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Leadership Coaching for High Performers: Find Your Certified PQ Coach

Stop self-sabotage to lead with greater clarity

Published January 22, 2026
by Positive Intelligence

Most leadership coaching focuses on external skills, often overlooking the internal obstacles that limit your progress.

These obstacles are your automatic mental patterns. Micromanaging because you’re afraid something will slip. Hesitating on decisions because you don’t have perfect information. Overcommitting because you want to prove your value. Saboteurs cause these patterns, and they’re costing you leadership impact.

The problem with Saboteurs is that you can’t see them clearly on your own. They operate in your blind spots. A Certified PQ® Coach can help you identify your specific Saboteurs and show you how to weaken them. They’ll also show you how to strengthen your Sage, which is your inner wisdom and greatest capacity for leadership.

Why High-Performing Leaders Work With PQ Coaches

Most leadership development focuses on skills. You might work on communication, relationship-building, and problem-solving. Those matter. But if your Saboteurs are driving your decisions, those skills won’t deliver the results you want.

PQ Coaching takes a different, science-based approach to leadership coaching. It works in tandem with the PQ Program. You address the automatic patterns that limit your effectiveness and rewire your brain to improve performance. A Certified PQ Coach helps you identify which Saboteurs are active in your specific leadership challenges. And they help you create a plan to weaken your Saboteurs while strengthening your Sage.

One leader described it this way: 

“The most valuable part was how the coach helped me become the leader of my own mind. Her coaching empowered me to respond rather than react, and to meet life’s challenges with clarity, calm, and courage.”

How PQ Coaching Transforms Your Leadership

When you work with a Certified PQ Coach, you get personalized guidance tailored to your unique challenges.

Maybe you’re navigating a major organizational change. Perhaps you’re building a new team. Or you might be stepping into a bigger role and need to lead differently than you did before.

Your coach helps you see how your Saboteurs show up in these situations. They create a plan to strengthen your mental fitness so you can lead with clarity instead of stress. Here’s what that looks like in practice:

See What’s in Your Blind Spots

Your Saboteurs hide in your blind spots, but a coach helps you see the patterns you can’t see yourself. One leader shared: “Our coach helped me see things I would have missed on my own. The open accessibility and willingness to personalize the concepts made the difference.”

Apply Mental Fitness to Real Challenges

A Certified PQ Coach helps you apply mental fitness to what’s happening right now. Maybe it’s a difficult conversation, a strategic decision, or a team conflict. You’ll learn to shift from Saboteur to Sage response in the moment.

One PQ Program participant shared: “The open accessibility my coach provided was critical. I was able to ask questions outside of our sessions, and my coach personalized Positive Intelligence® with real-life examples.”

Strengthen Your Emotional Intelligence

Positive Intelligence data shows that 88% of PQ Program participants work with a coach. And those who do report better outcomes across every measure. They feel more confident navigating problems, experience less overwhelm, and lead with greater clarity.

What the Data Shows About PQ Leadership Coaching

The data shows that people who work with a Certified PQ Coach see better results.

Participants rate their coaches 4.79 out of 5 for feeling heard, understood, and supported. They rate them 4.63 out of 5 for helping them make meaningful progress in their mental fitness journey. And 98.83% would recommend their coach to others.

One leader put it this way: “Because of our work together, I feel more aligned, more self-trusting, and more resourced to meet challenges with intention.”

Another shared: “Our coach was adept, trustworthy, and committed extra time to follow up if needed. She truly went above and beyond. Understanding how much weight Saboteurs place on your health was eye-opening.”

Certified PQ Coaches create space for you to see clearly and navigate challenges with less stress and greater impact. This accelerates your growth as a leader.

How to Find Your Certified PQ Coach

The PQ Coach Marketplace has hundreds of Certified PQ Coaches with diverse specialties. You can search by area of focus, like leadership coaching, change management, or team performance. You can filter by language, timezone, and training background.

Every coach has completed extensive training directly with Shirzad Chamine, the founder of Positive Intelligence. They’ve demonstrated their ability to incorporate mental fitness into their coaching practice.

Most coaches offer a free discovery call. This is your chance to share your Saboteur Assessment results. And you can explore how mental fitness accelerates your leadership impact.

Your First Step to Leadership Coaching With PQ

Are you ready to lead with greater clarity, strengthen your emotional intelligence, and remove the internal obstacles holding you back? Leadership coaching with a Certified PQ Coach can help.

Browse the PQ Coach Marketplace to find a coach who specializes in leadership development. Then, book your free discovery call to take the first step toward strengthening your mental fitness as a leader.

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