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Executive and Leadership Coach Certification

  • Executive and Leadership Coach Certification

Executive Coach Certification &
Leadership Coach Certification

If you’re passionate about helping leaders and teams perform at their best, our Executive Coach Certificaiton & Leadership Coach Certification could be the perfect next step. This program dives into the realities of leadership—strategic execution, influence and communication, stakeholder alignment, team performance, feedback and conflict, and leading change. You’ll learn targeted tools for coaching executives, founders, and high-potential managers, plus practical methods for measuring progress and linking behavior change to business outcomes.

This program is also ICF-accredited for 38 Continuing Coach Education (CCE) hours, giving you training that counts toward maintaining or advancing your professional coaching credentials.

Prerequisite: Completion of Life Purpose Institute’s Life or Spiritual Coach Certification, or an equivalent ICF-accredited coach training program is required.

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Our Approach to Executive Coaching and Leadership Coaching

At Life Purpose Institute, we teach a practical, business-aligned approach to developing leaders and teams. Effective leadership is built on clear communication, healthy operating agreements, and alignment between values, strategy, and day-to-day behaviors.

We combine professional coaching methods with research-backed leadership frameworks and actionable tools, so you can facilitate real change in real workplace conversations.

Through our approach, you’ll learn to:

  • Strengthen Communication & Influence – Use executive presence, active listening, and stakeholder mapping to turn friction into collaboration.

  • Build Healthy Operating Agreements – Clarify roles, decision rights, and norms; co-create team agreements and establish accountability.

  • Identify & Shift Patterns – Spot recurring team and organizational dynamics; replace unproductive loops with constructive habits and rituals.

  • Navigate Key Transitions – Coach leaders through scale-ups, restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, and remote/hybrid shifts.

  • Align Strategy, Values & Vision – Help teams define shared goals, priorities, and decision practices that connect culture to results.

This integrative method equips you to work across levels and industries—building clearer communication, trust, and resilient, high-performing organizations.

What You’ll Gain from the Executive and Leadership Coach Certification Program

As a student in our Executive & Leadership Coach Certification Program, you’ll gain the training, skills, and confidence to coach senior leaders, emerging managers, and teams, linking behavior change to real business results. This program equips you to navigate organizational dynamics, design credible coaching engagements, and market your services to companies with clarity and professionalism.

In this program, you will learn how to:

  • Translate Strategy into Outcomes – Set clear coaching goals, success metrics, and simple progress tracking tied to business priorities.

  • Work the Corporate Ecosystem – Understand coaching vs. consulting/mentoring, engagement types, agreements, ethics, and confidentiality in multi-party settings.

  • Align Stakeholders – Partner with sponsors/HR and leaders to clarify expectations, roles, and communication rhythms for sustained momentum.

  • Use Leadership Assessments & Feedback – Establish baselines, gather targeted input, and turn data into focused development plans.

  • Coach Core Leadership Topics – Performance and execution, team building, managing managers, culture shaping, cross-generational collaboration, remote/hybrid practices, and global/cross-cultural work.

  • Navigate Complex Moments – Support leaders through change, mergers and acquisitions, and personal challenges without losing focus on outcomes.

  • Build High-Trust Teams – Improve collaboration, decision practices, accountability, and psychological safety.

  • Elevate Communication & Influence – Strengthen executive presence, craft clear narratives, and manage stakeholders effectively.

  • Design Scalable Offers – Deliver 1:1 executive coaching, team coaching, workshops, and short intensives with repeatable structures.

  • Operate Smoothly with Organizations – Handle contracting, scheduling, reporting, and logistics with professionalism.

  • Market to Corporations – Position your services, articulate ROI, price and package engagements, and create proposals that win.

With these capabilities, you’ll be ready to partner credibly with leaders and organizations—delivering visible behavior change, healthier cultures, and measurable business outcomes while growing a sustainable corporate coaching practice.

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Our Approach to Executive and Leadership Coaching

Core Coaching Skills

  • Lead a structured discovery and stakeholder intake for leaders and teams

  • Apply five foundational coaching tools adapted for executive contexts

  • Set outcomes and metrics tied to business priorities; track progress over time

  • Coach through resistance, ambiguity, competing priorities, stress, and setbacks

  • Build executive presence, mindset, habits, and simple accountability systems

  • Facilitate in-the-flow experiments and after-action reviews to cement change

Leadership & Organizational Knowledge

  • Practical models for strategy execution, influence, decision-making

  • Employee performance and achieving results; team building and collaboration

  • Managing multi-generation and remote/hybrid teams

  • Culture building, change leadership, and global/cross-cultural work

  • Career advancement and fulfillment for leaders and high-potentials

  • Use assessments and feedback responsibly to establish baselines and focus development

Working with Clients (Leaders & Teams)

  • Coach executives, managers, and teams across industries and levels

  • Navigate multi-stakeholder expectations, confidentiality, and alignment

  • Support key transitions: promotions, restructuring, mergers & acquisitions, and personal challenges (within coaching scope)

  • Design focused workshops, team sessions, and short intensives

  • Adapt tools to diverse goals, backgrounds, and readiness levels

Business & Career Development

  • Understand the corporate coaching landscape: coaching vs. consulting/mentoring, engagement types, and agreement structures

  • Position and market your services with clear outcomes and ROI

  • Create winning proposals, pricing, and scopes; operate smoothly with contracting, scheduling, reporting, and ethics

  • Build referral channels with HR, Talent, and business sponsors and scale via 1:1, team programs, cohorts, and retainers

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Opportunities for Executive & Leadership Coaches

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The demand for executive coaching and leadership coaching is accelerating. As organizations navigate strategy shifts, hybrid work, and culture change, coaches are stepping into a wide variety of high-impact roles.

A Fast-Growing Field

  • Companies are investing more in leader capability, team performance, and culture as strategic differentiators.

  • Virtual and hybrid coaching expands access across locations and time zones.

  • Growth in team coaching, leadership cohorts, and group programs creates scalable opportunities beyond 1:1 work.

Rising Demand

  • Leaders need support with influence and communication, execution, feedback, and decision-making.

  • Organizations seek help with change leadership, mergers & acquisitions, and culture building (including inclusion and psychological safety).

  • Managers at every level face multi-generation dynamics, remote/hybrid challenges, and burnout and resilience needs.

Career Opportunities

  • Build a private practice serving executives, founders, and high-potential managers.

  • Deliver team coaching, offsites, and leadership workshops for intact teams and cross-functional groups.

  • Partner with HR/Talent, business unit leaders, and PE/VC firms on targeted leader and team engagements.

  • Contract with boutique coaching firms or enterprise platforms to access corporate clients.

  • Create cohorts and programs (manager development, new-leader onboarding, inclusive leadership) for scalable impact.

Many graduates combine 1:1 executive coaching with team programs and workshops—building flexible, values-aligned businesses while helping organizations achieve measurable results.