Coaching—the art of changing business through transforming people

Coaching is the due diligence of change and leadership and is considered an organization’s most powerful human strategy for change.  

You will be able to coach both current and emerging leaders who may...

• Be facing new business challenges
• Be derailing because of behavioral style
• Have little experience or connections outside their home base
• Need to develop better emotional, social & technical skills to succeed
• Be having difficulty accomplishing what they want
• Want to refine or retool skills to prepare for future career opportunities

You will be able to help your clients to...

• Engage their employees’ motivation and commitment
• Empower others to act with courage
• Influence upward
• Shape organizational strategy, which impacts business outcomes
• Expand leadership presence through defining vision and purpose
• Develop better teams
• Increase resilience and trustworthiness, thus increasing the capacity for all to learn

The Organizational & Leadership Coaching Program is designed for:

• Current & emerging leaders who want to expand their performance management skills and increase leadership effectiveness
• Organizational leaders seeking a career transition to build on previous experience
• Coaches certified by the International Coach Federation (ICF) who want to add to current skills to work with leaders in an organizational context
• Experienced human resource and performance management professionals who want to add to their competencies
• Current coaches and consultants who want to increase their capacity to shape their own destiny
• Those who wish to prepare for International Coach Federation (ICF) accreditation

Curriculum & Course Delivery

The Organizational & Leadership Coaching Certificate will be offered each fall and spring semester as a stand-alone certificate.  Nine of the 10 credits earned may also be applied toward the M.A. in Organization Leadership. 

The certificate’s six-course cohort-style program is delivered both face-to-face and online with either a fall or spring start.  You will meet with ICF-accredited coaches one weekend per month, including Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.  To earn your certificate, you will take five credits each semester. 

Course Schedule starting in January 2013

COA 620 Coaching Practicum I *                                                  2 credits                 1/25-4/24

*Practicum hours are integrated with the courses and schedule listed below.  The practicum includes supervision, student coaching practice and student professional effectiveness throughout the program.

COA 622 Coaching as a Process of Human Interaction          1 credit                   1/25, 26, 27   

COA 623 Coaching in Organizations                                            1 credit                   2/22, 23, 24 

COA 624 Coaching Breakthroughs                                               1 credit                   3/22, 23, 24

Summer course schedule to be announced.

For more information, contact:  stalucci@mail.immaculata.edu or srollison@immaculata.edu   

or call Sandra Rollison at 610-647-4400 ext. 3215.

International Coaching Federation (ICF) accreditation in process