Turn your executive experience into the skills and judgment needed to help leaders find clarity in uncertainty.
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ICF-accredited education provider
Leaders have come to us from
Conventional leadership support is not always enough for the challenges senior executives face. Productivity frameworks and technical upskilling offer useful tools, but rarely address the assumptions and reactions shaping how a leader uses them.
Your experience in the C-suite gives you a valuable foundation for coaching, board work, or advisory roles. Developing others also requires learning to recognize when your own expertise helps, and when it gets in the way of their thinking.
Real development involves how a leader thinks, reacts, and decides under pressure. Claristrat trains you to work with the beliefs, emotional responses, and organizational dynamics behind those patterns, so you can help others see more clearly and choose how to respond.
The Claristrat Method™ brings together complexity theory, adult development, depth psychology, and neuroscience in a coherent coaching approach, connecting the leader’s thinking, bodily responses, and organizational context.
Six faculty teach the program, all of them former executives. Our founder leads every cohort.
Fabiana Pereira Hotz
Founder and lead faculty
Four bodies of research, turned into three capabilities you develop through weekly practice, feedback, and reflection.
See the unseen patterns shaping your leadership and the organization around you.
How, in practice?
You’ll learn to map stakeholder relationships, trace the feedback loops that keep problems repeating, and uncover the assumptions connecting a leader’s reactions to the system around them.
Build the judgment to know when to pause, when to question, and when to act.
How, in practice?
You’ll practice pacing questions, silence, and semantic reframing to help someone examine a fixed assumption, discover another way of seeing, and choose a small action to test what becomes possible.
Stay steady when the pressure rises. Bring calm, attentive authority to every conversation.
How, in practice?
You’ll practice somatic anchoring and deep listening, learning to notice changes in breath, voice, and posture—including your own—so you can recognize when to slow down and return your attention to the person in front of you.
You cannot take someone further than you have gone yourself. You learn directly from, and practice with, a curated cohort of 6–8 senior executives who understand the pressures of your environment.
6–8peers in every cohort
Two live sessions a week, about five hours of class. Everything runs online, no travel necessary. Cohorts start through the year on different days and at different hours, for Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific.
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:00 – 2:30 pm ETAmericas hours
LinkedIn profile (opens in a new tab)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.
LinkedIn profile (opens in a new tab)This program will change how you relate and see yourself, for the better, in your career as well as your personal life.
LinkedIn profile (opens in a new tab)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.
Two certificates, one method. Choose how far you take it: coaching leaders one to one, or coaching whole executive teams.
ICF ACC pathway
12weeks
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ICF PCC pathway
24weeks
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The International Coaching Federation is the global standard for professional coaching. Its credential is what corporate sponsors, boards and clients look for when they hire a coach.
Claristrat is an ICF-accredited education provider, and your training hours count toward that credential.
Every ICF credential works this way: a school trains you, and the ICF awards the credential. We stay with you in between, with practice tools, sales guidance and monthly alumni supervision.
Yes. Many participants stay in role and use the method with their own teams, boards and successors; others build a practice, and some do both. The training is the same either way, and the certificate and the ICF pathway are yours whether or not you ever charge for a session.
The ACC program, 12 weeks long, takes five to nine hours a week, depending on your pace. The PCC program, 24 weeks long, ranges from four to seven hours a week. That includes live classes, practice, mentoring, and work you do on your own.
The application asks for your most senior role and the largest team you have led. C-suite leaders, founders and vice presidents qualify directly. Directors and other senior roles are read by hand, and the next step is a conversation with faculty about fit rather than a form. Nobody is turned down by an algorithm.
The ICF, the International Coaching Federation, is the credential executives and procurement teams recognise when they hire a coach. Claristrat is an ICF-accredited education provider, so the training, mentor coaching and assessment you complete here count toward the ACC credential, and the Advanced Certificate continues on the PCC pathway. You also leave with the Claristrat certificate itself, which documents your hours.
Yes. Cohorts start throughout the year, and you choose the start date when you apply. Cohorts run with a minimum group size. If a start date does not reach it, we will offer you the next available start or a full refund.
Still have a question?
At Claristrat, you’ll learn to help another leader make a difficult decision without giving them the answer. Use that training in your current role, board mandates, fractional advisory or your own coaching practice.
