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Executive Coaching Diploma Program

Fall 2025 Application
Executive Coaching Certificates

Foundational skills. Advanced Training.

Designed for those interested in further developing and formalizing their current coaching skills to adapt themselves, their teams, and their organizations to an ever-changing and complex environment. The Executive Coaching Diploma consists of two parts ─ the Executive Coaching Foundations Certificate and the Advanced Executive Coaching Certificate ─ and provides participants with the training and mentor coach hours needed for the Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential through the International Coach Federation (ICF).

Executive Coaching Diploma

  • Executive Coaching Foundations Certificate

    Create the foundation to become an effective leadership coach by learning the basic theory of coaching (mindset), expanding the range of responses available to you as an executive coach (toolset), and deepening your ability to coach effectively (skillset).

  • Advanced Executive Coaching Certificate

    Enhance your ability to coach your clients, companies, and communities within the context of root dynamics versus surface-level symptoms by enhancing your understanding of neuroscience, psychoanalytic theory, and family of origin dynamics.

  • Maximum Cohort Size

    1:6 learning advisor to participant ratio

  • CCE Credits

    by the International Coaching Federation (ICF)

  • Coaching Diploma Investment

    Virtual (Foundations $5,000 + Advanced $6,000) & In-Person (Foundations $5,500 + Advanced $6,500)

Coaching Dates

Note: Sessions will run on campus on Thursdays 1-5:30pmET and Fridays 9a-2:30pmET

Foundations Coaching ($5,500)

  • Module 1 Foundational Coaching Skills: October 24-25, 2024
  • Module 2 Mindset. Toolset. Skillset: November 21-22, 2024
  • Module 3 Client Growth: December 13-13, 2024

Advanced Coaching ($6,500)

  • Module 4 Brain-Based Coaching: February 6-7, 2025
  • Module 5 Family Systems: March 6-7, 2025
  • Module 6 Psychodynamics & Multi-Perspective Coaching: April 3-4,2025

The 2024-2025 In-Person registration is now closed.

Foundations Coaching ($5,000)

  • Module 1 Foundational Coaching Skills: January 10-11, 2025
  • Module 2 Mindset. Toolset. Skillset: February 7-8, 2025
  • Module 3 Client Growth: February 28 – March 1, 2025

Advanced Coaching ($6,000)

  • Module 4 Brain-Based Coaching: April 4-5, 2025
  • Module 5 Family Systems: May 2-3, 2025
  • Module 6 Psychodynamics & Multi-Perspective Coaching: June 6-7, 2025

The Spring 2025 registration is now closed.

Foundations Coaching ($5,000)

  • Module 1: Foundational Coaching Skills: July 18-19, 2025
  • Module 2: Mindset. Toolset. Skillset: August 22-23, 2025
  • Module 3: Client Growth: September 19-20, 2025

Advanced Coaching ($6,000)

  • Module 4: Brain-Based Coaching: October 17-18, 2025
  • Module 5: Family Systems: November 14-15, 2025
  • Module 6: Psychodynamics & Multi-Perspective Coaching: December 12-13, 2025

The Fall 2025 application and payment deadline is May 30, 2025. Maximum cohort size is 36. Enrollment in the course is not guaranteed until payment is received. The cohort will close once we reach 36 paid enrollments regardless of the application and/or payment deadline. 

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Learning Objectives

  • Ideal for

    Mid-career or senior professionals in general management, human resources, consulting, education or mental health services.
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    Outcomes

    Establish yourself as a change agent to facilitate team member growth within your organization or create the foundation for your own coaching practice.
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    Accreditation

    Earn 80 CCEs and earn the training and mentor coach hours needed for the Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential through ICF.

Advanced Coaching

If you are interested in applying for the Advanced portion of the program only and have accumulated 30 ICF training hours within the last two years, please contact Learning Advisor, Heather Dufault.
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How it Works

The Executive Coaching Diploma consists of two parts: the Executive Coaching Foundations Certificate (3 modules) and the Advanced Executive Coaching Certificate (3 modules). All modules are delivered in a dynamic and interactive format to maximize impact and minimize career disruption. In addition, there is an interim learning curriculum in between each module which may consist of webinars, learning circles, peer coaching, client practicum, and/or reading (estimated 7-10 hours per interim module). Live online modules will take place on one Friday per month from 1:00pm – 5:30pm EST and one Saturday per month from 8:30am – 2:30pm EST. In-person sessions will run on campus on Thursdays, 1:00pm – 5:30pm EST, and Fridays, 9:00am – 2:30pm EST.

  • Executive Coaching Foundations Certificate

  • Module 1

    Foundational Coaching Skills
    This immersive, experiential and interactive module focuses on teaching and enhancing fundamental coaching skills using proven coaching techniques. Much time will be spent practicing coaching using real-life scenarios and receiving feedback from peers, instructors, and assigned executive coaches. This module is designed to expand your understanding of your coaching style and approach to working with clients.

  • Module 2

    Mindset. Toolset. Skillset.
    This module offers a continuation and consolidation of the basic theory of coaching (mindset) and an expansion of the range of responses and options available to executive coaches (toolset) and continued practice to deepen your abilities to coach effectively (skillset).

  • Module 3

    Client Growth
    This module focuses on designing behavioral practices and facilitating client growth. Using reflection and feedback to accelerate your coaching, you will spend time practicing coaching using real-life scenarios and receiving feedback from peers, instructors, and assigned executive coaches.

  • Advanced Executive Coaching Certificate

  • Module 4

    Brain-Based Coaching
    This module applies the unique and powerful lens of neuroscience to executive behavior and leadership style. You will learn about the general principles of the brain and practice advanced, specific, brain-friendly coaching inquiries to generate greater insights and deeper motivations for your clients to create new habits and achieve their goals. This module is designed to expand your knowledge about the general principles of the brain, the coach, and coachee brain to optimize coaching engagements.

  • Module 5

    Family Systems
    This module provides you with an understanding of the role and impact of family experience and systems in human behavior. A person’s family history has been described as one of the most impactful and least examined influences in psychology. This module offers a comprehensive framework and vocabulary for understanding family dynamics and the tools necessary to help clients explore, understand, and cope effectively with their individual history as it affects their personal and professional lives.

  • Module 6

    Psychodynamic & Multi-perspective Coaching
    This module will introduce fundamental concepts of psychoanalytic theory to enrich the practice of executive coaching. While this is not training on how to conduct psychotherapy, the teaching will focus on how you can use a psychoanalytic perspective and tools to enhance the coaching process, understand the dynamics of maintaining a helping relationship, and achieve more lasting change by addressing unconscious dynamics and conflicts. The concluding portion of the final module will consist of a review of all of the various coaching models presented in the program and an opportunity to integrate them in a final case conference discussion.

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Improve co-worker and client interactions, increase mindfulness, and enhance your ability to thoughtfully respond, make decisions, and thrive in an atmosphere that demands contextual awareness and empathy.
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  Executive Coaching Foundations Certificate Advanced Executive Coaching Certificate**
Duration 40 hours 40 hours
Investment*

$5,500 (In-Person)

$5,000 (Virtual)

$6,500 (In-Person)

$6,000 (Virtual)
Module 1 x  
Module 2 x  
Module 3 x  
Module 4   x
Module 5   x
Module 6   x

Emory Executive Education also offers special pricing for select constituents:

  • Goizueta Business School Alumni/Faculty/Staff
  • Emory University Alumni/Faculty/Staff
  • Government and Nonprofit
  • Veterans

Discounts may not be combined, and only one discount may be used.

**The Executive Coaching Foundations Certificate is a pre-requisite for the Advanced Executive Coaching Certificate. If you have already started your coaching journey, have accumulated 30 ICF training hours in the last two years, and are interested in applying for the Advanced Executive Coaching Certificate only, or want to deepen your understanding of brain-based coaching or family systems, please contact Heather Dufault to discuss your options.

Participant Insights

Alissa Twombly and Mariline Guise

Alissa Twombly, assistant director at Talent Development Consultant at EY, and Mariline Guise, certified executive coach- career and leadership at The Home Depot, discuss how much the Executive Coaching Diploma Program has helped them gain the necessary skills to excel in their careers.

Executive Coaching Diploma

Faculty Expertise

  • A Multi-Disciplinary Approach

    Emory Executive Education

    Executive Coaching Diploma

    Delivered in partnership with Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, School of Medicine, and School of Arts and Sciences, faculty impart their expertise in the areas of executive coaching, adult developmental, clinical psychology, family systems theory, psychiatry, behavioral sciences, neurology, psychoanalytic theory and practice, and internal (executive health) medicine.

  • Rick Gilkey, PhD

    Emory Executive Education

    Executive Coaching Diploma

    Rick Gilkey has the unique ability to help leaders move ahead by turning inward. Through focusing on their self-awareness, self-management, empathy, and social skills – i.e., emotional intelligence or “EQ” – in conjunction with their IQ, Rick presents a largely unbeaten path to leadership and organizational success. He is an expert in psychiatry and consulting, neuroimaging, and business management.

  • Charlie D’Amico

    Emory Executive Education

    Executive Coaching Diploma

    Charlie is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coach Federation and a member of the Association for Talent Development. Her deep, practical experience both in leadership development and in corporate consulting uniquely position her to understand the complexities and opportunities facing executives today, as well as understand the importance of return on investment of a leader’s most precious resource: time.

  • Garrick Isert

    Emory Executive Education

    Executive Coaching Diploma

    Garrick Isert loves helping leaders solve business and human capital challenges. He brings a wealth of corporate and consulting experience to help organizations better align the human element of business with strategy and execution to achieve success. He coaches leaders and teams to find clarity, achieve results, and lead authentically. He is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coach Federation (ICF).

  • Rod McCowan, PhD

    Emory Executive Education

    Executive Coaching Diploma

    Rod McCowan, a former White House Fellow, received his PhD in Strategy and Organizational Behavior with honors from IE Business School, IE University (Madrid, Spain) in 2020. He also earned an M.Sc. in Research Methodology in Management Science from IE Business School. Prior to joining the faculty at Emory as a non-tenure track professor in 2022, Dr. McCowan was a lecturer in the Management and Organizations area at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. His teaching and research interests lie at the intersection of strategy, organizational change and development, and strategic leadership, focusing on the development and outcomes of principled, strategic change leaders.

  • Crystal Fernando

    Emory Executive Education

    Executive Coaching Diploma

    Crystal Fernando is a global leader, executive coach and founder of WhatBox Partners; a consultancy focused on helping leaders and teams build the mindsets, confidence, and skills to thrive in a fast-evolving world. Crystal has advised leaders and teams in more than 20 countries with a focus on strategy, start-up growth, transformation, human-centered innovation, and creative performance culture. As a coach, and facilitator, Crystal specializes in helping executives and their teams navigate and thrive in a complex and evolving terrain. Crystal specializes in brain-friendly cultures, personal performance in a demanding world and is passionate about helping leaders to create a better tomorrow.

  • Marjorie Blum, PhD

    Emory Executive Education

    Executive Coaching Diploma

    Dr. Marjorie E. Blum has been a psychologist and coach with a thriving practice in Atlanta for more than 30 years. She founded the Center for Self Defined Leadership in order to increase the accessibility of systems thinking to executives and emerging professionals. Her accessible trainings and coaching are based in family and systems theory, promoting the understanding of oneself-in-organizations through family exploration and enhancing effective personal and organizational growth.

  • Nisha Shah, MD

    Emory Executive Education

    Executive Coaching Diploma

    Nisha Shah runs a busy private practice where she sees individuals as a psychiatrist, psychodynamic psychotherapist, psychoanalyst and coach. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry for the Emory School of Medicine and has been teaching for the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute for over a decade. She has a keen interest in group dynamics and is active member of both AK Rice and the American Balint Society. Her understanding of the unconscious dynamics involved in individual, member, and leadership role-taking in organizations has informed her work with Goizueta's Delta Leadership Coaching Fellows Program and MBA students for the past 8 years.

  • Learning Circle Advisors

    Emory Executive Education

    Executive Coaching Diploma

    Unique to Emory's Executive Coaching Diploma program, each participant is assigned an experienced ICF-credentialed mentor coach to facilitate a small-group learning circle. This approach deepens your learning and provides real-time feedback on your coaching.

Want to know more?

Please speak with Learning Advisor, Heather Dufault, to learn more about this course and discover how Emory Executive Education can meet your continuing education needs and professional development goals.
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