Certified Leadership Engagement & Impact Coach Course

Are you interested in coaching executives to gain competitive advantage without losing their humanity?

The Certified Leadership Engagement and Impact Coach Course from The Academies is designed to leverage human potential! In today’s business culture, organizations are stretched to “do more with less.” This mandate can produce pressure and stress, which is felt not only by the executive but up and down the ranks. The old-school “command-and-control” style of leadership—issue edicts, crack-the-whip, tighten controls—doesn’t work.

Accreditation

ICF Approval: This 33.5-hour course of Core Competency Training is approved by the International Coach Federation (ICF) as a part of The Academies’ Level 1 and Level 2 Programs.

Engagement, Inclusion, Innovation, and Impact

Drawing from critical trends in leadership, our advanced leadership program will equip you to coach leaders on:

  • Engagement: Cultivate employee engagement by understanding what the brain needs to feel connected and “be on-board”
  • Inclusion: Unearth cognitive biases in order to build inclusive cultures
  • Innovation: Create psychological safety that leads to greater creativity
  • Impact: Lead through uncertainty or crisis using conscious leadership techniques

We translate neuroscience research into practical coaching tools using the following Academies Models:

Over the 10-week course you will receive ICF core competency training and hands-on coaching experience. Our buddy coaching model provides an adaptable roadmap for your coaching conversations with leaders, giving you a framework and sequence to guide your coaching.

Course Details

why the academies

Neuroscience: We’ve been training coaches for 20+ years, and we’ve spent the better part of our last 10 years gobbling up the latest research on neuroscience. Translating neuroscience findings into easy-to-implement coaching techniques is our passion. When you marry coaching techniques with mind-body biology, you’ll have a holistic approach that supports the people you coach to make lasting change (they’ll thank you for it)!

Mission: We’re on a mission to blend neuroscience and coaching to “Change Minds, For Good” (starting with our own)! We believe respectful relationships and authentic conversations are the incubator for insight, action, and lasting change. We believe that every brain is wired for growth and capable of choosing well. We stand for growing our individual and collective capacity to feel good, think good, encounter good, and create good. If this resonates with you, you’re in the right place.

More on the brain: Our coaching programs are intentionally structured to extend over several months’ time. That’s because new skills cannot be mastered in a weekend format (have you ever come back to your office after being at a great conference, only to forget half of what you’ve learned or be too busy to implement the other half?) Nor can coaching be mastered entirely by embarking on self-directed study or reading books (much the same as taking a course on music appreciation does not equip one to play Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata).

To learn effectively, the brain needs good “P.R.”—Positivity and Routinization:

  • We make learning enjoyable (you’ll remember more),
  • We pride ourselves on creating psychologically safe learning environments (you’ll feel confident to take more risks), and
  • We create opportunities to practice coaching over time (you’ll build “muscle memory” that lasts).

Logistics and Registration

Pre-Enrollment Requirements

To enroll in this advanced program, you will need to meet one of the following qualifications:

  • The Academies CELDC Program
  • An ICF ACC Credential or above
  • Prior leadership training with focus on the ICF core competencies

Please contact us if you have experience not listed above that you believe prepares you for this course.

Pricing and Registration

One Payment  $3,997
Four Payments  4 payments of $1,039.25 = $4,157 total

Open Cohort Format: A group of 6-12* classmates. Register for this course.

*Please note that all of our cohorts require at least 6 participants to run. If enrollment is below 6 participants 2 weeks before the course is scheduled to begin, we may need to postpone or cancel the course. In this event, you will be contacted immediately, and your registration will automatically be moved to the next scheduled cohort.

Private Cohort: For pricing and registration details, please schedule a call with us here.

Note: Contact us here for more information and additional payment options if you are registering three or more participants.

We make every attempt to treat others with respectful, open-minded, and courteous service. We reserve the right to not accept and/or dis-enroll a student from programs should the student be creating an unsafe or hostile environment with instructors, internal team members, or The Academies’ community, such as, but not limited to: demanding communications, disrespectful encounters, or argumentative behavior.

Technology

We use Zoom technology for all of our classes.  We highly recommend that you have access to a laptop or computer in order to download files and to download the Zoom app and test it 48 hours prior to your first class.

The learning platform provides access to modules, forums, class recordings, coaching demo recordings, featured resources, and class announcements.

Time

We “meet” from the comfort of home/office via Zoom for 10 weeks, for 1.5 hours each time (15 live class hours); the remaining learning time is via mentor coaching and our online learning environment where you’ll interact with fellow classmates to deepen your learning (see “Outside of Class” paragraph below). Total credit hours approved by the ICF are 33.5.

Outside of Class: How much time will you spend in addition to class-time hours? Coaches have reported spending about one to two hours of time outside of class for buddy coaching and classroom tasks, and some report additional time implementing new coaching and marketing concepts learned in class (e.g., revising their website to include coaching services; writing value statements to articulate the return-on-investment that coaching clients receive; setting aside “think” time to envision the direction they’d like to take their business, etc.).

See our calendar or schedule a time with us here to discuss registration and upcoming classes.

If you wish to participate in 1-on-1 training, please reach out to coaching@theacademies.com for more information.

Certification Requirements

Attendance: Attend 9 of the 10 live class sessions

Virtual Classroom: At the conclusion of the course, participants will be required to finish online classroom tasks with an 85% completion rate or more.  If 85% completion is not met, the coach will be issued a Certificate of Completion for the course in place of the credential.

Buddy Coaching and Homework: Your classroom tasks will include one hour of buddy coaching on the even weeks of class along with short daily tasks or coaching recordings each odd week for a total of approximately one hour of tasks per week.  The hours that you are coaching can be used on your ICF client coaching log (2.5 hours).

Mentor Coaching: 2 group and 3 individual mentor coaching sessions with an Academies PCC-Certified coach are included in the price of the course.

  • All 5 mentor coaching sessions are mandatory.
  • Group sessions are locked into a schedule at the beginning of each course and typically take place the 2 weeks following live sessions at the same day and starting time as your course.
  • Missed sessions require an individual make up session for $350 each.

Upon completion of the above requirements, coaches will receive a display certificate suitable for framing and rights to use the course logos.

Withdrawal Policy

Should you need to withdraw, the following options are available:

Transfer Option: If you need to transfer to another cohort for scheduling purposes prior to the start of your originally scheduled course, a $350 administrative fee applies along with an additional charge equal to the difference in price if the program has increased in investment. If you need to transfer after the cohort has already begun, please see our withdrawal policy.

Withdrawal Option: Receive a full refund less a $350 administrative fee if withdrawing at least 48 hours before class begins. No refund available after class begins – the full amount of the program is owed.