THREE ICF EXECUTIVE COACHING CERTIFICATIONS, A COHERENT PATH

Executive 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.

  • The Claristrat Method™ integrates multiple disciplines to develop senior leaders, C-suite executives, board members, and advisors into premium executive coaches.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

GLOBAL CLIENT PARTNERS

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  • Most programs certify the technique. This one develops the coach. There is a difference, and senior leaders know it immediately.

    — Fabiana Pereira Hotz, PhD, PCC • Founder and CEO, Claristrat Institute

  • "You cannot take a client somewhere you have not been willing to go yourself. The credential matters. Going first is what makes it real."

    — Fabiana Pereira Hotz, PhD, PCC • Founder and CEO, Claristrat Institute

  • "I built this method because I needed it. Going through that work myself showed me what is possible on the other side of it."

    — Fabiana Pereira Hotz, PhD, PCC • Founder and CEO, Claristrat Institute

SCIENCE-BASED EXECUTIVE COACHING FOR EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Three fit-to-purpose levels.
For your professional journey.

Level 01 · ICF ACC Path

Certified Professional Executive Coach

Claristrat Core Method™

The Internal System of the Leader.

FOCUS
Experience the power of coaching firsthand. Learn a proven method to 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 Path

Advanced Professional Executive Coach

Claristrat Advanced Method™

The Leader-System Organism.

FOCUS
Master a science-based, highly effective approach to leadership 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 develop senior executives and teams.

20 Weeks · ~8 hours weekly · 150+ hours

Level 03 · ICF ACTC Path

Master 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 ICF tell you what good coaching looks like.
At Claristrat, you learn how to achieve it every time, guiding senior leaders towards durable solutions which traditional approaches miss.

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

THE CLARISTRAT METHOD FOR COMPLEX SYSTEMS COACHING™

To learn by becoming,
You need to
go first.

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At Claristrat, senior leaders don’t just learn how to coach. You become a real coach.

The Claristrat method is highly experiential. This is how a rigorous four-pillar scientific approach becomes lived. Science, seamlessly integrated into real conversations.

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 WITH

Snowden’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 BEHAVIOR

Jungian 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-PROFILING

Kegan 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 LOAD

Porges & Feldman-Barret lineages

UPCOMING COHORTS

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Professional Certificate in Executive Coaching · ACC
$8,000.00

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?

Schedule a 15-minute conversation with faculty →

Advanced Certificate in Executive Coaching · PCC Advanced Certificate in Executive Coaching · PCC Advanced Certificate in Executive Coaching · PCC Advanced Certificate in Executive Coaching · PCC Advanced Certificate in Executive Coaching · PCC Advanced Certificate in Executive Coaching · PCC Advanced Certificate in Executive Coaching · PCC Advanced Certificate in Executive Coaching · PCC Advanced Certificate in Executive Coaching · PCC
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Advanced Certificate in Executive Coaching · PCC
$14,000.00

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?

Schedule a 15-minute conversation with faculty →

TRY THE METHOD FIRST

Next Chapter Leadership Bootcamp • Professional Development
$2,400.00

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?

Schedule a 15-minute conversation with faculty →

NOT SURE IF THis IS RIGHT FOR YOU?

Attend a Masterclass first to see it in action.

Not ready to choose?
Speak with us.

TO THINK IT FURTHER

FOR ORGANIZATIONS

Sponsoring a leader,
or building capacity?

Claristrat works with corporate organizations interested in establishing or expanding their internal coaching programs or capacity.

Our programs qualify for L&D budget allocation at most organizations, and we provide documentation to support a business case.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Science-based
human leadership development

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.