Become a Certified Professional Business Coach

The PBCA is for business coaches only. We’re expanding our membership with current business coaches and experienced professionals wanting to become business coaches, and the certification course is how you join the alliance.

Business coach certification from the PBCA is for current business coaches and advisors, and for experienced professionals wanting to become business coaches. New-to-coaching members must have significant business experience. For existing business coaches and advisors, we offer an accelerated certification process.

We offer premier certifications in business, executive, and small business coaching, supplying proven methods and tools for veteran coaches as well as simplifying the path to becoming a coach. The PBCA is for business coaches only.

Whether you are currently a business coach or looking to become one, our certification equips individuals for coaching excellence.

To ensure that all PBCA coaches continue to represent the professionalism and experience the PBCA brand represents, we thoroughly vet the experience of each new member. A PBCA Certified Business Coach meets strict qualifications before they can join, with intensive business coach training before they ever get to you.

Certified Professional Business Coach (CPBC) training takes place over 4 days with our instructors, offered virtually or in-person. The training covers the foundations of business coaching, the mechanics of running coaching engagements, the marketing and pricing of a coaching practice, and the integration of coaching alongside other advisory services, including live role-play coaching with after-coaching reviews and a tour of the PBCA member site: calendar of events, forum, and library of tools.

The course culminates in an exam. Successful completion earns you the designation Certified Professional Business Coach (CPBC) and makes you eligible to join the PBCA as a member-coach.

By the end of the training you will:

• Understand why business owners and executives hire business coaches.
• Understand what business coaching is, what it is not, and how coaching services work alongside other business advisory services.
• Learn the deliverables and the fundamentals of business coaching.
• Have your first experiences using professional business coaching fundamentals.
• Learn effective ways to onboard new clients and kick off new coaching relationships.
• Learn how to most effectively schedule your coaching sessions and other service offerings.
• Learn how to use seminars and presentations as an effective way to earn clients.
• Pull it all together with a sequential review of everything the course covered.
• Be recognized as a Certified Professional Business Coach in the Professional Business Coaches Alliance.

Continue your education through additional PBCA curriculum built around the mastery and tools of business coaching:

• PBCA Member Community — Monthly peer group calls, professionally facilitated mastermind sessions where you get the help you need, while also providing your peers any help you can offer.
• BEE and LEE Certification — Proven evaluation tools for coaching advancement with clients.
• Master Coach Certification
• PBCA BOS Certification — PBCA’s proprietary Business Operating System, for business coaches, by business coaches.
• Annual Conference & Master Coach Retreat — The Annual Conference is a 2½-day live conference of workshops, seminars and roundtables. The Master Coach Retreat is for business coaches billing more than $150,000 per year; its content and notes are shared afterward with the entire membership.

Apply now to start your path to the CPBC credential and the PBCA member network of certified business coaches across the United States and Canada.