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Become a career coach

Train to coach properly — with supervised practice, not a weekend certificate

Coaching is a learnable craft. Our cohorts are small, practice starts in the first fortnight, and the program is honest about the market, the money and the time it really takes.

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Live cohorts of 8–12Practice from week onePublished assessment rubric

Who trains with us

People who already help others think, and want to do it properly

Most participants arrive with a decade or more of real experience and a growing sense that formal coaching skill would change how they work.

  • Experienced professionals at a crossroads

    Fifteen years of judgment and hard-won insight, looking for work that uses it directly and travels with them.

    “I am good at helping people think, and I want to do more of it.”

  • HR, L&D and people professionals

    People who already run development conversations and want formal coaching skill rather than improvised advice-giving.

    “I coach all day without the training or the boundaries.”

  • Managers and team leads

    Leaders who want to develop people through questions instead of instructions, without becoming their therapist.

    “My team brings me problems and I solve them all myself.”

  • Coaches who want depth

    Practicing coaches with clients, looking for supervision, harder caseloads and a structured way to keep improving.

    “My sessions work until they do not, and I have no one to review them with.”

  • Consultants, trainers and mentors

    Advisors whose clients keep asking for thinking partnership rather than expertise, and who want to deliver it properly.

    “My clients want me to coach, but my habits are all advice.”

  • Career services and education staff

    University careers advisors, bootcamp instructors and outplacement professionals formalizing what they already do informally.

    “I give career advice all day and want to do it at a professional standard.”

The craft

What you will actually learn to do

Six capabilities, each practiced in a live session and reviewed against a published standard.
  • Listening for the real issueHearing what a client means rather than what they opened with — and knowing the difference before you respond.
  • Questioning that creates movementQuestions that open thinking and produce commitment, instead of interrogations that produce politeness.
  • Structure without rigidityA session shape you can trust when the conversation goes sideways, and the judgment to abandon it when it should be abandoned.
  • Contracting and ethicsClear agreements, honest boundaries, and confidence about what is out of scope and when to refer.
  • Working with emotionCareers involve fear and identity. You will learn to name what is in the room without losing the thread of the work.
  • Building a practiceNiche, offer, pricing, acquisition and the practical economics of the first honest year.
A facilitator standing beside a glass whiteboard of diagrams and notes, addressing a small seated group of adult learners.

The honest version

“You just need a certification and clients appear.”
Certification opens the door. Clients come from conversations, referrals and a clear offer that people can explain to someone else.
“Weekend courses are enough.”
Trained practitioners practice for months under supervision. That is what makes the difference between a helpful conversation and professional coaching.
“You need to be an extrovert or a natural.”
Coaching is a learned craft with learnable components: listening, questioning, structuring, contracting. Quiet practitioners do this work extremely well.

The programs

Three programs, one pathway

Start with the craft. Add depth through supervised practice. Build the practice when you are ready to sell it.
Starting point

Career Coaching Foundations Certification

Learn the craft properly, with supervised practice from the first month.

Duration
10 weeks, one live session per week
Cohort
Maximum 12 participants
Tuition from
$2,450
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For practicing coaches

Advanced Coaching Practicum

For coaches who can run a session and want to work with harder material.

Duration
12 weeks, one live supervision session per week
Cohort
Maximum 8 participants
Tuition from
$3,200
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Building the business

Coach Practice Launch

Turn coaching skill into a practice that pays — without the hustle theatre.

Duration
8 weeks, one live workshop per week plus weekly accountability
Cohort
Maximum 10 participants
Tuition from
$1,650
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Common pathways

Foundations → Advanced

Train the craft, then deepen it with supervised practice on harder client work.

  1. Foundations Certification
  2. Advanced Coaching Practicum

Foundations → Practice Launch

Train the craft, then build the business around it with a 90-day acquisition plan.

  1. Foundations Certification
  2. Coach Practice Launch

The full pathway

For people building coaching into a second career: craft, depth and business in one sequence.

  1. Foundations Certification
  2. Advanced Coaching Practicum
  3. Coach Practice Launch
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How we teach

Four commitments that shape every cohort

Small cohorts, always

Twelve participants maximum in Foundations, eight in the Practicum. Practice time is the product; large groups make it impossible.

Practice from week one

You will coach a real person in your first fortnight, not in month three. Feedback comes from a facilitator, not just from peers.

Assessment you can see

Every recorded session is reviewed against a published rubric, so you know exactly what “good” looks like and where you stand.

Honest about the business

Where the money comes from, what it costs, how long it takes. Includes the parts most programs leave out.

Participants

What changes for people who train here

Client stories shown on this site are illustrative examples pending publication of verified, permissioned testimonials.

  • “I arrived with a spreadsheet of forty possible careers and left with three experiments to run. Six weeks later I knew which one was real. The structure is what did it — not encouragement.”
    Sample client storyOperations manager moving into productCareer clarity program
  • “I had been applying for nine months with nothing to show. We rewrote how I described my work, and within a month I was having conversations rather than sending applications into a void.”
    Sample client storySenior analyst returning to work after a breakSearch and positioning program
  • “The rehearsal sessions were uncomfortable and completely worth it. I stopped rambling, told the truth about what I had achieved, and negotiated a package I would have accepted a third less of before.”
    Sample client storyProgram manager, internal promotionInterview and offer preparation
  • “As an HR lead I coached every week without any real training. Foundations gave me a framework, boundaries and feedback on recordings of my own sessions. It changed how I work with people.”
    Sample participant storyHR business partnerFoundations Certification

Decisions actually get made

The most common result is not a new job in week two — it is a decision made with evidence instead of another six months of considering.

Language that lands

Clients consistently report that they can finally explain their value in one sentence that other people repeat back to them.

A search that behaves differently

Moving from cold applications to warm conversations changes response rates more than any document edit alone.

Practitioners who keep improving

Training participants continue supervised practice after the cohort, because the habit is what sustains a coaching career.

Questions

Training questions, answered plainly

Becoming a career coach

Training format, prerequisites and what happens after you qualify.

Do I need a coaching qualification to join the Foundations program?
No. Foundations assumes no prior coaching training. Advanced Coaching Practicum and Practice Launch do assume a foundation level of training or equivalent experience, which we review on your call.
How long does it take to become a career coach?
Realistically, three to twelve months to be properly trained with supervised practice, and six to eighteen months to build a practice with paying clients. Anyone selling a weekend certification as a complete path is overselling.
Is the certification recognized by a professional body?
Our programs certify completion of our own structured training, including documented supervised practice hours. They are not accredited by an external professional body. We will tell you plainly which external credentials are worth having for your specific goals, what they require and what they cost — including when the answer is “not yet”.
Can my employer pay for the training?
Yes. We invoice organizations directly, accept purchase orders, and provide a completion report for the sponsor. There is a private-cohort option for teams of four or more.
What if I complete the training and decide coaching is not for me?
That is a legitimate outcome and not a failure. We build an honest business session into every pathway, and several participants discover that internal coaching within their existing role is the better fit. Either result is a good use of the training.

Also worth knowing

  • Our certification is our own — we will tell you which external credentials matter for your goals and what they require
  • Employers can be invoiced directly, with purchase orders accepted
  • Participants who decide coaching is not for them get that answer honestly, not a refund argument

Next step

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Compare the three programs, the tuition tiers and the cohort dates — then apply when you are ready. We confirm the fit before anything is charged.

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Client stories shown on this site are illustrative examples pending publication of verified, permissioned testimonials.