The CARE Coaching Model™
10 October 2025
The CARE Coaching Model is a values-led framework for compassionate, sustainable leadership - developed by Will Clement and used exclusively by Clement Leadership Development.
CARE Coaching Model framework
The CARE Coaching Model: A Compassion-Led Leadership Framework
The CARE Coaching Model is a values-led, compassion-centred framework for leadership, coaching, and personal development. It is designed to help individuals, teams, and organisations grow through deeper awareness, meaningful action, and sustainable change.
Unlike performance-only models, CARE places human connection, emotional intelligence, and reflective practice at the heart of leadership. It supports people to move from challenge and uncertainty toward clarity, confidence, and purpose — while remaining grounded in empathy and accountability.
The CARE model is widely used in:
- Leadership development programmes
- Executive and team coaching
- Organisational change and culture transformation
- Personal growth and wellbeing coaching
It offers a structured yet flexible approach that works across sectors, roles, and levels of leadership.
What does CARE Stand for?
The CARE Coaching Model is built around four interconnected pillars:
Compassion
Creating a safe, respectful coaching relationship rooted in empathy, trust, and psychological safety. Compassion allows honest reflection and meaningful growth.
Attune
Developing deep awareness — of self, others, and the wider system. Attunement supports clarity, emotional intelligence, and values-based decision making.
Enact
Turning insight into action. This stage focuses on purposeful steps, accountability, and aligned leadership behaviours.
Restore
Embedding learning, resilience, and sustainability. Restore ensures that change is integrated, balanced, and long-lasting.
Together, these four stages create a continuous cycle of reflection, action, and renewal.
How the CARE Coaching Model supports leadership
The CARE framework helps leaders:
- Build self-awareness and emotional intelligence
- Lead with compassion and integrity
- Strengthen communication and trust
- Navigate change with confidence
- Create healthy, values-driven workplace cultures
Because it is human-centred and adaptable, CARE works in both one-to-one coaching and group or organisational settings.
A values-led approach to sustainable change
At its core, the CARE Coaching Model is about creating change that lasts — not through pressure or control, but through understanding, connection, and purposeful action.
By combining compassion with structure, CARE offers a powerful alternative to traditional performance-driven leadership models. It supports people to lead with clarity, courage, and care - for themselves, for others, and for the systems they are part of.
The origins of the Model
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Discover the origins of the CARE Coaching Model and how Clement Leadership Development developed a values-led, compassionate leadership approach grounded in presence and performance
The four pillars of care
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Explore the four pillars of the CARE Coaching Model - Compassion, Attune, Restore, Enact - and see how they underpin values-led leadership and sustainable coaching practice.
Who the CARE Coaching Model is for
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Learn who the CARE Coaching Model is designed for - leaders, coaches, and values-led organisations - and explore how it serves health, education, social impact and more.
Why you would want CARE Coaching
10 October 2025
Discover why you would want CARE Coaching - combining compassion, attunement, restoration and action - to unlock leader resilience, clarity, performance and lasting impact.
How the CARE Coaching Model works in practice
10 October 2025
Explore how the CARE Coaching Model works in practice - combining internal reflection and external action to create compassionate, effective leadership and lasting change.
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