Skill depth you can use Monday - without the $1,500 ticket.
A sequenced pathway of eight courses for ICF-credentialed coaches. Authored end to end by two MCC founders. Designed against ICF Core Competencies. Self-paced. Lifetime access.
Pick the reason that fits and we'll point you at the right courses to start with.
The pathway is rolling out one course at a time. Courses already live are free to enroll during their CCE accreditation window. Upcoming courses share a single notify list - one email gets you all of them.
The Coach as Founder course: the legal, tax, insurance, financial, and operational layer every coaching practice runs on, taught generically so you can apply it in any US state. Built for year one through your first tax filing.
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The Coach as Operator framework: the build sequence that takes a coaching practice from pre-revenue, early-revenue, or plateaued to running. Discovery as coaching, three-party contracting, ethics of practice, plus the operator backbone.
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The Right Tool, Right Mind framework: a five-move discipline for choosing, sequencing, and using coaching tools without diluting presence. Built around a 498-tool library and 105 mapped tool-chains.
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Where AI belongs in your practice, your room, your client work, and your profession. Eight modules covering ethics, augmentation, disclosure, and the line presence should not cross.
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Coaching clients through the five most common transitions - layoffs, pivots, the stuck mid-career, returns after caregiving, and the late-career encore - without drifting into consulting.
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ADHD-Informed Coaching across three lenses - life, executive, and entrepreneur - with disciplined boundaries against clinical scope. The only multi-lens course in the Series.
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Coach the system in the room, not the personalities. Read the structural collision under executive-team friction and metabolize it - the formation-literate, ACTC-adjacent course, kept inside coaching scope.
View courseIf you hold an ICF credential, the International Coaching Federation requires you to renew it every three years - and that renewal takes 40 hours of Continuing Coach Education (CCE), the credits ICF once called CCEUs. CCE is the professional development tier of coaching education: the practical, deepening work between credentials. Coaches come to it under renewal-deadline pressure, while building toward PCC or MCC, or to specialize - ADHD, somatic, team systems, AI in the room.
The requirement is 40 CCE hours every three years, the same for an ACC, PCC, or MCC coaching credential. At least 24 have to be in Core Competency coaching education - the eight ICF Core Competencies, including three mandatory coaching ethics hours. Up to 16 can be in Resource Development, anything that falls outside the Core Competencies. These CCE requirements are how you maintain your ICF credential at each renewal.
ICF recognizes two categories of CCE units. Core Competency (CC) CCE directly relates to or expands upon the ICF Core Competencies. Resource Development CCE - the RD hours - covers everything that falls outside the ICF Core Competencies: business building, coaching tools or assessments, capped at 16 of the 40. Accredited courses and workshops, up to 10 hours of mentor coaching, coach-specific group coaching, and learning in coaching techniques or best practices in coaching all count toward your hours. Real-world coaching with your own clients does not count on its own - the hours have to come from education and training a provider designed and verifies.
Async courses count. ICF's 50%-synchronous requirement applies only to entry-level credentialing (Level 1, Level 2), not to CCE renewal. CCE designation and ICF accreditation are determined by curriculum focus and verification-of-learning - not by delivery mode. ICF-accredited programs align with ICF's standards: the programs are designed against the Core Competencies and reviewed before a provider can offer continuing education for CCE. These ICF accredited CCE courses - the CCE-accredited programs you will see listed - give ICF coaching professionals dependable hours and continuing education opportunities with ICF-recognized providers that advance your coaching and keep your skills current with continuing coach education.
Once a course earns ICF CCE accreditation, the hours count toward renewal of ICF credentials without you having to justify them, they are recognized across the coaching industry, and accredited continuing coach education can support a Portfolio Path application toward your next coaching credential. Accreditation also signals a program is designed around the ICF Core Competencies rather than assembled as generic content.
ICF runs an education search service where you can filter accredited CCE programs and coaching education programs by competency, format, and hours; some coaches also earn hours through a local ICF chapter. The Practitioner Series sits in the same category - courses built to ICF's standards with CCE accreditation pending per course - so you can compare them directly against any other provider's listing.
Other providers stack unrelated webinars and call it a catalog. Each course here is one stop on a deliberately sequenced pathway built around your practice - so the hours add up to a coherent skillset, not a transcript of one-offs.
The pathway starts with the foundation any coaching practice needs - setting it up legally, financially, and operationally - then moves into the operating discipline of running it, then layers in the craft work: tools, AI, niches like career, ADHD, somatic, and systemic. Each course assumes you can lean on the ones before it, so the depth compounds.
You can also enter at any stop. Already running a practice? Skip the founder course. Already past the operator stage? Go straight to a niche. The sequence is there if you want it - not a prerequisite chain.
In most CCE catalogs, a named MCC shows up for one webinar - the marketing photo, not the curriculum. Here, Cherie Silas (MCC) and Alex Kudinov (MCC) wrote the lessons, designed the slides, recorded the narration, and built the assessment for the courses they teach. Voice and standard hold across the whole pathway because the same hands made all of it.
CCE marketplaces report total hours and a CC/RD split. Here, each course names which of the eight ICF Core Competencies it deepens, with a per-module map you can take to a PCC or MCC assessor. If you are assembling a Portfolio Path application or preparing for credential evaluation, you can point at exactly where each hour lands.
CCE webinars and subscriptions expire. The courses here don't. Enroll once, keep it. Re-watch a module the week before a difficult client session. Reference the workbooks two credentials later.
That ownership is also the grandfather guarantee - if you enroll during a course's free window, your access stays at $0 after pricing turns on.
Cherie and Alex wrote, recorded, and assessed every course themselves.
Cherie is a co-founder and CEO of Tandem Coaching with over 20 years of experience as a corporate leader turned professional coach. She ranks in the top 3.7% of over 56,000 credentialed coaches worldwide and was named the #16 most influential coach by Global Gurus. Her background in executive, leadership, and agile coaching – combined with deep organizational design expertise – gives students a rare blend of real-world leadership and coaching mastery. Cherie is also a co-author of the Enterprise Agile Coaching book and one of only 215 Accredited Coaching Supervisors worldwide with EMCC.
Alex is a technology leader turned professional coach with over 20 years of experience spanning software development, product leadership, and consulting across industries including Oil & Gas, Investment Banking, and Commodities Trading. He brings a unique perspective that bridges human, business, and technology dimensions, making him especially effective for coaches working in corporate and tech environments. Alex holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin, is a co-author of the Enterprise Agile Coaching book, and is a Scrum Alliance Certified Enterprise Coach and Professional Scrum Trainer.
Tandem's wider faculty teaches our ICF Level 1 and Level 2 programs. Meet the full team ›
Five steps, end to end - what to expect from the moment you enroll through the moment your hours land at credential renewal.
Pick the course that fits your situation. Email and first name - that's the form. You land inside the course, all modules unlocked, ready to start. Lifetime access from the moment you enroll.
Each course is roughly 20 hours of structured material: video lessons, downloadable worksheets, an assessment per module. Pause for a quarter, return when you have time. Re-watch a module the week you have a difficult client session.
Verification of learning is what ICF requires for async CCE designation. Each course ends with a competency-aligned quiz or scenario task (per course identity). Pass it and your completion record locks in.
On completion, your certificate issues automatically - shareable to LinkedIn and suitable for L&D reimbursement. It displays the course's CC/RD hour split once ICF CCE designation lands.
When ICF issues CCE accreditation for the course (typically within months of submission), your prior completions become claimable hours. We notify enrolled learners directly. For coaches enrolled before accreditation lands, the certificate is automatically re-issued with the accredited hour count and the courses you took remain yours at $0 forever.
If you are renewing your credential or building depth in a niche, here is what the same coverage costs across the three places coaches usually shop.
The practical questions coaches usually ask before signing up - free window mechanics, CCE accreditation timing, employer reimbursement, and what happens if you don't finish.
A sequenced pathway of eight specialization courses for ICF-credentialed coaches, authored end to end by Tandem's two MCC founders (Cherie Silas and Alex Kudinov). Each course is async, self-paced, and yours for life once you enroll.
The eight topics: setting up your coaching practice, running a coaching business, coaching tools, AI for coaches, career and career-transition coaching, ADHD coaching, somatic coaching, and systemic coaching for executive teams.
ICF CCE accreditation is pending per course. Each course in the series is designed against ICF Core Competencies with documented competency mapping and verification of learning - the technical requirements for async CCE eligibility - and submitted through ICF's accreditation process.
As each course earns its CCE designation, that course's spoke page will display the accredited hour count and CC/RD split. Learners enrolled before accreditation lands will have their certificates automatically re-issued with the accredited hours when ICF approves.
ICF credential-holders must earn 40 CCE credits every three years to renew - at least 24 in Core Competency coaching education (including three coaching ethics hours) and up to 16 in Resource Development.
The type of CCE that counts is any continuing coach education that directly relates to or expands upon the ICF Core Competencies, plus professional development - business building, coaching tools, or assessments - that falls outside the core. See the full ICF credential renewal breakdown for ACC, PCC, and MCC.
They describe the same thing from different angles. CCE (Continuing Coach Education) is the category of learning; CCEUs (CCE Units) is the older name ICF used for the same continuing education credits; ICF accreditation is the designation a course earns once the International Coaching Federation reviews it and approves it to award CCE.
An accredited continuing coach education course displays its approved CCE hour count and CC/RD split. Until a Practitioner Series course completes that review, we list its ICF CCE accreditation as pending.
Yes. CCE hours are how you maintain your ICF credential - certified coaches earn ICF CCE hours at every level to meet renewal. Beyond the minimum number of CCE hours, these courses support advancing your coaching: advanced coaching education in a niche, plus deeper coaching knowledge and core coaching skills.
ICF frames continuing education as advancing the coaching profession and keeping coaches current as the coaching industry and the future of coaching evolve. You also join a coaching community of credentialed practitioners working from the same standards.
Open early access is free while each course is in the ICF CCE accreditation submission window. We are building a curated portfolio - not a marketplace of cheap webinars - and starting at $0 lets credentialed coaches try the courses before they commit financially.
As each course earns its CCE designation, that course transitions to paid pricing for new enrollees. The grandfather rule: anyone enrolled before the transition keeps lifetime access to that course at $0, with their certificate updated to the accredited hour count.
ICF-credentialed coaches (ACC, PCC, MCC) and ACTC holders who want to deepen practitioner skill in a specific area - tools, AI, business, career, ADHD, somatic, or systemic coaching.
Pre-credential learners are welcome but the series assumes coaching foundations. If you have not yet completed coach-specific training, start with the free Coaching Foundations module on the Level 1 ACC program page first.
Each course is approximately 20 hours of structured material: video lessons, module-level syllabus, downloadable worksheets, ICF Core Competency mapping, verification-of-learning assessment, and a certificate of completion.
Webinars are short, single-topic, and time-bounded. The Practitioner Series is the depth tier - the work you would do in a 12-week mentorship cohort - structured for the way working coaches actually have time to learn.
Once a course earns ICF CCE designation, its hours may count toward Portfolio Path application requirements (60 hours for ACC, 125 hours for PCC) for coaches assembling a credential from multiple providers. Per-course hour-mapping will be published as accreditation lands.
If you are pursuing a direct accredited pathway, Tandem also offers ICF Level 1 (ACC) and Level 2 (PCC) accredited programs - the Practitioner Series sits on top of, not instead of, those.
During the free window, there is no cost to reimburse - though many L&D teams still want the certificate on file. After courses transition to paid pricing, an invoice and a certificate of completion are issued on completion, both suitable for L&D documentation.
If your employer requires a W-9 or specific invoice format, contact us before you enroll - we will accommodate.
There is no completion deadline. Lifetime access means lifetime. Pause and return whenever your schedule allows; partial progress is preserved indefinitely.
CCE credits issue only on completion of all course requirements (including the verification-of-learning assessment), but you can complete a course years after enrolling. Once you enroll, the course is yours.
In a lot of CCE catalogs, a named MCC shows up for one webinar - the marketing photo, not the curriculum. Here, the same two MCCs write the lesson content, design the slide decks, record the narration, and build the assessment for the courses they teach.
Cherie Silas teaches: Coaching Tools Mastery, ADHD Coaching, Somatic Coaching, Systemic Coaching for Executive Teams. Alex Kudinov teaches: Setting Up Your Coaching Practice, Running a Coaching Business, AI for Coaches, Career and Career-Transition Coaching.
Yes - nothing stops you. The series is designed for credentialed coaches and assumes coaching foundations, so some lessons will land more deeply once you have your own client work to reference. But the content is rigorous and the lifetime access means you can return to it as your practice grows.
If you are at the start of your coaching journey, consider starting with our free Coaching Foundations module on the Level 1 ACC program page first.
Running a Coaching Business, Coaching Tools Mastery, and AI for Coaches are live. Open early access - free while ICF CCE accreditation is in process. Lifetime access locks in the moment you enroll.
What brings you here today?
This course is coming soon. One shared notify list covers all upcoming Practitioner Series courses - we'll email you the moment any new one is available, and we'll prioritize production based on which topics get the most interest.
We'll let you know the moment new courses are live. In the meantime, the three courses already live are Coaching Tools Mastery, AI for Coaches, and Running a Coaching Business - all free.
