One Soul,

Many Roles

About Leon VanderPol

Founder. Leader.

Leon VanderPol is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Transformational Coaching — a global professional coach training institute.

Coach. Teacher. Mentor.

He is the creator of the Deep Coaching approach, author of A Shift in Being, and a pioneer in the field of transformational coaching and living.

Father. Son. Spouse.

A central part of his life will always be his family. He deeply values the love, connection, and mutual support of being in a family that grows and rises together.

Spiritual Partner

With decades of experience in personal and leadership development, Leon has devoted his life to helping people move beyond surface-level change into the depths of who they truly are.

Global Thought Leader

Through his signature coaching intensives, global workshops, retreats, and bestselling book, he has inspired people worldwide to access deeper presence, purpose, and personal power.

A Student of Life,
Living the Work.

As a lifelong student of life, Leon breathes the very work he teaches—walking the path of transformation with a commitment to ever-expanding awareness and authentic being.

We Rise Together

My work is expressed through two interrelated bodies—Deep Transformational Coaching and Evolutionary Leadership. While they appear distinct in form, the essence of the work is the same: what it means to live a spirit-infused life of whole, integrated selfhood.

For decades, I have been fascinated by the study of human consciousness, beginning with my early encounter with the work of Dr. David R. Hawkins and the Map of Consciousness. While his writings illuminated the progressive levels of consciousness, from shame to enlightenment, they left a big question unanswered for me:

How do we actually advance, day by day, into higher levels?

What does it truly take to progress, and even to accelerate that progression?

As I developed the Deep Coaching approach, the answer gradually revealed itself as a lived path that is spirit-based, heart-centered, and mind-being oriented. It is the way of transformation, which invites us into our deepest interior reality, and the way of the heart, which brings us into contact with the vast intelligence of Love and the human potential it awakens.

Whether I work with coaches or leaders, the intention is the same: to support transformative growth that deepens self-awareness and reshapes their sense of self, purpose, and place in the world. From this ground, people can stand as whole-self, sovereign individuals, in service of the upliftment of humanity wherever they find themselves, regardless of role or title.

I believe this work is more needed now than ever. We stand at the threshold of a shift in consciousness, one that calls for more light, love, presence, and unity. But this shift cannot be demanded of others. It begins and ends with ourselves.

You are the work.

If each of us is to lead, coach, teach, guide, or mentor in the times ahead, we must be in our own practice—growing beyond ego-patterns, healing our pain and shadow, and shifting at a core level of mind and being into the fuller expression of our higher nature.

Our potential is far greater and more magnificent than most of us have yet discovered.

This is the field I love to play in. And I invite you to join me so that we can rise together.

In Essence, Leon's Work is the Advancement of Human Consciousness

In this conversation, Leon shares his own transformational journey and the experiences that shaped his development of the Deep Coaching approach, evolutionary leadership, and his understanding of the vast potentials of awakened, spirit-infused living.

Join us on YouTube for conversations, stories of transformation, and teachings that offer a window into the heart of transformational work and the questions and people shaping it.

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Standing Naked in New York

Read my story of becoming known for what my life stands for.

This article reflects a turning point in my journey, one where I chose to be seen more fully and to stand openly for what my life and work point toward.

At times that felt like, well, standing buck naked in the middle of Times Square.

Read The Full Story

The Emerging Edge of Coaching:

Deep Transformational Coaching

Coaching that reveals the magnificence of our humanity.

Deep Coaching, as I practice and teach it, is a journey into the deeper dimensions of our being — one that taps into our higher nature, revealing more of our true Self and opening us to new paradigms of possibility born of an awakened mind and heart.

As I developed this work in the years leading up to the launch of the Deep Coaching Intensive (DCI) in 2013, it became clear through my own journey and work with others that conventional coaching approaches fall short when the call is for transformation rather than optimization.

They do not reach the core level of mind where fundamental change takes place, nor do they heal the pain and emotional bonds that weigh us down and limit our flourishing.

It is this form of coaching—one rooted in whole-self, heart-centered intelligence—that the world is needing now more than ever.

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Discover the Power of Deep Coaching—Live

Join myself and Cate Baio each month for an immersive live experience.

Deep Coaching Live is an opportunity to witness this work in real time, to see how presence, gentle inquiry, and deep listening support people in stepping into new paradigms of possibility.