Coaching Skills for Medical Professionals (CSMP)
We’ve been developing something quietly and carefully over the past year.
The Centre for Coaching’s Academic Director, Janine Ahlers BA, PDM(HR), LRSM, MBA, and Master Certified Coach (MCC), in partnership with Professor Cathryn Edwards OBE MA D.Phil FRCP designed a coaching-based programme specifically for doctors working in high-pressure clinical environments.
Following a successful pilot with doctors from across the UK and South Africa, we are now opening the next cohort of the Coaching Skills for Medical Professionals (CSMP) course.
The CSMP programme starts in September 2026 and runs as a 6-week online course. The programme is a skills-based, experiential learning space developed specifically for medical doctors, responding to a recognised gap, not in clinical knowledge, but in how doctors lead, communicate, and make sense of complexity in practice.
The series is particularly relevant for doctors navigating high-pressure environments, difficult conversations, emotional and cognitive load, and the growing need for leadership presence in healthcare.
If this sounds relevant for you or a colleague in healthcare, get in touch to find out more.
Corporate offerings:
Group and Team Coaching: Leadership support that scales beyond the individual.
When organisations are under pressure, it is rarely only an individual issue. Teams need alignment, trust, healthy challenges, and stronger ways of working together.
We offer customised solutions that help organisations scale leadership growth collectively, through bespoke team coaching and high-impact group coaching.
These offerings are designed to support team alignment, psychological safety, high-performance collaboration, cross-functional insight, and collective problem-solving, with tailored Leadership Conversations that can be shaped around an organisation’s specific needs.
Let’s explore how coaching could support stronger dialogue, trust, and collective leadership in your teams.
One-on-One Coaching: If you’re leading others, who’s supporting you?
Behind capable leadership, there is often an enormous amount being carried, including decisions, pressure, responsibility, and care for others. But leaders need spaces of support too.
Our one-on-one coaching offers a confidential partnership in which leaders can reflect, regain perspective, work through complexity, and develop in ways that are both practical and deeply sustainable. Whether the focus is situational or developmental, coaching creates room for clearer thinking and wiser action.
Leaders spend so much time pouring into everyone else. We are here to hold that space for you. A safe space where you can land, and receive the support you deserve, helping you not just manage your role, but truly flourish within it.
Why Learn with the Centre for Coaching
All our programmes are registered University of Cape Town (UCT) short courses, delivered live online. Participants receive a UCT certificate on completion and remain part of a learning community committed to depth, ethics, and human development.
Whether you are leading people, developing talent, or feeling called to support others more intentionally, coaching capability is no longer optional, it is essential.
Explore what’s possible when leadership becomes a conversation.