Expand Your Business With ICF Leaders Using Coaching Skills
Help organizations develop stronger leaders while creating new opportunities for your business. ICF Leaders Using Coaching Skills gives you a ready-to-deliver leadership development program you can offer with confidence.
Grow Your Impact through Coaching-Informed Leadership Development
You're already helping people and organizations grow. ICF Leaders Using Coaching Skills gives you another way to extend that impact, helping more leaders build practical coaching skills while expanding the value you provide to clients, members, and learners.
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Expand Your Portfolio
Offer an ICF-developed coach-based learning that complements your existing coaching education and leadership services. Deliver it through corporate engagements, open-enrollment cohorts, or as part of a broader leadership development journey.
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Go Beyond 1:1 Coaching
Bring a structured leadership development experience to organizational clients through workshops, manager cohorts, and facilitated learning experiences. Deepen client relationships while creating new opportunities to grow your practice.
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Deliver Member Value
Expand your professional development portfolio with a ready-to-use leadership program that helps leaders build practical coaching skills. Offer it through chapter programs, conferences, member learning experiences, or organizational partnerships.
What Is ICF Leaders Using Coaching Skills?
Organizations increasingly recognize coaching as an essential leadership capability. According to coaching culture research from ICF and the Human Capital Institute, 85% of organizations rely on managers and leaders who use coaching skills, and 76% expect to increase their use of this approach. Yet only 52% believe their current manager training effectively prepares leaders to effectively use coaching skills.
ICF Leaders Using Coaching Skills helps close that gap. This leadership development program equips managers and leaders with practical coaching skills they can apply in everyday workplace conversations. Grounded in internationally recognized coaching principles, participants learn to strengthen communication, build trust, encourage accountability, and support employee growth.
Live, Interactive Learning Experience
In this facilitator-led experience, participants actively practice coaching skills in realistic workplace scenarios, receive guided feedback, and reflect on how to apply what they've learned in day-to-day leadership. The training can be delivered virtually or in person, making it easy to integrate into organizational learning strategies, professional development programs, and leadership offerings.
Participants receive:
- Eight hours of live instruction.
- One full-day session or two half-day sessions.
- Interactive practice and peer discussion.
- Pre-work to prepare for the learning experience.
- A post-training knowledge check.
- An ICF Certificate of Completion.
Practical Skills for Everyday Leadership
Rather than teaching complex coaching models, the program focuses on practical leadership behaviors managers can begin using immediately, whether they're developing employees, navigating change, or leading difficult conversations.
Participants learn how to:
- Adopt a coaching mindset.
- Listen with greater intention.
- Ask questions that encourage insight and ownership.
- Structure coaching conversations that support learning and accountability.
- Share observations that build trust and promote growth.
- Navigate challenging conversations with greater confidence.
A Learning Experience You Can Deliver With Confidence
This leadership training combines ICF's globally recognized coaching expertise with your knowledge of the organizations and learners you serve.
ICF provides the curriculum, coaching methodology, facilitator resources, and participant materials that support a consistent, high-quality learning experience. You bring the relationships, facilitation expertise, and organizational insight that make every delivery relevant and impactful. Together, those strengths create a leadership development experience that's both credible and practical.
ICF Provides:
- Leadership development curriculum.
- Coaching methodology.
- Global coaching standards.
- Participant materials and learning resources.
- Certificate of completion.
You Provide:
- Trusted client relationships.
- Facilitation expertise.
- Understanding of your clients' goals and culture.
- Program planning and delivery.
- Continued coaching and leadership support.
Why Add Coaching-Based Leadership Training to Your Offerings?
Organizations are looking for practical ways to help managers become better leaders — not just better supervisors. That creates an opportunity for organizations and individuals that already provide coaching, leadership development, and professional learning.
ICF Leaders Using Coaching Skills gives you a facilitator-led program you can integrate into your existing services without developing curriculum yourself. Instead of investing months creating new content, you can focus on what you do best: building relationships, facilitating engaging learning experiences, and helping organizations develop stronger leaders.
Whether you serve corporate clients, coaching clients, members, or learning professionals, the program expands what you're able to offer while complementing the work you're already doing.
Who Can Offer Leaders Using Coaching Skills?
ICF’s Leaders Using Coaching Skills is designed for organizations and professionals who already help others learn, grow, and lead.
Whether you're a coaching education provider, coaching business, professional association, consulting firm, or ICF credential-holder, the program can become a natural extension of the services you already provide.
Every cohort is led by a qualified facilitator who meets ICF's standards, helping ensure participants receive a consistent, high-quality learning experience grounded in professional coaching.
If you're an individual coach, you may already meet the facilitator requirements. If you're representing an organization, you'll simply need access to a qualified facilitator, either on your team or through ICF's network.
Facilitator Requirements
To deliver this coach-based learning, facilitators must have:
- An active ICF credential (ACC, PCC, or MCC).
- Experience facilitating groups, leadership development, or adult learning.
These requirements help ensure every participant receive a high-quality learning experience that’s both engaging and grounded in professional coaching standards.
Already Have a Qualified Facilitator?
If you — or someone on your team — holds an active ICF credential and has facilitation experience, you're already well positioned to begin offering this training.
After completing the onboarding process, you'll receive the facilitator resources and program materials needed to prepare for delivery.
Need a Qualified Facilitator?
Don't currently have an eligible facilitator? That's OK.
You can:
- Search the ICF Credentialed Coach Finder to identify qualified independent coaches.
- Work with the ICF team to connect with credentialed facilitators during the purchasing process.
- Whether you're ready to facilitate internally or partner with a credentialed coach, we'll help you identify a path that works for your organization.
Put Leaders Using Coaching Skills to Work in Your Business
One of the program's greatest strengths is its flexibility. Rather than asking you to change your business model, ICF Leaders Using Coaching Skills is designed to fit naturally into the services, client relationships, and learning experiences you've already built.
Whether you serve organizations, individual leaders, members, or coaching clients, the program can be delivered in ways that align with your business and your clients' needs.
Ways to Successfully Position Leadership Training With Your Clients
Once you've decided to add ICF’s Leaders Using Coaching Skills to your offerings, the next step is introducing it in a way that connects with your clients' goals.
Start With Business Outcomes
When introducing the program, lead with the challenges your clients are trying to solve rather than the features of the course.
Many organizations are looking for leaders who can:
- Build trust across teams.
- Develop and retain talent.
- Improve employee engagement.
- Strengthen accountability.
- Navigate change more effectively.
- Foster stronger workplace communication.
Position coaching skills as a practical way to help leaders achieve those outcomes. When clients see the business value first, the program becomes more than leadership training; it becomes part of a broader organizational strategy.
Leverage the Relationships You Already Have
Organizations rarely choose leadership development based on curriculum alone. They choose partners who understand their business, their people, and the outcomes they're trying to achieve. That's where your expertise becomes your advantage.
With this leadership development offering, you can help clients:
- Identify the right leaders to participate.
- Connect coaching skills to everyday workplace challenges.
- Deliver learning in a format that fits their organization.
- Reinforce learning through coaching, consulting, or additional development programs.
The curriculum opens the door. Your expertise helps clients achieve lasting results.
Bundle With Existing Services to Extend the Learning Experience
Leadership development shouldn't end when the workshop does. Positioning the program within a broader development journey helps organizations sustain learning while creating opportunities for continued client engagement.
Consider pairing Leaders Using Coaching Skills with:
- Executive or leadership coaching.
- Team coaching.
- Organizational consulting.
- Manager onboarding.
- Ongoing leadership cohorts.
Deliver With Flexibility
Every client has different learning goals, schedules, and delivery preferences. This leadership training gives you the flexibility to meet them where they are.
Consider the possibilities! You can offer the program:
- Virtually or in person.
- As a private organizational cohort.
- Through open enrollment.
- As a stand-alone workshop.
- As part of a broader leadership development series.
- Alongside coaching, consulting, or organizational development services.
No matter how you deliver it, you'll provide a consistent learning experience backed by ICF's coaching expertise while tailoring the experience to your audience.
Your Path to Offering Leaders Using Coaching Skills
Step 1
Confirm You're Ready
Review the facilitator requirements to determine whether you — or someone on your team — meets the eligibility criteria.
Already have an ICF credential-holder with facilitation experience? Great. You're ready for the next step.
Need a facilitator? No problem. The ICF Credentialed Coach Finder and the ICF team can help you identify experienced professionals who meet the program requirements.
Step 2
Connect With ICF
Talk with our team to learn how Leaders Using Coaching Skills fits your business goals. We'll answer your questions, explain pricing and participant seat options, and help you determine the approach that best fits your business and the audiences you serve.
Step 3
Prepare for Your First Delivery
Once you're ready to move forward, you'll receive facilitator resources and core program assets. From there, you'll manage the logistics of delivering the program — including participant enrollment and scheduling — in the way that best fits you and audience, whether your program is offered virtually or in person.
Step 4
Launch Your First Cohort
Promote the program through the relationships and channels you've already established, then deliver an engaging learning experience that equips leaders with practical coaching skills they can apply immediately.
Step 5
Build Momentum
One successful cohort often leads to new opportunities. As clients experience the impact of coaching-based leadership development, you can continue supporting them through additional cohorts, coaching engagements, consulting services, leadership development programs, and other learning experiences.
Rather than a one-time offering, it can become an ongoing part of how you help organizations develop stronger leaders and build coaching cultures over time.
At a Glance: What ICF Leaders Using Coaching Skills Can Add To Your Business
If you're a qualified coaching provider, coaching business, professional association, or ICF credential-holder, ICF Leaders Using Coaching Skills gives you a practical way to expand the value you provide through coaching-based leadership development backed by ICF's globally recognized coaching expertise.
Designed to complement the work you're already doing, the program provides a structured learning experience and resources while allowing you to bring your own facilitation expertise and client relationships.
With Leaders Using Coaching Skills, you can:
Add an ICF-developed leadership development program to your existing portfolio without developing curriculum from scratch.
Integrate the program into your existing coaching, consulting, leadership development, or professional education services.
Help organizations strengthen leadership capability while fostering coaching-informed workplace cultures.
Deliver a structured, facilitator-led learning experience supported by ICF-provided curriculum, participant materials, and facilitator resources.
Equip managers and leaders with practical coaching skills they can apply in everyday workplace conversations.
Offer coaching-informed leadership development to organizations, associations, and open-enrollment audiences.
Build on your existing client and member relationships with an additional leadership development offering.
Deliver the training virtually or in person to meet your clients' learning needs.