The Advanced Certificate is a 24-week, fully online program for experienced leaders and coaches expanding from one-to-one work into teams and organizational systems. It includes 175 program hours, 100 live, and prepares you to pursue the ICF PCC credential.
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This pathway is for experienced leaders and coaches ready to work where the client, sponsor, team, and organization all shape the outcome.
The Advanced Certificate begins with the same live foundation as the Professional Certificate. Week thirteen is not a restart. It is the point where one-to-one coaching expands into collective and organizational work.
Establish the discipline, language, and practice every advanced coach needs before widening the field.
Raise the standard to PCC markers while moving into team dynamics, stakeholder systems, governance, and complexity.
The first 12 weeks are the shared Professional live core. Completion of the full Claristrat certificate also includes required mentoring and evaluation.
Six modules move from mature one-to-one judgment into collective coaching, systemic diagnosis, and organizational design. Open an arc to follow the progression.
Move beyond doing coaching “correctly” and learn to read each situation on its own terms. Observed work and complex cases are examined against PCC-level markers.
Contract with a group, listen to many voices at once, and determine what this particular team is ready to confront and change.
Find what shapes what a team can trust, think, and do beneath the visible behavior, then work on the cause, not merely the meeting-room symptom.
Read a team’s stage of development and the movement of power, authority, and influence so your intervention fits the system.
Work with the operating machinery of a team: governance, accountability, clear roles, relationships, and stakeholder sponsorship.
Coach when there is no precedent, information is incomplete, and the organization needs decisions and structures that can hold under pressure.
The second half applies ICF PCC markers in team and organizational settings. You learn to contract with sponsors, read group dynamics, and coach through governance and complex decisions.
Your coaching is observed and reviewed against PCC markers. Written feedback identifies what is already working, where your judgment needs to mature, and what to practice next.
Work with teams, sponsors, and HR in cases where multiple relationships shape the outcome. Practice listening across voices and intervening at the level of the group pattern.
Bring complex cases to mentor coaching and supervision. Examine your choices, your impact, and the standard of practice required as complexity increases.
Strengthen your positioning, contracts, and organizational language so your advanced coaching is easier to understand, sponsor, and buy.
The Hogan inventory, personalized faculty support, core tools, and shared learning experience begin in the Professional foundation.
See the shared program experienceClaristrat awards the program certificate. The International Coaching Federation separately reviews your application and awards the PCC credential.
Finish the 24-week pathway and Claristrat’s required mentoring and assessment work to earn the Advanced Certificate.
Document qualifying coaching experience. Hours may begin once your coach-specific education starts.
Submit the required education, mentoring, performance, and coaching-experience information for the applicable path.
After ICF review and approval, pass the ICF Credentialing Exam. The ICF, not Claristrat, awards the PCC.
The Advanced Certificate is designed to support your ICF PCC application. Your application file includes:
Document your qualifying experience in the application and retain your records in case the ICF audits your application.
After your application is reviewed and approved, you take the ICF Credentialing Exam. The ICF currently estimates about 4 weeks for its review.
Current as of August 2026. Review theofficial ICF PCC requirements before applying.
Process your tuition or first installment to reserve your place, then speak with faculty to confirm that the full Advanced pathway aligns with your goals.
Cohorts hold six to eight leaders. Seats fill from the waitlist.
Both pathways begin with the same live foundation. The decision is how far you want the work to go.
Secure the full 24-week path from the start and continue directly into the advanced half.
Reserve the Advanced pathwayComplete the shared live core and choose whether to continue by week twelve. Review timing and pricing before you begin.
Compare both pathwaysStart with the questions most likely to affect your decision, then open any answer for detail.
No. The ICF does not require an ACC as a prerequisite for the PCC. Claristrat’s Advanced Certificate includes the Professional foundation because the curriculum is designed as one progressive 24-week pathway.
No. Claristrat awards the Advanced Certificate after you complete its requirements. You separately apply to the ICF, document its education and experience requirements, complete its review process, and pass the ICF Credentialing Exam before the ICF awards the PCC.
Yes. The current program structure allows Professional participants to elect the Advanced pathway through week twelve. Confirm the applicable upgrade timing and tuition with faculty before enrolling.
Your Claristrat certificate and your ICF credential follow separate timelines. You can finish the Advanced Certificate, continue building qualifying coaching experience, and apply to the ICF once every PCC requirement is complete.
No. PCC is the ICF’s advanced professional coaching credential. Claristrat’s Advanced curriculum teaches work with teams and organizational systems, but the ICF maintains a separate Advanced Certification in Team Coaching (ACTC).
Qualifying experience may begin after your coach-specific education starts. For PCC, current ICF requirements include at least 500 hours with 25 clients, 450 paid hours, and 50 hours completed within the 18 months before you apply.
Yes. The program is delivered online in a cohort of six to eight leaders. Across the full certificate, the current program model includes 175 program hours, 100 of them live.
Yes. Corporate sponsorship is supported. Speak with faculty if you need program documentation, payment-plan information, or an internal business case.
