Company Academy for Better Leadership
Your own Leadership Academy.Under your brand.Live in four weeks.
coabl builds and operates your company's Leadership Academy — under your brand. Leadership content, Learning Journeys, AI support, human expertise and ongoing management come together in one system.
No commitment · approx. 30 minutes · includes a live demo
Good morning, Anna
Your leadership development
Next module: Handling difficult conversations
Delegating well
Module · 25 min
Giving feedback
Module · 25 min
Spotting conflict early
Module · 25 min
AI Leadership Coach Burkhard
“Shall we prepare your conversation on Thursday?”
Demo UI — example of a Leadership Academy for a client company
coabl brings together 15 years of leadership development experience, including work with several thousand leaders.
Executive education · Mid-sized companies · Large corporates · Start-ups · Public sector
The problem
When a company grows, leadership cannot stay improvised.
Many companies grow faster than their leadership structures.
Strong specialists suddenly take on responsibility for teams. Experienced leaders lead more people than before. What used to be a quick conversation becomes a longer decision path.
Yet leadership development still happens on the side.
HR is fully occupied with recruiting, contracts, payroll and administration. The management team has neither the time nor the capacity to support every leader closely in daily work.
So a seminar is booked, a coach is brought in, or a workshop is run.
These measures can be valuable.
But without a shared infrastructure they remain isolated events. Knowledge is never anchored systematically. Important leadership principles fade from view. And in the situations that matter, leaders are on their own again.
Leadership Tax
Poor leadership is not a soft problem.It is a daily tax on your growth.
Leadership Tax describes the invisible cost that arises when leadership does not grow with the company.
- Decisions keep travelling back to the management team.
- New leaders have to improvise their role.
- Responsibility is not delegated clearly.
- Conflicts are addressed too late.
- Good people lose motivation or leave the company.
- Teams stay below what they are capable of.
- Growth takes more and more energy.
Leadership Tax appears in no profit and loss statement. But your company pays it every day.
The shift
Your company does not need more isolated measures.It needs a leadership infrastructure.
A seminar can provide an important impulse.
A coach can support a leader through a difficult situation.
A workshop can realign a team.
But only a shared infrastructure connects these measures into one system.
Isolated measures
- stand-alone seminars
- individual coaches
- scattered documents
- short-lived impulses
- no shared language
- little transparency
Your Leadership Academy
- shared leadership principles
- content in one place
- role-based Learning Journeys
- support in daily work
- integrated experts
- visible development
The solution
Your brand. Your values. Your Academy.
With coabl, your company gets its own Leadership Academy — under your brand.
It carries your name, uses your logo and company colours, and integrates your values, leadership principles and existing content.
Your people do not experience an anonymous learning platform.
They enter their own company's Leadership Academy.
Good morning, Anna
Your leadership development
Next module: Handling difficult conversations
Delegating well
Module · 25 min
Giving feedback
Module · 25 min
Spotting conflict early
Module · 25 min
AI Leadership Coach Burkhard
“Shall we prepare your conversation on Thursday?”
Demo UI — example of a Leadership Academy for a client company
Learning Journeys
The right development path for every level of responsibility.
Leadership changes with responsibility. That is why coabl develops leaders not through a one-size-fits-all programme, but around the demands of their role — from taking on responsibility for the first time to leading other leaders.
Your company
How do we lead here?
Company values, leadership principles, strategy and your own content form the company-specific frame.
Your role
What do I need to master at my current level of responsibility?
Role-based Learning Journeys structure the development path.
Your situation
What do I need right now?
The Leadership Library and AI Leadership Coach Burkhard provide concrete support in day-to-day work.
Leadership develops with responsibility. The Academy develops with it.
Lead people effectively.
A first leadership role changes the work itself. Professional expertise alone is no longer enough. Leaders need to provide direction, hand over responsibility, develop performance and address difficult situations.
Example topics
- understanding the new leadership role
- from colleague to leader
- setting clear expectations
- building trust
- running effective 1:1s
- agreeing on goals
- delegating effectively
- giving feedback
- addressing performance
- handling difficult conversations
- spotting conflicts early
- motivating team members
- developing team members
- establishing team routines
- reflecting on your own leadership
Core Journeys
The four Core Journeys reflect typical stages of leadership development. Roles, content and priorities are adapted to your company's leadership structure.
Additional Journeys
Leadership Onboarding · Project Leadership · Change Leadership · Sales Leadership · Production Leadership · Business Succession
Composed individually from the Leadership Library and your own content.
The learning system
Systematic development. Support at the right moment.
Leaders need both: a clear development path and concrete help when a real leadership situation arises.
That is why your Leadership Academy combines structured Learning Journeys with a Leadership Library available at any time and AI Leadership Coach Burkhard.
Your Learning Journey
What should I develop systematically in my role?
Structured development over time — step by step through the topics that matter most for a specific leadership role.
Example · First-Time Leaders
- 01Stepping into your leadership role
- 02Setting clear expectations
- 03Delegating effectively
- 04Running effective 1:1s
- 05Giving feedback
- 06Addressing performance
- 07Handling difficult conversations
- 08Developing team members
Demo UI — example of a Learning Journey structure
Your Leadership Library
What do I need in this specific situation?
Concrete help for real leadership situations — regardless of where a leader currently is within a Learning Journey.
- How do I delegate a task properly?
- How do I address weak performance?
- How do I prepare for a difficult conversation?
- How do I structure my next 1:1?
- How do I resolve a conflict within the team?
AI Leadership Coach Burkhard
“Tomorrow I need to talk to a team member about repeated mistakes. Help me prepare for the conversation.”
Demo UI — example of a situation-based search
The most important leadership ideas and tools — reduced to what matters.
The Leadership Library brings together around 100 practice-oriented modules for leaders at every level.
Each module focuses on one concrete leadership question, places the relevant research in context and translates it into tools that can be applied immediately.
Grounded in research. Reduced to the essentials. Immediately applicable.
01Self-Leadership
priorities · decisions · self-reflection · personal effectiveness
02Communication
active listening · setting clear expectations · formulating clear messages · communicating difficult information
03Delegation & Accountability
delegating effectively · handing over responsibility · creating ownership · designing follow-up
04Feedback & Performance
giving feedback · agreeing on goals · addressing performance · running development conversations
05Coaching & Development
asking good questions · recognising potential · developing team members · running coaching conversations
06Teams & Collaboration
team dynamics · roles · trust · meetings
07Conflict Management
recognising conflicts · raising conflicts · difficult conversations · facilitating conflicts
08Change & Leadership
communicating change · providing direction · dealing with uncertainty · understanding resistance
09Strategy & Business Leadership
translating priorities · decisions · cross-functional thinking · leadership systems
Proven leadership principles meet the way your company leads.
A strong Leadership Academy does more than teach general leadership principles. It also translates your company's values, leadership principles and expectations into everyday leadership.
Leadership Best Practices
models · methods · tools · research insights
Your leadership principles
values · Leadership Principles · expected behaviour
Your company reality
strategy · processes · your own content · concrete examples
Your Leadership Academy
Leadership that fits your company.
Example: giving feedback
01Leadership Best Practice
- what makes feedback effective
- a concrete feedback tool
- common mistakes
- conversation structure
02Your company
- your leadership principle
- your feedback model
- your expectations of leadership
- an internal example
03Application
- reflection question
- preparing the conversation
- support from Burkhard
This is how leadership content becomes your Leadership Academy.
What changes
Isolated measures become a system for good leadership.
New leaders find their footing faster
They get support exactly when a new leadership situation arises.
Leadership gains a shared language
Values, principles and tools are conveyed consistently.
HR gains leverage
HR no longer has to design and coordinate every format itself.
Knowledge stays available
Content from training and coaching no longer disappears into folders and slide decks.
Individual measures build on each other
Seminars, coaching, profiles and feedback become part of one development path.
Development becomes visible
Usage, progress and development areas can be reviewed systematically.
Leadership Academy as a Service
We build your Academy.
We operate it.
Together, we develop your leaders.
You do not need your own platform, a complete Leadership Library or a large internal learning and development team.
coabl provides the technology, the content, the AI support and the operational infrastructure.
A dedicated Academy Partner looks after your Academy and develops it further together with you.
Coaches and experts can be added wherever personal support makes sense.
Implementation is a project. The Academy is infrastructure.
You do not get software to manage on your own. You get a Leadership Academy that we operate and develop with you.
What's included
Four system areas — one Academy.
The four areas are not separately bookable products. They describe the components of a complete Leadership Academy — and work together in day-to-day operation.
Your brand, your values, your leadership principles.
The Academy is the Leadership Academy of this specific company — from the brand to your own content.
Academy Identity
name and branding · logo and company colours · tone and visual language
Leadership Principles
values · leadership principles · expected behaviour
Your own company content
strategy · company knowledge · existing internal content
Operating model
A predictable core. Flexible support when you need it.
For a regular base fee, we build and operate your Leadership Academy.
The scalable Academy infrastructure is included — from technology and content through AI support to ongoing management. More intensive individual expert work can be added flexibly wherever personal support makes sense.
Included
- individually branded Leadership Academy
- technical provision and operation
- integration of brand, values and leadership principles
- Leadership Library
- role-based Core Learning Journeys
- AI leadership coach Burkhard
- integration of your own content
- user and role management
- core dashboard
- feedback and development features
- ongoing product updates
- ongoing management
- a dedicated Academy Partner
- continuous development of the Academy
Can be added flexibly
- individual coaching
- executive coaching
- team coaching
- workshops
- facilitation
- conflict support
- external assessments and assessment licences
- extensive 360° programmes
- custom content production
- tailored Learning Journeys
- organisational development
- additional expert engagements
Your Academy Partner
Every Leadership Academy is looked after by a dedicated Academy Partner.
Your Academy Partner develops the Academy together with you, prioritises new content and Learning Journeys, and coordinates coaches and experts when needed.
They support your company at Academy level — the AI leadership coach Burkhard supports your leaders in day-to-day leadership situations.
Assessments, feedback and 360°
The infrastructure is included: integration and use of personality and team profiles, development goals, prompts for reflection, feedback, and the technical 360° capability.
Running external assessments, their licences, expert debriefings and extensive tailored 360° programmes are added as required.
Your content. Our infrastructure.
Your brand, values, leadership principles, the content you contribute and your company data remain the property of your company.
For content commissioned individually, your company receives a permanent internal right of use.
The platform, technology, general Leadership Library and methods, standard Learning Journeys, the AI leadership coach Burkhard, product updates and ongoing management are provided as a service.
Who it is for
For companies whose growth places new demands on leadership.
coabl is designed in particular for growing manufacturing companies and service providers.
Typically, these companies have five to six leaders directly below the management team. Those leaders in turn carry responsibility for teams of two to twenty people.
The Academy is especially valuable when:
- the company is growing or changing
- strong specialists are taking on leadership responsibility
- there is no large learning and development function
- leadership development happens alongside daily business
- leadership issues create operational friction
- values and leadership principles should be anchored
- existing measures should be connected
These companies have grown too large to keep developing leadership informally — but are often not yet large enough to build an entire Leadership Academy on their own.
Live in four weeks
Your Leadership Academy is ready to use within four weeks.
The Academy does not have to be complete on day one. But it has to be useful on day one.
After four weeks, a first working version of your Leadership Academy is ready to use.
Implementation is a project — the Academy is infrastructure. After launch, ongoing operation begins: your Academy evolves with your company, new roles, new challenges and new content.
01
Week 1 – Understand & Define
- analyse the leadership structure
- define the target groups
- prioritise the challenges
- capture values and leadership principles
- define the initial scope
02
Week 2 – Brand & Configure
- set up name and branding
- create the Academy structure
- integrate values and content
- prepare roles and user groups
03
Week 3 – Build
- set up the first Learning Journeys
- select the relevant modules
- integrate your own content
- configure the features
04
Week 4 – Launch
- take the Academy live
- activate the leaders
- support internal communication
- agree the next development steps
What you typically have after four weeks
- a branded Academy
- a defined first user group
- users and roles set up
- integrated values and leadership principles
- access to the Leadership Library
- first Learning Journeys
- selected content of your own
- the AI leadership coach Burkhard
- a core dashboard
- a dedicated Academy Partner
- a plan for further development
Further content, Journeys and additional expert work are added during ongoing operation, together with your Academy Partner.
No commitment · approx. 30 minutes · includes a live demo
Every Company Needs Its Own Leadership Academy.
Every company has systems for finance, production, sales and quality.
But very few have a real system for how people become good leaders.
Yet leadership decides whether strategies are implemented, people are developed, conflicts are resolved and change is managed.
Good leadership must therefore not be left to chance.
It needs a permanent place inside the company.
A shared language. Shared principles. Concrete tools. Regular reflection.
And support exactly when it is needed.
A Leadership Academy is not a project. It is infrastructure.
That is exactly what coabl is for.
Introductory call
Ready to turn leadership in your company into a system?
In a no-obligation introductory call we look at your leadership structure together and show you, in a live demo, what your own Leadership Academy could look like.
- Understand your leadership structure and leadership levels
- Outline a realistic initial scope for your Academy
- Live demo: See what your Leadership Academy could look like
- Clarify how the four weeks to launch work
No commitment · approx. 30 minutes · includes a live demo
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