This article presents "Be a coach instead of a judge" pedagogy that has resulted in significant improvement in college student learning/performance, highly favorable student comments and better teaching evaluations. This pedagogy inspires students to learn by embracing empathy, enthusiasm, positivity and trust along with other learning strategies into all facets of student learning and assessments. The pedagogy is grouped into four aspects: (1) student-teacher relations which are the most important foundations of student learning, (2) course contents and organization involving customized and comprehensive class notes that include practice exercises/problems, ethics, pandemic impact, and diversity, equity and inclusion issues, (3) course delivery and student engagement that involve the class to work together and encourage students to overcome their fear of making mistakes, and (4) assignments and assessments that are frequent, online, open-book, with multiple attempts and positive feedback from an instructor. This pedagogy is applicable to any disciplines at any levels, in-person or virtual, for coaching and motivating students to march as mightily as they can on an exciting journey of learning.