Course Overview

Bridge the gap between life coaching and leadership coaching in just 10 hours. If you’ve earned your CPLC Life certification and want to add your CPLC Leadership credential, this course gives you exactly what you need – without taking the 43 hours of The Essentials of Leadership Coaching.

You’ll explore ICF Core Competencies specifically applied to leadership contexts, learning the key distinctions in coaching leaders within organizational settings. Discover how to navigate multi-stakeholder dynamics, contract effectively with sponsors, and understand the unique pressures leaders face. You’ll study proven leadership frameworks including Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team and situational coaching paradigms.

What makes this different? Through live coaching demonstrations and comprehensive reading assignments, you’ll observe advanced techniques for working with leaders and learn when to use direct communication versus powerful questions. As an ICF-accredited program, this bridge course satisfies the requirements for your CPLC Leadership credential while maintaining PCCI’s faith-integrated approach to professional excellence.

The Essentials of Leadership Coaching Bridge Course with CPLC certification logo

  • Course Length: 5 weeks

  • Weekly Commitment: 2 hour live class + 3-5 hours preparation/implementation

  • Format: Live via Zoom

  • Instructor: Kris Kelso, PCC

  • Prerequisites: Completion of The Essentials of Life Coaching

  • Price: Starting at $265/month

  • Course Length: 5 weeks

  • Weekly Commitment: 2 hour live class + 3-5 hours preparation/implementation

  • Format: Live via Zoom

  • Instructor: Kris Kelso, PCC

  • Prerequisites: Completion of The Essentials of Life Coaching

  • Price: Starting at $265/month

Is This Course Right for You?

This 10-hour bridge course is designed exclusively for one audience: Students who earned or are in the process of earning their Certified Professional Life Coach (CPLC) certification, and want to pursue their Certified Professional Leadership Coach (CPLC) certification.

From CPLC Life to CPLC Leadership in 10 Hours

  • You’ve completed or are in process of completing your CPLC (Certified Professional Life Coach) certification.
  • You want to earn your CPLC Leadership (Certified Professional Leadership Coach) certification.
  • You need the leadership-specific distinctions and frameworks without going through the 43 hours of content in The Essentials of Leadership Coaching.
  • You’re ready to specialize in coaching leaders, executives, and organizational decision-makers with professional credibility and ICF-aligned competencies.

What You’ll Accomplish in This Course

This course delivers the essential distinctions between life and leadership coaching, equipping you with frameworks and competencies specific to organizational contexts.

  • Distinguish between life coaching and leadership coaching using ICF Core Competencies adapted for organizational contexts.

  • Contract effectively with leaders and sponsors by establishing clear three-way agreements that navigate organizational dynamics.

  • Apply proven leadership frameworks including Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions, the COACH Model, and Six Paradigms of Situational Coaching.

  • Cultivate powerful coaching presence with leaders by managing your emotions and avoiding getting “hooked” by executive personas.

  • Master when to use questions versus direct communication based on leadership scenarios and organizational pressures.

  • Capture and deepen emerging awareness through feedback techniques and energy management tools specific to high-performing leaders.

  • Design relevant, high-impact actions that translate leadership insights into measurable organizational results.

  • Develop sustainable accountability structures that honor leader autonomy while maintaining momentum and long-term growth.

Course Breakdown

The curriculum follows a strategic progression from foundation to mastery, moving you from understanding leadership coaching distinctions to confidently facilitating breakthrough conversations with organizational leaders.

Week 1: Foundation & Distinction

Discover what makes leadership coaching unique and how to position yourself professionally. You’ll explore ICF Core Competencies through a leadership lens, review current industry research, and understand how coaching differs from consulting, mentoring, and therapy in organizational contexts.

Weeks 2-3: Presence & Relationship

Build the relational foundation that makes transformation possible. Master trust-building, coaching presence, and contracting with multiple stakeholders. You’ll learn proven leadership models and practice establishing agreements that honor organizational complexity while maintaining coaching integrity.

Weeks 4-5: Communication & Awareness

Develop the core skills that evoke breakthrough insights in leaders. Practice powerful questioning, direct communication, active listening, and awareness-capturing techniques. You’ll learn when to challenge, when to reflect, and how to help leaders identify blind spots and energy drainers that block their effectiveness.

Weeks 6-7: Growth & Accountability

Transform insights into lasting change through action design and accountability. Learn how to partner with leaders in creating goals that drive organizational impact, establish measures of success, and develop a new paradigm of accountability that removes the “monkey” from your back while empowering sustainable leadership growth.

Required Course Materials

Your investment includes comprehensive reading that deepens your understanding of leadership coaching frameworks and ICF competencies in real-world application.

Coaching for Breakthrough Success textbook for leadership coaching certification course

Upcoming Courses

All sessions are live via Zoom with an experienced ICF-credentialed instructor.

May 2026

DAY: Thursdays
TIME: 6:00 – 8:00 PM Eastern
DATES: May 28 – June 25, 2026
INSTRUCTORS: Kris Kelso, PCC

Tuition & Payment Plans

We offer flexible payment options to make professional coaching education accessible as you invest in expanding your expertise and ICF credentials.

Full Payment

$1,000 / full pay

NO monthly payments

3 Payments

$349 / monthly

$1,045 total investment

6 Payments

$265 / monthly

$1,060 total investment

All payment plans include a $15 monthly service charge.