This Is It.
The Year of The Coaching Habit Is Here.
This Is It.
Join me, Michael Bungay Stanier, on January 22 at 10am PT/1pm ET for a lively, slightly unruly, and relentlessly useful session to kick off your year the right way and launch a full year of celebrating The Coaching Habit together.
This event is where it all begins.
For a decade, The Coaching Habit has crossed desks, borders, and all kinds of unexpected thresholds, and it’s fair to say that it’s been more wildly successful than I could have ever dreamt.
So to celebrate ten years, we’re claiming 2026 as The Year of The Coaching Habit, and I hope you’ll join us.
We’ve got a two-part mission for the year: Make it Fun, Make it Useful. That all starts in this webinar.
Whether you know the book deeply or barely at all, this session has something for you. Here’s what we’ll be doing:
My Simple Planning Tool for 2026. Once you register for the webinar, we’ll email it to you. Fill it out and bring it with you on 1/22.
My biggest lesson after teaching and talking about The Coaching Habit for a decade. It’s an insight that goes beyond questions.
The Eighth Question! Yes, there are seven great questions in the book. I’ve got an eighth one for you. I think you’ll love it.
The Four Levels of Growth. Figure out where you are right now, and what it will take to move from that level to the next one, for you. (See what I did there?)
I’ll also be sharing the TCH Power Ups … I don’t want to give this away just yet, but suffice to say it’s a way for you to take whatever’s been helpful from TCH and all the other teaching you may have gotten from me, and go a little bit further and deeper.
An invitation for you…
The Less Intense Book Launch
We’re free of the usual burdens of a book launch. In 2026, we simply get to do what we think is fun and useful. We’re planning a year where you can deepen your own knowledge and expertise, and explore more fully what it means to tame your Advice Monster and stay curious a little longer; a year where you can connect with kindred spirits, other people committed to helping people be deeply seen, heard, and encouraged; and a year where you can help share what’s been most helpful for you about this work.
Why This Year Matters SO MUCH
If the last few years have taught us anything, it is this:
We need each other.
We need better conversations.
We need curiosity in the moments when we feel most defensive, most hurried, or most stuck.
The Coaching Habit has been helping with that for a decade. This year, we are taking it further. Deeper. More useful. More human. And more fun.
This kickoff gathering is where everything begins for you and for all of us together.
Save Your Spot & Get Your 2026 Simple Planner
Sign up here to join us. We’ll email you the planner and all the details.
January 22 at 10am PT/1pm ET (yes, there will be a recording).
Bring your 2026 planner. Bring a beverage. Bring a friend who is ready to start their year off right too.
A Few Words About Your Host
I am Michael Bungay Stanier, author of The Coaching Habit, the little book that somehow made its way around the world and into a million conversations.
My work has always circled the same question: How do we help each other show up as our best selves? Not perfectly. Not heroically. Just a little more bravely and generously each day.
This kickoff is part of celebrating ten years of that work and imagining what the next decade might look like.
It Starts With Showing Up
The Year of The Coaching Habit is a year of experiments, shenanigans, and good trouble, where we share tools, resources, and insights to support our two-part mission: Be Useful. Be Fun.
Come be part of it. I’d love to see you there!
Register for the Kickoff
