BECOME A CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL COACH

Executive Leadership Coach Certification

For inspired leaders, entrepreneurs, consultants and high-performance teams.

A Coaching Mindset Is the New Psychology of Success!

International Coaching Federation

Learn from the Best in the World

Begin Your Journey to Becoming a Certified Professional Coach

Achieve extraordinary results when you leverage the most powerful and effective approach to enhancing human development and performance. Ignite Excellence in Coaching is an ICF-approved LEVEL 2 curriculum. Certification with our program meets the training requirements for ICF credentialing and offers a Certified Executive Leadership Coach designation.

Ignite Excellence in Coaching

You’re invited to join us for a transformational leadership and coaching development program that builds extraordinary leaders, inspired employees, powerful coaches, high performing teams, and energized, winning organizational cultures!

We are all leaders in our careers and our lives. The real question is how will you lead yourself and your company to success?

This program is for you if you’re ready to accelerate your career, improve your leadership skills, focus on personal development, or start your own coaching practice. You’ll be joined by attendees from various backgrounds and industries. Some of these include Corporate Executives, Business Owners, Private Practices, Salespeople, HR Professionals, Educators, Consultants, Budding Entrepreneurs, and individuals seeking career transition and advancement.

INSPIRE...IMPACT...ACHIEVE!

Our executive coach training program transforms attendees to become extraordinary individuals and leaders both personally and professionally. Students will master their mindset, drive through obstacles holding them back from success, achieve goals, lead with integrity, elevate performance, and transform into being the best version of themselves.

Our program blends leadership, business, and coaching competencies into a revolutionary way to help individuals and teams engage, perform, and achieve high-level results.

Your learning experience will be highly experiential, personally transformational, and give you practical strategies and tools to begin using immediately in your organization. You’ll leave with the skills and tools to transform culture, facilitate expansive change, engage and motivate employees, optimize performance, and lead their team and organization to new heights.

STANDING UP...STEPPING UP & SHOWING UP

Transform your leadership, career, organizational culture

Start a new business

Facilitate expansive change

Enhance skills & elevate performance

Personally and professionally ignite your life!

Learning Concepts

The Coaching Leader Mindset
Breaking Down Barriers to Success
Change Management
Evoking Awareness
Leading High Impact Teams
Purpose, Vision, and Mission for Individuals & Teams
Dynamic Communication & Collaboration
Conscious Leadership
Facilitating Employee Growth
Perception and Feedback That Sticks
Establishing Agreements and Focus
Planning and Goal Setting
Managing Progress and Accountability
Emotional Intelligence

Cultivating Trust and Safety
Goal Achievement & Accountability
Leadership Presence
Assessments and Performance Styles
Metrics, & Science of Thought
Attitude & Behavior Change
Business Development
Delegation and Empowering Leadership
Priorities and Workload Management
Designing a Coaching Culture
Developing a Coaching Style of Leadership
Coaching to Drive Sustainable Change
Building a Coaching Culture
Managing Conflict & Difficult Conversations

Philosophy & Approach

Our coaching model and style is rooted in the International Coach Federation Foundation Principles and Code of Ethics which is the gold standard in the Coaching Industry.

ICF LEVEL 2 CERTIFIED CONTENT
Live, small classes…virtually and in-person
Supported learning experience learning with instructor to student support and peer to peer support
Experiential learning acquisition where theory meets with practice, problem-solving, and feedback
Real-life and work takeaways that are immediately actionable
Leveraging our learn-experience-practice-reflect-action format
Instructors who hold Master’s Degrees from an Accredited Academic Institution and are Professional Certified Coaches through the International Coach Federation

Requirements & Prerequisites

Our attendees come from various backgrounds and industries. Some of these include Corporate Executives, Business Owners, Salespeople, HR Professionals, Educators, Budding Entrepreneurs, and Individuals seeking personal development and career advancement. The course requires an application and onboarding process, basic computer skills, internet access, and online capability. In addition, students must be able to:

Attend training at prescribed times.
Practice outside of the classroom.
Meet virtually or by phone to collaborate in small groups.
Complete written work inside and outside the classroom.
Be open to possibilities and opportunities for growth.
A desire to excel in their personal and professional life.
Value the ICF Core Competencies
Actively participate & have fun!

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SESSION FOR THIS COHORT

OUR NEXT COHORT BEGINS SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Ignite’s Executive Leadership Coach Certification and Leading Intelligent Teams Coach Certification programs are offered in partnership with Centenary University. Centenary University has a 150-year tradition of providing high quality liberal arts and professional studies while helping students gain the skills and connections they need to prosper in today’s world.

The program is educational, highly interactive, and experiential. It includes 145 hours of specific-coach training, exercises, role play, and mentor coaching. peer coaching, group peer coaching, client complimentary coaching, and written work. There will also be an oral and written exam. After completion of the program, graduates will receive an Executive Professional & Leadership Coach Certification. All live classes are delivered virtually.

Program Dates & Times:

SEPTEMBER 2024 PROGRAM

Module Classes 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM Daily

Module 1: September 27th – 29th

Module 2: October 25th – 27th

Module 3: November 22nd – 24th

Module 4: December 20th – 21st

Weekly Classes:

Tuesday evenings 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

*No class the Tuesday evening after each cohort

ALL CLASSES ARE VIRTUAL and DELIVERED LIVE

JANUARY 2025 PROGRAM

Module Classes 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM Daily

Module 1: January 24th – 26th

Module 2: February 21st – 23rd

Module 3: March 28th – 30th

Module 4: April 25th – 26th

Weekly Classes:

Tuesday evenings 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

*No class the Tuesday evening after each cohort

ALL CLASSES ARE VIRTUAL and DELIVERED LIVE

Registration and Payments: Must be made prior to the program start date. Withdrawals and Refund Policy: Withdraw 30 days prior to the start of the program and receive a full refund.

Program Delivery: Our programs are delivered online, virtually face to face, and a blend of both. You can join us at one of our training centers in New Jersey, onsite at your location, or through online classes. Whatever option you choose, our curriculum and methods are with a live instructor.

All programs are taught in English and we have the ability to add closed captioning if requested.

Lead Instructor: Jo Colontonio, MBA, PCC, CELC

EARLY REGISTRATION

$8597

Price after August 22nd

$9597

What Our Graduates Have to Say

“The Ignite Executive Leadership Coach Certification Program is one of the most dynamic programs I have attended. As an executive working for a major CPG for over 30 years, Jo Colontonio's program ranks among the very best. This course is great for professionals who want to strengthen their listening, questioning, and leadership skills at an accelerated pace. The program is designed with a built-in network of highly engaged professionals – and the way Jo integrated real-life experiences and resources challenged all of us throughout each session to learn and discover together. Her ability to pivot on the fly to meet our needs and her teaching approach of ‘learn by doing" is extremely effective and a significant benefit to the program. I now feel immediately equipped to apply what I learned to my own business. On a scale of 1-10 this program was a 10 and I will continue to recommend the Ignite Executive Leadership Coach Certification to others.”

Cathleen Compoli, Mars IncorporatedGraduate

"Thank you for being a truly inspirational instructor. You believed in us when it was hard, but your standards were so high for us. You brought out the very best in us by, "KNOWING THE WAY, SHOWING THE WAY, AND GOING THE WAY." We will always be grateful for all of the instruction and dedication you have given to make us who we are today, better supervisors and team leaders. For this, we appreciate you. Thank you so very much."

State of NJ Division of Motor Vehicles

"If you are looking for a quality coaching certification program, look no further. This educational experience is phenomenal. This course is unlike any other I have taken and should be mandatory for anyone who calls themselves a coach in any capacity (leadership, relationship, etc.). Jo Colontonio is an excellent instructor and leader. Taking this class was a transformational experience that will significantly improve the knowledge-base I formed through my M.S.in Executive Leadership and 25+ years of related training, research, and on-the-job experience. I cannot sufficiently express how thrilled I am that I got the opportunity to participate in this class."

Barbara Anne Gardenhire Mills, MSEL, CPC Graduate

"This course is for you if you are looking to not only learn the skills and proficiencies of being a master coach but also how to apply the skills. Jo Colontonio, the trainer and facilitator has created a highly interactive and experiential learning environment. You will not only get to know and understand what it means (and takes) to be an effective coach, there was plenty of opportunities to practice the skills."

Joe Duerr, CFPGraduate

"I took Jo’s Executive Leadership Coaching Certification Course in October-December in 2020. What I originally thought would be a commonsense program turned out to be filled with skill specific taskings that I never realized would be so critical to establishing a trusting coaching relationship. The program was very comprehensive and filled with many hours of practical coaching training. Jo’s knowledge and experience in the world of coaching was only matched by her enthusiasm, passion and heartfelt caring for her student’s success. As a former Air Force Instructor Pilot, I know that if you don’t convey a true sense of concern for your student, they will shut you down and the learning process becomes strained. At one point at the closing of a practice coaching session I asked Jo for her feedback on how she felt I had done, as she was monitoring the session. She became filled with emotion, her eyes welled up and couldn’t speak for a minute. When she regained her composure, she said, “words cannot express how proud I am of you – you have improved so much!” This is a professional who truly cares!"

Dave RuvolaGraduate

My experience with the Ignite Excellence Coaching Program was awesome! The course provided me with a professional framework to confidently enroll others in transformational coaching conversations. The academic literature and in-action role-playing were priceless! Thanks to the training and support of my highly skilled instructor Jo Colontonio, my fantastic colleagues, and my alma mater, Fairleigh Dickinson University, I was able to incorporate my training into a profitable business before the training was even completed. I highly recommend The Ignite Excellence Executive Leadership Coach Certification Program to anyone looking to make a positive difference in others’ lives.

James SturgisCEO