Earn Your ICF Credits.
Become a More Resilient Leader.
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A professional coach certification program built for coaches and organizational leaders who want to lead with calm, conviction, and deep connection — even when everything around them is anxious.
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Officially Accredited by the ICF
The Resilient Leadership Coach Certification Program is accredited by the International Coaching Federation as a Continuing Coach Education (CCE) provider. These are real, trackable credits that count toward your ICF credential renewal — not just a certificate of completion.
Six Ways This Program Changes How You Coach
Most coach training teaches you what to do. This program focuses on who you are — and how your own level of self-differentiation shapes every coaching relationship you'll ever have.
Deeper Self-Awareness
You'll learn to identify your own reactive patterns before they show up in your coaching sessions — so your clients get your best thinking, not your anxiety.
Calm Under Pressure
Discover the neuroscience behind Resilient Leadership and build the ability to stay grounded in even the most emotionally charged coaching conversations.
Stronger Client Connections
Learn how emotional systems work beneath the surface of every relationship — so you can coach the hidden dynamics, not just the presenting issue.
40 Verified ICF Credits
Fulfill a significant portion of your ICF credential renewal requirements in one program. All 40 credits are Core Competency CCEUs — the kind that count most.
A Framework That Travels
The Resilient Leadership model applies equally to executive coaching, team development, and personal leadership. One methodology. Unlimited contexts.
A Community of Practice
You'll work alongside coaches and organizational leaders who are doing the same inner work — building relationships that last well beyond the program itself.
Program at a Glance
Built for Coaches and Leaders Who Want More
This program was designed for professionals who are serious about their development — and serious about the people they serve. You're a fit if any of these describe you:
- You're an ICF-credentialed coach looking to renew with high-quality CCEUs
- You're an organizational leader who wants to coach more effectively within your role
- You want a framework grounded in systems thinking, not surface-level techniques
- You're ready to do your own work before asking your clients to do theirs
- You want credentials that travel — applicable in any industry or coaching niche
- You want to build a lasting professional community, not just collect a certificate
What You'll Walk Away With
A Clear Model for Self-Differentiation
Understand what it means to be a self-defined leader — someone who stays connected to others without being controlled by their emotional state.
Tools to Reduce Reactivity in Real Time
Practical methods for recognizing — and interrupting — anxious patterns in yourself and the systems you work within.
Live Coaching Observation and Practice
Watch expert RL coaches in action, then apply the concepts directly in practicum sessions with peer feedback.
A Personal and Professional Development Plan
Leave with a documented plan that maps your RL growth to your coaching practice and leadership goals.
Resilient Leadership Coach Certification
Earn your RLCC designation — valid for five years — along with exclusive access to the RL Coaches Portal and ongoing resources.
When I can be self-differentiated and see the level of reactivity in myself — and help others find that in themselves — the RL approach gives me a very clear, methodical pathway to assess it and reduce it. Once that happens, leaders access their best thinking. That's what changes organizations.
— Program Participant, Resilient Leadership Coach CertificationLed by Practitioners, Not Just Presenters
Every session is facilitated by seasoned Resilient Leadership experts who use these concepts daily in their own coaching and consulting work.
Marge Shonnard
RL Expert Practitioner & Lead Facilitator
John Moyer
RL Expert Practitioner & Facilitator
Bridgette Theurer
Co-Author, Resilient Leadership 2.0
Resilient Leadership in An Anxious World
This Asynchronous course is a uniquely powerful resource that equips leaders to understand the complex, hidden emotional chemistry of organizations.
Participants will learn how the ability to "think emotional systems" empowers leaders at any level of an organization to rise above the turbulence of today's chaotic, anxious world and lead others with calm, clarity, and conviction.
Jim Burns: Unpacks the Core Principles of Resilient Leadership
RL is a new way of seeing thinking and leading
"We are feeling beings that think" Jim Burns talks about the rational and emotional systems by observing reactivity, helps people see the hidden dynamics of their organization and families.
Learn More Directly From the Source About Resilient Leadership
Published in May 2024 Resilient Leadership 2.0 Revised and Expanded Edition is the primary resource used in the certification program. The new addition has three additional chapters and more “How to” references in the Appendix. Signed copies of the book are provided with course registration.
Join Bob and Bridgette as they explain the theory and application of each of the eight RL concepts.
Taken from their combined 50 years of coaching experiences, each true-life example clearly demonstrates the application of a powerful and practical concept.
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Dealing with significant change?
Coping with high levels of anxiety?
Wondering how to lead in a really turbulent time?
Some Feedback from Our Resilient Coaching Program
In addition to this valuable Free Download, you will also be subscribed to our monthly email “Practice of the Month.”
The Resilient Leadership model calls for leaders to embrace a “New Way of SEEING, THINKING, and LEADING”. In this document we invite you to focus on the nature of the “New Way of THINKING” that has the potential to transform to a dramatic degree the effectiveness of leaders everywhere.
How Resilient Are You?
Learn more about self-differentiation with a comprehensive analysis and follow up. The assessment includes an explanation of the three key areas that characterize well-differentiated leaders: Less Anxious Presence, Lead with Convictions, and Stay Connected.
- Find your Resilient Leadership score
- Get 9 practical tips to build leadership effectiveness
- Learn more about your level of self-differentiation, receive a summary with an explanation that characterize well-differentiated leaders.
Resilient Leadership Master Class
Practice of the Month
Cultivating & Calibrating Connection
At its best, a healthy leadership looks: responsive, energized, and still self-possessed. At its worst, conviction can harden.
In addition to this valuable Free Download, you will also be subscribed to our monthly email “Practice of the Month.”
The Resilient Leadership model calls for leaders to embrace a “New Way of SEEING, THINKING, and LEADING”. In this document we invite you to focus on the nature of the “New Way of THINKING” that has the potential to transform to a dramatic degree the effectiveness of leaders everywhere.
How Resilient Are You?
Learn more about self-differentiation with a comprehensive analysis and follow up. The assessment includes an explanation of the three key areas that characterize well-differentiated leaders: Less Anxious Presence, Lead with Convictions, and Stay Connected.
- Find your Resilient Leadership score
- Get 9 practical tips to build leadership effectiveness
- Learn more about your level of self-differentiation, receive a summary with an explanation that characterize well-differentiated leaders.
The Fine Line Between Conviction and Stubbornness
Without calm as our foundation, we become like emotional corks tossed about on a turbulent sea – reactive rather than responsive, at the mercy of circumstances rather than in command of our choices.
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