ICF AATC + ALII® Certification
Advanced Coaching Teams (ACT)
For Advanced Leadership Coaches
Why We're Different
You Get So Much More
ICF AATC
Our AATC provides 74.5 ICF accredited hours and includes 7.5 hours of coaching supervision + reflective practice. This provides more than needed for the ICF ACTC application.
ALII CERTIFICATION
18 hr asynch bonus training & certification. The ALII® assessment gives you and your teams powerful insights and clear development paths. You coach with precision and teams get there faster.
HYBRID PROGRAM
This program is a combo of live virtual/online (Zoom) and in-person (3 days in beautiful Santa Barbara). This means you master your team coaching skills within both formats.
Leadership-Centric
Team dynamics and leadership together. Develop the leadership inside the team AND the leadership acting on it from outside.
Gestalt Systems
Master working with systems, not just people. Identify what's present, what's avoided, what the system is doing in front of you.
Master Faculty
Lead faculty comes with decades of experience coaching teams and designing team-based organizations.
Team work raises new questions
You’re already a skilled coach and, when the team is the client, those skills come with you.
What changes is the engagement:
who you contract with | how you enter | how you hold a whole system in the room
EGL’s ACT is built for that shift.
As you move into more team work, some of these might sound familiar:
- My coaching skills are solid, but a team engagement doesn’t run like an individual one.
- The sponsor has an agenda. The team is discovering something else. Who is my client?
- I was brought in as a “team coach,” and I keep getting pulled into facilitating, training, or consulting.
- The team’s leader shapes everything in the room. So do the leaders outside the team—who never attend a session. How do I work with both?
- I can read each person clearly, but the pattern of the whole team is harder to see.
- Corporate buyers want credentials and evidence, not “trust me.”
EGL's ACT answers those questions
ACT is built on two ICF Team Coaching Competencies.
The first is ICF’s opening competency: “Coaches the client team as a single entity.” Your coaching skills transfer; what changes is that the team itself is the client. Coaching six people separately, even in the same room, is still six individual engagements.
The second is knowing what team coaching is and what it isn’t: telling it apart from team building, training, consulting, mentoring, and facilitation, and holding that line once the work is underway.
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Contracting: You learn to contract with the team as a single entity: multi-party agreements, confidentiality across members, and an engagement structured and paced so the whole team moves.
The sponsor’s goals belong in the agreement, but the sponsor’s agenda doesn’t replace the team’s.
You learn this from an instructor whose background is organizational design. Jeff Evans spent ten years as a global organization consultant designing and implementing team-based organizations, and he has sat on the sponsor’s side of the table.
Leadership, inside and outside the team. ACT treats leadership as a core element of team coaching, not a side topic.
Inside the team, you learn to see how the leader’s behavior moves through the group, and to work with it, without putting that leader on trial.
Outside the team, you learn to account for the sponsors and senior leaders whose decisions and behavior shape the team, even when they never sit in on a session.
The whole system. EGL’s ACT is grounded in a Gestalt approach to teams and organizations, in what you learn and in how it is taught.
You learn to see the pattern of interaction, rather than any one member’s behavior, and to work with what is actually happening in the room, rather than applying a model to the team.
Evidence. The ALII® Core Certification that we’ve included as an added benefit beyond the AATC curriculum, gives you a validated way to assess the team and its leadership. With your ALII you can say: “here’s what we’ll measure,” not “trust me.”
A cohort, not a course. You’re part of a group expanding in mastery together.
Asynchronous prework opens, which you have approximately four weeks with.
The cohort then meets for three in-person days in Santa Barbara. You’ll get to know your fellow coaches, working in groups and teams from day one. It is highly practical and immediately experiential.
The in-person is followed by live, online group sessions where you build on your skills. The beauty of hybrid training is that you get to understand how to work with teams both in-person and virtually.
The combination of observed practice, direct feedback, time with the instructors, and a peer network of team coaches has an impact that lasts beyond the program. The cohort models the subject matter: you experience learning as a team while you master coaching one.
BONUS Training & Certification
Actionable Leadership Intelligence Instrument
ALII Core Certification is an added benefit on top of this AATC.
It provides a separate 18-hour asynchronous certification training, all included in your tuition and available the day you enroll in ACT.
The leader
ALII-Map Self
A self-report for leaders. This report reveals a leader’s intended and aspirational leadership styles, providing clear intel about what to do more of, less of, and keep doing. It gives you, as practitioner, a clear read on how the leader sees their own influence, so that you can confidently coach them and the team together.
Each team member
ALII-Map Player
This is an additional report for each leader/team player that gives data about how they contribute to the team and work with others. The report includes robust developmental suggestions for the player, as well as a 1-page summary they can share with their team, outlining optimal ways to engage with them.
The whole team
ALII-TeamMap
Your practitioner view of the whole team built from multiple ALII-Map Player results. The report reveals collective blind spots, weaknesses, and strengths that the team might have missed, as well as potential friction points in styles. This gives you data about how the team works together and insights on where to coach.
Where the cohort meets in person: Santa Barbara, California
Program details
Advanced Coaching Teams (ACT) is an ICF-accredited AATC program from Envision Global Leadership (EGL)
It is a complete training pathway to the ICF Advanced Certification in Team Coaching (ACTC).
You get:
- 74.5 ICF-accredited hours built on the ICF Team Coaching Competencies: a hybrid format of self-paced asynchronous prework, live virtual sessions, and three in-person days in Santa Barbara.
- 7.5 hours of team coaching supervision and 5.0 hours of guided reflective practice, both required by ICF, are included.
- Taught by Jeff Evans, PhD, MCC, ACTC, the program’s designer and primary instructor.
Additional faculty: Justina Vail Evans, MCC - ALII® Core Certification, an added benefit beyond the AATC curriculum: an additional 18 hours of asynchronous training (beyond the 74.5 ICF hours), covering ALII-Map Self, ALII-Map Player, and ALII-TeamMap. It is available immediately when you enroll and carries a one-year term. Details at alii.egl.ai/certification.
Coaches who complete 60+ hours of this program receive an AATC Certificate of Completion, which they may use to apply for the ICF ACTC credential. The ICF requires an ICF credential (ACC, PCC, or MCC) before it will grant the ACTC. If you are trained to ICF standards but not yet credentialed, ACT can still accommodate you. Talk with us before you enroll.
Completing this course will help you:
- Match your interventions with the current team stage.
- Identify how different leadership styles impact team dynamics.
- Create multi-party contracts with a sponsor and a team.
- Balance multiple role expectations in a team engagement.
- Expand contracts into leadership, using ALII.
Who is best fit?
ACT is built for coaches drawn to team work: ICF-credentialed coaches (ACC, PCC, or MCC), and coaches trained to ICF standards who have not yet earned their credential. Maybe you already coach senior leaders and want a sound method for working with their teams. Maybe you have been asked to take on a leadership team and want more than instinct to work from. Either way, this program builds on the coach you already are.
Not yet credentialed? ICF requires a credential before it grants the ACTC, so let’s have a conversation before you enroll.
NEXT COHORT - 2027
Asynchronous pre-work begins: January 4, 2027
Three in-person days: February 9–11, 2027, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm PT, Santa Barbara, CA
Supervised live virtual: Wednesdays 9:00–10:30 am PT — Feb 17, 24; Mar 3, 10, 17, 24, 31; Apr 7, 14, 21, 28
Unsupervised live virtual: scheduled by participants (6 hours team coaching by April 14; 2 hours ethics discussion by April 20)
ALII Core Certification: 18 hours beyond the AATC curriculum, asynchronous, available immediately upon enrollment
Program Policy
Please read our Program Policy. Payment assumes agreement.
18 seats Only
The in-person days cap this cohort at 18. Seats are held in the order enrollments are received.
Jeff Evans, PhD, MCC, ACTC – designer and primary instructor, Advanced Coaching Teams.
Jeff works in leadership development at the senior levels of organizations, where working with teams and groups is part of the job. He has been very active with ICF and has developed multiple ICF-accredited coach training programs.
He also spent ten years as a global organization consultant, designing and implementing team-based organizations: highly self-managed, empowered, adaptable, and usually only three levels deep. That work put him on the sponsor’s side of the table, and it shapes how ACT teaches contracting.
ACT sits where those two bodies of work meet, within the ICF framework for accreditation. It is built on the ICF Team Coaching Competencies and draws on open systems theory and a Gestalt approach to teams and organizations.
