Enhance your career with executive coach training

Fast-track your career with the Practitioner Diploma in Executive Coaching

As an ambitious professional on the path to senior leadership, you understand that effective management is about more than delivering results - it’s about connecting with people, nurturing their potential and inspiring them to excel.

Our popular, triple-accredited Practitioner Diploma in Executive Coaching equips you with the skills to lead with empathy and strategic insight, fostering a work environment where communication, trust and motivation thrive. This programme transforms your approach to leadership and working with others, teaching you how to listen deeply, engage meaningfully and empower others to find their own solutions.

Coaching isn’t just a management tool; it’s a mindset that builds resilient, adaptable leaders capable of navigating complexity and change with confidence. By developing your own coaching model, you gain self-awareness and refine your leadership style, unlocking personal growth that extends beyond your current role. Whether you aim to enhance your impact at work or envisage a future shift to independent coaching, this diploma offers the transferable skills and perspective to make it happen.

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How you will learn

Our Practitioner Diploma programme is available virtually and in-person in London. A virtual weekend programme is also available once a year.

The programme is spaced out across 5-6 months. Three 2-day modules are held approximately six weeks apart and the course includes an assessment day and is supported by an e-learning programme.

The programme’s experiential, highly practical style of learning is shared through expert coach faculty-led sessions with skills practise in small groups with your peers.

You will learn about the theory and put this into action working with at least two practice clients as part of the programme using a comprehensive range of tools and techniques to help you develop your own personal coaching model.

This Diploma programme is also available to teams within organisations and through some of our AoEC Global Partners.

Price: Programmes running virtually cost £5,770 + vat and those running in-person in London are £5,995 + vat.

Please see individual Global Partner webpages for their pricing.

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How we can help

We provide a range of coach training opportunities no matter where you are on your coaching journey, to individuals and organisations and have a global capacity.

Offering the highest quality experiential training, our programmes are rigorous and uphold ethical and professional competencies to meet the standards set by several professional bodies.

Is coaching your calling?

Coaching skills aren’t just for work, they are important life skills too. They are also universally transferable and can give you the self-belief and confidence to go for promotions, stretch assignments or even a side-step in your career.

The key coaching skills such as listening and questioning help you become better at communicating as they enable you to have better quality conversations in the workplace.

Importantly, they also help you become a better people manager as you promote the growth and development of those who report to you. It can offer you more meaningful and satisfying work where you get to use your special gifts of empathy, emotional intelligence, business acumen and curiosity as you support others to realise their own worth and ambitions.

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