Skill depth you can use Monday - without the $1,500 ticket.
Tandem Coaching Academy is the coach-training DBA of Tandem Coaching Partners, LLC. The Academy delivers coach education and continuing development; Tandem Coaching Partners delivers coaching engagements and leadership development.
Tandem operates ICF-accredited programs at Level 1, Level 2, ACTC, and the Mentor Coach Specialization. All six Continuing Coach Education courses in the Practitioner Series are ICF CCE-Approved Programs — 150 accredited hours between them, 77 of them Core Competency.
A sequenced pathway of eight courses for trained and credentialed coaches. Authored end to end by two MCC founders. Six are ICF CCE-Approved Programs; Executive Coaching in Context has been submitted to ICF and is awaiting approval.
Enter the CCE hours you have already earned. The planner separates Core Competency, ethics, Resource Development, ACC mentor coaching, and ACTC requirements before it shows a valid way to close the remaining gap.
Planning aid only. Confirm your entered credits and final application in your ICF profile.
Four realistic coaching moments reveal the lens you reach for first – and the one that may stretch your range.
Every answer is defensible. The useful question is which part of the room you attend to first: the coaching move, the client, the system, the practice container, or the technology around the work.
About three minutes. No email required to see or save your result.
All eight courses are live. Start any of them free for 3 days, or buy outright: seven sell on their own from $79, and Executive Coaching in Context comes with All-Access.
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.
$79 3-day free trial, then one payment
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.
$449 3-day free trial, then one payment
The Right Tool, Right Mind framework: a five-move discipline for choosing, sequencing, and using coaching tools without diluting presence. Practiced on ten client cases, with a 352-tool library to choose from.
$199 3-day free trial, then one payment
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.
$149 3-day free trial, then one payment
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.
$349 3-day free trial, then one payment
ADHD-Informed Coaching across three lenses - life, executive, and entrepreneur - with disciplined boundaries against clinical scope. The only multi-lens course in the Series.
$399 3-day free trial, then one payment
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.
$499 3-day free trial, then one payment
Design the sponsored one-to-one engagement from contract through close. Read formation, power, role, organization, evidence, and boundaries as context for better coaching questions rather than labels for the client.
$597/yr Included in All-Access, with every other course
A 16-page catalog: the renewal arithmetic, the pathway and its four stops, a page on each course with its modules and capstone, and two worked ways to cover a full 40-hour renewal.
If 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, career, 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.
Coaches searching for continuing coaching education units and coaches searching for continuing coach education hours are asking about the same requirement. ICF issued the credits as CCEUs - Continuing Coach Education Units - before retiring that label, and the current renewal policy states the requirement in CCE hours. Whichever term you learned it under, the number at renewal is the same: 40 hours every three years, at least 24 of them Core Competency. A provider quoting "units" and a provider quoting "hours" are describing one requirement, not two - so you can compare their listings directly.
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. All six CCE courses in the Practitioner Series are ICF CCE-Approved Programs, with 150 accredited hours between them. Setting Up Your Coaching Practice is the seventh course in the Series and is deliberately outside the CCE track.
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, 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.
And every course starts with a 3-day free trial, so you can look inside before you pay.
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. She also holds ICF’s Coaching Supervisor Specialization (CSS).
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.
Take a single course on its own, or start All-Access with a 3-day free trial. A minute at checkout and you are inside, all modules unlocked, ready to start. Single courses include Lifetime Access as defined in our Additional Terms.
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 carries the ICF CCE-Approved Program badge, the accredited hour count, and the Core Competency / Resource Development split.
The hours are accredited the day you finish - nothing to wait for. Your certificate states the approved hour count and the Core Competency / Resource Development split, which is what ICF asks for at renewal. Keep it with your renewal records and report the hours in your application.
Start with one specialty, close one verified renewal gap, use all eight live courses for a year, or own the original seven-course library outright. Executive Coaching in Context is live in All-Access while its standalone offer is finalized and ICF reviews it for CCE hours.
The practical questions coaches usually ask before signing up - pricing and the free trial, CCE accreditation timing, employer reimbursement, and what happens if you don't finish.
A sequenced pathway of eight courses for trained and credentialed coaches, authored end to end by Tandem's two MCC founders (Cherie Silas and Alex Kudinov). All are async and self-paced; access duration depends on the offer you choose.
The eight topics: setting up your coaching practice, running a coaching business, coaching tools, AI for coaches, career and career-transition coaching, ADHD coaching, systemic coaching for executive teams, and sponsored one-to-one executive coaching.
All six are ICF CCE-Approved Programs: Coaching Tools Mastery (20.0 hours, 13 CC + 7 RD), Running a Coaching Business (40.0 hours, 9 CC + 31 RD), AI for Coaches (20.0 hours, 6 CC + 14 RD), Career & Transition Coaching (20.0 hours, 14 CC + 6 RD), ADHD Coaching (20.0 hours, 13 CC + 7 RD), and Systemic Coaching for Executive Teams (30.0 hours, 22 CC + 8 RD) - 150 accredited hours in total. Setting Up Your Coaching Practice is a practice-building course and is deliberately outside the CCE track.
Each approved course page shows its awarded hour count and Core Competency / Resource Development split. Setting Up Your Coaching Practice is outside the CCE track by design. Executive Coaching in Context is live and has been submitted to ICF for 30 CCE hours; it awards no CCE hours until ICF approves it.
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 - AI for Coaches, for instance, shows 20.0 hours, 6 CC and 14 RD. Executive Coaching in Context is still in that review and therefore makes no awarded-hours claim.
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.
Seven established standalone courses run $79 to $499. All-Access is $597 a year and unlocks all eight live courses plus every new one we add while you remain subscribed; it starts with a 3-day free trial. The $949 lifetime bundle is the original frozen seven-course library and does not silently gain later releases.
Every standalone course and the bundle start with a 3-day free trial: cancel before it ends and you pay nothing. A payment is not refundable once charged, so the trial is the way to look inside first. The certificate states the hour count ICF approved for that course.
Buy one CCE course if you want one specialization with Lifetime Access as defined in our Additional Terms. If you need a complete 40-hour renewal path, use the planner first: Coaching Tools Mastery and Career & Transition Coaching together are 27 Core Competency and 13 Resource Development hours - the whole 40, ethics included - for the current separate-course total of $548.
Take All-Access ($597 a year) if you want all eight live courses, including Executive Coaching in Context, and everything we publish while you are a member. Access ends when the membership does.
Buy the bundle ($949) if you want Lifetime Access to the original seven-course library, as defined in our Additional Terms, with no subscription renewal. Later courses, including Executive Coaching in Context, are not silently added.
Trained and ICF-credentialed coaches (ACC, PCC, MCC) and ACTC holders who want to deepen practitioner skill in tools, AI, business, career, ADHD, systemic work, or sponsored executive 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.
The accredited hours may count toward Portfolio Path application requirements (60 hours for ACC, 125 hours for PCC) for coaches assembling a credential from multiple providers. Each course page publishes its hour count and competency mapping.
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.
Yes. An invoice and a certificate of completion are issued on completion, both suitable for L&D documentation. Many L&D teams reimburse CCE coursework directly - contact us if you need it before you enroll.
If your employer requires a W-9 or specific invoice format, contact us before you enroll - we will accommodate.
There is no current completion deadline while the course remains available. Lifetime Access covers the course’s commercial life, including platform migrations and the retirement notice described in the Additional Terms.
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, and Systemic Coaching for Executive Teams. Alex Kudinov teaches: Setting Up Your Coaching Practice, Running a Coaching Business, AI for Coaches, 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.
Seven courses have standalone enrollment from $79. All-Access now includes all eight, including Executive Coaching in Context. Six are ICF CCE-Approved Programs - 150 accredited hours between them.
You will meet four situations that working coaches recognize. Choose the response you would be most inclined to make first – not the answer you think an assessor wants. Your result maps the lenses present in those choices and gives you one experiment for your next session.
Choose the move you would be most likely to make first.
Each response protects something different. Choose your first move.
Choose the layer that feels most causally important.
Choose the hypothesis you would explore before agreeing to "more accountability."
These answers do not change your range pattern. They change the learning and CCE context we place around it.
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 when standalone enrollment changes. In the meantime, all eight courses are live through their current offers — six are ICF CCE-Approved Programs, with 150 accredited hours between them.
