Why Coach Academy
Graduates say the first life to change is theirs.
4,000+
Coaches certified
50,000+
Hours of fieldwork over a decade
300+
Five-star Google reviews
2016
Year Founded
The difference
Our purpose is to deepen human connection in an increasingly disconnected world. Coach Academy is an adult learning experience designed for people who want to communicate, lead, and coach with greater presence, curiosity, and compassion. We combine intellectual rigor with exceptional care, creating an experience where every detail is intentional and every learner is treated as someone whose impact matters.
You may already know how to listen, support, challenge, and connect. We help you refine those instincts into professional skill. Through certification, guided practice, reflection, and partnership, you develop the confidence and capability to create conversations that are meaningful, ethical, and transformative.
When the way you connect with people changes, so does what becomes possible around you. The skills you develop here travel into your work, relationships, leadership, and community, creating a ripple effect that reaches far beyond the people you coach.
What sets us apart
Every Coach Academy program is ICF-accredited, grounded in research and informed by real-world practice. Our curriculum is designed by founder Nathalie Blais, a Harvard MA graduate with distinction, and developed to meet the highest standards of professional coach education.
When someone asks, "Why this program?" the answer is simple: evidence.
Certification is only the beginning. This is about changing the very next conversation you have, and every one that follows. Through live learning, expert faculty, guided practice, and real-world application, you develop skills that transfer immediately to how you coach, lead, listen, and connect.
From the start. Not someday. Not just after graduation.
What you develop here does not stay in the classroom. It changes how you listen, how you lead, how you handle difficult conversations, and how you show up with the people who matter most. Graduates tell us the shift appears first in their coaching, then in team meetings, relationships, parenting, leadership, and everyday life.
That is the ripple effect: one person changes how they connect, and that change keeps moving.
We know all our students. You are not processed through a program here.
From your first conversation, we take the time to understand why you are here, what you are working toward, and what matters to you. Our faculty and team stay close throughout, offering guidance, challenge, encouragement, and continuity from enrolment through certification and beyond.
It is a personal approach to professional education, and the same standard of care that has supported more than 4,000 coaches since 2016.
Coach Academy
Multiplying the impact of coaching.
Setting the global standard
I left feeling confident and fully equipped to start my coaching practice.Steve Kim, CPA, CMA · Director, Commercial Mortgage Investments
In their words
Quinn Magnuson
I learned about myself and became an ICF certified coach.
ICF Leadership & Performance Coach | Senior Partner BDC | Former CFL Athlete
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Savanna Symons
Nathalie is an exceptional coach who overdelivers wherever she can.
Confidence & Career Coach
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Ernest Byers, M.A., Ed.D
It’s an amazingly welcoming, challenging and supportive place.
Executive Coach & Educator
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