Request Professional Development Funding
A tool to help you ask your company to cover coaching — pick your situation, and I'll write the email for you.
Not sure which one fits? Take the 2-minute quiz first →
Who to send this to
- 1.Start with your direct manager — even if they're not the budget-holder, they usually need to approve or endorse the request first.
- 2.If your company has a formal PD/L&D budget, your manager can loop in HR or L&D — or cc them directly if you already know who owns that budget.
- 3.No formal process? Ask anyway. Many companies have unused PD funds with no set process — the ask itself often prompts one.
Step 1: Learn to translate this for your workplace
As your first step in learning the unwritten rules, here's how to translate what you're working on into language your organization will actually respond to. On the left is what your quiz diagnosed. Next to it is how to frame it for leadership, what it builds, and what it costs. Notice the shift — from personal experience to organizational impact. That shift is itself an unwritten rule: knowing how to speak in the language of the room you're in, without changing what's actually true.
Step 3 — Your email
Pick an option above and I'll fill in the email for you.