Become a Certified Sherpa Coach

Gain the prestige and credibility of being certified in the Sherpa Executive Coaching Process. The Sherpa Executive Coaching Certification Program earns the Certified Sherpa Coach designation, providing the skills and credentials needed to become a top-level executive coach. Whether you’re looking to expand your knowledge, implement new processes within your organization, or start a new career, this three-month classroom-based program will transform you into a more effective leader and facilitator.

Snapshot

Format: Classroom

Hours: 60

Credits: 6.0 CEUs

Where: Athens

When: Spring 2022

Cost: See details below

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This executive coaching certification program, ICF approved*, puts you to work with the industry’s leading authors. As you take the class, you’ll have 60+ hours in the classroom, and expert weekly support with a practicum client. The Sherpa process involves six phases, with comprehensive exercises, assessments, and activities associated with each phase. The course includes in-depth fundamentals of coaching along with:

  • Definitions: What executive coaching is, and needs to become
  • Communications styles for coach and client
  • The Sherpa Stance: How to keep coaching professional
  • Who needs a coach?
  • What does it take to be a good coach?
  • Why does coaching need a process?
  • What questions do I ask while I am coaching?
  • How can I tell if my client is ‘getting it’?
  • How can I tell when my client is finished?

Who Should Attend?

  • Human resource managers, training and development professionals, corporate trainers, veteran business or career coaches, professionals responsible for developmental coaching, etc.
  • Independent business or career coaches looking to start a coaching or consulting business or enhance their current coaching or consulting business
  • Individuals seeking employment as a professional executive coach
  • Individuals seeking an executive coaching certification
  • Coaches (not currently certified) needing a crisp, precise process that ensures repeatable success
  • Training professionals desiring to create or enhance an internal coaching program
  • US military veterans seeking executive coaching certification designation. See details below about military funding.

Course Information

Course Number: 

0601-004

Course Date Info: 

One-Hour Virtual Orientation: February 14, 2022, at 6:00 p.m.
Week 1: February 28-March 4, 2022
Week 2: May 10-13, 2022 (Participation in both weeks* is required.)

After the in-classroom sessions conclude, you will complete a multi-week, asynchronous, practicum client assignment with your Sherpa Coach. *Course details, dates, and times are subject to change.

Location: 
UGA Center for Continuing Education & Hotel
1197 South Lumpkin Street, Athens, GA 30602
United States
See map: Google Maps
US
Course Fee(s): 

Standard fee which includes lodging and instruction: $9,449 (U.S. funds)

The registration fee includes all instructional materials, daily lunch and breaks, lodging, and parking. When booking airline reservations, you will want to make sure the tickets are refundable if the course does not meet the minimum enrollment. Our office will issue a final confirmation to you on or about January 21.

Live locally and do not require lodging?
A commuter fee is available for participants who live in the Athens area; however, we encourage participation in all activities to increase your networking time with colleagues. If you reside in the Athens area and you wish to learn more about the commuter rate, please contact UGA by e-mail at pam.brackenATgeorgiacenter.uga.edu or by telephone at +1-706-542-3537 or 800-811-6640 (toll-free in the U.S.).

Need to Make Two Payments? If you wish to break your course payment up in two separate payments, please follow the schedule below:

  • 1st Payment of $4724.50 (US Funds) made by December 22, 2021.
    (A $250 non-refundable deposit is applied toward the 1st payment.)
  • 2nd and Final Payment of $4724.50 (US Funds): January 19, 2022.

(Note: No refunds will be granted after January 19, 2022, for participants making two course payments.)

Standard Refund and Program Cancellation Policies:
The Georgia Center will gladly issue refunds (minus a $250 processing fee) for cancellations made on or before January 21, 2022. No refunds will be made for cancellations after January 21, 2022. Substitutions are welcomed with the advance written notice to the Georgia Center. If a program is cancelled for any reason, the Georgia Center will not be responsible for any cancellation/change charges assessed by airlines or travel agencies. When booking airline reservations, you will want to make sure the tickets are refundable if the course does not meet the minimum enrollment. Our office will issue a final confirmation to you on or about January 21.

About the Georgia Center:
The University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education & Hotel, located on the beautiful, historic UGA campus in Athens, Georgia, provides innovative lifelong learning opportunities that develop intellectual and human potential. A full-service living and learning environment, the Georgia Center includes a 200-room hotel, restaurants, banquet areas, conference rooms, auditoriums, a fitness center, and computer labs — all under one roof. As a unit of UGA’s Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach, the Center brings the University’s teaching, research, and service expertise to the people of Georgia and beyond! For more information, go to www.georgiacenter.uga.edu.

The program is based on the textbook, The Sherpa Guide: Process-Driven Executive Coaching by Brenda Corbett and Judith Colemon Kinebrew. One of the authors may be your instructor.

Judith Colemon KinebrewJudith Colemon Kinebrew is an author and educator who trains and certifies executive coaches. Judith co-authored "The Sherpa Guide: Process-Driven Executive Coaching”, the world’s most widely used textbook for coach training and is the foundation of The Sherpa Process. Her latest book: “BE . . don’t do” is the Sherpa Guide to coaching skills for managers and executives. With her passion for leadership, Judith began coaching executives one-on-one in 2001.

DeCoffette WardDeCoffette Ward is a master executive coach, an author, facilitator, and Director of Training with Sherpa Coaching. DeCoffette brings 20 years of facilitation and leadership experience, which has allowed her to contribute to the growth and success of companies in the electric power industry, the military, and manufacturing. Along with Brenda Corbett, she is a Sherpa co-author of “Executive Presence: Humility” and her own book called, Dream. Write. Execute.