invite CHANGE

Invite CHANGE

Coach Training & Certification

Sustainable Change, Personal Effectiveness, and Professional Growth

Make a difference in the world as a professional coach. Be a passionate champion of the human spirit, living and working congruently within the framework of your unique and essential vision, purpose and values.

An International Coach Federation (ICF) Accredited Coach Training Program (ACTP) offers:

  • A minimum of 125 hours of coach-specific training
  • Training on all ICF Core Competencies and the ICF Code of Ethics
  • A minimum of 6 observed-coaching sessions with an experienced coach
  • A comprehensive final exam that evaluates a student's coaching competency
  • Director of Training holding the MCC credential

Certified graduates of an ACTP program may apply for an ACC or PCC credential; choice is based upon number of client coaching hours accumulated [ACC=100 and PCC=750].

Download Imagine You a Professional Coach

Imagine You a Professional Coach

As leaders in the coaching profession we’ve been training professional coaches since 1997 as an ICF Accredited Coach Training Program and Continuing Coaching Education provider.  We pioneered experiential adult learning processes in the field of professional coaching. The inviteCHANGE-learning environment welcomes participants to celebrate personal experience and wisdom as a foundation for learning the competencies of transformative coaching.  Every module of our courses and programs invites co-creation and partnership with Faculty who are all holders of ICF Credentials and practitioners of professional coaching.

Participants also enjoy flexibility and innovation in our delivery options, including web-based course rooms with audio and video capabilities. Experience the power of tailored, intimate learning in groups that we promise will never exceed more than nine participants per instructor.

We offer three choices for ICF accredited training that leads to a certificate from inviteCHANGE and preparation for earning an ICF credential.

  1. Certified Professional Coach — Confidence, professionalism and credibility: this highly tailored coach education program delivers all of these results. You will gain an outstanding foundation in the ICF core competencies and how to apply the coaching approach to create conscious, sustainable change for clients. Be well prepared for an exciting career as an ICF credentialed, professional coach.
    [Satisfies ICF-PCC credential requirements: 129 contact learning hours, 10 mentor coach hours, written exam and oral demonstration provided by inviteCHANGE]
  2. Certified Professional Coach AUS — In collaboration with our affiliate partner, Antioch University Seattle, a joint certificate program is available. In addition to all the courses in the Certified Professional Coach program describe above, the joint certificate program offers participants an opportunity to learn and apply the principles of professional coaching toward a social justice focus in a local community, supporting an otherwise underserved population that will benefit from receiving professional coaching. Adding the context of social justice as the domain for applying the art, science and practice of professional coaching prepares participants to sustain engagement with these populations after program completion. An Independent Applied Learning experience is planned and completed over a four to six month period with the support of a dedicated faculty member functioning in an advisory capacity every step of the way. Depending on the project design, the experience may also satisfy some of the Coaching Mastery requirements (for a personal project) and strengthen competence in serving community through professional coaching. The tuition for this joint certificate program is $12,000. Upon completion, participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from Antioch University Seattle and inviteCHANGE. To obtain admissions and registration information, please contact the inviteCHANGE Participant Services & Enrollment Manager at 1-877-228-2622, Ext. 102. You may also contact Debra Alderman, Antioch University Seattle Director of Continuing Education at 206-268-4118.
  3. Credentialed Coach Pathway Training Program — For practitioner coaches ready to expand impact, strengthen skills and be well prepared for earning an ICF credential, the first and leading global standard for professional coaching.
    [60 contact learning hours; also satisfies ICF requirement for 10 mentor coach hours]