EXECUTIVE COACH CERTIFICATION FOR SENIOR LEADERS
Move past the advice trap.
Coach the system from the inside out.
Claristrat’s Executive Coaching certification program is designed exclusively for senior executives, board members, and high-tier advisors ready to shift from giving answers to building other’s leadership capacity.
This program helps you master your own complexity as the baseline for holding it credibly for others.
- Complexity & systems thinking
- Applied adult development
- Neuroscience
- Depth psychology
WHAT MAKES THIS PROGRAM DIFFERENTMost executive coaching certification programs
Miss the root causes of stalled goals
The Method develops the capability to read a leader and their context systemically. Decode conflicting motivations, relationship patterns, and organizational mismatches to expose the root causes hiding beneath surface issues.
READ COMPLEXITY SYSTEMICALLYGravitas can’t be scripted. When leadership goals stall, the bottleneck is maturity, not skillset. We leverage adult development and depth psychology to unlock true executive weight.
APPLY ADULT DEVELOPMENT FOR GRAVITASClaristrat faculty has run the rooms you will be coaching into: C-suites, boards, and high-growth organizations. They bring the lived, real-world depth required to command peer-level trust.
FOR LEADERS BY SENIOR LEADERS What you’ll
leave with
Before anything else, you leave having been through the developmental process you will be able to enable for others.
ICF ACC Credential Support
Full documentation, portfolio guidance, and faculty support for your ACC application submission.
Commercial Practice Foundations
Proposal templates, contracting frameworks, and market positioning. Ready to deploy from day one.
The Claristrat Core Method™
A structured, replicable system for adult development: the ICF-aligned operating framework for every session you’ll run.
Hogan® Psychometrics + Debrief
A 90-minute personal Hogan debrief. The instrument at the core of corporate leadership assessments worldwide.
Peer-Level Network
A lasting cohort of senior executives and practitioners who become thought partners and referral sources.
Path to PCC Positioning
ACC alumni receive priority access for the Advanced Certificate and further practice development.
Who the program is for
A senior leader with 20+ years of operating experience
An executive, consultant, advisor, or board member
A coach seeking the rigor of a systemic depth approach
A practitioner seeking to achieve your ICF credential
Right for you if you are
Earlier in your career
Seeking foundational management training
Looking for coaching outside the executive context
Unable to commit to the program’s rigor
Not the right fit if you are
Program structure
Advanced training that respects executive reality. A highly flexible, cohort-driven structure designed to adapt to your schedule.
Two live sessions weekly
90 minutes each, scheduled across Americas and Europe time zones. Recorded in case you cannot attend live.
Coaching practice with feedback
Over a dozen peer coaching opportunities, five of each with formal written feedback on official ICF competency markers.
Mentor coaching, group and 1:1
Seven group mentor coaching sessions plus three individual ones with ICF certified mentor coaches. All senior leaders like you.
1:1 executive coaching cycle
Four 60 min individual sessions with a seasoned executive coach. Your confidential space and time to further development.
Asynchronous learning at your pace
40+ hours of original material including primers, frameworks, and reflection prompts on the award winning Thinkific® platform.
Optional add on sessions
From a Hogan certification to webinars, peer and pro-bono coaching sessions, you can expand the experience to fit your goals.
TESTIMONIALS“I can't begin to express how valuable this development was. I wish I had done this as a younger leader.
“Even if you don't want to be a coach, if you manage people, lead organizations, boards or teams, these skills are invaluable.”
— Arthur Fleischmann, Former Group CEO, john st. & Ogilvy Canada. Country Lead, WPP Canada
“The program was incredible and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to advance their coaching skills.
“Fabiana is an outstanding leader and coach.”
— Esther Benzie, CEO, Canadian Marketing Association · Brand and Advertiser Executive · Board Director
“I've done MBAs and executive development. Nothing came close to this level of personalization.
“Fabiana honed in on my specific challenges with refreshing honesty. I left every session with come-to-Jesus moments and a clear path forward..”
— Joey Jollymore, Senior Partner and SAP Service Lead, Americas, EPI-USE Labs · Former General Manager, IT Retail, JD Irving
GLOBAL CLIENT PARTNERS
JOIN AN UPCOMING COHORT
Claristrat Method™ · Level 1 · ICF ACC Path
This program is designed for senior leaders who have achieved at the highest level and want to develop others with the same rigor that got them there — in their current role or as the foundation for a credentialed practice.
What’s included (see further details on the program page)
105+ hours of coaching education, including 50+ hours live and 55+ hours self-paced
7 group + 3 individual mentor coaching sessions · 60 min each
4 individual executive coaching sessions · 60 min each
Hogan Leadership Series · 90-minute personal debrief
ICF ACC credential documentation and portfolio guidance
Claristrat Core Method™ program access and licensed practitioner use
Peer cohort · maximum 8 C- and SVP-level leaders
Next steps
After payment you will receive a confirmation email and a link to schedule your alignment conversation. Applicants who do not meet entry criteria receive a full refund within 5 business days.
Questions before enrolling? Schedule a conversation →
Claristrat Advanced Method™ · Level 2 · ICF PCC Path
This program is designed for senior leaders who have achieved at the highest level and want to develop others with the same rigor that got them there, in their current role or as the foundation for a credentialed practice.
What’s included (see further details on the program page)
125+h of coaching education, including 70+h of live teaching and practice
7 group + 3 individual mentor coaching sessions · 60 min each
4 individual executive coaching sessions · 60 min each
Hogan Leadership Series · 90-minute personal debrief
ICF PCC credential documentation and portfolio guidance
Claristrat Advanced Method™ program access and licensed practitioner use
Peer cohort · maximum 8 C- and SVP-level leaders
Next steps
After payment you will receive a confirmation email and a link to schedule your alignment conversation.
Questions before enrolling? Schedule a conversation →
TRY THE METHOD FIRST
Next Chapter Leadership Bootcamp
This program is designed for senior leaders who have achieved at the highest level and want to design their next steps with the same rigor that got them there: as the foundation for an intentional leadership posture and journey.
What’s included (see further details on the program page)
6 weeks of duration
6 live group sessions · 90-120 min each
Hogan Leadership Series profiling and personalized reporting (1,000 USD value)
Next Chapter Leadership Map containing
Leadership Profile and Statement: your capabilities, motivations and next chapter goals
Systemic Field Map: overview of your dynamic leadership field and levers, focused on next chapter goals
Pattern Reframes: recurring leadership loops which kept you from full potentiality, and respective de-triggers
North Start and Pathfinding Guide: vision, principles, and next steps to your next leadership chapter
Mobilization Narrative: your transition pitch and storytelling tools, fit-to-purpose to your audience (and yourself)
Peer cohort · maximum 20 experienced people leaders
Next steps
After payment you will receive a confirmation email and a link to perform your Hogan leadership series profiling.
Questions before enrolling? Schedule a conversation →
EXECUTIVE COACHING PROGRAM CURRICULUM6 Rigorous modules shape
3 Developmental arcs
These three arcs structure every coaching engagement to create a time and space for transformation. You live them first.
ARC I — INTENTIONAL AWARENESS · WEEKS 1–41. Foundations of Professional Coaching
The ethical and structural backbone of coaching practice: clarity of agreements, psychological safety, disciplined presence, and session architecture aligned with ICF’s latest competency set.
2. Expanding Awareness
Listening beyond content to emotion, pattern, assumption, tempo, and bias. Developing interpretive discipline without defaulting into boxed judging.
ARC II — DYNAMIC MEANING · WEEKS 5–83. Systemic Meaning-Making
Identifying loops, leverage points, and self-fulfilling narratives across emotional, relational, and organizational layers. Seeing beyond symptoms.
4. Directional Coherence
Facilitating semantic reframing and clarifying a client's North Star as embodied orientation. Visioning that is disciplined, ethical, and systemically grounded.
ARC III — ITERATIVE TRANSFORMATION · WEEKS 9–125. Operational Pathfinding
Detecting coherence gaps between aspirational values and operative behaviors. Designing iterative forward movement that holds under real-world pressure.
6. Organizational Application
Multi-stakeholder contracting, ethical assessment integration and practice foundations: proposals, positioning, and development planning.
The ICF competencies tell you what good coaching looks like. The Method teaches how you can achieve it every time, while guiding senior leaders towards durable solutions which behavioral approaches miss.
HOW TO APPLYFour steps to
Your executive coach certification
1. Apply to a cohort
At the cohorts page, pick your dates and fill up the checkout form with the required application information. Your seat will be held throughout the acceptance process.
3. Get accepted
We’ll book a 30-minute conversation to discuss your goals for the program. If cohort placement is not optimal, your payment is refunded in full.
2. Map your personal path
You will complete the Hogan Series and have a dedicated session with faculty to explore how your go-to leadership behaviors, values, and motivations map to your coaching pathway and goals. With a plan to ensure the program addresses your core strengths and edges.
4. Begin the work
Regardless of when your cohort starts, you’ll get fast-tracked access to the asynchronous lessons and program materials so you cover those at your pace. You’ll also receive calendar invitations for the upcoming live sessions.
Not ready to choose?
Speak with us.
TO THINK IT FURTHER
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONSDevelopment
starts with trust
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Yes. The ACC is the entry credential of the International Coach Federation, the credentialing body recognized across Fortune 500 talent functions, university executive education, and the major corporate coaching procurement frameworks. What matters for senior practice is the combination of credential plus methodology plus the operating credibility of the coach.
The ACC opens the procurement door. The effectiveness of the Claristrat Method™ and the credibility of your senior background close the deal. Many of our students are bringing added coaching capability into rooms where they already have authority. The credential is the formal proof. The work itself is what gets recognized.
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The program is structured to prepare you to take on senior-level coaching engagements: executive transitions, leadership team development, advisory and board-level conversations.
The combination of the ACC credential, the Claristrat Core Method™, and your existing senior background is designed to support coaching fees in the senior practitioner range.
Graduates also receive the commercial practice foundations — proposals, contracting frameworks, market positioning — needed to set up paid engagements from day one.
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Most ICF-accredited programs, including those at prestigious Ivy-league universities, teach the performance of ICF core competencies and a generic GROW-like coaching arc, then leave the substantive work to the coach's own intuition. This certifies coaches who don’t know how to read a leader systemically, how to catalyze their maturity to the required level, nor how to tackle contradictory motivations without superficiality or moralizing.
Claristrat, on the other hand, has been designed to teach an evidence-based operating system for this substantive developmental work. It is a coherent integration of adult development theory, depth psychology, complexity theory, systems thinking, neuroscience, the ICF Core Competencies and Code of Ethics, conceived for the consequential work senior leaders actually need.
The competencies tell you what good coaching looks like. The Method is how you actually make them work every session.
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The method is structured around the latest ICF Core Competencies published in 2025. Every asynchronous and live session in the program aligns to the specific competency markers the ICF will measure your coaching expertise upon. Graduates leave with the documented evidence required for their desired ICF application.
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By design, to ensure maximum trust and pedagogical effectiveness for executive coaching, only other senior leaders and experienced practitioners. Six to eight participants per cohort, admission-gated through a 30-minute strategy session for optimal cohort placement.
We do not run open-enrollment cohorts and do not mix participation levels. If you are admitted, the people sitting next to you in the live sessions will be operating at or near your level. This is one of the structural decisions that allows the program to succeed in its unique experiential peer development category.
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Yes. Several Claristrat coaches have had their certifications sponsored by their employer through L&D allowance or budget allocation.
The skillsets you will gain through the program can be fully mapped to your organization’s L&D strategy for your role and correspond cleanly to several competencies in the Korn Ferry Leadership Architect framework. We can gladly provide documentation to support an internal business case as needed.
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The programs are fully online and there are no required in-person components unless otherwise stated. Each cohort meets via live video twice per week and uses the Thinkific® platform for asynchronous learning.
This is deliberate: the program is designed to integrate with the operating reality of a senior leader. For those interested in the experience of travelling and face-to-face exchanges, optional residential intensives are available as accelerators from time to time to graduates and upcoming learners.
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No prior coaching experience is required. Senior leadership experience is. The Method is taught from foundations and assumes no prior coaching credential.
Existing coaches are welcome and the Method scales to their experience. Note that 20+ years of senior leadership experience are required for every Claristrat program.