Let's create a new language of leadership, together!
For the last 30 years the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI) has been offering the gold-standard in coach training and leadership development for individuals and organizations. Now we are creating a new language of leadership. Let's do this together.
Coach Training
Co-Active Professional Coach Training
Co-Active Professional Coach Training is widely recognized as the most rigorous professional coach training and certification program in the industry. As the largest and most established professional coach training organization in the world, CTI has trained over 145,000 coaches, including employees in more than a third of the Fortune 100 companies.
This coach training program will prepare you to coach anyone with confidence, on any topic, supported by the Co-Active Model, which is known as the most flexible and proven model in the coaching world.
After completing Co-Active Fundamentals and Co-Active Coach Training, you will be ready to continue your path to coaching mastery through the Co-Active Professional Coach Certification program. After completing Certification, you will be eligible to earn the prestigious designation of Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), respected worldwide as the gold standard of coaching.
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50% of Coaches
Each year, over 50% of new professional coaches are trained by CTI.
145,000+ Trained
CTI has trained over 145,000 coaches, consultants, and leaders worldwide.
Fortune 100
CTI has trained employees in more than a third of Fortune 100 companies.
ICF Accredited
Our Co-Active Coach Certification is accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF).
Becoming a Professional Coach
Step 1
Co-Active Fundamentals
PREREQUISITE: NONE
Co-Active Fundamentals is the introduction to the Co-Active Model and the first coaching course in the Co-Active Coach Training series. With a focus on experiential participation, you have numerous opportunities to coach and receive feedback on your newly acquired coaching skills. This course can be taken stand-alone and is recommended for anyone seeking practical systems for managing relationships with others, even if your goal is not to become a professional coach.
Step 2
Intermediate Co-Active Coach Training
PREREQUISITE: CO-ACTIVE FUNDAMENTALS
Intermediate Co-Active Coach Training builds on the learning from Co-Active Fundamentals with a series of four courses that explore essential coaching principles: Fulfillment, Balance, Process, and Synergy. This immersive level of training fosters expansive development, at both a personal and professional level. You will establish a reliable coaching framework and gain competency in Co-Active coaching—one of the fastest-growing, most in-demand leadership skills.
Step 3
Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC)
PREREQUISITE: CO-ACTIVE FUNDAMENTALS + COACH TRAINING
This 6-month online program deepens your mastery of coaching and makes you eligible to earn official professional coaching certification with the International Coach Federation (ICF). Weekly sessions build on each other as you hone your skills under the supervision of professional coaches, build your coaching business, and become fully prepared to earn your Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) designation, one of the most highly respected and sought-after certifications in the coaching industry.
How to Get Started
this course, you’ll receive a full refund.In-Person or Online Training?
Are you trying to decide which learning modality works best for you? Over the years we've asked our participants about their experience in both our in-person and online courses and we put together this simple information sheet. Explore the benefits of each modality to determine which works best for you.
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The Experience
Training experts
Every course is co-led by two talented, and highly skilled, experiential trainers who are experts in serving the people and context in front of them—keeping content relevant and real, because coaching happens in the real world.
Innovative learning
No seated lectures! Instead, you will practice, embody, and remember the skills you are learning, through the innovative Co-Active experiential learning process, which is scientifically proven to make learning stick.
Coaching confidence
We offer training that’s designed to give you an experience of yourself coaching and leading others with fluidity and confidence, in any coaching situation and for any topic. Experience coaching confidence that comes from being supported by the renowned Co-Active Model.
New perspective
Experience transformation in the way you relate to, and work with, other people—empowering them as naturally creative, resourceful and whole, capable of finding answers to their own challenges.
Credentials
The certification program grants you the recognized Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) credential and also qualifies you to apply for your Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential through the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
We believe the best coaches have an advanced standard of education, which is why our coach training programs significantly exceed the minimum education requirements set by the ICF. A CTI-trained coach receives the highest quality of coach training available, and our Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) credential denotes that a coach has achieved an unmatched level of mastery.