THREE ICF EXECUTIVE COACHING CERTIFICATIONS, A COHERENT PATHExecutive Coaching Certification
Exclusively for Senior Leaders
Claristrat executive coaching certifications reflect the ICF’s highest standards with the systemic and developmental depth required by today’s complex leadership environment.
Our programs train you to move past your own "best-of" nostalgia and advice-giving tendencies and surface the root causes bottlenecking presence, performance, and service.
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The Claristrat Method™ integrates multiple disciplines to develop senior leaders, C-suite executives, board members, and advisors into premium executive coaches.
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Three programs mirroring the ICF credential progression: ACC, PCC, ACTC. Each one structured to the latest ICF Core Competencies and ethical standards. The credential earned at every level is recognized globally.
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The method is already operating in your current role the moment you begin. You are not learning something to deploy later: you are developing now, in the room you are already in. That integration is supported by corporate and commercial foundations built into the program: frameworks, proposals, and portfolio optionality for those formalizing the new capability.
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Every cohort is admission-gated and intentionally capped at 6-8 learners (>1:4 faculty ratio). You will work alongside senior practitioners and C-suite members across industries - not a mixed audience. The developmental work stays peer-level throughout.
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Faculty who have run companies, advised boards, and held P&Ls. The program is taught by people who have lived the rooms Claristrat coaches operate in.
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Your own 90-minute Hogan Leadership Series psychometrics and custom debrief are built into the certification program, so you proactively map strengths and development areas. A key element to accelerate your learning experience and effectiveness.
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.
SCIENCE-BASED EXECUTIVE COACHING FOR EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENTThree fit-to-purpose levels.
For your professional journey.
Level 01 · ICF ACC PathCertified Professional Executive Coach
Claristrat Core Method™
The Internal System of the Leader.
FOCUS
Experience the power of coaching firsthand. Learn a proven method to develop your own leadership, move past cookie-cutter advice, and start coaching others effectively. Before you can guide a system, master yourself.
RIGHT FOR YOU
If you lead a team or advisory business and want to test the coaching path for fit, lead more effectively, and replace standard consulting with deep, impactful listening.
12 Weeks · ~8 hours weekly · 100+ hours
Level 02 · ICF PCC PathAdvanced Professional Executive Coach
Claristrat Advanced Method™
The Leader-System Organism.
FOCUS
Master a science-based, highly effective approach to individual and organizational transformation. Learn to seamlessly decode how leaders in complex systemic dynamics co-create enterprise-wide change.
RIGHT FOR YOU
You want to build a thriving, high-impact coaching or portfolio practice, and need a rigorous, evidence-based approach to work at depth with senior executives and teams.
20 Weeks · ~8 hours weekly · 150+ hours
Level 03 · ICF ACTC PathMaster Professional Executive Coach
Claristrat Master Method™
Multi-Stakeholder & Group Ecosystems.
FOCUS
Master advanced facilitation frameworks and live team-coaching methodologies. Address the high-stakes intersection where executive identities, group dynamics, and enterprise strategy catalyze to shape the system.
RIGHT FOR YOU
If you are ready to scale your impact from individual executives to leadership teams with complexity-ready, systemic approaches.
24 Weeks · Specialized Advanced Track.
THE CLARISTRAT METHOD FOR COMPLEX SYSTEMS COACHING™To learn by becoming,
Coaches need to go first.
The method rigorously structures scientific approaches for leadership development around the ICF Core Competencies.
It is built on complexity theory, systems thinking, adult development, depth psychology, and the latest neuroscience.
Senior leaders bring situations that cannot be solved with a best practice solution: the right one does not exist in advance. Most treat complexity as an issue. We teach it as a domain, with clear action steps.
COMPLEXITY YOU CAN WORK WITHSnowden’s Cynefin lineage
The patterns a senior leader operates from are usually what they cannot describe, because they are looking from them. Behavioral coaching cannot reach this layer. Depth psychology can.
DEPTH BENEATH BEHAVIORJungian lineage
Senior roles ask for the capacity to hold complexity, competing truths, and one's own contribution to the mess, all at once. Subject-object theory is the most useful account of how that capacity is built.
DEVELOPMENT, NOT TYPE-PROFILINGKegan lineage
Senior coaching happens under pressure, and the leader's nervous system is doing things they cannot narrate. A coach without nervous system literacy will coach the talk and miss the work.
THE BODY UNDER LOADPorges & Feldman-Barret lineages
UPCOMING COHORTS
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 →
FOR ORGANIZATIONSSponsoring a leader,
or building capacity?
Claristrat works with corporate organizations interested in establishing or expanding their internal coaching programs or capacity.
Our corporate clients also sponsor senior leaders through the certification, with L&D teams licensing the method internally, and CHRO organizations building governed coaching infrastructure across their leadership pipeline.
Our programs qualify for L&D budget allocation at most organizations, and we provide documentation to support a business case.
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
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TO THINK IT FURTHER
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONSScience-based
human leadership development
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Most senior leaders begin with the Professional Certificate in Systemic Coaching (the ACC path). It is the entry point to the Claristrat Method™ and the foundation every other level builds on. The Advanced Certificate (PCC) is for credentialed coaches (or those ready to commit to the longer haul) looking to work systemically with leaders and the organizations they lead through. The Master Certificate (MCC) is for seasoned systemic coaches operating at the executive frontier.
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The Core Method (ACC) program is 12 weeks. Both the Advanced (PCC) and Master (MCC) programs are 20 weeks each. All Claristrat programs are fully online (except when acceleration retreats are available) and run with capped cohort of a maximum of 8 learners each, from a bi-quarterly to yearly schedule.
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All Claristrat programs have been designed to meet their respective ICF level requirement through the portfolio path. Faculty supervision and full application documentation are included.
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ACC, PCC, and ACTC are three credential levels of the International Coach Federation. Each one represents a deeper standard of coaching practice (including documented hours), mentorship or supervision, and ethical discipline. The Claristrat path mirrors these levels and adds the systemic and developmental depth standard programs omit.
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No prior coaching experience is required for the Professional or Advanced Certification paths. Prior coaching experience is welcome and respected, and the method is taught from the foundation. Note that 20+ years of senior leadership experience are required for every Claristrat program.
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Several Claristrat coaches have had their certifications sponsored by their employer through L&D budget allocation. We provide documentation to support an internal business case. For team sponsorships and co-delivery arrangements, contact us for an overview of our Corporate Programs.
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The method is fully 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.