Earn Your ICF Credits.
Become a More Resilient Leader.
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