Leadership & Executive Coach Training

A 10-Week Online Advanced Training for Coaches. Provides 24 CCE units. Commences Thursday Jan 16, 2025.

About the course

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About the course

In today’s dynamic and fast-paced business landscape, the demand for highly effective leaders and executives is more important than ever. Our 10-week Leadership & Executive Coach Training program is designed for certified coaches who want to develop a niche in leadership coaching, supporting leaders, executives, and entrepreneurs in becoming more effective, self-aware, healthy and resilient.

At the heart of our coaching model is the integration of self-leadership, inner mastery and outer effectiveness—a powerful synergistic combination that empowers your clients to thrive personally and professionally.

This course is taught by two highly experienced leadership and executive coaches, Dr Mark Atkinson and Felix Hirschburger.

Who’s this course for?

  • Certified Coaches looking to expand into leadership coaching or deepen their leadership expertise.
  • High-Performance Coaches working with executives, entrepreneurs, and senior professionals who seek to elevate their performance and impact.
  • Leading-edge Coaches who want to master leadership development strategies and competencies to support their clients in navigating today’s dynamic, uncertain business world.
  • Experienced Coaches who wish to deliver leadership workshops and self-leadership training to companies and organisations.

Course Outcomes

  • Become a Competent Leadership & Executive Coach: Acquire the essential knowledge, skills, and competencies to work effectively with high-impact individuals, helping them unlock their full potential.
  • Master The Thriving Human Being Model: Gain insights into the core principles that enable individuals to thrive both personally and professionally, and apply this model in your coaching practice.
  • Build Your Practice as a Leadership & Executive Coach: Receive expert guidance on marketing, business development, and client retention strategies, empowering you to establish and grow a thriving leadership and executive coaching business.
  • Elevate the Impact of Your Coaching: Learn an integrative, presence-based, and inquiry-focused coaching approach that enhances your ability to work deeply and effectively with clients.
  • Elevated Consciousness. Help clients use their challenges and emotions as pathways to greater insight, integration, and awakening, enabling profound personal development.

How it works

10 Learning Modules
10, 1.5 Hour Live Calls
Thursdays, Jan 16 to March 20, 4pm GMT
  • Week 1
    The Leadership & Executive Coach
  • Week 2
    The Thriving Human Being
  • Week 3
    Assessments & Insight
  • Week 4
    Wellbeing, Resilience & Burnout Prevention
  • Week 5
    Executive Communication and Influence
  • Week 6
    Coaching for Development & Depth
  • Week 7
    Coaching for High Performance
  • Week 8
    Coaching for Conscious Leadership
  • Week 9
    Ethics and Boundaries in Coaching
  • Week 10
    Developing Your Leadership & Executive Coaching Practice
The Leadership & Executive Coach The Thriving Human Being Assessments & Insight Wellbeing, Resilience & Burnout Prevention Executive Communication and Influence Coaching for Development & Depth Coaching for High Performance Coaching for Conscious Leadership Ethics and Boundaries in Coaching Developing Your Leadership & Executive Coaching Practice
The Leadership & Executive Coach

Week 1

The Leadership & Executive Coach

IN THIS MODULE YOU WILL:

Understand the role of a leadership & executive coach and the core competencies needed for success.

  • What is Leadership? The Six Styles of Leadership.
  • What is Leadership & Executive Coaching?
  • Understanding executive-level challenges and expectations.
  • Role and competencies of the Leadership & Executive Coach.

“Conscious leaders make an effort to understand their own emotions and reactions, allowing them to respond with wisdom and empathy.” – Daniel Goleman

The Thriving Human Being

Week 2

The Thriving Human Being

IN THIS MODULE YOU WILL:

Explore the core principles and insights relating to human development, high-performance and personal effectiveness.

  • The Hallmarks of Thriving Human Beings.
  • 5 Stages of Mind.
  • Self-Leadership, Inner Mastery & Outer Effectiveness.
  • Leadership Effectiveness and Business Performance.

“Conscious leaders are not afraid to go within. They understand that personal growth and self-awareness are the foundation of effective leadership.” – Michael A. Singer

Assessments & Insight

Week 3

Assessments & Insight

IN THIS MODULE YOU WILL:

Receive an introduction to some of the main assessments and tools that can support executive and leadership insight and development.

  • Hogan 360 and Hogan Assessment Personality Tools.
  • Leadership Versatility Index.
  • Clifton Strengths.
  • Business EI 360.
  • Cognitive Assessments.
  • Enneagram.

“The more conscious we become, the more we deepen our experience of leadership and power.” – Deepak Chopra

Wellbeing, Resilience & Burnout Prevention

Week 4

Wellbeing, Resilience & Burnout Prevention

IN THIS MODULE YOU WILL:

Learn how to help leaders enhance their overall wellbeing and manage pressure and stress response.

  • Energy optimisation and management.
  • Coaching leaders to manage stress, burnout, and work-life balance.
  • Self-regulation and resilience training.
  • Cognitive health optimisation.
  • Performing under pressure and high-stress leadership situations.

“Leadership is not about being in charge. It’s about taking care of those in your charge.” – Simon Sinek

Executive Communication and Influence

Week 5

Executive Communication and Influence

IN THIS MODULE YOU WILL:

Learn how to help clients enhance and develop their skills relating to communication and influence.

  • Above versus below the line communication.
  • Tailoring communications and communication style to the audience.
  • Managing high-stakes, difficult conversations with confidence and diplomacy.
  • Building a highly effective team. Five Behaviours model.

“Leadership is about being awake. It’s about being present, connecting with your intuition, and operating from a place of authenticity.” – Bill George

Coaching for Development & Depth

Week 6

Coaching for Development & Depth

IN THIS MODULE YOU WILL:

Learn about the process of human development and how to support clients in developing capacities and skills to support them in their work and home life.

  • An Integral Developmental Approach to Coaching.
  • Identifying Developmental Opportunities.
  • Psychological Integration & Shadow Work.
  • Embodying Unactualised Qualities.

“In order to inspire people, that’s going to have to come from somewhere deep inside of you.” I’ve come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation. “Inspire, empower, listen, and appreciate. Practicing any one of these can improve employee engagement; mastering all four can change the game.” “You can do anything you set your mind to.” Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn

Coaching for High Performance

Week 7

Coaching for High Performance

IN THIS MODULE YOU WILL:

Equip leaders with tools to train and modulate their attention, state of mind, and resilience in high-pressure environments.

  • Methods for managing attention and focus.
  • State management and performance optimisation.
  • Coaching leaders to foster high-performance teams.
  • Setting and achieving measurable goals with executives.
  • Establishing accountability structures for sustained success.

“My top priority is a cultural transformation at the company. In a sense, what I’d like to do is have us go from a hierarchical, high-performance-oriented culture to what I like to think of as an inspired, “unbossed,” empowered, and curious culture.” “I have found that for successful leadership, you have to be inspired by a sense of purpose. With a sincere sense of purpose, you can set a vision that people want to follow. Also important are a sense of humility and kindness. I try to live by this every day.” Vas Narashimhan, CEO of Novartis

Coaching for Conscious Leadership

Week 8

Coaching for Conscious Leadership

IN THIS MODULE YOU WILL:

Better understand the process of leadership and know how to support the unfolding of conscious leadership.

  • Leadership and executive assessments.
  • 3 pillars of conscious leadership: Awareness, Wisdom & Compassion.
  • Core conscious leadership practices.
  • Helping leaders navigate change and challenge.

“True leadership is an internal quality that manifests externally. It begins with mindfulness and a deep understanding of oneself.” – Robin S. Sharma

Ethics and Boundaries in Coaching

Week 9

Ethics and Boundaries in Coaching

IN THIS MODULE YOU WILL :

Emerge knowing how to identify and navigate common ethical challenges specific to leadership and executive coaching environments.

  • Navigating power dynamics and confidentiality in executive coaching.
  • Ethical dilemmas in leadership coaching.
  • Establishing healthy boundaries with leaders and executives.
  • Apply ethical decision-making frameworks to resolve dilemmas.

“The view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life.” “Listening was the most important thing I accomplished each day because it would build the foundation of my leadership for years to come.” Satya Nadella, CEO Microsoft

Developing Your Leadership & Executive Coaching Practice

Week 10

Developing Your Leadership & Executive Coaching Practice

IN THIS MODULE YOU WILL:

Learn the essentials of establishing and growing a successful leadership & executive coaching business:

  • Positioning yourself as a leadership and executive coach.
  • Marketing your coaching services to executives and organisations.
  • Setting up your business infrastructure: pricing, contracts, and ongoing development.
  • Createinga personal business and marketing plan.

“Mindfulness is a state of being fully present, aware of oneself and other people, and sensitive to one’s reactions to stressful situations. Leaders who are mindful tend to be more effective in understanding and relating to others and motivating them toward shared goals. Hence, they become more effective in leadership roles.” Bill George, professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School, former CEO of Medtronic

Hear from those, we’ve supported

Dr. Mark’s contribution, The Inner Game, was central to the development of the Google Cloud Way of Sales Coaching. The program was rolled-out globally to over a thousand sales leaders. It also went on to win 2 Gold Medals for Leadership Excellence at the Brandon Hall Awards in 2021 for Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring and for Most Innovative Leadership Development program. The shifts I witnessed in leaders who adopted the Inner Game practices remains one of my greatest inspirations as a sales coach. I cannot speak highly enough of the quality and importance of what Dr. Mark’s approach to training an optimal mind offers.

Aluba Fenix

Dr. Mark Atkinson’s four-week training on stress response and leadership during COVID was pivotal for our team at ACES. His concept of operating ‘above the line’ versus ‘below the line’ was not only simple and applicable, it was transformative, providing our clinicians and top executives with practical tools to combat burnout. Thanks to Dr. Atkinson’s guidance, we embarked on a journey of well-being that helped us not just survive, but thrive through the challenges of the pandemic.

Alexandra Borbolla

To say that the tools learned in this course are helpful is honestly an incredible understatement. They are radically life changing. In fact, prior to taking this course, I was only partially living life. Now I am experiencing life from an amazingly beautiful and peaceful place called, presence. Thank you so much, I am forever changed and inspired to lead others to the land of true living!!

Optimal Mind Mastery Graduate (beta-version)

The best course ever. This training is by far my best investment in time and money! The combination of the practice exercises released each week with live calls was exactly what I need it. This training just changed my life. I am living guided by my deepest commitment and I am doing everything from the openness and spaciousness of awareness. It is helping me to stay strong, be grateful and have joy during the present moments. I am joyful and I will be carrying this knowledge for the rest of my life.

Optimal Mind Mastery Graduate (beta-version)

This is one of the best self-development courses I’ve ever taken, and I’ve taken lots including the year long course of becoming a Human Potential Coach. This course help reconnect me with what’s really important…Presence.

Optimal Mind Mastery Graduate (beta-version)

Psychological health and mind fitness is the core foundation to greater wellbeing, happiness and following your true purpose. I count Dr. Mark Atkinson as my mentor and guide on this journey and would wholeheartedly recommend his work to anyone interested in personal development.

Optimal Mind Mastery Graduate (beta-version)

Dr. Mark is a magician! Love the way he sinks into the moment with his students and attunes to them. His emphasis on embodiment is crucial to any Presencing practice. Thank you!

Optimal Mind Mastery Graduate (beta-version)

My experience working with Dr. Mark Atkinson has been crucial for my growth as a Coach, as a mother, and professional. The sense of awareness I have obtained through his insight and exercises are priceless. I have experienced wholeness and a deep understanding of my deepest commitment. Letting life unfold before me, not resisting but flowing and allowing life through me has made my experience with adversity a learning experience, an opportunity to see light when I thought there was just darkness. Learning to BE in the ocean rather than to think I want to swim has been eye opening. Thank you.

Optimal Mind Mastery Graduate (beta-version)

Meet Your Instructors

MBBS, BSC (HONS), FRSPH

Dr. Mark Atkinson

is an accredited master coach and internationally recognised authority on how to manage and optimise the human mind to enhance leadership effectiveness. Mark is co-founder and Chief Mind Training Officer (CMTO) of Optimal Mind International and co-creator of the Optimal Mind® Training System, which has powered numerous programs, including Google Cloud’s Way of Sales Coaching and the Highly Effective Human Being. His books include The Mind-Body Bible and True Happiness. Mark is a Fellow of the American Institute of Stress.

MA IN ECONOMICS, PROFESSIONAL CERTIFIED COACH

Felix Hirschburger

Is co-founder of Optimal Mind International and Louma Empowering People. As an executive coach he specializes in optimal mind training and human potential development with over 10,000 hours experience in coaching entrepreneurs, executives and athletes. Felix is also a licensed Hypnotherapist, Switzerland’s first Wim Hof Instructor and breathwork teacher. He is a board member of a major meditation centre in Europe and has more than 25 years of meditation and personal development practice.

Leadership & Executive Coach Training

A 10-Week Online Advanced Training for Coaches.

WHAT’S INSIDE

  • Become a Leadership & Executive coach.
  • Evolve your coaching practice.
  • Learn advanced coaching skills.
  • Thriving human being model.
  • Provides up to 24 CCE units.

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FAQ's

What is the Leadership & Executive Coach Training Program?

This program is an advanced training course designed for certified coaches who want to specialize in leadership and executive coaching. It equips you with the knowledge, tools, and methodologies needed to coach leaders, executives, and entrepreneurs at the highest level.

Who is this program for?

This program is designed for certified coaches who are looking to expand their practice into leadership and executive coaching. It’s ideal for those who want to work with corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, and top-level executives.

What certification will I receive upon completion?

You will earn 24 Continuing Coach Education (CCE) units and a Leadership & Executive Coach Training certificate of completion.

When does the program commence?

The program runs for 10 weeks with 10 live 1.5-hour zoom calls on ten consecutive Thursdays. Call one is Jan 16 and call 10, March 20.

How much can I charge as a Leadership and Executive Coach?

Leadership and executive coaches typically charge a wide range of rates depending on their experience, location, client profile, and niche.

1. Entry-Level Coaches (1-3 years of experience):
  • Hourly Rate: $160 – $320 (or £130 – £260) per hour.
  • These coaches are usually just starting out in the executive coaching field or have a few years of experience but are not yet widely recognised.
2. Mid-Level Coaches (3-10 years of experience):
  • Hourly Rate: $320 – $640 (or £260 – £510) per hour.
  • Coaches in this range typically have a more established reputation, a steady client base, and may have certifications from reputable coaching organisations (e.g., AC, ICF, EMCC). They often work with mid-level managers and executives.
3. Senior-Level Coaches (10+ years of experience):
  • Hourly Rate: $640 – $1,300 (or £510 – £1,000) per hour.
  • These are experienced coaches who work with C-suite executives and top leadership teams. They often have a significant background in business or psychology and are highly sought after for their expertise.
What will I learn in the program?

You’ll gain expertise in leadership and executive coaching competencies, including advanced coaching techniques, development-focused coaching, effectiveness optimisation, and marketing strategies to grow your coaching practice.

What kind of support will I receive during the program?

You’ll have access to live sessions with experienced coaches, a community of peers, and ongoing support with supplementary resources to enhance your learning.

What are the certification requirements?

To certify you will need to

  • attend 8 or more of the 90-minute live calls.
  • submit missed call forms for those you didn’t attend
  • submit your learning and reflections logbook
  • submit and pass a 15-minute demonstration of the clarity method
  • achieve 80% or more in the knowledge based quiz
  • submit and pass a case study
Do I need prior experience in leadership or executive coaching?

While experience in these areas is beneficial, it is not required. This program is designed for certified coaches who are transitioning into leadership and executive coaching. The coaching program from which you graduated must be accredited by AC, ICF or EMCC.

What is the cost of the program?

The regular price of the program is £2,995. Please check the website for the latest pricing and payment plan options.

How do I receive CCE's?

Upon completion of the program you will be provided with a CCE certificate with an accompanying breakdown of the course structure. You will then need to submit this to ICF, AC or EMCC and request CCE’s for your training. The maximum number of CCE’s you can receive is 24.