Become an Executive Coach
You will learn: what an executive coach does and how to do executive coaching, how to develop your skills to succeed as an executive coach, how to get hired for a job as an executive coach, and how to start your own executive coaching business and get clients.
What Happens in the Executive Coach Certificate Course
The Executive Coach Certificate course is an online learning program with suggested readings from the textbooks (IAP Career College Guide to Become a Life Coach and IAP Career College Guide to Become a Business Consultant). This course is self directed, which means you may study and complete assignments at times that are most convenient for you from the comfort of your own home.
This part-time Executive Coach Certificate Course has a recommended completion date of 6 weeks from the start of the program, however, you may choose to complete the course in as little as 4 weeks or as long as 12 weeks, depending on your schedule.
The Executive Coach Certificate Course has been created to allow you to complete it without any teaching assistance. However, if you have questions or need assistance, you can receive help from a Faculty Member throughout the 6 weeks of the course. Your Faculty Member is a valuable resource person who can provide you with personal teaching assistance to help you succeed in the course and advice to help you succeed in the career.
Course Topics
The Executive Coach Certificate Course has been developed to meet high academic standards, ensuring that as a graduate you can display with pride the Executive Coach Certificate you will earn from the International Association of Professions Career College.
The Executive Coach Certificate Course covers topics of vital importance to anyone who wants to become an Executive Coach including:
Introduction
- What is an Executive Coach?
- The Corporate Coaching Industry
- Considerations in Executive Coaching
- Developing Your Executive Coaching Skills
- Executive Coaching Specializations
How to Deliver Executive Coaching Services
- Conducting a Needs Analysis for a Corporate Client
- Establishing the Coach/Client Relationship
- Executive Coaching Techniques
- Ways to Deliver Executive Coaching Services
- Presenting Leadership Training Programs
Starting Your Own Executive Coaching Business
- Starting Executive Coaching Full-Time or Part-Time
- Creating a Business Plan
- Legal Matters for Executive Coaches
- Setting Up Your Executive Coaching Business
- Financial Matters for Executive Coaches
- Setting Your Executive Coaching Fees and Getting Paid
- Employing Others
Getting Executive Coaching Clients
- Choosing Your Target Markets
- Marketing Tools for Executive Coaching
- Marketing Techniques for Executive Coaches
- Creating Proposals for Corporate Clients
- Client Contracts
What Is Included in the Executive Coach Certificate Course Online
This all-inclusive Executive Coach Certificate Course package includes:
- Registration for the Executive Coach Certificate Course Online
- Access to a Faculty Member to provide you with personal teaching assistance and career advice
- (Optional) 2023-2024 membership in the IAPO International Association of Professional Executive Coaches for only $2.99 per month
- Downloadable Executive Coach Certificate personalized with your name and the seal of the International Association of Professions Career College which you may print
- (Optional) Opportunity to order official certificates printed on fine linen paper and embossed with the gold seal of the college
- Textbooks: IAP Career College Guide to Become a Life Coach and IAP Career College Guide to Become a Business Consultant (e-book editions)

Register for the Executive Coach Certificate Course
HOLIDAY SEASON SPECIAL
It’s easy to change or cancel your course registration. See our FAQ page for details.
You can have all this for an incredible price. It can cost hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars to take other programs. (We found courses based on old editions of our guides with registration fees of up to $999 and more.) We are able to offer you online courses at a significantly lower cost to you because of our expertise from over 20 years of producing the leading online guides for non-traditional careers.
Our online certificate courses have previously been offered for a registration fee of $297 U.S. and include a textbook and professional membership – a total value of almost $377.
HOLIDAY SEASON SPECIAL: This all-inclusive registration package for the Executive Coach Certificate Course is priced as only $149.00 for the December 11, 2023 course.
Register today for the Executive Coach Certificate Course. Enrollment is limited and registration is on a first come first served basis, so we recommend that you register early for the Executive Coach Certificate Course online to avoid disappointment.
If the course is full, please email support@iapcollege.com to be notified when a new course date is scheduled.
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How Much Money Do Executive Coaches Make?
Executive coaches can earn thousands of dollars per day, with a median fee of $500 per hour, according to Harvard Business Review.
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What Do Executive Coaches Do?
As an executive coach you could be hired by corporations to work with their chief executives or rising stars. You could influence C-level executives, young managers with high potential, or other employees in leadership positions important to the organization’s success. As an executive coach, you could advise executives on business matters and leadership skills. In addition, 76% of executive coaches surveyed by Harvard Business Review help their clients with personal matters such as life purpose and work/life balance.
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How Do You Become an Executive Coach?
Earning a certificate as an executive coach will equip you with the principles and techniques for becoming a professional executive coach. A certificate also provides evidence of your expertise, assurance of your professionalism, an important credential for your resume, a competitive advantage when marketing your services and higher earnings (according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics).
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What is the Executive Coach Certificate Course?
In IAP Career College’s part-time online Executive Coach Certificate Course you will earn certification as an executive coach and learn important principles and practical step-by-step techniques for getting started in a career as a professional executive coach. This online course has a recommended completion date of 6 weeks, however it may be completed in as little as 4 weeks or as long as 12 weeks. The course has been created to allow you to complete it without any teaching assistance, however as a student you have access to Faculty Members to provide you with personal teaching assistance and career advice.
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What is IAP Career College?
The International Association of Professions Career College (IAP Career College) is a leading online career college offering affordable online certificate courses and professional certifications for non-traditional and "dream" careers. When you take a part-time online certificate course with IAP Career College, you can schedule your learning around your life - you can work at your own pace, at the best times for you and from the comfort of your own home. IAP Career College and affiliated company FabJob Inc (the leading online publisher of guide books on how to get started in a dream career) have served over half a million career changers on six continents since 1999.