Team Coaching

What is the Team Coaching Certification?
The Team Coaching Program is delivered by ACT Leadership in partnership with Brown University's School of Professional Studies and has been approved for the Advanced Accreditation in Team Coaching (AATC) through the ICF, providing a pathway to the ICF Advanced Certification in Team Coaching (ACTC). The program runs over three months, available virtually or in a hybrid format with in-person sessions in Providence, Rhode Island. It is designed for coaches with prior 1:1 coaching experience who are ready to extend their practice to teams.

What you will learn
The program helps coaches work with teams to excel in effectiveness, relationships, and performance. You will explore group dynamics, individual accountability, and how to co-create innovative solutions across a team — with a focus on fostering the desired team culture and making a lasting impact on engagement and sustainability.

What you will achieve
You will complete 70 hours of advanced team coaching training across two three-day modules and a field application project, gaining practical experience in a real team context. You will graduate with a clear pathway to your ACTC credential and the skills to lead teams toward greater performance, accountability, and lasting cultural change.

Pre-Requisites
For certified or accredited coaches (with or working toward ACC credentials).

Module 1: Foundations

Module 1 builds the core skill set of a team coach and the lens you'll see teams through for the rest of your practice.

What you'll learn:

• Distinguish team coaching from facilitation, leading, and consulting
• Read teams as systems of human dynamics, not collections of individuals
• Build safety and trust through co-created team agreements
• Move teams from reactive tendencies back into creative performance
• Navigate difficult conversations that unlock new patterns
• Follow ACT's team coaching pathway for structured but adaptable engagements

You'll also begin a self-paced learning journey alongside the modules, including a set book, video content, and reflective activities.

Field Application: Coach a real team

Between Modules 1 and 2, you'll pair with a co-coach and run at least one 90-minute team coaching session with a real team, in a real workplace, before Module 2 begins. A 30-minute check-in call follows between Module 2 and the program completion call.

You source the team. ACT supports you through it.

Module 2: Application and range

Module 2 stretches your range as a Team Coach, working across more complex contexts and partnering directly with team leaders.

What you'll learn:

• Assess and improve a team's design conditions for success
• Partner with team leaders to set the team up to flourish
• Move through ACT's EASIER pathway via a full case study
• Sense and respond to conflict as it arises
• Build more inclusive teams that invite diversity of thought
• Help teams evaluate their growth at the end of a coaching cycle

Module 2 prepares you for the ICF Advanced Certification in Team Coaching (ACTC), including sample exam questions, and closes with peer-feedback role-play.

Supervision

Three small-group sessions, run alongside the modules and guided by a qualified Team Coach Supervisor. The work is reflective and focused on you as the practitioner: your capacity, your blind spots, your thresholds. Distinct from mentoring or observation.

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