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Certified Leadership Coach

Online Certification  ·  10 Weeks  ·  Globally Recognised  ·  (CLC)

✅ 2026 Edition 🎓 CPD Accredited 🌍 100+ Countries 📜 Digital + Physical Certificate 100% Online
Executive Summary

Certified Leadership Coach

Designed for today’s high-impact professionals, the Certified Leadership Coach (CLC) delivers a rigorous Intermediate-level curriculum that equips participants with the knowledge, tools and frameworks needed to excel in instructional design, training delivery and learning management.

This 10 Weeks programme is structured around recognised instructional-design, quality-assurance and CPD standards, ensuring every graduate applies internationally validated methods to real-world challenges.

GLI’s CLC holders are recognised by leading organisations across Africa, the Gulf, Europe and the Americas as qualified, results-driven professionals. Whether you are advancing your current career or transitioning into new responsibilities, this certification provides the competitive edge you need in 2026 and beyond.

Programme Overview

Certification at a Glance

Certification
Certified Leadership Coach
Acronym
CLC
Category
Learning & Development
Level
Intermediate
Duration
10 Weeks
Delivery Mode
100% Online
Assessment
Online Examination
Certificate
Digital + Physical
CPD Eligibility
CPD Accredited
Alumni Benefits
GLI Network Access
Self-Paced
USD 349
Live Virtual
USD 549
Target Audience

Who Should Enrol?

  • Trainers and Facilitators
  • Instructional and Curriculum Designers
  • Learning and Development Professionals
  • Academic and Education Administrators
Programme Inclusions

Everything Included in Your Enrolment

  • All study materials and study guide
  • Access to GLI online learning portal
  • Online examination and assessment
  • Digital certificate and digital badge
  • Physical certificate (shipped to you)
  • CPD credits for professional bodies
  • GLI alumni network membership
  • Facilitator and tutor support
  • Resource downloads and reference library
  • Automatic enrolment confirmation
Certification Benefits

Why This Certification Matters for Your Career

Leadership Capability
Develop the strategic and operational skills to lead complex instructional design functions
Career Advancement
Accelerate your career towards senior L&D, academic and learning-leadership roles
Strategic Thinking
Build the strategic thinking, analysis and execution skills of world-class leaders
Organisational Impact
Design and implement instructional design systems that drive performance and measurable results
Personal Excellence
Develop emotional intelligence, resilience and authentic executive presence
Global Employability
Qualify for instructional design roles across training providers, universities, corporates and education institutions worldwide
Competency Framework

Core Competencies You Will Develop

Counselling Theories and Models
Facilitation, Delivery and Learner Engagement
Positive Psychology and Wellbeing
Mindfulness, Resilience and Self-Leadership Assurance
Meaning, Purpose and Flourishing
Professional Ethics and Governance
Course Curriculum

Programme Modules

Click any module to explore the detailed curriculum topics included in this certification.

1
Foundations and Professional Context of Certified Leadership Coach
  • Certified Leadership Coach: industry context, trends and professional standards
  • The helping relationship and its purpose
  • History and scope of counselling and coaching
  • Professional roles, boundaries and settings
  • Ethical principles and codes of practice
  • The self of the practitioner
  • Cultural competence and diversity
  • Confidentiality, consent and safeguarding
  • The evidence base for talking therapies
  • Wellbeing and the biopsychosocial model
  • Career pathways and professional development
2
The Working Alliance
  • The working alliance and coaching presence
  • Questioning, listening and the coach’s restraint
  • Feedback, challenge and psychological safety in coaching
  • Group facilitation and group process
  • Record keeping, notes and professional documentation
  • Remote and telephone practice
  • Endings, relapse and maintaining change
  • Practitioner wellbeing and vicarious trauma
  • Outcome monitoring in therapeutic work
  • Referral, multi-agency work and the client pathway
  • Contracting and the three-way agreement
  • The boundary between coaching and therapy
  • Goal setting and behavioural change in coaching
  • Mentoring, sponsorship and developmental relationships
  • Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
3
Questioning and Restraint
  • Questioning, listening and the coach’s restraint
  • The working alliance and coaching presence
  • Goal setting and behavioural change in coaching
  • Cultural context and coaching across difference
  • Building and running a coaching practice
  • Clinical assessment and shared formulation
  • Therapeutic modalities and choosing an approach
  • Risk assessment and safeguarding in practice
  • Trauma-informed delivery and its limits
  • Working with ambivalence and motivation
  • Evaluating coaching outcomes
  • Team coaching and the team as client
4
Challenge, Safety and Change
  • Feedback, challenge and psychological safety in coaching
  • Goal setting and behavioural change in coaching
  • The working alliance and coaching presence
5
Boundaries, Ethics and Supervision
  • The boundary between coaching and therapy
  • Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
  • Contracting and the three-way agreement
6
Evaluating What Changed
  • Evaluating coaching outcomes
  • Goal setting and behavioural change in coaching
  • Contracting and the three-way agreement
7
Contracting the Engagement
  • Contracting and the three-way agreement
  • The working alliance and coaching presence
  • Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
8
Wellbeing and Resilience
  • Business continuity and resilience
  • Preparing financial statements
  • Working with organisations on wellbeing
  • Wellbeing and resilience coaching
  • Managing growth, risk and resilience
  • Coaching for resilience and wellbeing
  • Operational risk and resilience
  • Stress testing and scenario analysis
  • Stress testing credit portfolios
  • Stress testing and scenarios
  • Wellbeing and personal-effectiveness learning
  • Workplace wellbeing strategy
  • Stress and psychosocial risk
  • Crisis, resilience and contingency planning
  • Organisational resilience and adaptive strategy
9
Workplace Context
  • Future of work and workforce transformation
  • Customer (employee/manager) satisfaction
  • Stakeholder engagement and risk management
  • Employer branding and employee value proposition (EVP)
  • Employee voice, surveys and action planning
  • Employee and manager self-service
  • Workforce reporting and storytelling with data
  • Cost of workforce and ROI of HR interventions
  • Collective relations and union engagement
  • Workforce planning and the capability gap
  • Employee relations, discipline and fair process
  • Community engagement and equity
  • Interpreting financial statements
  • Completion, engagement and impact metrics
  • Talent, succession and workforce learning
10
Practice and Business
  • Brand safety and responsible marketing
  • Sustainability and responsible marketing
  • Marketing and sales KPIs and dashboards
  • Value-based and dynamic pricing
  • Market and customer analysis
  • Designing a marketing or sales strategy
  • Campaign or go-to-market plan
  • Marketing strategy and the mix
  • Integrated marketing communications
  • Pricing strategy
  • Digital marketing strategy
  • Go-to-market and channel strategy
  • Marketing planning and budgeting
  • Setting objectives and marketing KPIs
  • Marketing and sales: scope, roles and value
11
Digital Delivery
  • Self-service and digital support
  • Customer service technology stack
  • Technology selection and integration
  • Emerging service technologies
  • Digital, mobile and internet banking
  • Digital disruption and the future of banking
  • Digital transformation in banking
  • Branch-to-digital migration
  • Digital banking platforms and APIs
  • Payment technology and switches
  • Cybersecurity and fraud technology
  • Management accounts and dashboards
  • Digital permits and inspections
  • Automation and safety technology
  • Budget vs actual and variance
12
Programme Delivery
  • Driving measurable delivery improvement
  • Developing the project business case
  • Project budgeting and financial control
  • Financial risk in projects
  • Realising and measuring project value
  • Capstone scoping: a real project or programme
  • Designing the project plan and schedule
  • Delivery, quality and stakeholder plan
  • Project initiation and chartering
  • Integrated project planning
  • Project management plan development
  • Risk assessment and safety planning
  • Treatment planning and review
  • Goal setting and action planning
  • Projects, programmes and portfolios
13
Community and Family Context
  • Measurement and analytics for media and social campaigns
  • Sustainability and social impact in projects
  • Cost and profitability analysis
  • Corporate social responsibility and community impact
  • Group dynamics, facilitation and community mobilisation
  • Social media customer care
  • Customer and community engagement
  • Social performance and outreach
  • Corporate social responsibility communications
  • Forecasting and planning
  • Community and lifelong learning
  • Corporate social responsibility and ESG
  • Environmental, social and governance (ESG)
  • Corporate responsibility and community
  • Social media management: platforms, communities and algorithms
14
Health Context
  • Health, safety and compliance in delivery
  • Customer and brand health metrics
  • Brand health and measurement
  • Healthy work design
  • Absence and health management
  • Absence, capability and ill-health management
  • Confidentiality and health data
  • Communicating financial results
  • Health records, data and confidentiality
  • Public health programmes: prevention and outreach
  • Managing boundaries and dual relationships
  • Procurement and stock management for health commodities
  • Healthcare quality, safety and accreditation
  • Health financing: budgets, insurance and out-of-pocket realities
  • Peer support and consultation
15
Standards and Quality
  • Process improvement and HR operating efficiency
  • Time-to-hire, quality-of-hire and cost metrics
  • Data quality, integration and master data
  • Continuous improvement cycles
  • Driving measurable safety improvement
  • Continuous environmental improvement
  • Management review and improvement
  • Integration with quality and environment
  • Certification and continual improvement
  • Design review and quality
  • Process improvement and lean thinking
  • Standard costing and variance analysis
  • Continuous improvement of finance processes
  • Product safety and standards
  • Sustainability standards (GRI, ISSB)
16
Conflict and Resistance
  • Managing difficult stakeholders
  • Negotiation and influencing
  • Handling difficult customers and disputes
  • Managing resistance and reskilling
  • Integrity, confidentiality and conflicts
  • Working with conflict and change
  • Conflicts of interest management
  • Offer management, negotiation and pre-boarding
  • Conflict resolution and mediation
  • Managing resistance and engagement
  • Difficult conversations and feedback
  • Managing resistance and readiness
  • Conflicts of interest and procurement ethics
  • Negotiation and conflict management
  • Conflict resolution and negotiation
17
Records and Reporting
  • Professional writing and reports
  • Writing advisory reports that drive decisions
  • Reporting to boards and executives
  • Monitoring, control and reporting
  • Professional documentation and presentation
  • Reporting and dashboards
  • Project data, reporting and analytics
  • Document and configuration management
  • Dashboards and performance reporting
  • Reporting to leadership
  • Data quality, analysis and reporting
  • Financial reporting frameworks (IFRS/GAAP)
  • Integrated and sustainability reporting
  • Reporting quality and governance
  • Record-keeping and data protection
18
Coaching Practice
  • Coaching for performance
  • Building a coaching culture
  • Measuring coaching and mentoring impact
  • Coaching models and frameworks (GROW)
  • Facilitation, coaching and mentoring
  • Creating a coaching culture
  • Mentoring and sponsorship
  • Solvency, capital and prudential supervision
  • Measuring coaching outcomes
  • Coaching and developing team members
  • Sales enablement and coaching
  • Quality monitoring and coaching
  • Coaching and quality monitoring
19
Ethics and Safeguarding
  • Driving effective, ethical outcomes
  • Ethical, risk and feasibility considerations
  • Professional ethics and responsibility (PMI)
  • Professional standards and ethics
  • Marketing and sales ethics
  • Sustaining ethical, effective practice
  • Ethical frameworks and codes of practice
  • Duty of care and risk management
  • Complaints, accountability and fitness to practise
  • Ethics and fair customer treatment
  • Professional ethics in customer service
  • Responsible and ethical service
  • Ethics and integrity in banking
  • Professional ethics and banking conduct
  • Anti-corruption and financial-crime ethics
20
Communication Skills
  • Reputation and crisis communications
  • Professional and persuasive communication
  • Crisis communications
  • Stakeholder communications
  • Communications strategy and planning
  • Influencer and partnership communications
  • Internal communications
  • Event and sponsorship communications
  • Communications analytics
  • Presentation and public speaking
  • Professional report and presentation
  • Voice, communication and delivery
  • Feedback and developmental conversations
  • Language and communication training
  • Crisis and reputation communication
21
Development and Learning
  • Learning transfer and capability building
  • Talent review and succession in practice
  • Delegating for development
  • Managing resistance and capability building
  • Category management and strategy development
  • Real estate development and project appraisal
  • Proposal development and donor reporting
  • Monitoring, evaluation and learning for accountability
  • Attachment and developmental theory
  • Lessons learned and development
  • Scaling delivery capability
  • Schedule development and optimisation
  • Team development and effectiveness
  • Your one-year professional development trajectory
  • Legal responsibilities and professional bodies
22
Groups and Facilitation
  • Innovation and fintech collaboration
  • Microfinance and group lending
  • Facilitation skills and presence
  • Virtual and hybrid facilitation
  • Team leadership in governance
  • Client feedback and satisfaction
  • Aligning teams around strategy
  • Team formation and effectiveness models (Tuckman, Lencioni)
  • Managing team performance and dynamics
  • Cross-functional and matrix teams
  • Leading remote and hybrid teams
  • Servant leadership and self-organising teams
  • Facilitation and workshops
  • Virtual and distributed teams
  • Team leadership and motivation
23
Behaviour and Change
  • Change and adoption in projects
  • Measuring change and project impact
  • Baseline setting and change control
  • Motivation and engagement
  • Evidence-based improvement
  • Managing risk and difficult cases
  • Behaviour change and adoption of innovations
  • Foreign exchange and treasury operations
  • Technology governance and change control
  • Foreign exchange and hedging
  • Engagement and motivation
  • Change talk and readiness
  • Habit change and behaviour design
  • Change control and configuration
  • Organisational change management
24
Goals and Measurement
  • Performance measurement and attribution
  • Metrics and reporting
  • Performance management systems and cycles
  • Aligning learning to performance
  • Performance measurement and KPI dashboards
  • Linking performance to reward and consequence
  • Appraisal, calibration and managing underperformance
  • People analytics and HR measurement
  • Designing and facilitating groups
  • Leading and lagging metrics
  • Policy, planning and objectives
  • Quality and delivery metrics
  • Managing schedule and budget performance
  • Agile metrics and velocity
  • Funnel, pipeline and conversion metrics
25
Leadership Context
  • Financial, management and cost accounting distinguished
  • Psychoeducation and workshops
  • Management reporting and decision support
  • Capital structure and financing decisions
  • Influencing and advising leaders
  • Leadership and management development
  • Knowledge management and capability building
  • Vendor management and system governance
  • HR service delivery and case management
  • Inclusion and the fairness of people decisions
  • Safety management systems overview (ISO 45001)
  • Designing an intervention or programme
  • Professional case study and presentation
  • Managing complexity and comorbidity
  • Data-driven decision support and analytics
26
Culture and Inclusion
  • The business case for diversity and inclusion
  • Diversity and pay-equity analytics
  • HR's role in culture, values and employer brand
  • Safety culture and leadership
  • Team diversity and inclusion
  • Cross-cultural communication
  • Workplace and organisational contexts
  • Brand strategy, identity and equity
  • Accountability and follow-through
  • Strengths, flow and engagement
  • Meaning, purpose and values
  • Brand equity and positioning
  • Building a culture of compliance
  • Financial inclusion and agency banking
  • Financial inclusion strategy
27
Client Relationships
  • Goal setting and contracting
  • Stakeholder and sponsor management
  • Stakeholder rights and fair treatment
  • Procurement and contract value
  • Stakeholder identification and analysis
  • Procurement and contract management
  • Stakeholder engagement strategy
  • Building project relationships
  • Building strategic customer relationships
  • Outcome and process measures
  • Partnership building and multi-stakeholder platforms
  • Stakeholders, agency and accountability
  • Trends: ESG, transparency and stakeholder capitalism
  • Shareholder and stakeholder rights
  • Stakeholder and impact analysis
28
Risk and Compliance
  • Regulatory compliance and biosafety
  • Data, records and confidentiality tech
  • Implementation planning and risk management
  • Regulatory compliance and market requirements
  • Water-user associations and governance
  • Governance of service standards
  • Governance of the CX programme
  • Regulatory and fair-treatment obligations
  • The regulatory landscape and central banking
  • Corporate governance in banks
  • Regulatory duty and accountability
  • Practice management systems
  • Leading project governance
  • Risk identification and analysis
  • Qualitative and quantitative risk analysis
29
Evidence and Research
  • Evidence-based practice
  • Evidence-based practice and research literacy
  • AI and predictive project analytics
  • Building your professional portfolio and evidence of practice
  • Customer personas and insight
  • Marketing analytics and attribution
  • Web and campaign analytics
  • Customer data platforms and segmentation
  • Web, campaign and funnel analytics
  • Sales analytics and forecasting tools
  • Market research design and methods
  • Analytical techniques and bias
  • Data visualisation for finance
  • Decision support and insight
  • Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches
30
Professional Leadership Practice
  • Psychometric and screening tools
  • Pollution and waste management
  • Sustainable input management
  • Ethics of technology in practice
  • Team leadership in field and project settings
  • Relationship management and retention
  • Performance management in service
  • Handling escalations as a leader
  • Team leadership in customer service
  • Teller operations, cash handling and vault management
  • Operational efficiency and channel management
  • Thought leadership
  • Category management and strategy
  • Cash and liquidity management
  • Financial risk types and management
Learning Outcomes

What You Will Achieve

  • Establish a comprehensive understanding of Certified Leadership Coach principles aligned with recognised instructional-design, quality-assurance and CPD standards
  • Apply evidence-based methods to improve instructional design, training delivery and learning management
  • Master instructional design and curriculum development and facilitation, delivery and learner engagement
  • Apply digital, blended and e-learning and assessment, evaluation and quality assurance in real-world settings
  • Lead risk management, quality and compliance relevant to your field
  • Design stakeholder engagement and professional communication strategies
  • Use data-driven decision-making and performance-measurement tools effectively
  • Apply internationally recognised best practice to advance your career in instructional design
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Frequently Asked Questions

Common Questions

What is the CLC certification?

Yes. GLI certifications are recognised across 100+ countries and are aligned with recognised instructional-design, quality-assurance and CPD standards. Graduates receive a digital certificate, a physical certificate and CPD credits recognised by employers worldwide.

Who should enrol in the CLC?

This certification is ideal for Trainers and Facilitators, Instructional and Curriculum Designers, Learning and Development Professionals and Academic and Education Administrators, and other professionals seeking to formalise their expertise in instructional design, training delivery and learning management with a globally recognised credential.

How long does the CLC certification take to complete?

The programme is structured over 10 Weeks and offers flexible learning modes. Self-paced learners can progress at their own schedule, while live virtual participants follow a structured cohort schedule with facilitator-led sessions.

Is the CLC internationally recognised?

Yes. GLI certifications are recognised across 100+ countries and are aligned with recognised instructional-design, quality-assurance and CPD standards. Graduates receive a digital certificate, a physical certificate and CPD credits recognised by employers worldwide.

What is the cost of the CLC certification?

The Certified Leadership Coach is offered in two formats: Self-Paced at USD 349 and Live Virtual at USD 549. Corporate group rates are available for organisations enrolling 5 or more participants. Contact GLI for a bespoke corporate training quotation.

What does the CLC certification include?

Enrolment includes all study materials and study guides, access to GLI's online learning portal, online examination, digital certificate and badge, physical certificate (posted), CPD credits, GLI alumni network membership, and ongoing facilitator support.

What is the assessment format for the CLC?

The Certified Leadership Coach is assessed through an online examination consisting of multiple-choice questions, case study analysis, and practical application assignments. The assessment is designed to evaluate real-world competency, not just theoretical recall.

What CPD credits do I earn from the CLC?

The Certified Leadership Coach carries Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits, which can be applied towards professional body requirements including recognised international professional associations.

Can I study the CLC while working full-time?

Absolutely. The self-paced option is designed for busy working professionals and allows you to study when and where it suits you. Live virtual sessions are typically scheduled in the evenings or on weekends to accommodate professional commitments.

What career outcomes can I expect from the CLC?

Graduates progress towards senior L&D, academic and learning-leadership roles. The CLC strengthens your expertise in instructional design, training delivery and learning management and positions you for advancement across training providers, universities, corporates and education institutions.

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