Become a Certified Executive Coach and Get the Tools You Need to Empower Leaders to Excel

Our Executive Coaching Certification Training will teach you how to have a pivotal role within an organization. You’ll learn how to assist business leaders to improve their effectiveness through enhanced communication, team management, ownership, stress management, and goal setting.

• 100% Accredited and 100% Online
• 15 Modules & 149 Units
• 30-hour training (self-paced online coursework + live sessions)
• Unlimited Live Sessions in our Zoom Classrooms with your Trainer
• Access to your trainer for help and feedback on what you’re learning
• Study at your own pace and start right now
• Lifetime access to your learning material
• Created from 25 years of international NLP training experience

Drive Lasting Results with GAPS – the iNLP Center’s Unique and Proven Coaching Model for Executive Clients

Our Executive Coach training explores the 3-part relationship of the Executive, the Team, and the Organization. Using NLP tools and coaching, you will support the executive client through their discovery of strengths, weaknesses, and most importantly solutions in their team, organization, and within themselves.

With the complexity of executive coaching situations and client roles, it is not surprising that there is no ‘one size fits all’ model of the coaching process that would adequately cover the myriad of possible scenarios that an Executive Coach could face. Because of this, you will learn the iNLP Center Executive Coaching GAPS model, which broadens this focus to include the needs and goals of both the executive, the Team, and the Organization.

Using GAPS (Generated Areas for Purposeful Strategy), you will acquire a targeted perspective of where your client’s resources should be directed. Our GAPS Assessment Tool will clarify the coaching focus as well as assess future progress to challenge your client to expand their own perspective of the 3-part relationship between themselves, their team, and the organization.

This self-paced Executive Coaching Certification training will challenge, stretch, and grow your abilities as a coach to build both competence as well as confidence.

• Overview of Executive Coaching
• Impact Area Assessment Tool – MAP THE GAPS
• High Level Communication Skills
• Company Culture of Learning & Personal Development
• Productivity, Output and Deliverables
• Congruence of Mission and Values
• Creativity and Problem Solving
• Goal Setting and Future Visioning

• Career Satisfaction and Support to Advance
• Leadership and Motivation
• Clarity of Objectives and Implementation
• Leveraging Strengths for Efficiency & Optimization
• Measuring Success
• Marketing Your Services as an Executive Coach
• Expansion Options for Impact

Module 1: Overview of Executive Coaching

This module defines Executive Coaching and explains its importance and value in the professional world.

After completing this module, you will understand the 3-part relationship of the Executive, their teams, and their organization. You will learn the GAPS model for the training, which defines the Impact Areas for Success that you will explore with your Executive clients.

Module 2: The Executive Coaching Process

This module sets up the structure of the Executive Coaching sessions so that you and your Executive client have a clear path forward.

After completing this module, you will use the Universal Coaching Model to frame the sessions while adhering to ethical standards in the coaching relationship. You will learn how to use the Impact Area Assessment Tool to identify GAPS or Goal Areas for Purposeful Strategy. NLP strategies for information gathering, such as Logical Levels and the Toward and Away Meta Program, will be prioritized.

Module 3: Communication & the Coaching Process

The module explores the first Impact Area for Success from the GAPS Assessment, Communication, and the importance of effective internal and external communication for success.

After completing this module, you will know how to coach your Executive client on Communication. You will have learned multiple pathways for your client to gain insights about how their communication impacts their team and the entire organization. You will have learned how to use Chunking for improved business communication.

Module 4: Company Culture of Learning & Personal Development

The module explores the second Impact Area for Success from the GAPS Assessment, Company Culture of Learning and Personal Development. 

After completing this module, you will have learned about the impact of valuing continued education and development within an organization. You will have learned how to leverage the NLP strategy of Negative Past versus Positive Future to support your Executive client’s growth and transformation.

Module 5: Productivity, Output and Deliverables

This module explores the third Impact Area for Success from the GAPS Assessment, Productivity, Output, and Deliverables. 

After completing this module, you will have explored how productivity and measurable output can drive the emotional state of the Executive client, their team, and the organization. You will have learned how to identify stuck states of belief around productivity. You will have learned how to leverage Resource Frames to support your clients into a mindset of possibility around what can be produced or generated.  

Module 6: Congruence of Mission and Values

This module explores the fourth Impact Area for Success from the GAPS Assessment, Congruence of Mission and Values. 

After completing this module,  you will have a deeper awareness of how congruence or the lack of congruence to an organization’s mission and values influences the actions, beliefs, and behaviors of team members’ commitment. You will learn how to use Perceptual Positions to offer insight to an Executive client into how the level of congruence to the organizational mission can drive successful momentum within a team or can cause a team to rapidly reduce cohesion and effectiveness.

Module 7: Goal Setting and Future Visioning

This module explores the fifth Impact Area for Success from the GAPS Assessment, Goal Setting, and Future Visioning. 

After completing this module, you will understand the connection between the mindset of an Executive client and their capability to communicate the goals and vision of the organization to their team. You will learn how to use goal-focused communication to empower your client. You will also learn ho

Module 8: Creativity and Problem Solving

This module explores the sixth Impact Area for Success from the GAPS Assessment, Creativity and Problem Solving. 

After completing this module, you will understand how the ability to creatively problem-solve, impacts every level of an organization. You will learn how to use Inverse Problem-Solving as a strategy to support your client in their solution-finding. You will learn how to engage your clients to discover creative solutions they may have been previously unaware of. 

Module 9 – Career Satisfaction and Support to Advance

This module explores the seventh Impact Area for Success from the GAPS Assessment, Career Satisfaction, and Support to Advance. 

After completing this module, you will recognize the level of influence that an Executive has on the morale and career satisfaction of an organization’s team members. You will learn how to use the NLP 12 States of Attention framework to bring insight to an Executive client on how their team views their future in the organization. You will explore what is possible for the organization as a whole when its environment supports growth opportunities.

Module 10 – Leadership and Motivation

This module explores the eighth Impact Area for Success from the GAPS Assessment, Leadership and Motivation.

After completing this module, you will have a deeper understanding of the distinctions between doing the leadership actions versus being and embodying the leader. You will learn about the States of Leadership and its effect on a team within an organization. You will learn how to empower your Executive client with multiple options to access their chosen state to lead and motivate others from.

Module 11 – Clarity of Objectives and Implementation

This module explores the ninth Impact Area for Success from the GAPS Assessment, Clarity of Objectives, and Implementation.

After completing this module, you will have an expanded awareness of how flexibility to pivot when changes are happening in the marketplace is a valued skill of Executives. You will learn how to empower your Executive client to change plans of action when necessary to accomplish objectives. You will learn how to use Timeline to influence response to future potential change.

Module 12 – Leveraging Strengths for Efficiency and Optimization

This module explores the tenth and final Impact Area for Success from the GAPS Assessment, Leveraging Strengths for Efficiency and Optimization.

After completing this module, you will recognize the opportunities that exist across the spectrum of an organization to increase efficiency, when strengths are leveraged from every team member by the Executive. You will learn how to support your Execitive client, to connect to their inner strengths and resources. You will also learn how to empower your client with Self-Anchoring techniques to serve them in the future to leverage their strengths.

Module 13 – Measuring Success

This module explores measuring the progress of the coaching journey with the Executive client with the use of the Area of Impact Assessment Tool.

After completing the module, you will understand the value to an Executive client or their sponsoring organization, of identifying measurements of growth. You will learn how to use the assessment tool to map out focused action for the Executive client to prioritize in the future. You will learn how to leverage the results of the reassessment to celebrate your client’s internal and external growth.

Module 14 – Expansion Options for Impact

This module highlights the options that are available for an Executive client to integrate what they’ve learned from their coaching journey by sharing their insights with others in their organization or industry.

After completing this module, you will have additional support options to continue your coaching relationship with your Executive client on a new level, if they choose to share their learning from the coaching journey. You will learn how to broaden their perspective. You will learn how to support your client in their efforts to have a deeper impact on their organization or their industry.

Module 15 – Marketing Your Services as an Executive Coach

This module outlines the multiple avenues that an Executive coach can serve, both internally for an organization or externally. 

After completing this module you will have a broader perspective of opportunities that exist for Executive coaches. You will learn the advantages of serving as an internal or external coach. You will learn how to outline confidentiality with your Executive clients and their sponsors.  You will learn multiple ways to leverage media and outreach efforts to build your brand as an Executive coach.