Become a Certified LeSS Coach (CLC)

You’ve seen LeSS work. You understand the principles. But when it comes to leading an actual adoption (navigating executive resistance, structuring the transition, knowing which battles to fight), you’re operating without a safety net. The Certified LeSS Coach program changes that.

Who is this for?

The LeSS Coach program serves practitioners who want to deepen their capability to guide organizations toward LeSS adoption:

• Scrum Masters ready to expand beyond team-level work into organizational coaching
• Agile and technical coaches who want structured mentorship from senior LeSS practitioners
• Head of Product/Engineering/CTO/Executives leading change efforts based on Lean principles

Whether you’re employed within an organization or running your own coaching practice, the program meets you where you are, and helps you grow from there.

What is LeSS Coach?

A LeSS Coach is someone who can meaningfully guide an organization toward simpler, more effective product development. The certification demonstrates your ability to apply LeSS principles, rules, and thinking in real organizational settings—helping teams, managers, and executives work together more effectively and deliver better outcomes.

Becoming a LeSS Coach is a journey toward deep mastery. You strengthen your understanding of Lean, systems thinking, organizational design, technical excellence, and Scrum, and learn to apply them in complex environments. Along the way, you gain access to the global LeSS community, the quality of the LeSS brand, and opportunities that expand your professional impact—such as offering Certified LeSS Basics trainings, contributing to LeSS adoptions, and progressing toward becoming a LeSS Mentor or even a Certified LeSS Trainer.

For practitioners starting or advancing a LeSS adoption with expert support	For experienced adopters ready to coach others and act as LeSS Mentors

Throughout the certification you receive guidance from an experienced LeSS Mentor who helps you apply LeSS thinking directly to your current organizational challenges. The focus is always you and practical: learning, experimenting, improving product development, simplifying structures, and moving your organization closer toward true LeSS adoption.