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Executive Coaching Certification Program (ECCP)

Executive Coaching Certification Program - ECCP

Develop Leaders. Coach Transformation. Expand Your Professional Impact.

Become a Certified Executive Coach for Leadership Development

Today’s organizations need more than traditional coaches. They need trusted advisors who understand people, leadership, culture, organizational systems, and change.

IOD’s Executive Coaching Certification Program (ECCP) is designed for Organization Development, Human Resources, Leadership Development, Talent Management, and Learning & Development professionals, consultants, and experienced leaders who want to transition into Executive Leadership Coaching or add Executive Leadership Coaching to their existing professional practice.

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PROFESSIONAL TRANSFORMATION

Move From OD or HR Professional to Trusted Executive Coach

ECCP combines proven Leadership Development coaching practices with IOD's Organization Development approach, preparing you to coach not only the individual leader, but also the organizational system in which that leader works.

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Increase self-awareness and leadership effectiveness

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Navigate leadership and career transitions

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Lead organizational change and transformation

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Strengthen executive presence, emotional intelligence, and strategic thinking

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Build high-performing teams and cultures

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Develop resilience and adaptability

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Lead people through uncertainty and AI-driven disruption

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Translate leadership growth into organizational impact

Training Format:

Online
Facilitated Live with OD Experts

Price (USD)

$4,200

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Who Should Attend ECCP?

ECCP is especially valuable for professionals who understand people and organizations and want to add Executive Coaching to their professional capabilities.

  • Organization Development Professionals
  • Human Resources Professionals and HR Business Partners
  • Leadership Development and Learning & Development Professionals
  • Talent Management Professionals
  • Internal and External Consultants
  • Experienced Leaders and Executives
  • Independent Coaches and Consultants
  • Organizational Effectiveness and Culture Transformation Professionals
Why Choose the ECCP™

Many coaching programs focus primarily on the individual coaching conversation. IOD goes further. ECCP integrates Executive Coaching, Organization Development, Leadership Development, Systems Thinking, and Organizational Change, preparing participants to understand both the leader and the organizational environment in which leadership occurs.

  • 40 coach-training credits/hours supporting the ICF ACC credential pathway
  • ICF-aligned coaching competencies and ethical practices
  • Executive Coaching Strategic Plan
  • Coaching Questions and Discussion Guidelines
  • Executive Coaching toolkit and practical application
  • Live virtual learning with experienced faculty
  • Global learning and professional community
What Credits Can I Earn?

Graduates receive:

  • The Executive Coaching Certified Professional — ECCP™ designation
  • IOD Certificaton
  • Digital credential and professional badge
  • 31 ICF Core Competency Credits and 9 Resource Development Credits
  • 24 Continuing education credits for ATD, SHRM, HRCI, where applicable 
  • Six-month complimentary GIODN membership
  • Access to IOD tools and professional resources
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PRACTICAL DEVELOPMENT

Learn Through Practice

Build practical Executive Coaching capability through observation, real coaching conversations, feedback, reflection, and supervised practice.

Coaching Demonstrations

Observe coaching demonstrations and examine the behaviors and approaches of effective coaches.

Coaching Labs

Practice coaching through structured exercises, coaching labs, and real-world coaching conversations.

Feedback & Development

Receive feedback from faculty, peers, and coaching partners to strengthen your coaching practice.

Reflective Practice

Examine your coaching presence, assumptions, strengths, and developmental needs through reflection.

Supervised Coaching

Apply your learning through supervised coaching practice with real coaching clients.

Integrated Application

Integrate Coaching, Leadership, and Organizaton Development through practice.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

What You Will Learn

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Apply Executive Coaching Processes

Use a professional coaching process and establish effective coaching agreements.

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Practice Ethical Coaching

Demonstrate an ICF-aligned coaching mindset, ethics, and professional presence.

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Build Trust & Psychological Safety

Create trusted coaching relationships that support open and meaningful dialogue.

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Lead Powerful Coaching Conversations

Use questioning, listening, reflection, feedback, and accountability effectively.

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Coach Behavioral Change & Transitions

Help leaders navigate behavioral change, career transitions, and expanded responsibilities.

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Strengthen Leadership Capability

Develop emotional intelligence, executive presence, strategic thinking, agility, and resilience.

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Use Leadership Assessments

Apply assessments, competency models, and leadership development tools.

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Create Executive Development Plans

Translate coaching insights into measurable executive development goals and actions.

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Apply Systems Thinking

Use an OD perspective to understand leaders within their organizational systems.

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Coach Through Transformation

Support leaders through organizational change, uncertainty, and transformation.

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Integrate Coaching & Talent Strategy

Connect coaching with leadership development, talent, and succession strategies.

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Build Enterprise Coaching Programs

Design internal coaching programs and evaluate their leadership and organizational impact.

How You'll Develop Your Expertise
Program Overview
Career Opportunities with ECCP

The ECCP™ is designed around experiential learning because effective Executive Coaches develop their expertise through observation, practice, feedback, reflection, and real coaching experience, not lectures alone. Throughout the program, you will strengthen your coaching capabilities through:

Real Executive Coaching Case Studies

Analyze leadership and organizational challenges and explore how coaching can support leadership effectiveness, transitions, behavioral change, and transformation.

Supervised Coaching Practice

Complete structured coaching practice with real clients, applying Executive Coaching skills while building confidence, presence, and professional capability.

Executive Coaching Simulations

Practice coaching conversations through demonstrations, coaching labs, role plays, and realistic leadership scenarios.

Interactive Learning

Participate in facilitated discussions, peer coaching, reflection, feedback, and collaborative exercises that strengthen your coaching approach.

Expert Faculty Feedback

Receive observation, feedback, and guidance from experienced faculty as you develop your coaching presence, questioning, listening, feedback, and accountability skills.

Capstone Coaching Experience

Demonstrate your Executive coaching capability by creating an executive coaching strategy implementation plan.

Practical Executive Coaching Tools

  • Executive Coaching Models
  • Powerful Questioning Techniques
  • Leadership Assessments and 360° Feedback
  • Competency Models
  • Executive Development Plans
  • Coaching Impact Measures

ECCP Overview

The ECCP program includes:

  • Eight live virtual sessions
  • Three hours per session
  • Interactive instruction
  • Small-group activities
  • Consulting demonstrations
  • Real organizational case studies
  • Practical assignments
  • Coaching and feedback
  • Tools and learning resources

ECCP can help you expand your current role, move into a dedicated coaching role, or build a broader consulting practice.

  • Executive Coach or Leadership Coach
  • Internal Executive Coach
  • Executive Development Coach
  • Leadership Development Consultant or Manager
  • Organization Development Consultant
  • HR Business Partner with coaching specialization
  • Talent Development or Organizational Effectiveness Leader
  • Executive Advisor
  • Independent Coaching Consultant
  • Culture Transformation or Leadership Strategy Consultant
  • Enterprise Coaching Program Leader

The Role of the Executive Coach

Why Leadership Coaching Is Valuable to Organizations

Leadership has become increasingly complex. Executives are being asked to lead through artificial intelligence, workforce disruption, talent shortages, organizational transformation, employee disengagement, competing stakeholder expectations, and continuous uncertainty. Traditional leadership training alone cannot address these challenges.

  • Build stronger leadership capability and executive decision-making
  • Accelerate leadership transitions and prepare future leaders
  • Strengthen resilience, accountability, engagement, and retention
  • Support succession planning and organizational change
  • Build coaching cultures and high-performing leadership teams
  • Increase organizational adaptability and sustainable performance
Future-Focused Curriculum

Build the Capabilities to Coach Future-Ready Leaders

Develop the coaching, leadership, systems thinking, transformation, and enterprise capabilities needed to coach executives and strengthen leadership effectiveness across the organization.

Capability 01

Coaching Excellence

Build expertise in executive coaching models, ethics, coaching presence, trust building, and powerful coaching conversations.

Capability 02

Leadership Development

Strengthen emotional intelligence, executive presence, strategic thinking, leadership agility, resilience, and overall leadership effectiveness.

Capability 03

Organization Development

Apply systems thinking to understand organizational effectiveness, culture, stakeholder dynamics, behavior, and organizational change.

Capability 04

Coaching Through Transformation

Coach leaders through change, transformation, uncertainty, organizational resilience, and AI-driven workforce disruption.

Capability 05

Human-Centered Leadership in the Age of AI

Strengthen self-awareness, judgment, empathy, trust, collaboration, adaptability, and meaning-making in changing workplaces.

Capability 06

Regenerative Leadership Coaching

Coach leaders toward stewardship, long-term thinking, sustainable outcomes, and greater people, organizational, and stakeholder well-being.

Capability 07

Enterprise Coaching Strategy

Build coaching cultures, internal coaching programs, leadership pipelines, succession development, and executive sponsor engagement.

Capability 08

Measuring Coaching Impact

Evaluate coaching outcomes, leadership behavior, stakeholder feedback, leadership effectiveness, and organizational and business results.

WEBINARS

Developing a Culture of Coaching Through an Aligned Executive Coaching Strategy (ECCP)

Attend this webinar to learn more about the ECCP program and how to become Certified as an Executive Coach!

Webinars are 1 hour in duration, and can be watched on-demand

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IMPACT STORIES

Hear From Professionals Who Have
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Participants share how ECCP strengthened their coaching capabilities, expanded their professional perspectives, and prepared them to create greater leadership impact.

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★★★★★

I learned so much, both in my own development being on the receiving end of coaching, and in learning from our debrief. The coaching presence was phenomenal, as we modeled active listening, contracting, and a supportive process. In our debrief I learned the power of coaching the person (vs. the problem) and gained new insights into the importance of transparency and the distinction between passive vs. directive questioning. Thank you for bringing this great benefit to the program!

Amanda Bennett

ECCP

Executive Coaching Certified Professional

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★★★★★

I have enjoyed the class discussions and learning about how others are currently doing things. Since there is so much information we covered, having the material that is provided to reflect back on and use in the future will be so helpful. We might not be in the position to implement some of them right now, but being able to go back and pull from will be so helpful. I personally have learned so much and have enjoyed planting seeds within my company and look forward to exciting things that will happen because of me taking this class.

Brandi Kluender

ECCP

Executive Coaching Certified Professional

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★★★★★

The Executive Coaching Certification Program through the Institute of OD has provided me with a practical, experience driven learning environment to enhance my coaching practice. Not only does the program provide guidance for how to build a coaching strategy and program, but it helped me to enhance my coaching skills by following the ICF Executive Coaching Core Competencies, using assessments and 360's, and focusing on how to establish a process for coaching. This program provides participants with the opportunity to practice coaching and receive coaching from certified practitioners. I was able to recognize the difference between coaching, facilitation and consulting and have been so pleased with the knowledge and tools I have gained from this course.

Lori Howard

ECCP

Executive Coaching Certified Professional

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Have Questions About the ECCP?

Explore common questions about the Executive Coaching Certification Program and what you can expect from the experience.

What is the Executive Coaching Certification Program (ECCP)?

ECCP is designed for professionals who want to transition into Executive Leadership Coaching or add Executive Leadership Coaching to their existing professional practice. It combines proven Leadership Development coaching practices with IOD's Organization Development approach, preparing participants to coach both the individual leader and the organizational system in which that leader works.

Who should attend ECCP?

ECCP is especially valuable for Organization Development professionals, Human Resources professionals and HR Business Partners, Leadership Development and Learning & Development professionals, Talent Management professionals, internal and external consultants, experienced leaders and executives, independent coaches and consultants, and Organizational Effectiveness and Culture Transformation professionals.

What will I learn in ECCP?

You will develop skills in Executive and Leadership Coaching, active listening and powerful questioning, building trust, feedback and accountability, executive presence and emotional intelligence, strategic thinking, leadership assessments, Executive Development Planning, coaching through change, systems thinking, team coaching, succession development, enterprise coaching strategy, and measuring coaching effectiveness.

How is ECCP different from a traditional coaching program?

Many coaching programs focus primarily on the individual coaching conversation. IOD goes further. ECCP integrates Executive Coaching, Organization Development, Leadership Development, Systems Thinking, and Organizational Change, preparing participants to understand both the leader and the organizational environment in which leadership occurs.

Does ECCP support the ICF ACC credential pathway?

Yes. ECCP provides 40 coach-training credits/hours that support your professional journey toward the International Coaching Federation's Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential.

Will completing ECCP automatically give me the ICF ACC credential?

No. Participants who intend to apply for an ICF credential should confirm and complete all current ICF education, experience, mentor coaching, performance evaluation, examination, and application requirements directly with ICF.

Does ECCP include practical coaching experience?

Yes. ECCP includes structured exercises, coaching labs, real-world coaching conversations, feedback from faculty, peers, and coaching partners, reflection, and 30 hours of supervised coaching practice with real coaching clients.

Will I learn to coach leaders through organizational change?

Yes. ECCP prepares you to help leaders navigate transformation, uncertainty, resistance, cultural change, and workforce disruption. The program also addresses change leadership, transformation coaching, organizational resilience, AI workforce transformation, and leading through uncertainty.

What career opportunities can ECCP support?

ECCP can help you expand your current role, move into a dedicated coaching role, or build a broader consulting practice. Career opportunities include Executive Coach or Leadership Coach, Internal Executive Coach, Executive Development Coach, Leadership Development Consultant or Manager, Organization Development Consultant, Executive Advisor, Independent Coaching Consultant, and Enterprise Coaching Program Leader.

How is ECCP delivered?

ECCP provides live virtual learning with experienced faculty. The learning process combines evidence-based coaching concepts, coaching demonstrations, structured practice, feedback, reflection, supervised coaching practice, practical assignments, and a culminating program experience.

Executive Coaching Certification Program

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The future belongs to Executive Coaches who understand leadership, people, organizations, systems, and change, and can help leaders navigate transformation, uncertainty, and the evolving world of work.

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ECCP prepares you to coach beyond individual performance by integrating Executive Coaching, Leadership Development, Organization Development, systems thinking, and transformation.

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