Urban Excellence Coach Academy

Urban Excellence Coach Academy℠ is a comprehensive, experiential coach training program designed to prepare participants to become highly skilled, ethical, and effective professional coaches. Recognized as the gold standard in coaching education, the Academy is accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF)—ensuring graduates meet the industry’s highest level of quality, credibility, and competency.

Built intentionally for emerging and established leaders, entrepreneurs, educators, mental health professionals, and anyone called to help others grow, the Academy offers rigorous training, deep practice, and real-world application. Participants graduate with the skills and business structure needed to build profitable, sustainable coaching practices—while expanding their capacity to transform lives and communities.

For those committed to serving socioeconomically challenged areas, providing community coaching services, or joining the Urban Enterprise Coaching Corps, partial scholarships may be available—aligning professional coaching excellence with meaningful social impact.

What You’ll Learn

Across a powerful learning journey, participants master:

• The Core Skills of Professional Coaching
  
• ICF’s 8 Core Competencies
  
• Ethics, Values & Coaching Integrity
  
• Transformational Coaching Frameworks
  
• Business Development & Practice Management
  
• Practicum & Supervised Coaching
  
  

How the Academy Works

• Live Training Modules
  Interactive lessons combine instruction, demonstration, peer coaching, and guided exercises.
  
  
• Practicum and Supervised Coaching
  Participants engage in live coaching with real clients, supported by supervision and evaluation.
  
  
• Mentoring and Credential Guidance
  Support from credentialed coaches helps participants prepare for ICF pathways such as ACC.
  
  
• Business Launch Support
  Participants learn proven strategies for launching and sustaining a thriving coaching practice.
  
  
  

Who the Academy is For

Urban Excellence Coach Academy welcomes:

• New and aspiring life, business, wellness, and executive coaches
  
• Entrepreneurs adding coaching to their service model
  
• Mental health and human services professionals
  
• Educators, clergy, nonprofit leaders, and managers
  
• Community leaders and social impact practitioners
  
• Individuals called to inspire growth, clarity, and positive change
  
  
  

What Makes the Academy Different

Urban Excellence Coach Academy was built to fully support coaching as both:

• a profession — rooted in ethics, excellence, standards, and master
• a business — designed for sustainability, profit, and social impact
  
  

     Distinct advantages include:

• ICF-accredited programming for global credibility
  
• Complete instruction in the ICF 8 Core Competencies
  
• Detailed training on ethics, values, and professional responsibility
  
• Hands-on learning, not passive lecture
  
• A supportive, diverse cohort environment
  
• Scholarship opportunities for service-oriented professionals
  
• A pathway to the Urban Enterprise Coaching Corps
  
• A focus on expanding coaching in underserved communities
  
  

This is professional coaching training—with purpose.

What You’ll Gain

     By graduation, participants will have:

• Deep competency in ICF-aligned coaching skills
  
• Full integration of the 8 Core Competencies
  
• A strong grasp of coaching ethics and values
  
• Practicum hours and mentor guidance
  
• A complete business model and launch plan
  
• Client enrollment and practice-building confidence
  
• Templates, scripts, tools, and coaching resources
  
• A support network of fellow coaches and leaders
  
• A clear path toward ICF credentialing
  
  

Graduates are fully prepared to coach individuals, groups, teams, and organizations with confidence and integrity.

The Promise

Urban Excellence Coach Academy equips participants to:

• Coach with clarity, integrity, and transformation
  
• Build profitable, sustainable coaching practices
  
• Change lives while advancing their own
  
• Expand access to coaching where it’s needed most
  
• Serve from both excellence and heart
  
  

This isn’t just coach training.

It’s the work of professional and personal mastery—one coach at a time.