Description
Gain the credentials you need to become a successful Executive Coach. The Global Professional Diploma in Executive Coaching provides a comprehensive suite of learning in the key knowledge and skills required to successfully coach new and incumbent executive managers and leaders. Learn the fundamentals of coaching practice and how set up and manage a successful coaching business.
Learn the theory and best practices required to lead an organization and how to help executives develop the strategic leadership skills and tactics to navigate complex organizations and challenging business environments. Learn how to use a wide range of assessment tools with your coachees / clients, to help them assess their leadership competencies and development needs. Learn how advise your clients on planning and managing their leadership career pathway, and the skills and tools they need to set about building a high performance organization.
- Level: H-R / Learning and Development Professionals and Senior Managers seeking a career change.
- Courses: 8 (see course details below)
- Learning: On Demand 24/7
- Assessment: 1 M/C Examination of 120 questions. Time allocation 120 minutes. (2 re-sits permitted free of charge)
- CPD Hours: 160 Hours (each course takes approx. 20 hours to complete)
- Duration: 6 Months (avg. time to complete 3 months)
- Certification: Global Certified Professional Credential
- Role Fit: Executive / Leadership Coach
KEY BENEFITS
On completing the Professional Diploma in Executive Coaching, you will be awarded Professional Credentials which verify your knowledge and expertise in coaching, and best practices in executive leadership and strategic management. You will have access to, and be able to use a wide range of assessment tools with your clients, to help them identify their leadership and management competencies, and you will have the knowledge to help them navigate successfully through complex organizational, cultural and interpersonal challenges. You will also be able to guide your clients through a program of self-development and planning learning, to fully realize their career ambitions, using tools provided in the program. Finally, you will be able to share your credentials (your certificate and badges) with your peers and prospective clients on social media.
PROGRAM CONTENT
The program comprises the following courses:
COURSE 1: FOUNDATIONS IN COACHING
This course helps managers and H-R professionals develop the skills and knowledge to plan for and implement coaching sessions with their employees, and with teams. Learn about the best coaching models to use, and the skills of on-to-one coaching and helping employees develop their skills and capabilities.
COURSE 2: EXECUTIVE COACHING IN PRACTICE
Successful Executive Coaching requires a distinctive approach and a distinctive set of skills and techniques. This highly popular course will help you develop your skills in designing, planning and carrying out a structured executive coaching program, and will help you elevate your profile and reputation with key corporate clients.
COURSE 3: PROFESSIONAL COACHING SKILLS
This course provides learners with the essential toolkit of coaching skills, and you will learn how to apply a comprehensive range of tools to plan, and deliver coaching to a your team, and to individuals across different roles and management levels. In addition, you will also learn how to evaluate outcomes of coaching, and how to evaluate your own effectiveness as a coach.
COURSE 4: EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP THEORY
In this course, you will gain a comprehensive insight into leadership theories, and their application in differing business and public sector organizations. In addition, you will find many practical tools and techniques to help assess your leadership approach, knowledge and the practices applied in your own organization, to identify and evaluate opportunities for transformation.
COURSE 5: EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP IN PRACTICE
This post-graduate level course is designed for experienced senior managers seeking to acquire a comprehensive insight into their own leadership capabilities and performance, and to develop the skills to extend strategic leadership across the organization.
COURSE 6: EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE FOR LEADERS
Leaders with high levels of emotional intelligence have an advantage over their less well-equipped counterparts. EI can help you to develop empathy and understanding about other people and this is crucial to the ability to inspire, influence, motivate, and persuade them in a management or leadership role. In this course, we explore the key elements of emotional intelligence, and look at Daniel Goleman’s six leadership styles, and how you can use emotional intelligence in applying these different styles to your work situations.
COURSE 7: BUILDING A HIGH-PERFORMANCE ORGANIZATION
High-Performing organizations achieve higher levels of revenue generation, profitability, higher returns for investors, and display higher levels of employee retention, motivation and productivity. In this courses, you will learn about the elements of leadership and management (the levers) which can be applied to build a high performing organization. Learn how to develop and plan for significant organizational interventions which will enhance business performance and help advance your leadership career.
COURSE 8: MANAGING A SUCCESSFUL COACHING BUSINESS
Get your Coaching Business off to a great start with this Global course in MANAGING A COACHING BUSINESS. In this course, designed for experienced H-R professionals, learning and development specialists, and leaders seeking a career change, you will learn how to plan for and roll-out a successful coaching business. You will learn how to establish a set-up a coaching business, which uses best practice technologies for engagement with clients and coachees and learn about the systems and resources to utilize to sustain and grow your business online. You will also learn how to scale up and grow your coaching business, and best practice marketing techniques to apply to attract customers locally, regionally, and globally.
CAREER AND PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
Graduates of the Global Professional Diploma in Executive Coaching are prepared to:
- Coach senior executives and leadership teams
- Support leadership transitions and succession planning
- Design and deliver executive coaching programs
- Build or expand an independent executive coaching practice
- Enhance leadership effectiveness within their own organizations
The Diploma in Executive Coaching supports both career advancement and professional reinvention, offering long-term value across diverse leadership and consulting roles.
SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
On completion of the courses in this program, you will be able to:
- Apply evidence-based coaching models and practices in executive contexts.
- Design and deliver structured executive coaching programs tailored to C-Level clients.
- Use assessment tools to evaluate leadership competencies and identify development needs.
- Guide executives in planning and managing their personal and professional growth.
- Reflect on their effectiveness as a coach and continuously improve their practice.
- Build credibility as a professional executive coach with recognized credentials.
- Develop a performance focus
- Apply strategic thinking techniques
- Create engagement with corporate strategy
- Apply strategic theory to decision making
- Advise clients on how to effectively use a range of leadership styles
- Advise clients on the core leadership theories required of an executive level manager
- Understand and successfully apply action-centered leadership
- Help clients apply transformational leadership theory effectively
- Understand organization structures
- Know how organization structures influence workforce culture
- Advise leaders on how to influence organization culture to improve workforce productivity
- Understand the core theories on organization culture
- Guide clients on Planning personal leadership develop needs
- Guide leaders on know how to shape organization culture
- Guide leaders on how to promote a learning culture
- Guide leaders on how how to use situational leadership
- Guide leaders on how how to use servant leadership
- Guide leaders on how how to create a compelling organization vision to inspire staff commitment
- Guide leaders on how to communicate direction and strategic priorities to the wider organization
- Guide leaders on how apply ethical principles and how to lead with integrity
- Understand coaching theory
- Know how to use the GROW Coaching model
- Know how to use the OUTCOMES Coaching model
- Use a range of coaching skills with clients
- Know how to help clients identify leadership and performance problems
- Help clients plan for performance improvement
- Coach clients to improve performance
- Help clients prepare individual performance plans
- Overcome barriers to coaching in an organization
- Evaluate the outcomes of coaching programs
- Apply Kirkpatrick’s evaluation model
- Apply a range of formative questioning skills
- Apply a range of listening skills to coaching engagements
- Help clients set goals for their development
- Manage confidentiality in coaching programs
- Manage contractual engagements between coaches and clients
- Sell your coaching services to clients
- Manage successful commercial relationships with clients.
Why Earn a Global Professional Diploma in Executive Coaching?
Earning a Global Professional Diploma in Executive Coaching provides more than knowledge—it delivers professional credibility and applied capability. This Diploma in Executive Coaching is designed to align with international best practices and the real expectations of executives and organizations.
Key reasons to choose this program include:
- A structured and comprehensive learning pathway
- Strong alignment with executive leadership realities
- Practical tools and assessment frameworks for immediate application
- Professional certification and shareable digital credentials
- Global relevance across industries and sectors
- Flexible, self-paced learning for working professionals
In a competitive market, a recognized Diploma in Executive Coaching helps differentiate professionals and signals a serious commitment to quality, ethics, and continuous development.
Enrol now and Gain the credentials you need to become a successful Executive Coach.
