EXECUTIVE & TEAM COACHING CERTIFICATIONAdvanced Executive
Coaching Certification
Exclusively for Senior Leaders
An advanced coaching certification for senior leaders ready to fully embrace coaching in the next chapter of their work. This program will elevate your coaching skillsets above the top 2.5% of the global market*.
- Applied adult development
- Complexity & systems thinking
- Neuroscience & depth psychology
- Team dynamics & culture design
- Decision-making in complexity
* Of 300k coaches worldwide, 150k are ICF-certified (2025) only. about 10k are ICF PCCs.
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WHAT MAKES THIS PROGRAM DIFFERENTMost executive coaching certification programs
miss team dynamics. We develop them.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TEAM DYNAMICSStandard programs stay on the behavioral surface. The Advanced Method targets the unconscious currents, such as team defenses, scapegoating, and collective regression. This is where high-stakes leadership failure actually occurs.
COMPLEXITY MANAGEMENTMost teams treat complex problems as merely complicated, stalling out in endless debate. Claristrat integrates the Cynefin framework so leaders can match decision-making style to reality instead of remaining puzzlingly ineffective.
SYSTEMIC RESILIENCE & CHANGE We scale systems thinking to decode three critical realities: collective feedback loops, external organizational dynamics, and the senior leader’s developmental ceiling. These pillars unlock what is possible.
What you’ll leave with
Before you enable transformation in others, you will experience the developmental process firsthand.
You cannot guide another leader where you haven’t been yourself.
ICF PCC Credential Support
Full documentation, portfolio guidance, and faculty support for your PCC application submission.
Commercial Practice Foundations
Proposal templates, contracting frameworks, and market positioning. Ready to deploy from day one.
The Claristrat Advanced Method™
A structured, replicable system for adult development: the ICF-aligned operating framework for every session you’ll run.
Hogan® Profile + 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 ACTC Positioning
PCC alumni receive priority access for the Master 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 seasoned executive coach working at the senior tier
A leader who wants to develop others sustainably
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
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
Program structure
Advanced training that respects executive reality. A highly flexible, cohort-driven structure designed to adapt to your schedule.
Two live sessions weekly
90-120 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
70+ hours of proprietary material including primers, frameworks, and reflection prompts on the mobile-friendly 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.
UPCOMING COHORTS
Claristrat Method™ of Systemic Executive Coaching
Level 2 · ICF PCC Path
Twenty weeks. The Claristrat Core Method™ lived and practiced. The ICF PCC credential documentation.
A cohort of six to eight executive peers, admission-gated.
What’s included
150+ hours of coaching education
70+ hours live · 80+ hours self-paced on Thinkific
Mentor coaching
7 group sessions + 3 individual sessions · 60 min each · ICF-aligned · faculty-led
1:1 executive coaching
4 individual sessions with a Claristrat coach · your confidential space to develop your coach identity
Hogan Leadership Series
Full assessment + 90-minute personal debrief · included in the program
ICF PCC credential documentation
Full portfolio guidance and faculty support for your application submission
Claristrat Advanced Method™ as licensed IP
Program access and licensed practitioner use from the moment you complete
Exclusively senior cohort
Maximum 8 C- and SVP-level leaders. Admission-gated to ensure peer environment and pedagogy.
Flexible start dates
Cohorts run every quarter. The next available date is the first one on the list.
Full refunds if fit is not right
Reserve your seat. After payment you receive a confirmation and a link to schedule your alignment conversation. If the cohort placement is not right for you, your payment is refunded in full within five business days. No friction.
Questions before this next step?
Claristrat Method™ of Systemic Executive Coaching
Level 1 · ICF ACC Path
Twelve weeks. The Claristrat Core Method™ lived and practiced. The ICF ACC credential documentation.
A cohort of six to eight executive peers, admission-gated.
What’s included
105+ hours of coaching education
50+ hours live · 55+ hours self-paced on Thinkific
Mentor coaching
7 group sessions + 3 individual sessions · 60 min each · ICF-aligned · faculty-led
1:1 executive coaching
4 individual sessions with a Claristrat coach · your confidential space to develop your coach identity
Hogan Leadership Series
Full assessment + 90-minute personal debrief · included in the program
ICF ACC credential documentation
Full portfolio guidance and faculty support for your application submission
Claristrat Core Method™ as licensed IP
Program access and licensed practitioner use from the moment you complete
Exclusively senior cohort
Maximum 8 C- and SVP-level leaders. Admission-gated to ensure peer environment and pedagogy.
Flexible start dates
Cohorts run every quarter. The next available date is the first one on the list.
Full refunds if fit is not right
Reserve your seat. After payment you receive a confirmation and a link to schedule your alignment conversation. If the cohort placement is not right for you, your payment is refunded in full within five business days. No friction.
Questions before this next step?
TRY THE METHOD FIRST
Claristrat x Sense.Maker Next Chapter Leadership Bootcamp
Six weeks. Full clarity on your next career and leadership steps. Join us to plan your next chapter with confidence. After this bootcamp, you’ll have a map and a new mindset to make it happen. On your terms.
What’s included
Time and space to design your next step
6 live group sessions · 90-120 min each
Leadership Inventory
Hogan Leadership Series profiling and personalized reporting (1,000 USD value)
Next Chapter Leadership Map
Map of your strengths and must-hold values
Outdated Behaviors to shed
North Star vision and practical guide to your next chapter
Your transition pitch
Storytelling Skills
A whole new way to excite others about what you have to offer, guided by an approach ad agencies are paying to learn
Expanded Network
A new group of peers going through the same transition. The multiplying effect of peers can provide you a sense of community and open doors
Exclusively senior cohort
Our bootcamps are open to leaders who have held at least a director-level role.
Flexible start dates
Cohorts run every quarter. The next available date is the first one on the list.
Full refunds if fit is not right
Reserve your seat. After payment you receive a confirmation and a link to schedule your alignment conversation. If the cohort placement is not right for you, your payment is refunded in full within five business days. No friction.
Questions before this next step?
The ICF tells you what good coaching looks like.
The Method teaches how you can achieve it every time, while guiding senior leaders and their teams towards durable solutions which behavioral approaches miss.
12 complete modules shape
A truly executive coaching approach
ADVANCED EXECUTIVE COACHING PROGRAM CURRICULUMARC 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.
ARC IV — ADVANCED THRESHOLD · WEEKS 13–187. Coaching Maturity
The shift from coaching competency to systematic discernment; calibrated to PCC marker standards through observed coaching, complex case analysis, and structured supervision practice.
8. Coaching the Collective
The pivot to coaching at the collective scale. Multi-stakeholder contracting and trust building, listening across the collective field, and the developmental ceiling as the collective boundary to effectiveness.
ARC V — SYSTEMIC DECODING · WEEKS 19–229. Collective Meaning Flows
The systemic reading of the loops that determine what a team can trust, think, decide, and do together. Working with these flows rather than the surface behaviors that result from them.
10. Collective Maturity
Gauging the team developmental edge reflected through power, authority, and influence exchanges; then mapping the respective systemic affordances and leverage points for amplifying these.
ARC VI — COLLECTIVE DESIGN · WEEKS 23–2611. Dynamics Design
The structured operations for effective team culture: governance, accountability rituals, role clarity, and the relationship with sponsors. Hawkins' Five Disciplines in the Claristrat frame.
12. Complexity Management
Leading through disruption with creativity in visioning, decision-making in complexity, and applied business design for operating structures that hold under real-world pressure.
HOW TO APPLYFour steps to
Your executive coach certification
1. Apply to a cohort
At the cohorts page, select your start date, choose a payment plan and checkout. Your seat is held throughout the acceptance process.
2. 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.
3. 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 goals, for a personalized learning plan.
4. Begin the work
You’ll get fast-tracked access to the asynchronous lessons and program materials to cover at your pace and invitations for live sessions.
NOT SURE IF THis IS RIGHT FOR YOU?Attend a Masterclass first to see it in action.
TO THINK IT FURTHERNot ready to choose?
Speak with us.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONSEvidence-based
human leadership development
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Executive coaching is the skillset required for, and respective practice of, coaching clients holding executive leadership positions at their organizations. Team coaching is exercised when the client is a leadership team instead of an individual leader. Team coaches are best equipped to optimize the dynamics and effectiveness of boards, ELTs and functional leaders as a group.
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Yes, in addition to delivering on all the requirements for the PCC certification, this program also prepares graduates for their ACTC if they so desire the additional credential.
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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.
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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.