Certificate in Professional Coaching

Graduate with the skills you need to coach effectively

SFU’s part-time Certificate in Professional Coaching will build your understanding, skills, and coaching presence so you can help individuals, teams, and organizations reach their highest level of effectiveness. It is also an excellent first step toward professional coaching certification.

We’ll train you to plan, promote, and implement coaching services in a variety of organizational settings, incorporate coaching into your current role, and establish yourself in a coaching career.

You’ll also learn a three-stage coaching process that you can apply to individuals, teams, and organizations.

Throughout the program, which takes place at SFU Vancouver, you’ll explore several topics that will strengthen your coaching capacity: adult development, change, multiple perspectives, story, self as instrument, and the quaternity (also known as a person’s four-part harmony). You’ll also develop key coaching skills such as establishing a coaching presence, power questioning, managing progress, and accountability.

Learn from certified coaching professionals

We have developed this part-time certificate program, which is aligned with the International Coach Federation’s core coaching competencies and training requirements, in consultation with coaching industry leaders. Your instructors are leading coaching professionals with strong practical and theoretical backgrounds.

Maintain your professional coaching status with continuing education units

Each course in this professional certificate program except Capstone is pre-approved for continuing education credits from Vocational Rehabilitation Association of Canada (VRAC) and the College of Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals (CVRP).

Is the Certificate in Professional Coaching for you?

If you want to make a meaningful contribution to an individual’s or organization’s transformation, or you’re looking for a new career that will build on your professional experience, our coaching training is for you. The program is ideal for human resources personnel, career consultants, counsellors, managers, and leaders in both the public and private sectors. It’s also designed for those who wish to establish a new career as a certified life coach, leadership coach, career coach, or executive coach.