Leadership Development for Business Leaders
Leadership development and professional coaching education that equip business leaders with practical skills to strengthen communication, develop people, navigate challenges, and build stronger, more effective teams.
Leadership Development for Business Leaders: 30-Hour Coaching Program
The 30-Hour Coaching program equips learners with practical coaching skills, ethical foundations, and tools to build effective, client-centered coaching relationships.
Designed for experienced professionals and aspiring or practicing coaches, the program builds the confidence and competence to integrate coaching into professional practice with integrity and intention.
Benefits: Earn 30 HRCI recertification credits while developing practical coaching skills to strengthen leadership, enhance employee development, and foster meaningful growth in the workplace.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, learners will be prepared to:
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Explain the foundations, evolution, and professional role of coaching.
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Distinguish coaching from therapy, counseling, consulting, and mentoring.
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Apply ethical standards related to confidentiality, boundaries, scope of practice, and client responsibility.
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Create effective coaching agreements and structure purposeful coaching sessions.
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Demonstrate active listening, coach presence, and client-centered communication skills.
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Develop powerful questions that encourage insight, awareness, and action.
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Apply principles of cultural humility and inclusive coaching practice.
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Utilize foundational coaching frameworks to support client growth.
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Define their coaching identity and explore the fundamentals of building a coaching practice.
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Understand key considerations related to branding, marketing, client relationships, and professional sustainability.
Leadership Development for Business Leaders: 60-Hour Coaching Program
In the 60-Hour Coaching Program, participants develop foundational coaching competencies, including ethical practice, active listening, powerful questioning, coaching frameworks, goal setting, and client accountability. Reflective learning and practical application help learners build the skills and presence needed to foster trust, support meaningful growth, and empower others to take purposeful action.
The program emphasizes client-centered coaching, inclusive practice, professional boundaries, confidentiality, and ethical responsibility. Participants also explore coaching identity and foundational business practices to support the integration of coaching into their professional roles or the development of a coaching practice.
Benefits: This program is currently under review through HRCI for 60 recertification credits. Once approved, program detail will be updated
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, learners will be prepared to:
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Explain core coaching foundations, philosophy, ethics, and professional standards.
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Apply coaching concepts, frameworks, models, and competencies in real coaching conversations.
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Distinguish coaching from therapy, counseling, consulting, mentoring, and related professions.
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Establish ethical coaching relationships grounded in confidentiality, boundaries, and client autonomy.
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Create coaching agreements, session structures, documentation practices, and engagement processes.
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Use active listening, coach presence, powerful questioning, and intentional communication.
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Build trust, rapport, psychological safety, and inclusive coaching relationships.
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Support clients in clarifying goals, values, beliefs, strengths, challenges, and opportunities.
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Use assessments, tools, and coaching frameworks to spark awareness, insight, and action.
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Support accountability, decision-making, transformation, and sustainable change.
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Strengthen self-awareness through reflection, feedback, supervision, and continued learning.
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Recognize the scope of practice and make ethical referrals when appropriate.
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Define a coaching identity, philosophy, professional approach, and practice pathway.
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Apply foundational business, branding, marketing, and client development strategies.
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Facilitate ethical, client-centered coaching conversations with confidence and care.
Take the Next Step Toward BCC Certification
Your coaching education is an important step toward professional credentialing. Threads That Hold programs can help you build the knowledge and skills to support your coaching journey. Here’s how to move forward.
1. Understand the Requirements: Explore CCE's current BCC eligibility criteria and continuing education requirements, as applicable.
2. Read the Board Certified Coach Handbook
3. Review the BCC Continuing Education Requirements
4. Register and begin your journey today
Once you have completed your qualifying program and confirmed your eligibility, follow CCE’s instructions for applying for and pursuing the Board Certified Coach (BCC) credential.
Helpful BCC Resources: Access the CCE Credentialing Gateway
Please note: Completing a Threads That Hold coaching program does not automatically award the BCC credential or guarantee eligibility. Applicants must independently meet all applicable CCE requirements, including any relevant education, experience, application, and examination requirements.