Coach training covers accredited qualifications, courses and programmes for people becoming professional coaches, and for organisations building internal coaching capability. Programmes are accredited by bodies such as the ICF, EMCC, the Association for Coaching and ILM, at levels from introductory through to advanced practitioner and supervisor.
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Coaching Culture at Work (Culture at Work Ltd) is a London-based coach training and leadership development company founded by Carol Wilson.
It trains leaders and managers to coach, using the GROW model (Goal, Reality, Options, Will) and the Coaching for Performance approach it developed with Sir John Whitmore. In-house programmes run face to face, virtually or as a mix, and other courses cover coaching supervision, team development, lateral leadership, mindfulness, diversity and neuroscience in coaching, with a version for teachers. For individuals, its Executive Coach Training Course runs online over about two months, as four full days or six half days plus assessment. It also offers executive coaching sessions.
Fees are not published in text on its website. A limited number of half-price places on each open course go to state school teachers and charity staff. It states that the open course is accredited by the Association for Coaching (AC) and leads to an Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) Recognised credential, with ILM Level 5 and Level 7 credentials at extra cost. It displays an ILM Approved Centre logo and states that it has delivered programmes in 42 countries. Clients named in testimonials include IKEA, GE Healthcare, England Rugby, Arts Council England and several NHS trusts. Carol Wilson is a Fellow of the ILM and a former Head of Professional Standards and Excellence at the AC.
Coaching skills for managers, Executive and business coachICF Level 1AC, ILM
London, United KingdomNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
Catalyst 14 is a coach training and executive coaching company in London, founded by Damion Wonfor and incorporated in 2016.
It trains people to coach through three qualifications accredited by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC): a 6-month Foundation Certificate, a Diploma at Practitioner level lasting 14 to 15 months, and a 12-month Advanced Diploma at Senior Practitioner level for coaches who already hold Practitioner accreditation. Courses run face to face in London, at the Coram building near King's Cross, or online. It also runs a two-day introduction to coaching, a group coaching skills workshop, coach supervision groups, continuing professional development (CPD) events and mindfulness retreats. For organisations it offers Leader as Coach training and one-to-one, group and team executive coaching, online or in person.
Published fees, excluding value added tax (VAT), are £2,750 for the Foundation Certificate, £5,750 for the London Diploma, £4,950 for the online Diploma and £6,500 for the Advanced Diploma, each secured with a £750 deposit. Its website states that its programmes hold the EMCC European Quality Award and displays an Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) approved centre logo. Each year it gives pro bono coaching and coach training to charities, the National Health Service (NHS) and education, with current schemes for FareShare, Coram and Barnardo's.
Executive and business coach, Coaching skills for managersEMCC
Henley Business School is the business school of the University of Reading, founded in 1945, with campuses in Reading and Henley-on-Thames.
Its executive education is aimed at managers, senior leaders and board-level executives. It is offered as open programmes, custom programmes for organisations, apprenticeships at Levels 6 and 7, and Executive MBA and master's degrees. Coaching courses are run through the Henley Centre for Coaching. The Professional Certificate in Executive Coaching lasts nine months part-time, with three full-day workshops held at the Greenlands campus or live online, and asks for at least five years' management experience. Further certificates cover advanced coaching practice, team and systemic coaching and coaching supervision. The MSc in Coaching for Behavioural Change takes at least 30 months part-time.
The Professional Certificate costs £7,250 and the MSc £25,800, both exempt from VAT, or £18,550 for the MSc if the certificate has already been completed. The certificate is accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) at Level 1, the Association for Coaching (AC) and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) at Senior Practitioner level. The school states that it holds accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the Association of MBAs (AMBA) and the EFMD Quality Improvement System (EQUIS). It reports more than 7,000 students and 107,000 alumni. Henley Management College merged with the University of Reading in 2008.
Executive and business coachICF Level 1EMCC, AC, University
EQworks is a London-based executive coaching and emotional intelligence (EQ) training firm, trading through Red E4 Consulting Limited, set up in 2004.
It offers executive and leadership coaching, EQ testing for individuals and teams, EQ training webinars and workshops, team programmes and short-notice coaching for workplace problems such as improvement plans or communication breakdowns. Coaching is aimed mainly at senior executives, C-suite leaders and senior leadership teams. Sessions usually last 90 to 120 minutes and take place face to face, often at the client's office, or remotely on Microsoft Teams. Programmes start with at least 3 to 4 sessions over 4 to 10 weeks and typically run to 6 to 10 sessions, while its EQ mastery programmes run for at least 8 to 12.
Its own fees are not published; the fees page quotes general market ranges and offers a free trial. It uses the EQ-i 2.0 assessment and the Advanced Relationship Test, and displays a Certified EQ-i Assessor badge. Founder Philip Gimmack, a former management consultant for Oracle, KPMG, Cap Gemini and Accenture, states 25 years of coaching experience. Clients listed on the site include Deutsche Bank, Chevron, Nationwide and HM Revenue and Customs.
Renewal Associates is a coaching and leadership development firm in Bath, incorporated in 2010 and chaired by Professor Peter Hawkins.
It trains coaches in Systemic Team Coaching at Foundation, Certificate (Practitioner) and Diploma (Senior Practitioner) levels, online or in a hybrid format. The hybrid Certificate combines pre-work, a half-day webinar, a three-day in-person intensive and four group supervision sessions over six months. The online Certificate runs as eight monthly modules, and Diploma programmes last between 10 months and a year. It also runs coaching supervision training and retreats, and works with organisations on leadership, strategy and team development.
Prices are not published. Its website displays European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) and International Coaching Federation (ICF) accreditation logos for its programmes, along with an ISO 9001 quality badge. Several faculty members, including Dr Hilary Lines and Dr Catherine Carr, hold the ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential. The website states that Renewal Associates Ltd is moving its work, intellectual property and client relationships to a new company, Renewal International Ltd.
Team coach, Mentor or supervisorICF
Bath, United KingdomNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) is a UK professional body for management and leadership, founded in 1947 and based in Kettering.
It awards management and leadership qualifications from Level 2, for team leaders, to Level 8, for senior directors and chief executives, with additional subjects including leadership for artificial intelligence (AI) and sustainability leadership. Its qualification library also lists Level 7 qualifications in Leadership Coaching and Mentoring. Qualifications are delivered by CMI Approved Centres across the UK and through management apprenticeships, and learners receive CMI membership while they study. CMI also awards Chartered Manager status, which it says no other professional body can grant.
Individual membership is priced monthly: Friend is free, Subscriber costs £5 a month and Member £15 a month. Qualification prices are not published and are set through Approved Centres. CMI was founded as the British Institute of Management, received its Royal Charter in 2002 and is a registered charity in England and Wales (number 1091035). Its website reports a membership community of more than 230,000, over 12,000 Chartered Managers and 729 partners delivering its training and qualifications.
Boardroom Coaching is a division of Noble Manhattan Coaching, providing corporate and executive coaching to organisations and leaders worldwide. Services include executive coaching, talent coaching, team coaching, and coaching training, delivered through a hand-picked panel of Master Coaches and expert corporate and executive coaches. The practice is aimed at helping organisations and leaders develop, to support business growth.
Animas Centre for Coaching is a UK coach training school founded in 2008 by Nick Bolton, with all of its training delivered online.
Its main course, the Accredited Diploma in Transformative Coaching, is for people training as life, executive or internal coaches, and for those who want to use coaching in an existing role. It runs as six two-day live virtual modules in groups of up to 15. Students also get one-to-one mentoring from a coach credentialed by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), twice-monthly group supervision, observed practice and assessment, and have up to 12 months to complete. Animas also lists 12-week certificate programmes in existential, psychodynamic, Jungian and other coaching approaches, currently taking names for a waiting list.
The diploma costs £6,995 with no VAT charged, and some 2026 places are listed at £6,495. A £995 deposit secures a place, with the balance payable in full or in 10 interest-free instalments. Animas states that the diploma is accredited by the ICF at Level 2, by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) at Senior Practitioner level and by the Association for Coaching. Nick Bolton also founded the International Centre for Coaching Supervision, and Ruth Randall is chief executive.
Life and personal coach, Executive and business coachICF Level 2EMCC, AC
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom 4.3 (9)
Optimus Coach Academy is a coach training school based in London, set up in 2019 and run by Kudzi Coaching & Training Ltd.
It runs two coaching diplomas, both taught live online over Zoom with recordings, and neither needs previous coaching experience. The Associate Coach Diploma has 85 hours of training over four months, with weekly three-hour sessions and 10 hours of mentor coaching. The Professional Coach Diploma has 175 hours of training over about eight months, in groups of up to 14, also with 10 hours of mentor coaching. It also offers an Advanced Accreditation in Team Coaching, with monthly four-hour sessions over 9 to 10 months for up to 12 people, and shorter certifications in mentoring and in neurodiversity in coaching.
The Associate Coach Diploma costs £4,740 including value added tax (VAT), or six payments of £801.60. The Professional Coach Diploma costs £7,140 including VAT, or 12 monthly payments of £630, and the team coaching programme is £2,000 plus VAT. Optimus states that both diplomas are accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), at Level 1 and Level 2 respectively, by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) and by the Association for Coaching (AC). EMCC Global has announced a Practitioner-level EMCC Global Quality Award (EQA) for the Professional Coach Diploma. Its founder and course director, Ruth Kudzi, states she holds the ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC) credential.
Team coach, Mentor or supervisorICF Level 1, 2EMCC
The OCM is a UK executive coaching, coach training and apprenticeship provider, founded in Oxford in 1998.
For organisations, it provides executive coaching, team coaching and programmes to build internal coaching capability. Executive coaching contracts usually run to 12 hours over six to eight months, one-to-one in person or virtually, through a coach pool that includes coaches outside the UK.
It also runs coach-mentoring qualifications that it states are accredited by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC), from a 50-hour Certificate to a 150-hour Diploma and a course in coaching senior teams. It is an apprenticeship provider for the Coaching Professional Level 5 standard, rated Good by Ofsted in May 2023.
Mentor or supervisor, Coaching skills for managersEMCC
Human Technics is a UK coach training and coaching company, founded in 2004, with long-standing links to Bristol Business School.
Its main course is the Advanced Certificate in Executive Coaching, for practising coaches, human resources (HR) and learning and development staff, and managers who want to coach. Each programme has five workshop days, split into a three-day part and a two-day part about two weeks apart, with no more than 12 delegates. Most groups meet in person, and a few run over Zoom each year. Graduates can go on to the five-day Advanced Diploma in Transformational Coaching. For organisations, it trains internal coaches and mentors, and runs managed coaching programmes, in person for senior executives or online at larger scale.
The Advanced Certificate costs £2,975 plus value added tax (VAT) in person or £2,775 plus VAT over Zoom. That fee includes the Institute of Leadership Level 7 Certificate, and a Postgraduate Award from Bristol Business School, part of the University of the West of England, costs a further £995 plus VAT. The course states it is accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF). Human Technics states it has been the main provider of coaching and mentoring training for NHS England since 2012.
Executive and business coach, Coaching skills for managersILM, ICF, University
Change Formation is a people development and training company based in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, led by managing director Rob McWilliam.
It offers leadership development, management skills, communication and client relationship training, team development and executive coaching, with separate programmes for graduates, line managers and project managers. Its catalogue includes masterclasses and workshops on change, coaching skills, feedback and hybrid working. Executive coaching is open to anyone from junior managers to senior leaders and usually runs as up to six sessions over six to nine months, drawing on Insights Discovery and Appraisal 360. All services can be delivered in person or online.
Prices are not published, and a free 15-minute consultation call is offered. It states that it is an Approved Centre for the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) and offers the ILM Level 3 Award in Leadership and Management. Its website also displays the logo of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC). Published case studies include work for Paxton, Ericsson, CGG and Siemens PSE.
ILM
Burgess Hill, West Sussex, UKNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
