Human Systems Architecture™ Series · Practitioner Track

HWH® HSA™ Executive Leadership Coach Training

Process expertise for professional, executive, founder, family-enterprise, and career-transition coaching.

Know the architecture. Hold the process. Protect the relationship. Help the client author the change.

Available exclusively to members of the HWH® Coach Club.

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40
hours of ICF-accredited Level 2 or Level 3 coach education
20 + 20
synchronous practice labs + asynchronous study
+40
hour supervised practicum in your chosen focus
3
specialty focuses · four practice contexts
Why This Matters Now

Leaders are drowning in signal — and starving for actionable intelligence.

The work of leadership has changed faster than the support around it. The decision load has multiplied, the half-life of skills is collapsing, and the people carrying the most consequence have the least room to think. This is the gap a process-expert coach fills.

39%
of core workforce skills will be transformed or obsolete by 2030WEF Future of Jobs Report 2025
59%
of the workforce will need training by 2030 to keep paceWEF Future of Jobs Report 2025
63%
of employers name skills gaps the single biggest barrier to transformationWEF Future of Jobs Report 2025
275×
interruptions a day — roughly every two minutes during core hoursMicrosoft Work Trend Index 2025
80%
of workers say they lack the time or energy to do their job effectivelyMicrosoft Work Trend Index 2025
50%
more metrics tracked than in 2018 — decisions are now connected, contextual, continuousGartner
20%
higher financial performance by 2027 for organizations that build executive AI literacyGartner
2
fastest-growing skill families: cognitive (analytical thinking) and socio-emotional (resilience, leadership)WEF Future of Jobs Report 2025

More data has not produced better decisions. What leaders lack is not information — it is a coherent system for turning signal into judgment, and judgment into action. That is a whole-system problem, and it needs a whole-system coach.

The Holistic Systems Frame

Human Systems Architecture™: the whole human, inside the whole system

A leader is not a set of competencies bolted to a job description. They are a living system — thinking, feeling, relating, deciding — nested inside other living systems: a team, a family enterprise, a board, a market. Coach one dimension and the system snaps back. Coach the architecture and the change holds.

Eight competencies

HWH 360 Core™ — the professional system

The competencies that determine whether a professional can operate inside complexity without fragmenting.

  • Systems Awareness & Impact
  • Conscious Communication
  • Relational Intelligence & Collaboration
  • Navigating Conflict with Maturity & Skill
  • Adaptability, Agility & Learning Loops
  • Accountability Without Burnout
  • Quality, Feedback & Continuous Improvement
  • Self-Management & Sustainable Performance
Five competencies

HWH 360 Leader™ — the leadership system

What changes when your decisions land on other people's lives, and the consequence is no longer yours alone.

  • Vision & Strategic Thinking
  • Inspiring & Motivating Others
  • Delegation & Empowerment
  • Developing People
  • Fostering Innovation & Agility
Founder and family-enterprise contexts are integrated throughout — not siloed.
The coach's stance

Process expert, not content lecturer

The client-facing ecosystem — books, eCourses, journals, assessments, AI companions — teaches the developmental content. This training teaches you to hold the process through which clients apply it.

  • Context and role clarity
  • Sponsor discovery and contracting
  • Assessment selection and debrief
  • Tripartite sessions and stakeholders
  • Conflict, mediation, and referral
  • Closure, continuation, and handoff
Coach the hidden architecture — don't reteach the competency.
The Foundation

Professionals are also people.

You cannot coach a leader's decision-making while ignoring the human being who makes the decisions. Performance problems are rarely only performance problems — underneath them sit sleep, meaning, identity, marriage, health, grief, and a nervous system under sustained load. A purely professional lens will miss all of it. A whole-system lens catches it.

Why the holistic systems approach is not a soft add-on

  • The system is one system. Coach the role and ignore the person, and the change will not hold — the system snaps back the moment pressure returns.
  • Identity precedes strategy. A leader who has not done their own identity work will outsource it to their title, and every decision inherits that distortion.
  • Well-being is upstream of performance. Personal, professional, and relational well-being are not the reward for professional success — they are the substrate that makes clarity, judgment, and sustained performance possible.
  • Executives hide it better. The higher the role, the more sophisticated the compensation — which is exactly why the mirror has to be whole-system rather than competency-only.
  • You can only hold what you've done. A coach who has not mapped their own system will flinch at the places a client most needs them steady.

Prerequisite and recommended foundation. HWH ICF Level 1 coach training is a prerequisite for this program. The HWH® Holistic Wellness training is the recommended basis — it is where coaches do their own identity work and learn the whole-person approach they will later have to hold, steadily, for executives and founders under real pressure.

ICF Level 1 TrainingHolistic Wellness Training

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dimensions in the Holistogram™

The validated whole-person, whole-system map — normed against 740+ participants, with T1 → T2 delta tracking. It measures personal, professional, and relational well-being together, because that is how they actually operate: as one system, not three.

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Lifestyle
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Foundational to professional clarity, performance, and success. You cannot separate a person's judgment from the system they are living inside.

Three Specialty Focuses · Cross-Path Fluency

One process discipline. Three client worlds.

You choose a primary lens and stay fluent across all three — because real engagements refuse to stay in their lane. A career transition surfaces inside an executive engagement; a founder's succession question is also a family-system question.

Focus One

HSA™ Professional Coaching

For individual contributors, midcareer professionals, and emerging leaders learning to operate with impact inside a system they did not design.

  • The 8 HWH 360 Core™ competencies
  • Visibility, contribution, and making work legible
  • Conflict, feedback, and accountability without burnout
  • Sustainable performance under load
Primary mirror: HWH 360 Core™ · Holistogram™
Focus Two

Executive Leadership Coaching

For executives, founders, family-enterprise leaders, and those coaching into boards, investors, and organizational politics — where the decision load is heaviest and the room for error is smallest.

  • The 5 HWH 360 Leader™ competencies
  • Power, politics, escalation, optics, and managing up
  • Sponsor discovery and tripartite contracting
  • Founder, succession, and family-enterprise systems
  • Decision architecture under uncertainty
Primary mirror: HWH 360 Leader™ · DPI™
Focus Three

Career Transition Coaching

For clients designing a next chapter — by choice or by force. Redundancy, reinvention, re-entry, retirement, and the identity work underneath all of it.

  • Identity, meaning, and values realignment
  • Designing the next chapter as a whole-person system
  • Narrative, market, and re-entry strategy
  • Transition without self-erasure
Primary mirror: Career Transition Compass™
Synchronous Curriculum

Ten two-hour live practice labs

Every class is built for demonstration, practice, feedback, and discussion — not lecture. Short conceptual framing exists only to support sound process decisions. Cases rotate across the three specialty focuses and the four practice contexts.

1

Whose Container Are You In?

Practice context, role integrity, and contract hierarchy. Who is client, sponsor, payer, data controller — and what can you actually promise about confidentiality?

2

Building & Scoping the Engagement

Sponsor discovery, one-page proposals, pricing, scope, invoicing — and the criteria for declining an engagement.

3

Chemistry, Intake, Screening & Referral

Mutual fit, coaching readiness, covert performance management. Accept, revise scope, coordinate, refer, or decline — with warmth and clarity.

4

Launching the Relationship

Agreements, client-owned goals, developmental arcs, and integrating books, eCourses, journals, and AI companions without becoming the instructor.

5

The Assessment Lifecycle

Selection, consent, debrief, data ownership, reassessment and delta. Mirror-not-verdict framing — including when a sponsor asks for results.

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Facilitating Tripartite Sessions

Opening alignment, difficult midpoints, recontracting, and closing — progress discussion without reporting private session content.

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Power, Politics & Organizational Reality

Managing up, stakeholder mapping, escalation, optics, boards, investors, founders — coaching discernment without supplying political strategy.

8

Conflict, Mediation & Referral

One-to-one conflict coaching vs. a limited joint conversation vs. mediation vs. referral to HR, legal, governance, or therapy.

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Dual Relationships & Multiple Roles

Conflicts of interest, information walls, and role boundaries — proceed, recontract, separate roles, refer, or decline.

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Progress, Closure & Practicum Launch

Reassessment, delta findings, ROI/VOI language without overclaiming causality, closure, continuation — and your practicum learning plan.

Before every case, you complete a Practice Container Declaration: Who engaged and pays the coach? Who is the client? Who holds the contract? Who may receive what information? Whose policies, technology, and IP govern the work?

Then: Supervised Practice

The 40-Hour Supervised Coaching Practicum

Process knowledge becomes practice competence only under supervision. The separate 40-hour HWH® Personalized Supervised Coaching Practicum converts what you learned into supervised client work — in the focus area you choose.

  • Two to four client systems, five or more sessions each
  • Two de-identified case studies
  • A recorded presentation to the HWH coach community
  • A required analysis of how practice context shaped contracting, confidentiality, assessment use, referral, and closure
  • Faculty approval against the Level 2 or Level 3 developmental standard
40

hours, applied to your chosen focus

Choose General Midcareer & Emerging Leadership, Executive Leadership, or Career Transition — with founder and family-enterprise cases available as integrated executive contexts.

Available to eligible graduates through active HWH Coach Club membership. Also attaches to other HWH specialty trainings when prerequisites are met.

You Are Not Doing This Alone

Mondays at HWH: drop-in support, every week

Advanced coaching gets hard in specific, lonely places — the sponsor who wants a result they aren't entitled to, the case that keeps you up, the credential paperwork you keep postponing. So we hold the door open every Monday. Drop in when you need it; nothing is mandatory.

Mondays · 12–1pm CST

ICF Group Mentoring

The mentor coaching required on your ICF credential pathway — observed practice, direct feedback against the ICF competencies, and the documented hours you need for ACC, PCC, or MCC.

Explore ICF Mentoring →
Mondays · 11am–12pm CST

Group Supervision

Reflective supervision for the cases that stay with you. Where role integrity, dual relationships, sponsor pressure, and your own reactivity get examined rather than carried.

Mondays · 9–10am & 2–3pm CST

Office Hours

Two open windows a week. Bring a contracting question, an assessment debrief you're unsure about, a proposal you're drafting, or a referral decision you want a second read on.

Mondays · 1–2pm CST

HWH Happy Hour

The unstructured hour. Colleagues, not competitors — the part of the week where the practice stops being solitary.

4th Monday · Monthly

Business Development

Pricing, positioning, proposals, pipeline, and the commercial side of a coaching practice — the conversation most training programs never have with you.

Ongoing

HWH Coaching Circle

Peer practice and co-creation between sessions — where reps happen and the community actually forms.

All sessions are included with active HWH® Coach Club membership and run alongside your training and your 40-hour practicum. Attendance is optional — the support is not conditional.

Two Ways to Take It

Run with a cohort — or fast-track it on your own clock

The 40 hours are the same either way: 20 synchronous, 20 asynchronous, held to the same ICF-accredited standard. What changes is the rhythm — and whether you wait for a start date or begin now.

Start Whenever You're Ready

Self-Paced Fast Track

Build a personalized independent study plan with faculty, work the asynchronous curriculum at your own pace, and earn your synchronous hours live in the Monday drop-in sessions — which run 35 weeks a year.

  • A personalized independent study plan, designed with faculty around your practice and your credential deadline
  • Your 20 synchronous hours earned live in Monday drop-ins — mentoring, supervision, office hours — running 35 weeks a year
  • Move as fast as your calendar allows; no waiting for the next cohort to open
  • Same 40 accredited hours, same standard, same certificate
  • Ideal if you're mid-engagement, chasing a credential deadline, or across time zones
Design My Fast Track
Learn Alongside Peers

The Cohort

Ten weeks, one two-hour live practice lab each week, with the same group of coaches — the classic route, and the one that builds the deepest practice relationships.

  • Ten consecutive weeks · one 2-hour live Zoom practice lab each week
  • The same triads and fishbowls throughout — feedback from people who know your coaching
  • Case discussion with peers working the same three specialty focuses
  • A shared start and finish, with the cohort carrying you through the hard weeks
  • Ideal if you want structure, accountability, and community by default
Ask About the Next Cohort

Both routes require active HWH® Coach Club membership and lead into the same 40-hour supervised practicum. Not sure which fits? Book a discovery call →

Why It's Accredited

What ICF accreditation actually buys you

Coaching is a largely unregulated industry. Accreditation is the difference between a claim and a standard — and it is increasingly the gate you must pass to be hired at all.

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Globally portable recognition

The ICF credential is the most widely recognized standard in professional coaching. ACC, PCC, and MCC are understood by buyers across markets and borders — your credential travels with you.

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Hours that count

These 40 hours apply as ICF-accredited Level 2 or Level 3 coach education toward your PCC or MCC pathway — and continuing-education hours count toward credential renewal, so the learning does double duty.

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Procurement-ready

Many organizations, coaching platforms, and enterprise buyers will not contract a coach without an ICF credential. Accreditation is often the first filter — before anyone reads your bio.

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A defined ethics and competency standard

You are held to a published code of ethics and a competency framework — which means your client, and your client's sponsor, know exactly what standard you are practising to.

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Assessed practice, not attendance

Accredited education requires observed practice, direct feedback, and evaluation against a standard — not a certificate for showing up. That rigor is what makes the credential worth something.

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Trust, answered in advance

The credential answers the sponsor's first question before it is asked. When you are the only unregulated professional at the table, that matters more than it should — and it does matter.

Assessments & Dashboards

Holistic insight — the mirror, not the verdict

Most coaches have testimonials. HWH coaches have evidence. Validated instruments, before-and-after delta reporting, and dashboards that show measured movement across specific dimensions — so clients can see their own progress and sponsors can see the return.

HWH 360 Core™ assessment

HWH 360 Core™

Self- and other-rater view across the eight core professional competencies. Where the gap between intent and impact actually lives.

HWH 360 Leader™ assessment

HWH 360 Leader™

The five leadership competencies, seen from every direction — the mirror executives rarely get held up honestly.

Holistogram™ assessment

Holistogram™

The validated whole-person baseline. Award-winning, outcomes-validated, and the anchor of the HWH developmental arc.

Dynamic Patterns Index™ assessment

DPI™ — Dynamic Patterns Index

The patterns beneath the behavior — how a person moves through pressure, conflict, and change.

Career Transition Compass™ assessment

Career Transition Compass™

Direction, readiness, and identity coherence for clients designing their next chapter.

Delta & Retake Reporting

Reassessment and delta review across the engagement — observable movement, in language that survives a boardroom without overclaiming causality.

Couples Pulse™ assessment

Couples Pulse™

Also in your toolbox through Coach Club — the relational mirror. Because the executive who cannot get home is not, in fact, performing.

Team Pulse™ assessment

Team Pulse™

The team-level mirror — the natural bridge from one-to-one executive coaching into AATC team coach training.

Actionable intelligence, ethically held

You will learn to select, administer, frame, and debrief every instrument — including the hard parts: respondent selection, consent, data ownership, contradictory findings across mirrors, and what to do when a sponsor asks for a result they are not entitled to. Individual results are private to the assessed person and are never automatically routed to managers, sponsors, HR, platforms, or dashboards. Sharing requires explicit informed consent, a clear developmental purpose, and agreement on exactly what will be shared, by whom, and in what form.

Also Inside Coach Club

Your executive clients are attached to teams — and to people.

One-to-one executive coaching keeps running into the same two edges: the team the leader is actually accountable for, and the life they go home to. Coach Club membership opens both doors.

🧭 AATC Team Coach Training

HWH is accredited for the ICF Advanced Accreditation in Team Coaching (AATC). When the executive engagement surfaces a team problem — and it will — you can take that engagement too, with the Team Pulse™ as your mirror, rather than referring the work away.

Explore AATC Team Coaching

📚 Client-facing resources

Every HSA™ book, client eCourse, workbook, journal, assessment, and AI companion is available to give your clients — delivered under your brand in the co-branded HWH App, so the work continues across the 167 hours a week you are not in session.

See the Client Library Full Ecosystem

All included with active HWH® Coach Club membership.

Your Toolbox

What you walk away licensed to use

You are not leaving with a certificate and a reading list. You are leaving with a working toolbox — named, sequenced, ready-to-run protocols you can open on Monday morning. The HWH Protocols & Tools library (v15) holds 146 protocols and tools. This training certifies you to facilitate the ones that matter in a one-to-one professional, executive, or career-transition engagement.

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protocols & tools you will learn to facilitate one-to-one — every Individual- and Executive-scale instrument in the libraryof 146 total across the full HWH library
32
executive leader exercises — from the Execution Drift Diagnostic to the Leadership Leverage Plan capstoneExecutive Strategy Journal
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validated assessments — each with results reports, delta tracking, and an ICF-accredited facilitator eCourse that certifies you to deliver itHolistogram™ · DPI™ · HWH 360 Core™ · HWH 360 Leader™ · Career Transition Compass™ · Couples Pulse™ · Team Pulse™
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assessment debrief protocols — a scripted results-review session for every instrument, including retake and delta reviewsMirror, not verdict
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AI coaching companions — Clara™ copilots you; Mojo™, Sofie™, Fergus™ and Zola™ support your clientsGDPR-compliant · privacy-first
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books, workbooks, journals and client eCourses across the three tracks in this program9 titles on Amazon + 3 client eCourses in the HWH App
146
total protocols & tools in the HWH library — individual, couples, team and executive scaleHWH Protocols & Tools · v15 · July 2026
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hours of ICF-accredited training available across the HWH ecosystemLevels 1–3 · AATC Team · ACHE Hypnotic Coach
32 tools · Executive scale

Executive Leader Exercises

Named, ready-to-run: Executive Leadership GPS · Executive Leadership Canvas™ · Altitude & Perspective · The Execution Drift Diagnostic · Over-Functioning Inventory · Map Your Stakeholder Field · Seeing Signals Before They Become Problems · Integrity Under Pressure · Designing for Succession · Constructive Influence Sequence™ · Role Integrity Audit™ · Leadership Leverage Plan capstone.

Career Transition track

Career Transition Exercises

Career Transition GPS · My Career Transition System Map · Skills Inventory — Carry · Retire · Grow · Option Fit View™ · Old Role / New Role Identity Map · Transferable Skills Translation Lab · Job Posting Decoder · Interview Story Bank · Offer Reflection & Negotiation Prep · 90-Day Career Transition Sprint.

Session architectures

Introductory, Midstream, Check-In & Conclusion Sessions

Complete session structures for every stage of the engagement — including the HWH Introductory Session for Executive Leaders and the ICF-Aligned Midstream Coaching Session. You are never improvising the shape of the hour.

10 debrief protocols

Assessment Review Sessions

A scripted results-review for every instrument — Holistogram™, DPI™, HWH 360 Core™, HWH 360 Leader™, Career Transition Compass™ (initial, skills inventory, and retake/delta) — so the mirror is held, not handed over.

Core exercises

The Foundational Toolkit

HWH GPS · Presence Pivot · Focus Exercise · Life Mission · Identify Your Core Values · Lifestyle Architecture · Roles I Hold™ · Whole Person Canvas · Mutuality Model.

Regulation tools

Emotional & Mental Well-Being

Stabilizing Your Emotions · Strategies to Bring Safety and Calm · Shifting Negative Thoughts · Emotional Release · Anger Management (1,2,3,4 Words) · Overcoming Overwhelm — because executives arrive dysregulated more often than they admit.

The remaining 48 tools — Team, Couples, and the Hypnosis & Alchemical protocols — unlock through Coach Club and the AATC and ACHE specialty trainings. One library. One language. Every scale.

Every assessment is also a certification

The ecosystem flows one way: assessment → results reports → a facilitator eCourse that certifies you to deliver it. You don't just use the instruments — you become credentialed in them. The Holistogram™ alone maps 28 dimensions, normed against 740+ participants, with T1 → T2 delta tracking so your clients can see what moved.

Explore the Full Ecosystem Open the HWH App

Course Materials

Required Readings & eCourses

Drawn from the Human Systems Architecture™ Series by Dr. Lisa Leit — three books per track: the client-facing text, its applied workbook or journal, and the coach's craft book. Digital editions are included with enrollment and delivered in the HWH App; print editions are available on Amazon for coaches who prefer a physical library.

PROFESSIONAL TRACK
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Required Text

Human Systems Architecture™ at Work

The Professional’s Guide to the 8 Core Competencies — how to think, feel, relate, and perform inside a human system.

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Required Workbook

HSA™ at Work — Companion Workbook

The applied, write-in companion for practising the 8 Core Professional Competencies at work.

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Coach Craft Book

Coaching Professionals in HSA™

The craft book for workplace and professional-development coaches — developing the 8 Core Competencies in clients.

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Client eCourse

Core Professional Development eCourse

The client-facing eCourse your professional clients work through in the HWH App while you hold the process.

EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TRACK
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Required Text

Human Systems Architecture™ for Executive Leaders

The HWH® guide to systemic leverage, decision architecture, and conscious leadership at the top of the system.

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Required Journal

Executive Strategy Journal

Applied practices in HSA™ for executive decision-making — the reflective companion for leaders under load.

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Coach Craft Book

Coaching Executive Leaders in HSA™

An advanced training manual for ethical, transformational leadership coaching — the 5 HWH 360 Leader™ competencies.

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Executive Leadership Development eCourse

The client-facing eCourse for executives and founders — delivered in the HWH App alongside your coaching.

CAREER TRANSITION TRACK
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Designing Your Next Chapter

Human Systems Architecture™ for career transition — a whole-person guide to reinvention and next-chapter design.

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Required Workbook

The Career Transition Workbook

A practical guide to Designing Your Next Chapter — the applied HSA™ write-in companion.

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Coach Craft Book

Coaching Career Transitions in HSA™

The craft book for HWH® coaches guiding clients through career change, redundancy, and reinvention.

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Client eCourse

Designing Your Next Chapter eCourse

The client-facing eCourse for clients in transition — identity, direction, and next-chapter design in the HWH App.

Client-facing eCourses (delivered in the HWH App)

Core Professional Development · Executive Leadership Development · Designing Your Next Chapter — the three client eCourses your clients work through while you hold the process. You integrate them; you do not lecture them.

The Bigger Picture

See how this fits into the whole HWH® ecosystem

This training is one track inside the Human Systems Architecture™ Series — a connected ecosystem in which every book, client eCourse, validated assessment, AI companion, and ICF-accredited coach training speaks the same language and reinforces the same model.

Explore the full map: the seven assessments and the facilitator eCourses that certify you in them, the sixteen books of the HSA™ Series, the client-facing curriculum, the app, and every certification track — and see exactly where Executive Leadership Coach Training sits inside it.

7 Validated AssessmentsHSA™ Series BooksClient eCourses5 AI CompanionsICF Levels 1–3 · AATCThe HWH AppCoach Club
Explore the HSA™ Series & Ecosystem
Build & Scale With Us

Hit the ground running with a world-class program behind you

Most certifications hand you a certificate and wish you luck. Through the HWH® Coach Club you leave here with a delivery system: a licensed methodology, validated assessments, a co-branded AI-powered app for your clients, revenue infrastructure, and a community that co-creates rather than competes.

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A co-branded client app

Your clients get the HWH App under your brand — assessments, eCourses, journals, and AI companions, all in one place. You show up as a practice, not a freelancer.

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The coaching marketplace

List your practice in the HWH marketplace and receive referrals from an ecosystem that is actively selling into both the coach and enterprise markets.

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Evidence that sells

Delta reporting means corporate buyers can see the return in the data, clients stay longer because they can see their own movement, and you can justify premium pricing with evidence rather than adjectives.

50 / 50

revenue share on client app subscriptions

80 / 20

revenue share in your favor on eCourse sales

GDPR-compliant, privacy-first AI coaching companions. Clara™ supports you between sessions as a coach copilot; Fergus™, Mojo™, Sofie™, and Zola™ support your clients — context-intelligent companions trained on HWH methodology that read assessment data in real time, not generic chatbots bolted onto a platform. Privacy-first architecture, GDPR-compliant from day one. And a firm ethical line, taught in the training: AI companions are reflective scaffolding. Coaches do not outsource ethical judgment, assessment interpretation, sponsor communication, referral, confidentiality, or session presence to AI — and confidential client, organizational, legal, or health information is never entered into unauthorized systems.

Evidence

Where this work is already deployed

HWH® executive coaching and leadership programs have been delivered inside some of the most demanding organizations in the world, and beta-tested at scale with hundreds of leaders. Below is the evidence — clients, outcomes, and what the people we worked with actually said.

Whole Foods Market Aetna CVS Health International Motors Texas Monthly
As seen in Business Insider, Chicago Tribune and more
“I’m really and truly obsessed with my coach, Dr. Lisa Leit (MCC), who sets an incredibly high bar. The way she combines presence, complete command of ICF competencies, and practical tools from her holistic approach keeps me learning and growing in a meaningful direction.”
Erin Maltby-Addelia, M.Ed.Lead, The International Way · International Motors
“I can’t say enough nice things about how impressed I am with Dr. Lisa Leit. She is an amazingly gifted educator and coach, and I have benefited tremendously from her guidance, both personally and professionally. I have also referred Lisa and her team to those seeking executive coaching and organizational leadership — and her results are just outstanding.”
John MorganVice President & Chief People Officer, Hahn
“It turns out you can take care of yourself and give more to an organization. You can be whole. It doesn’t have to be this vampire exercise. That, to me, is the major allure of this work, because there is no help unless you identify and stop your co-dependence. That’s why this work is so revolutionary.”
Jessica AgneessensFounder, WFM Academy for Conscious Leadership · Whole Foods Market
“Thanks so much Dr. Lisa Leit and Angela Hollingsworth Gohokar — it was amazing to get your guidance and great inputs. Loved it!! Awesome session and very engaging.”
Rushir SinhaEngineering Steward & Innovation Alchemist, CVS Health Aetna
“The highlight of the [Conscious Capitalism] concurrent sessions was the illuminating Dr. Lisa Leit, Founder of the Happy Whole Human Institute for Holistic Wellness — with client partner Jessica Agneessens of the Academy for Conscious Leadership at Whole Foods Market co-presenting on the customization of the HWH™ Program for Whole Foods.”
Bruce FitchFitch Consulting · Conscious Capitalism
Over 18 months, Dr. Leit beta-tested the Holistogram™, HWH® coach training, and the HWH® program with hundreds of Whole Foods Market leaders — a paid in-store engagement plus leaders from every region.
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The Details

Format, eligibility, and credential path

Format

20 synchronous + 20 asynchronous = 40 hours. Take it as a ten-week cohort (one 2-hour live lab per week) or as a self-paced fast track — a personalized study plan with your synchronous hours earned in the Monday drop-ins, which run 35 weeks a year. All 20 synchronous hours are required either way.

Credential path

40 hours of ICF-accredited Level 2 or Level 3 coach education, according to your formally enrolled pathway. Followed by the separate 40-hour supervised practicum.

Eligibility

HWH ICF Level 1 training (prerequisite) · the HWH® Holistic Wellness training (recommended foundation) · active HWH Coach Club membership · access to the required books, eCourses, assessments, and HWH App.

Who it's for

HWH Level 1 graduates building toward PCC · qualified PCC coaches building toward MCC · internal, platform, independent, and HWH co-branded contractor coaches.

Evidence of learning

Practice Container Declarations · a one-page proposal and scope artifact · intake/screening/referral records · an assessment debrief plan · a tripartite session plan · a dual-relationship analysis · a final integrated engagement map.

Not sure which pathway?

Level 2 or Level 3, and which specialty focus — the fastest way to decide is a conversation. Book a discovery call with Dr. Lisa Leit, MCC →

Readiness standard

Be prepared to practice aloud, receive direct feedback, and examine your own susceptibility to status, urgency, sponsor pressure, rescue, advice-giving, and role drift.

Investment

This training is not sold separately.

HWH® HSA™ Executive Leadership Coach Training is available exclusively to HWH Coach Club members — it is one of the credential tracks your membership unlocks, not a course you buy on its own.

One membership. Every credential level.

The HWH® All-Access Coach Club gives you lifetime access to ICF Level 1, Level 2, Level 3 and AATC Team Coaching — including this Executive Leadership track and the 40-hour supervised practicum. You are not paying per course. You are joining an ecosystem.

⭐ Founding Member · 50 seats

HWH All-Access Coach Club

Pay in full
$12,000one-time · nothing ongoing
— or —
Enroll + membership
$5,000one-time, then $199/month
  • Includes this Executive Leadership Coach Training (ICF Level 2 or Level 3)
  • Lifetime access to ICF Level 1, 2, 3 + AATC Team Coaching
  • 400+ hours of ICF-accredited training
  • Validated assessment instruments + delta reporting
  • The 40-hour supervised practicum in your chosen focus
  • Monday drop-ins — ICF group mentoring, supervision, office hours (35 weeks a year)
  • Co-branded client app, AI coaching companions, and the eCourse marketplace
  • Revenue share on client subscriptions and eCourse sales
  • HWH global ecosystem listing + branded marketing assets
Apply for Coach Club

Application + 3 professional references, reviewed by the HWH Director.

Don't have Level 1 yet?

$2,500 one-time

+ $99/month HWH Pro Membership

  • The 60-hour ICF Level 1 program — ACC credential eligible
  • Level 1 is the prerequisite for this Executive Leadership training
  • Cohort pathway or self-paced Fast Track (Monday drop-ins)
  • 10 hours group ICF mentoring + 1:1 mentoring
  • A direct pathway to upgrade into All-Access Coach Club
Start with Level 1

Level 1 is open enrollment — no application required.

Prefer to pay in full? $12,000 one-time and there is nothing ongoing. Or spread your investment with flexible installments:

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Group & organizational pricing available on request. Questions about which pathway is yours? Book a discovery call → or contact us.

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HWH® HSA™ Executive Leadership Coach Training
Syllabus V1.0 · Practitioner Track
Ten practice labs · assessment lifecycle · ethics & data standards · practicum spec · PDF

Questions

Good to Know

Who is this training for?

HWH Level 1 graduates developing toward PCC-level practice through a Level 2 pathway, and qualified PCC coaches developing toward MCC-level practice through a Level 3 pathway. It suits internal coaches, independent executive coaches, platform coaches, private practitioners, and HWH-certified co-branded contractors working with professionals, emerging leaders, executives, founders, family-enterprise leaders, and people in career transition.

Is this ICF-accredited, and how many hours?

Yes — 40 hours of ICF-accredited Level 2 or Level 3 coach education: 20 synchronous plus 20 asynchronous hours. A separate 40-hour supervised practicum follows.

Can I do this self-paced, or do I have to wait for a cohort?

Either. The cohort runs ten consecutive weeks with one two-hour live practice lab each week. The self-paced fast track lets you start whenever you are ready: you build a personalized independent study plan with faculty, work the asynchronous curriculum on your own clock, and earn your 20 synchronous hours live in the Monday drop-in sessions, which run 35 weeks a year. Both routes carry the same 40 accredited hours and the same standard. Ask about the next cohort →

Does completing this give me an ICF credential?

No. Completion documents 40 hours of ICF-accredited Level 2 or Level 3 coach education according to your enrolled pathway, and the record may identify your selected specialty focus. It does not itself confer an ICF credential, an HWH specialty-practice distinction, or authorization to use all HWH proprietary assessments and programs — those may require additional education, the supervised practicum, faculty approval, active membership, assessment authorization, and applicable licensing agreements.

What exactly is the 40-hour practicum?

A separate supervised coaching practicum in your chosen focus — General Midcareer & Emerging Leadership, Executive Leadership, or Career Transition. It requires two to four client systems with at least five sessions each (no more than 15 with one client system), two de-identified case studies, a recorded presentation to the HWH coach community, and a written analysis of how the practice context shaped your contracting, confidentiality, assessment use, referral, and closure decisions.

What does it cost, and is it sold separately?

It is not sold separately. This training is one of the credential tracks unlocked by HWH® All-Access Coach Club membership. Two ways to pay: $12,000 one-time (paid in full, nothing ongoing) or $5,000 one-time enrollment plus $199/month. Either way you get lifetime access to ICF Level 1, 2, 3 and AATC Team Coaching, this Executive Leadership track, the 40-hour supervised practicum, the assessments, the co-branded app, and the revenue share. If you do not yet hold Level 1, that is $2,500 + $99/month and is the prerequisite. Installments are available via Klarna, Afterpay, and Intuit Credit Karma, and group or organizational pricing is available on request.

What do I need before I can enroll?

This program is available exclusively to eligible HWH Coach Club members. HWH ICF Level 1 coach training is a prerequisite, and the HWH® Holistic Wellness training is the recommended foundation — it is where you do your own identity work and learn the whole-person approach. You will also need active Coach Club membership and access to the required books, client-facing eCourses, assessments, and the HWH App.

How is AI used — and is client data safe?

AI companions are reflective scaffolding for clients between sessions, and Clara™ is a copilot for you. The architecture is privacy-first and GDPR-compliant. The training is explicit that coaches may not outsource ethical judgment, assessment interpretation, sponsor communication, referral, confidentiality, or session presence to AI, and that confidential workplace, client, legal, health, or proprietary information may never be entered into unauthorized systems.

Is the business content legal or financial advice?

No. Proposal, pricing, invoicing, contracting, platform, employment, privacy, and business-administration content is educational only. It is not legal, tax, accounting, insurance, employment, or regulatory advice. You remain responsible for obtaining qualified professional advice and complying with the laws, ethical standards, contracts, and policies applicable to your work.

Become the coach the system actually needs.

Know the architecture. Hold the process. Protect the relationship. Help the client author the change.

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