The LeSS Coach Program for Scrum Masters
You’ve mastered the team level. You know how to facilitate, remove impediments, and help developers do their best work. But you also see the bigger picture: the organizational structures that limit what your teams can achieve.
The Certified LeSS Coach program is your path to becoming like a Scrum Master++ who creates change at the system level.
Beyond Team Boundaries
Most organizations box Scrum Masters into a narrow role. You facilitate Sprint events. You coach one team. Maybe two. But you see the dependencies, the organizational dysfunction, the product fragmentation that no amount of team-level coaching will fix.
The LeSS Coach program develops your capability to work at the organizational level, where the real leverage exists.
What Changes for You
See the System, Change the System
With an experienced LeSS Mentor guiding you, learn to:
- Identify and address the organizational structures that limit team performance
- Help leadership understand why feature teams, shared code ownership, and one Product Backlog matter
- Navigate the political complexity of real organizational change
- Shift from “helping my team” to “helping teams help themselves”
Grow Your Impact and Career
Increased value. Certified LeSS Coaches are valued higher than Scrum Masters in the market. Organizations recognize the difference between team facilitation and organizational coaching capability.
Longer engagements. When you can address systemic issues, you’re not replaceable. Your employability and rate increase because you solve problems others can’t see.
Product focus. Move beyond process facilitation into helping organizations build the right product. Understand the product owner role deeply and help organizations structure for customer focus.
Your Mentor Relationship
You get an experienced LeSS Mentor for your entire journey: someone backed by the LeSS Company who has guided real adoptions. They help you:
- Work through challenges with C-level executives and middle management
- Develop confidence in organizational coaching conversations
- Navigate situations where the “right” answer isn’t clear
- Build the systemic thinking skills that matter
What You Gain
Teaching as Learning
Deliver Certified LeSS Basics (CLB) training: a one-day, in-company course. Teaching is the best way to deepen your own understanding. This capability alone creates significant value within your organization.
Community and Network
Quarterly online dojos. Join other LeSS Coaches and Mentors 4 times per year to discuss real coaching problems. Bring your own challenges. Learn from experienced practitioners. (3 of 4 sessions mandatory.)
Annual gathering. Attend the in-person LeSS Coach Gathering held the day before Global LeSS Conference.
Professional network. Access senior LeSS professionals when you need guidance or collaboration.
Career Pathway
The LeSS Coach certification creates a direct pathway to Certified LeSS Trainer, the highest level of LeSS certification. If training is part of your career vision, this is the fast track.
Ready to grow beyond team-level work? The program accepts Scrum Masters with 4+ years of experience.