LHH wins prestigious ICF coaching impact award
ICF’s 2023 award programme recognises the best of professional coaching organisations, individual coaches, and coaching educators, with AstraZeneca announced as the Distinguished Organisation winner.
LHH, a leading integrated talent solutions and global business unit of The Adecco Group, and EZRA, a leading virtual coaching provider powered by LHH, today announced that joint coaching client AstraZeneca has been named a winner of The International Coaching Federation (ICF)’s inaugural ICF Coaching Impact Awards. Recognised for excellence in the field of professional coaching, AstraZeneca has won the Distinguished Organisation award for demonstrating the positive impacts of coaching on its workforce with support from LHH and EZRA’s coaching-specific solutions.
Having partnered for the last three years to provide AstraZeneca with integrated coaching solutions, LHH and EZRA have helped the professional transformation of employees across the organisation. Combining LHH’s 55 years of leadership and innovation in the talent development sector with EZRA’s highly individualised and scalable coaching offerings, the solution providers were able to craft tailored programmes catering to AstraZeneca’s evolving talent needs while bolstering overall workforce confidence among employees.
“As the world of work continues to undergo rapid change, coaching has become an essential tool for both leaders and workers as they look to navigate new challenges and refresh their skills to remain as resilient and adaptable as possible to meet the current moment,” said Marie Shaw, LHH’s Global Strategic Solutions Partner. “We are incredibly proud of our work with AstraZeneca, particularly when it comes to the coaching culture we’ve helped build over the last few years, and view this award as a true testament to the transformational powers of coaching and leadership development overall.”
Leveraging EZRA’s programmes to provide individualised, one-on-one leadership coaching, AstraZeneca has successfully built a coaching model that takes specific organisational goals into account as well as the challenges of today’s fast-shifting landscape. This model of coaching delivery has resulted in success across EZRA’s client base enabling them to realise positive organisational change at scale that’s rooted in behavioural science.
“In times of uncertainty, workers are looking for leaders that not only see and treat them like individuals but also inspire confidence both in the short and long-term,” said Jennifer Fickeler, EZRA’s Head of Coaching Centre of Excellence. “Coaching can help managers respond to the current moment with compassion and agility, maintaining a positive relationship with their workforce and retaining valuable talent. We’re so proud of the measurable impact our team has had working with AstraZeneca and hope it inspires other organisations to make similar investments in their workforces going forward.”
For more information about ICF awards, visit coachingfederation.org/awards.