership science with the relational values of Ubuntu.

Rather than viewing leadership as individual authority alone, it recognises that sustainable leadership grows through strong relationships, mutual accountability, compassion, and collective success.

Productivity & Charting

Productivity & Charting questions

Can coaching help with charting, productivity, or workload?

Many physicians seek coaching because documentation, competing priorities, administrative demands, and leadership responsibilities have become overwhelming.

While coaching does not replace workflow redesign or technical training, it can help leaders identify patterns, strengthen decision-making, establish boundaries, improve delegation, and develop more sustainable ways of working.

Where appropriate, practical productivity resources and leadership tools are incorporated into coaching.

Location

Location questions

Do you work with clients outside the United States?

Yes.

Virtual coaching enables us to work with physicians, healthcare professionals, organizations, and healthcare coaches internationally.

Getting Started

What is the best place to start?

Individual physicians and healthcare professionals

Apply for Concierge Executive Coaching.

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Healthcare organizations

Schedule an Organizational Consultation.

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Physician and healthcare coaches

Book a Mentor Coaching Conversation.

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