Online executive coaching certification

Turn decades of leadership into your next chapter.

Claristrat offers ICF-accredited executive coach training built for senior leaders and C-suite operators. Become a coach other executives can trust.

ICF-Accredited Education Provider

ICF Level 1 Accredited Coaching EducationICF Professional Coaches member

The executive-to-coach shift

Your best instinct is now your limit.

Having the answers built your career. In coaching, nobody changes by being told.

As an executive

DiagnoseDecideDirect

As a coach

ListenReframeFacilitate

Founder and lead faculty

Built from inside leadership.

As a Deloitte Partner and Accenture Market Lead, Fabiana directed over $200 million in enterprise transformation across finance, healthcare, technology, and the public sector.

Claristrat is the method she built from this experience, an evidence-based approach powered by complexity science, adult development, depth psychology, and neuroscience.

Fabiana Pereira Hotz

ICF Professional Certified Coach
250+Leaders coached and mentored
2,000Coaching hours
Meet the faculty

The Claristrat Method™

Insight isn't the constraint. Capacity is.

Our approach reads the leader and their context as a single field to decode hidden patterns and translate insight into movement.

Intentional Awareness

See the whole field.

Trust comes first. Then coach and leader read the inner patterns, pressures, people, and system shaping the moment.

Trust FoundationSelf-KnowledgeSituational Analysis
CLARIPATH™Adaptive
Leadership
LEADER + SYSTEM
Trust FoundationSelf-KnowledgeSituational Analysis
THE FIELD COMES INTO VIEW

From foundations to practice

Four lineages. One integrated method. Built to develop all eight ICF Core Competencies.

Each lineage does a different job. Together, they form the Method. Its architecture develops the capacities and behaviors the ICF competencies require.

What the Method draws on

Four distinct traditions, held as one.

Complexity Theory

Reads the leader and the system around them as one complex field.

Adult Development

Reads the meaning-making structure a leader works from and what they can hold under load.

Depth Psychology

Surfaces the interior dynamics that shape what a leader can perceive.

Neuroscience

Works with regulation and embodied learning so development can hold under pressure.

Where the lineages converge

The Claristrat Method

The lineages are not separate approaches. Their integration shapes how the coach reads the leader, the organization, and what is moving between them.

ICF-aligned by design
How the Method develops each competency
  1. Demonstrates Ethical Practice

    Builds clear scope, ethical boundaries, and referral points into the work.

  2. Embodies a Coaching Mindset

    Develops the curiosity, self-awareness, and openness required to work without imposing meaning.

  3. Establishes and Maintains Agreements

    Makes contracting explicit and revisits agreements as the work develops.

  4. Cultivates Trust and Safety

    Builds trust through clear agreements, regulation, and sustained attunement.

  5. Maintains Presence

    Trains the coach to stay grounded with emotion, complexity, and not-knowing.

  6. Listens Actively

    Extends listening beyond narrative to shifts in energy, posture, and tone.

  7. Evokes Awareness

    Surfaces working assumptions and turns them until a different reading becomes possible.

  8. Facilitates Client Growth

    Carries insight into client-authored direction, coherent action, and sustained growth.

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How it works

Become a better leader or build a new practice.

Both pathways start with the same twelve weeks. They differ in length, in what you learn after week twelve, and the coaching hours you will need to log for the ICF.

The Format

  • Live and onlineAttend from anywhere.

  • Twice weeklyStructured for busy schedules.

  • Self-paced materialVideo, audio and reading between sessions.

The Cohort

  • 6–8 leaders per groupExecutives, board members and advisors.

  • Exclusive by designWe hold the cap even if it costs a seat.

  • Real practiceYou coach the leaders beside you.

The Claristrat Method

  • Root-cause focusCoaches underlying patterns.

  • Evidence-basedBuilt on research that predicts adult change.

  • Fully practicalApply it in your next conversation.

How the ICF works

What alumni say

Clearer judgment.

Graduates leave able to read the person, the system, and the next move with depth and clarity.

I wish I had done this as a younger leader.

I can’t begin to express how valuable this development was. 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
Arthur Fleischmann

Former Group CEO, john st. & Ogilvy Canada

Country Lead, WPP Canada · CEO, Sense.Maker

LinkedIn profile

A rigorous experience that completely shifted my perspective.

Beyond the clear leadership and business skill improvement, this program will change how you relate and see yourself, for the better, in your career as well as your personal life.

Debbie Carkner
Debbie Carkner

Former Managing Director, Accenture

Entrepreneur and Advisor

LinkedIn profile

The hands-on mentorship really leveled up my expertise.

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
Esther Benzie

CEO, Canadian Marketing Association

Brand and Advertiser Executive · Board Director

LinkedIn profile
Meet the Alumni

ICF ACC vs. PCC

Choose the right depth.

Two routes based on your experience and credential goals.

ACC: Associate Certified CoachPCC: Professional Certified Coach

STARTWEEK 6WEEKS 1–12, SHAREDWEEKS 13–24WEEK 12PROFESSIONALACC PATHWAYADVANCEDPCC PATHWAY

Both pathways share the first twelve weeks. Cohorts are planned around your initial selection, with the option to switch pathways up to week 6.

Professional certificateICF ACC pathway

For executives transitioning to private practice or coaching in-role.

12weeks

$8,000USD

One-on-one coaching110 hours, 60 of them live

Develop the capacity to hold conversations that change what an executive can see. ICF accepts this certificate as proof of your training, mentor coaching and assessment.

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Advanced certificateICF PCC pathway

For executives ready to coach teams, expand a practice, or both.

24weeks

$16,000USD

Group and team coaching175 hours, 100 of them live

From week 13, the focus shifts from one leader to the team: how they make decisions and what limits them. Training and mentor coaching hours count toward your PCC application.

Explore PCC pathway

Info session

See the training before you apply.

A live online session with lead faculty: program options, the curriculum, and your questions.

Next sessionSeptember 23, 2026
1:00 – 1:30 PMET
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Who is Claristrat for?

Senior leaders across three paths: executives building their own coaching or advisory practice, sitting leaders building coaching capability for their teams, and experienced operators adding coaching to an independent practice. What unites them is substantial senior leadership experience, not a shared career stage.

How do you evaluate experience levels?

Admission is based on experience with organizational complexity, decision-making scope, and team scale rather than job titles alone. During the admissions consultation, we evaluate mutual alignment to ensure the cohort caliber serves your goals and enriches the dynamic.

Why is admission limited to senior leaders?

The cohort is part of the curriculum. Peers who understand organizational complexity, power, and the weight of senior decisions create an exchange that cannot be replicated in an open, unvetted classroom.

How does the Claristrat Institute differ from conventional coaching schools?

Four structural pillars define our approach:

  • A Systemic Developmental Framework: Built to decode the leader and their context as one system to address the root drivers of leadership patterns.
  • The Coach Goes First: You do not just study the framework; you experience it under real stakes, applying the method to your own leadership before holding it for others.
  • Veteran C-Suite Faculty: Head faculty are seasoned executive coaches who held real organizational authority before they began developing leaders.
  • A High-Trust Senior Cohort: An exclusive peer group of C-suite and enterprise leaders who understand organizational weight and complexity.
How does the Claristrat Method™ differ from conventional executive coaching?

Conventional executive coaching targets individual behaviors, goal-tracking, and surface communication tactics. The Claristrat Method is grounded in adult development theory, complexity science, and depth psychology. It treats the leader and the organization as an interacting field, delivering a coherent, practical approach to systemic change.

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