Systemic Coaching Training for Executive Teams

Learn to coach the executive team as a system, not a collection of personalities. This systemic coaching course develops the structural, contracting, field, and ethical judgment required when recurring friction is produced by the system itself.

~26 hours, self-paced 14 modules, 80 lessons Lifetime access

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Systemic Coaching for Executive Teams - Coaching the Collision

Cherie Silas, MCC

Course author and instructor

ICF CCE-Approved Program 30.0 hours - 22 Core Competency + 8 Resource Development

Also renews your team coaching certification 24.125 hours map to the ICF Team Coaching Competencies - the full 20-hour Advanced Certification in Team Coaching (ACTC) renewal cycle. How it maps

The first lesson

Coaching the people vs. coaching the system

The opening lesson. It’s the identity shift the rest of the course turns on.

Lesson 1.1.1 · Module 1: Coaching the Collision — the shift from coaching the people in the room to coaching the system in the room. Or browse the Tandem Coaching channel.

How this is different

Read the system, don’t referee the personalities

The strong team-coaching models — ORSC/CRR, Hawkins/PERILL — are real and worth knowing. What this course adds is the one read they leave out: professional formation. Why finance and marketing collide is structural, and it’s coachable.

The default instinct

Coach the relationship. Smooth the friction.

Treats a collision as a communication or personality problem
Mediates a truce — and the same heat returns in weeks
Strong on system models, blind to why the friction recurs
Live-facilitation skills with no async way to build the read

Coaching the Collision

Read the system. Metabolize, don’t resolve.

Reads friction as two professional formations doing their jobs
Builds the team’s capacity to hold its tensions on purpose
Professional-formation literacy: the IMPRINT lens + trust currency
Inside ICF scope throughout — the system and its dynamics, never therapy

What you'll be able to do

What changes in your team work after this course

Six practical shifts. Each is something you’ll do differently the next time you walk into a leadership-team session.

See the system, not the personalities

Read the team as a system that produces its own behavior — archetypes, the field, system and ghost roles — and tell whether you’re even looking at a real team.

Read the collision through formation

Use the professional-formation lens (the IMPRINT model) and trust currency to read why two executives collide — and recognize the recurring bilateral pairings at the top.

Map the team’s center of gravity

Name the dominant formation a team is built to hear, place each member with Kantor’s stances and domains, and see whose voice the system structurally suppresses.

Work the field — in ICF scope

Run constellations (Table Top, Magic Box, Solar System, Circle) and Deep Democracy / Perspectives to surface a suppressed voice without taking sides — all inside coaching scope.

Metabolize the collision, don’t resolve it

Plan and run an intervention that builds the team’s standing capacity to hold its tensions — and avoid the common failure: a sharp read betrayed by a fixing plan.

Walk away with The Executive-System Map

The capstone artifact: a reusable template you complete on a real, anonymized client system — roles, center of gravity, a named collision with each side’s trust currency, and a metabolize-not-resolve plan. The tool you reach for on a Monday.

What's inside

Thirteen teaching modules, built on the four-move spine

See the System · Read the Collision · Work the Field · Metabolize, Don’t Resolve — worked in order, then together. Ending with The Executive-System Map, the signature artifact you complete on a real client system.

30h

Approved ICF CCE

Video lessons

Modules

The move spine

~26 hours of video content; ICF accredited this course for 30.0 CCE hours, 22 Core Competency and 8 Resource Development, counting the lesson reading, the downloadable working resources, and the Executive-System Map capstone alongside the video.

Orientation & Coach Self-Diagnostic

The promise, the honest boundary, and the two-way door to ACTC

45 min · 3 lessons

What the course is and is not, the line between coaching the system and clinical work, and how this async course relates to live ACTC facilitation. A self-diagnostic surfaces how your own professional formation shapes who you hear in a room.

Coaching the Collision

The identity shift the rest of the course pivots on

2h · 6 lessons

The shift from coaching the people in the room to coaching the system in the room. The third entity, friction as the mechanism rather than the fault, and the four moves introduced as the spine of everything that follows.

The shift — people to system
The third entity: the relationship as a client in its own right
Personality conflict is a misdiagnosis
The four moves, introduced

See the System

The system produces its own behavior

2.25h · 7 lessons

Move 1 · See the System Read the team as a system that amplifies, suppresses, and repeats. Archetypes at the top, the field and who’s in it, system and ghost roles, the upper-echelons filter, and the first honest question: is this even a real team?

What the system produces that no individual chooses
System roles and ghost roles
The upper-echelons filter
Real team, or team in name only

Professional Formation: The Lens

What formation is, and the waterline that holds it

2.5h · 8 lessons

Move 2 · Read the Collision The professional-formation lens — the IMPRINT model — and the single most useful read in the course: trust currency. What each profession was trained to trust, and how that currency shows up at the table.

What professional formation is, and the waterline
The IMPRINT dimensions
Trust currency as the working read
Reading the currency by profession

The Bilateral Collisions

The structure under the recurring friction

2.5h · 8 lessons

The collisions that recur at the top — Finance × Marketing, Legal × Tech, HR × Finance, and the rest — read as structure rather than temperament. The full collision map, and how to read a live collision in real time.

The high-impact pairings at the top
The full collision map
Reading a live collision in the moment

Formation Center of Gravity

The dominant formation a team is built to hear

2h · 6 lessons

Every team has a center of gravity — a dominant formation it is structurally built to hear, and others it discounts. The seven profiles, Kantor’s stances, domains, and operating systems, and how to map the room.

The seven formation profiles
Kantor stances, domains, and operating systems
Mapping the room’s center of gravity

Constellations I: Foundations

Externalizing the system — on the ICF-safe line

2.5h · 7 lessons

Move 3 · Work the Field Externalizing the system so the team can see it — the coaching use of constellations, kept firmly inside ICF scope. The three organizing forces, representative perception, and the four methods.

The ICF-safe line for constellation work
The three organizing forces
Representative perception
The four methods: Table Top, Magic Box, Solar System, Circle

Constellations II: Working the Team

The live setup and the signature integration

2.25h · 7 lessons

Running the method live, and the signature integration of this course: laying a formation read onto the table. Worked cases, when not to constellate, and how to debrief.

The live setup
Integrating a formation read onto the constellation
When not to constellate
The debrief

Perspectives & Deep Democracy

Surface the suppressed voice without taking sides

2.75h · 8 lessons

The five steps of Deep Democracy, amplifying the voice the system suppresses, and the question that moves a stuck team: “what do you need to come along?” Reading resistance early, and turning a collision into a workable polarity.

The five steps
Amplifying the suppressed voice
Reading resistance early
Collision into workable polarity

The Collision Below the Top

The same dynamics, one level down

1h · 3 lessons

A deliberate teaser How formation crystallizes, the same collision dynamics one level below the executive team, and where this work goes next — the deeper, per-role formation work that lives beyond this course.

Multi-Party Agreements & the Stakeholder Web

Client vs. sponsor, and the confidentiality lattice

2h · 6 lessons

The executive stakeholder web, the difference between client and sponsor, the designed team alliance, and the confidentiality lattice in a system where everyone has power over everyone. Re-contracting when the system shifts under you.

The stakeholder web
The designed team alliance
The confidentiality lattice
Re-contracting mid-engagement

The Boundary & the Ethics of the Formation Read

The scope line, drawn precisely

2.25h · 7 lessons

This is coaching the system and its dynamics — never couples, marital, family, or individual-clinical work. Five litmus tests, the work-system-versus-family-of-origin distinction, when and how to refer, whether to share or withhold the read, ICF ethics, and the coach’s own supervision practice.

The five litmus tests
Work-system vs. family-of-origin
When and how to refer
Sharing or withholding the formation read

Capstone: Map a Real Executive System

The Executive-System Map — the signature artifact

1.25h · 4 lessons

Move 4 · Metabolize, Don’t Resolve Build The Executive-System Map on a real, anonymized client system: roles and ghost roles, the center of gravity, at least one formation collision with each side’s trust currency, and a metabolize-not-resolve intervention plan. The brief, the rubric, and the formation-collision reflection.

The capstone brief and rubric
Building the map
The intervention plan
The formation-collision reflection

Course Completion

Resources, feedback, and your certificate

Closing · 3 lessons

The resource index, a place to leave feedback, and the steps to earn your certificate of completion — which carries the ICF CCE-Approved Program badge and the accredited hour count.

ICF Core Competencies

Which competencies this course goes deep on

Of the 20 instructional hours, 16 are mapped to ICF Core Competencies. Here’s how the eight competencies show up across the systemic work — the ones the course goes deep on, and the one it deliberately leaves to live facilitation.

Evokes Awareness

Deepened

Listens Actively

Deepened

Establishes & Maintains Agreements

Deepened

Cultivates Trust & Safety

Deepened

Maintains Presence

Deepened

Embodies a Coaching Mindset

Deepened

Ethical Practice

Deepened

Facilitates Client Growth

Touched

Deepened means at least one full lesson teaches the competency directly. Touched means it shows up in a scenario or example — here, facilitating the team’s live growth is the next door (the Advanced Certification in Team Coaching, ACTC, and supervised practice), so this course builds the read-and-plan skill that precedes it. A detailed lesson-by-competency map is included in your learner workspace once you enroll.

Is this course for you?

Who this course is for, and who it isn't

Two quick lists so you can self-select before you enroll.

For you if

You coach (or want to coach) leadership and executive teams, not just individuals
You’re ACC, PCC, or MCC — or pre-credential building hours — and your one-to-one skills don’t fully transfer to the room
You’re heading toward ACTC and want the read-and-plan foundation before the live-facilitation work
You already hold ACTC and your renewal cycle is open — 24.125 of these 30 hours map to the ICF Team Coaching Competencies, which is the whole 20-hour requirement with margin
You keep meeting the same “personality conflict” and suspect it isn’t personal
You want professional-formation literacy on top of the system models you already know

Not the right fit if

You haven’t done coach-specific training yet — start with our Coaching Foundations course first
You want a couples-, family-, or therapy-style intervention — this is coaching the system and its dynamics, never clinical work
You want a facilitator to run the constellation for you — this builds your own read-and-plan skill; live facilitation is the ACTC door
You only ever coach individuals and don’t work with teams
You’re looking for live cohort sessions — this one is fully self-paced

Your instructor

Authored end-to-end by an MCC who coaches these rooms.

Not “led by” — written, recorded, and reviewed by a Master Certified Coach who coaches leadership teams and brings the systemic and formation work into live executive rooms.

Cherie Silas, MCC

CEO & Managing Partner, Tandem Coaching

ICF MCC EMCC ESIA CEC CPCC

Cherie co-founded Tandem Coaching and coaches executives and leadership teams, bringing relationship-systems methods and the professional-formation read into the room. This course fuses her Level 2 / ACTC systemic work with the formation-collision diagnostic — and it’s exactly why she teaches the boundary as a discipline: she has held the line between coaching the system and clinical work for years.

More about Cherie

Format and certificate

What you get when you enroll

Self-paced, on your schedule

80 short video lessons across 13 teaching modules. Watch on any device, in the order the four-move spine builds — or jump to the move you need before a session.

Lifetime access

No 30-day, 90-day, or one-year limit. Come back to a module before a real engagement — a new team, a live constellation, a multi-party re-contract.

Certificate of completion

Finish the verification checks and submit The Executive-System Map capstone. You’ll get a shareable certificate of completion suitable for LinkedIn and L&D reimbursement.

Working tools to keep

The Executive-System Map template, the collision map, the formation / trust-currency reference, the constellation setup guides, the multi-party agreement and confidentiality-lattice templates, and the boundary litmus tests. Yours for every real engagement.

ICF CCE-Approved Program

ICF has accredited this course for 30.0 CCE hours: 22 Core Competency and 8 Resource Development. Three of those Core Competency hours teach ICF Code of Ethics application — carried in full by The Boundary & the Ethics of the Formation Read, and sitting inside the 22 rather than adding to them, which is the shape a renewal application wants. The hours count toward ACC, PCC, and MCC renewal, and your certificate carries the ICF CCE-Approved Program badge.

They also renew your team coaching certification 24.125 of the 30 hours are directly applicable to the ICF Team Coaching Competencies - the whole 20-hour Advanced Certification in Team Coaching (ACTC) renewal cycle, with margin, from one course. Per the ICF Recertification Guide the same hours may be submitted toward your ACC, PCC, or MCC renewal as well, so you don’t have to choose which one they count for. How it maps

The premium course in the series — now open

Competitors charge $799 for an introductory module and $6K–$15K for the full path. No async option exists. This is 26 hours with an MCC who has run executive-team coaching for two decades — for $499, self-paced, lifetime access.

ICF has accredited this course for 30.0 CCE hours. The 22 Core Competency hours cover all but two of the 24 that ICF requires for a three-year renewal.

And if you hold the Advanced Certification in Team Coaching, 24.125 of those hours map to the ICF Team Coaching Competencies — the full 20-hour renewal cycle on its own, with margin. Per the ICF Recertification Guide, the same hours may also go toward your ACC, PCC, or MCC renewal.

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Systemic Coaching for Executive Teams

Self-paced · 80 lessons · 30 ICF CCE hours (22 CC + 8 RD) · Lifetime access

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Enroll — $499

7-day free trial available with All-Access ($597/yr) — includes every course in the series.

7-day money-back guarantee, void once your certificate of completion has been issued.

Frequently Asked Questions

Before you enroll

What does this course cost?

$499 one-time — lifetime access, no subscription. You can also get it as part of All-Access ($597/yr), which includes every course in The Practitioner Series with a 7-day free trial, or the bundle ($949) that pairs this course with the full Practitioner Series individually.

There’s a 7-day money-back guarantee, void once your certificate of completion has been issued.

Will the hours count toward my ACC, PCC, or MCC renewal?

Yes. ICF has accredited this course for 30.0 CCE hours - 22 Core Competency, 8 Resource Development - and they count toward ACC, PCC, and MCC renewal. The 22 Core Competency hours cover all but two of the 24 ICF requires per three-year renewal.

If you also hold the Advanced Certification in Team Coaching (ACTC), the same hours cover that renewal cycle too - 24.125 of the 30 are directly applicable to the ICF Team Coaching Competencies, against a 20-hour requirement. Per the ICF Recertification Guide you don’t have to choose which credential they count toward.

Module 11 covers ICF ethics and the scope boundary in depth, anchored in real executive-team cases.

I hold ACTC. Does this cover that renewal as well?

It covers the whole cycle. Renewing the Advanced Certification in Team Coaching takes 20 team-coaching Continuing Coach Education hours every three years, and at least 16 of those must be directly applicable to the ICF Team Coaching Competencies. This course contributes 24.125 hours directly applicable to those competencies, plus 5.875 hours of related team coaching practice content - the full 20, with margin, from one course.

Two things make that worth more than it first sounds. Per the ICF Recertification Guide, the same hours may also be submitted toward your ACC, PCC, or MCC renewal - you don’t have to choose which one they count for. And up to 10 hours of coaching supervision may be applied toward the 16-hour requirement, which is exactly the supervision practice Module 11 asks you to build.

The honest boundary: ICF accredited this program’s hours and their type. The mapping to the Team Coaching Competencies is our documentation, unit by unit, citing which of the 29 competency supplements each unit develops - no provider mapping is pre-approved by ICF, and the determination on hours you submit is ICF’s. You get that mapping as the Course Syllabus & Hour Claim Map, alongside your certificate, so the claim comes with its evidence rather than an assertion that a course about executive teams must count.

What's the framework, in plain English?

Coaching the Collision. The identity shift from coaching the people in the room to coaching the system in the room, built on one load-bearing principle: metabolize the collision, don’t resolve it. Your job is to help the team hold its structural tensions on purpose, not to smooth them away or referee a winner.

Every skill hangs on four moves, worked in order then together: See the System · Read the Collision · Work the Field · Metabolize, Don’t Resolve. Running under all four is the coach’s own discipline: Mind Your Own Formation.

Is this team coaching or executive coaching?

Both - it’s about coaching leadership and executive teams as systems. Whether you call yourself a team coach or an executive coach who increasingly works with whole teams, this gives you a way to read and work the system in the room rather than the personalities in it.

The reading and planning are coaching skills you build solo. Facilitating a live constellation in an executive room is the next door - that’s ACTC and supervised practice, named here as information, not a sale.

I'm not credentialed yet. Can I take this?

You can enroll, but the course assumes you can coach. If you haven't trained in the ICF Core Competencies yet, start with our free Coaching Foundations module on the ACC certification page - that gives you the grounding this course builds on.

If you're pre-credential building hours and have coaching foundations from elsewhere, you'll be fine.

How long does it take?

About 26 hours of video across 13 teaching modules; ICF accredited the course for 30.0 instructional hours. With the capstone - building The Executive-System Map on a real, anonymized client system - most coaches spend a little more than that end to end.

It’s fully self-paced. There is no current completion deadline while the course remains available under the Lifetime Access terms.

What do I actually walk away with?

The tools you build and keep using:

1. The Executive-System Map - the signature artifact and capstone: a reusable template naming roles and ghost roles, the center of gravity, at least one formation collision with each side’s trust currency, and a metabolize-not-resolve intervention.

2. The collision map and the formation / trust-currency reference - the read, on one page.

3. The constellation setup guides, the multi-party agreement and confidentiality-lattice templates, and the boundary litmus tests.

4. A certificate of completion - shareable on LinkedIn; suitable for L&D reimbursement; carries the ICF CCE-Approved Program badge and the accredited hour count.

How is this different from ORSC, Hawkins, or other systemic team coaching?

Those are strong models and worth knowing - no strawman here. What this course adds is one precise read they leave out: professional formation. Why finance and marketing collide, why legal and tech talk past each other, is structural - two formations each doing what they were trained to do. Read the trust currency under the friction and the collision becomes coachable.

It fuses Cherie’s Level 2 / ACTC systemic methods - constellations, Deep Democracy, system roles - with the formation-collision diagnostic. The wedge is the formation literacy, not a claim that the incumbents are wrong.

Does this make me an ACTC, or let me run constellations live?

No - and we’re honest about that. This course builds the read-and-plan skill: see the system, read the collision, design an intervention. Facilitating a live constellation in a real executive room is the next door, and it needs ACTC and supervised practice.

Think of it as the two-way door: this is the deepening that prepares you for ACTC, and a deepening for coaches who already have it.

How is this different from Tandem's ACC, PCC, or ACTC programs?

Tandem’s ICF Level 1 (ACC), Level 2 (PCC), and ACTC are credential-earning programs - months long, instructor-led, with practice sessions and mentor coaching.

This course is a self-paced specialization for coaches who already have foundations. It complements credential training rather than replacing it, and it’s a natural on-ramp to and deepening of ACTC.

Can I verify this course’s ICF CCE approval?

Yes. ICF lists this course as The Practitioner Series: Systemic Coaching for Executive Teams. View the official ICF Education Search Service record →

The Practitioner Series

Coach the system in the room, not the personalities in it.

$499 — self-paced, lifetime access, MCC-led. An ICF CCE-Approved Program for 30.0 hours, 22 of them Core Competency.

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