Phase 1 Training

Is Coaching Right for You?

Whether you’re exploring a new career, looking to integrate coaching to your current profession, or feeling called to more meaningful people-centered work, Phase 1 is where that journey begins.

This is often the point where people sense a shift is needed. You may not have everything figured out yet, but you recognize a desire to grow, contribute, and engage in the type of work that creates real change. Coaching becomes less of an idea and more of a possibility worth exploring.

The Phase 1 program is designed for:

• A person that is ready to become a professional coach
• Professionals who want to integrate coaching into leadership, consulting, or client work
• Those seeking a purposeful career transition
• Anyone drawn to personal growth and helping others create change

You don’t need prior experience. You just need the willingness to begin.

Where This Path of Coaching Can Take You

Coaching is more than a skill, it is a shift in how you see, listen, and engage with people. For many, it becomes a doorway to new professional direction, deeper confidence in communication, and work that feels more meaningful and aligned with your values.

After Phase 1, many participants go on to:

• Start their own coaching practice
• Add coaching to an existing business or career
• Step into leadership roles with stronger communication and influence
• Continue toward professional credentials such as the Associate Certified Coach (ACC) through the International Coaching Federation

This is the foundation not just for learning coaching, but for building something meaningful with it.

What Makes CoachPath Academy Phase 1 Different

At CoachPath Academy, Phase 1 is your journey to becoming a coach with depth, credibility, and support. From the very start, you’ll be immersed in a program designed to grow you as both a coach and a human being.

Our training is grounded in the ICF Core Competencies, the global gold standard in coaching, and is designed to support those beginning their journey toward the Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential through the International Coaching Federation.

1. Grounded in the IFC Core Competencies

Your training is rooted in the ICF Core Competencies, the global gold standard of coaching. From day one, you’ll learn the language and framework that professional coaches around the world rely on to guide transformational conversations. This ensures you are practicing coaching skills and building them on a solid, ethical foundation.

2. Guided by Legends and Fresh Voices

Our faculty includes pioneers who helped shape the coaching profession from its earliest days, bringing wisdom, experience, and hard-won perspective. But we don’t stop there. Alongside these legends, you’ll also learn from rising thought leaders in coaching; younger voices who bring fresh energy, diverse perspectives, and real-world relevance.

The result is a learning environment that’s rich with history yet alive with innovation, never old, stuffy, or overly academic. Meet the faculty.

3. Turn Learning into Something Real

Your Signature Program Project

Most coaching programs leave you wondering, “Now what?”

One of the biggest challenges for new coaches is knowing how to market themselves once training is complete. That’s why, in Phase One, you’ll create your own Signature Program, a unique offering you can take to the world the moment you graduate.

Your Signature Program becomes:

• A starting point for your coaching business
• A way to confidently talk about what you offer
• A bridge between learning and earning

By the time you complete this phase, you’re not starting from zero, you’re already in motion.

It’s practical, it’s personal, and it ensures you hit the ground running with something you can confidently put in front of potential clients.

4. Personal Development That Creates the Evolution of You

At CoachPath, we believe the most powerful coaches are those who have done their own inner work. That’s why personal development is woven into the fabric of Phase One.

As you learn to coach others, you’ll also experience deep shifts in your own life: greater clarity, stronger confidence, healthier boundaries, and a new way of seeing yourself and the world. These changes stay with you, shaping how you live, lead, and coach for the rest of your life.

You Don’t Have to Have It All Figured Out

Most people don’t start this journey feeling fully ready.

They start because something is pulling them toward growth, toward deeper conversations, toward work that feels meaningful.

If you’ve been thinking about becoming a coach, or wondering if this path is for you, Phase 1 is where you find out.

You bring the curiosity. We’ll guide you the rest of the way.

"Every master coach began as someone willing to take the first step. Phase One is that step. The moment you begin to listen differently, speak with intention, and open the door to transformation.

And the first life it changes is your own."

— Jille Bartolome, MCC