The Boon leadership development platform
Boon is a coaching platform for leadership development. It develops leaders at every level with live coaching from 300+ ICF-accredited coaches, and it measures behavior change on the company's own competencies, before and after. Grow, its manager development program, averages +23% competency improvement across six-month Grow programs. Boon is not a learning management system and does not host a course catalog. Many companies run it next to an LMS such as Cornerstone, Docebo, or LinkedIn Learning.
What kind of leadership development platform is Boon?
Leadership development software falls into three types. Learning platforms such as Cornerstone, Docebo, and LinkedIn Learning deliver courses and report completions. Performance suites such as Lattice track growth plans and competency matrices. Coaching platforms deliver the live practice that changes how leaders behave. Boon is a coaching platform.
For a side-by-side of vendors in all three types, see the leadership development software comparison.
How Boon develops leaders at each level
- Grow: a six-month program for new and rising managers. Twelve bi-weekly 1:1 sessions, group cohort sessions, three check-ins with each participant's manager, and before and after assessments on three to five competencies you choose.
- Exec: confidential coaching for senior leaders over four or six months, with coaches who have held senior roles themselves.
- Together: group coaching, team workshops, and leadership offsites, run by the same coach network as the 1:1 programs.
- Scale: 1:1 coaching open to every employee, with no cohort or end date.
- Adapt: 1:1 coaching for leaders and managers while their organization adopts AI.
All five programs share one coach network and one portal, so when a leader moves into a new role or a new program, their coaching history comes with them.
How Boon measures leadership development
Each Grow program is configured around three to five competencies your organization selects. Participants are assessed on them before and after the program, and coaches add observational data. Grow averages +23% competency improvement across six-month Grow programs.
HR and program admins see the results in a live portal: competency growth and the competencies that grew most, plus usage, NPS, coach satisfaction, wellbeing, and coaching themes for every program. Reports export as a PDF Coaching Impact Report. The portal never shows what is said in a session. Details: coaching reporting in the Boon portal. Published outcomes: Boon coaching results.
Using Boon with an LMS or performance management tool
- Cornerstone and Docebo host courses, succession plans, and skills data. Boon coaches the people those plans identify and reports whether their behavior changed.
- LinkedIn Learning and Coursera give every employee a course library. Boon is the coaching layer for the managers and leaders whose behavior matters most.
- Lattice stores growth plans and competency matrices. Grow cohorts can coach to the same competencies and measure them before and after.
Who coaches the leaders?
300+ ICF-accredited coaches with operating experience: former executives, functional leaders, and operators. Each leader is matched to a coach on role, industry, and the decisions they are facing. If the fit is wrong, Boon rematches right away. See how coach matching works.
Who uses Boon for leadership development?
110+ organizations from Series A to Fortune 500, including The Wonderful Company, 72andSunny, M3 Insurance, Teaching Lab, and Energage. Boon is rated 4.8 on G2 across 37 reviews. See customer case studies and the full Boon coaching platform overview.
Frequently asked questions
Is Boon leadership development software?
Boon is leadership development software built around live coaching. It runs five coaching programs on one coach network and one portal, and it reports competency growth measured before and after. It is not an LMS: it does not host courses, compliance training, or SCORM content.
How does Boon measure leadership development?
Grow participants take competency assessments before and after the program on three to five competencies the company chooses, such as feedback, delegation, communication, decision-making, and confidence. HR sees overall improvement and the competencies that grew most in a live portal. Grow averages +23% competency improvement across six-month Grow programs.
Can Boon work alongside our LMS or performance management tool?
Yes. An LMS such as Cornerstone, Docebo, or LinkedIn Learning delivers shared content and reports completions. Boon delivers the coaching where leaders practice that content on real work, and reports behavior change. Grow cohorts can coach to the same competencies a Lattice matrix or performance framework already defines.
Which leaders does Boon cover?
Every level: every employee through Scale, new and rising managers through Grow, senior leaders through Exec, intact teams through Together, and leaders guiding AI adoption through Adapt. One People team can run all of it on one platform.
How fast can a Boon leadership program launch?
Grow, Exec, Together, and Adapt programs launch within a week of signing. Admins add participants by CSV upload or one at a time, and Boon handles coach matching, scheduling, and reminders.
How is Boon priced?
By program. Scale is billed per completed session, with no per-seat fees. Grow is a flat fee per participant or per session, set by contract. Exec, Together, and Adapt are quoted per engagement.
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