The LeSS Coach Program for Coaches
You may already guide teams, support managers, or even coach entire organizations through significant change. Whether you have decades of experience or just a few years of serious practice, one thing is clear: leading real, sustainable improvement requires more than techniques—it requires a coherent systems view and a proven way of simplifying large-scale product development.
The Certified LeSS Coach program helps you build exactly that. It offers the depth, structure, and credibility to apply LeSS principles with confidence—whether you’re new to LeSS, strengthening your foundations, or looking to formalize and deepen your organizational-level coaching. Whatever your starting point, the program expands your capability and amplifies your impact.
Why This Matters for Your Coaching Practice
Whether you coach teams, managers, or entire product groups, there comes a moment when deeper organizational change becomes necessary. Structures get in the way. Policies slow delivery. Teams want to improve, but the system holds them back. That is where LeSS Coaches make the real difference.
A Certified LeSS Coach brings a shared language, a proven system, and the capability to help an organization simplify, reduce coordination overhead, and become more adaptive. The certification shows that you understand not only how to coach, but how to guide a company toward a product development system that scales without adding complexity.
What Changes for You
Lead Real Adoptions
Move confidently from supporting teams to influencing the whole organization. As a LeSS Coach, you are equipped to:
- Engage executives in meaningful conversations about structure and purpose
- Help middle management shift from coordination to enabling
- Support teams in working as true cross-functional, customer-focused groups
- Use systems thinking to identify constraints and redesign for flow
- Guide organizations toward resilience, adaptability, and simpler scaling
With a LeSS Mentor alongside you, you apply these ideas directly to your current environment—strengthening your impact where it matters most.
Elevate Your Professional Capability
Becoming a Certified LeSS Coach accelerates your growth in areas essential for modern product organizations:
- Organizational design and structural simplification
- Lean thinking and empirical decision-making
- Systemic coaching across multiple levels
- Technical excellence as the foundation of real agility
You deepen your mastery of the LeSS principles and learn how to make them work in the messy, political, real world of product development.
Strengthen Your Position in the Organization
For both employers and customers, a LeSS Coach brings tangible value:
- Higher-quality decision-making around scaling and structure
- Guidance that reduces risk in large transformation efforts
- A coach who operates with a recognized, trusted approach rather than improvisation
- A resident expert who can teach Certified LeSS Basics (CLB) in-house
- A direct link to the global LeSS community and its collective experience
Your certification signals that you are not just facilitating change—you are capable of leading it.
Be Part of a Coaching Community That Sharpens You
You join an active network of LeSS Coaches and senior practitioners who support you in your journey:
- Quarterly online dojos to explore difficult coaching problems (“bring your own problem”)
- An annual in-person LeSS Coach Gathering before the Global LeSS Conference
- Collaboration opportunities for large-scale engagements
- Continued contact with your mentor and access to the broader community’s expertise
You are never coaching alone—you are backed by a community that has done this work in organizations worldwide.
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Ready to elevate your coaching practice? The program accepts coaches with 3+ years of coaching experience.