A CFO and a CMO “just don’t get along.” Better conversations help for a week, then the same collision returns with the same heat — because it was never personal. It was structural.
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.
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.
Six practical shifts. Each is something you’ll do differently the next time you walk into a leadership-team session.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 (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.
Two quick lists so you can self-select before you enroll.
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 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 Cherie80 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.
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.
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.
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.
One short form, no credit card. Your account is set up immediately - you can be in the first lesson within 60 seconds.
Enroll now and the course is yours, free, for life - even after we turn pricing on for new learners.
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Really free, no catch. The course is at $0 while its ICF CCE accreditation is in review. Pricing turns on once accreditation lands - and if you enrolled before that, the course stays yours, free, for life.
No upsell, no mastermind tier, no high-pressure sales call.
Once ICF approves the CCE designation for this course, the 30.0 instructional hours - 25 Core Competency, 5 Resource Development - will count toward your renewal CCE requirement. Pre-approval, completion still earns you the certificate and the learning, but the hours aren't yet claimable as ICF CCE.
Module 11 covers ICF ethics and the scope boundary in depth, anchored in real executive-team cases.
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.
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.
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.
About 26 hours of video across 13 teaching modules; 30.0 instructional hours are claimed for CCE. 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’s no deadline, and your access doesn’t expire.
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 once accreditation lands.
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.
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.
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.
The course is yours, free, for life - if you enroll before ICF CCE approval lands. Setup takes 60 seconds.
