Coach education for experienced professionals.
The Academy of Human-Led Coaching is where Dr. Alina Bas, PCC, MCS teaches the practice of coaching itself: small live cohorts, rigorous standards, and close attention to how experienced professionals actually learn.
Level 2 Coach Education
Learn to coach clients to examine their situation deeply, from new perspectives, gain clarity, make decisions they can stand behind, and put their insights into practice.
Mentor Coaching Intensive
Ten hours of live education for experienced mentor coaches preparing to apply for the ICF Mentor Coach Specialization through the Credit for Prior Learning path.
10 CCE Credits Approved by ICF
When others turn to you with difficult questions, how do you help them arrive at clear answers they can stand behind?
A client may be weighing a consequential decision, struggling with a relationship, or questioning a direction that once made sense. Good coaching helps them examine what they have not yet considered, work through competing priorities, and decide how to move forward.
Experienced professionals often know how to offer an answer. Coaching requires the ability to help another person think through a question rather than have the coach answer for them.
This program develops your ability to do that work with depth, care, and skill.
ICF-accredited coach education for professionals building a coaching practice or bringing coaching into leadership, HR, consulting, education, and other settings.
* Tuition for the inaugural cohort of January 2027. Exact dates will be announced soon.
Develop your ability to coach clients to:
- Understand why they are struggling and what can be changed. Explore assumptions, competing priorities, patterns, and potential responses.
- Make decisions they can stand behind, with clarity. Clarify what matters, examine trade-offs, and choose a direction that feels most harmonious, even under conditions of uncertainty.
- Put their insights into practice. Prepare for difficult conversations, test new approaches, and adjust based on what happens.
What sets this program apart
A lot of practice. A lot of feedback.
And you’ll still complete the program in 14 weeks. Coach your peers in weekly labs, get personalized feedback on your coaching, and come back the next week to put it to work. No bells and whistles. Just solid coaching skills.
Ten seats for professionals who already help others grow.
Learn alongside experienced professionals in HR, learning and development, organizational development, and leadership. A cohort this small gives faculty time to get to know your coaching and gives you peers who understand the settings in which you’ll use it.
Academic rigor without academic rigidity.
The program is designed by pracademics, i.e. practitioners who are also academics. They teach at universities, publish, and coach executives and corporate teams. We bring years of experience in executive development, adult learning, strategy, higher education, conflict mediation, and AI. Research informs what we teach, and the labs give you a place to test what works.
Coaching skills for decisions under uncertainty, where there is no one right answer.
Explore how to coach executives and leaders through uncertainty, how to work with what you sense in a conversation, and where AI fits into a human-led coaching practice.
What’s included in your tuition
$6,178 for the full 14-week program
Education and practice
- 135 hours of coach education, including 70 live hours and 65 hours of structured independent work, with 80% of program time devoted to the ICF Core Competencies.
- Live instruction and discussion.
- Peer coaching practice.
- Online portal for resources and progress tracking.
Mentoring, feedback, and assessment
- Ten one-hour mentor coaching sessions, seven in a group and three individual.
- Weekly Coaching Labs.
- Six observed coaching sessions with written feedback on the coaching competencies.
- Formative feedback on submitted coaching recordings with transcripts, 20–30 minutes each.
- A performance assessment at the PCC level, whether you plan to pursue ACC or PCC.
Preparation for what comes next
- Guidance on setting up a coaching practice.
- Preparation for the ICF exam.
- Upon successful completion, a certificate documenting your education hours, mentor coaching hours, and successful PCC-level performance evaluation.
A week in the program
Choose the lunchtime cohort, noon–2 p.m. ET, or the evening cohort, 7–9 p.m. ET. Both meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays via Zoom.
- Tuesday
- Live classwork and group mentor coaching.
- Thursday
- Coaching Lab with peer practice, observed coaching, and personalized feedback.
- On your own time
- About 4½ hours a week of independent work, including reading and reflection.
Three Sunday intensives
- Full-day launch
- Half-day midpoint integration
- Full-day final integration and graduation readiness
The launch is planned for Sunday, January 10, 2027, with January 17 as a possible alternate. The intensives are planned for Sundays to accommodate working professionals, with some flexibility based on the cohort’s availability.
Explore the program with Alina
Let’s talk about what you want to do with coaching, how the program fits your experience, and what the 14 weeks would look like for you.
From student to Director of Education
I first became certified as a coach in 2004 with Martha Beck Inc. In 2023, when I decided to pursue an ICF credential, I chose to study with Leni Wildflower.
It’s a thrill and an honor to carry on Leni’s legacy as Director of Education and a faculty member in the program she built. I’m glad Leni is staying involved as Faculty Advisor. We’re choosing to keep human judgment at the center of coaching while teaching coaches to discern when and how to use AI.
Faculty
Dr. Alina Bas, PCC, MCS
Founder, Director of Education
Dr. Alina Bas, PCC, MCS, is a Greater New York-based executive coach, team coach, strategy consultant, and an adjunct professor at NYU GSAS. She works with CEOs, founders, and senior leaders to clarify priorities and translate strategy into day-to-day practice. Clients turn to Alina when data provides no clear solution and there is no obvious right answer. She challenges leaders' thinking without provoking defensiveness, and uses rapid experiments to turn insight into action. Dr. Bas is the author of the best-selling book Skeptic's Guide to Intuition, several book chapters, and academic articles.
Dr. Leni Wildflower, PCC
Founder of Knowledge-Based Coaching in the Workplace, Faculty Advisor
Dr. Leni Wildflower, PCC, is a coach and educator with more than 30 years of experience in the US and around the world. She founded Knowledge-Based Coaching in the Workplace and designed the Master’s in Coaching program for Fielding Graduate University. She continues to support the program’s next chapter as Faculty Advisor to the Academy of Human-Led Coaching. Dr. Wildflower is the author of The Hidden History of Coaching and co-editor and contributor to The Handbook of Knowledge-Based Coaching.
Alex Yaroslavsky, NCM, PCC
Faculty Member
Alex Yaroslavsky is an executive coach, mediator, and trainer, working at the intersection of emotional intelligence and conflict resolution. His supportive, empathic, and direct coaching style empowers clients to have important and powerful conversations. Alex has worked with entrepreneurs, corporate and nonprofit leaders in financial services, legal, technology, sports & media, higher education, and nonprofit sector. Alex also teaches Conflict Resolution at Baruch & John Jay colleges and trains new mediators and coaches.
Develop your coaching mastery building on the work you already do.
Mentor Coaching Intensive
Ten hours of live education for experienced mentor coaches preparing to apply for the ICF Mentor Coach Specialization through the Credit for Prior Learning path.
10 CCE Credits Approved by ICF
Mentor Coaching Intensive
Ten hours of live education for experienced mentor coaches preparing to apply for the ICF Mentor Coach Specialization (MCS) through the Credit for Prior Learning path.
Two ICF 2027 deadlines, often confused.
Get your MCS before this deadline, when the credential is required to deliver credit-bearing hours. Earlier hours still count.
Performance Evaluation retires for ACC and PCC Portfolio. The MCS application fee more than doubles on this date.
The program designed for coaches who already mentor
ICF's Credit for Prior Learning path recognizes your existing practice and adds a focused education requirement. This program provides those ten hours, aligned with the ICF Mentor Coaching Competencies. It is not an introduction; it assumes you can already coach and have already mentored. This course sharpens the craft of mentorship: observing accurately, separating evidence from inference, calibrating against credential-level criteria, and giving feedback that measurably moves a coach's practice.
What it does not doIt does not award the MCS, guarantee ICF approval, replace ICF evaluation training, or substitute for the 41-hour Standard Path. ICF makes all final determinations.
Before you register
Three questions to determine ICF's Credit for Prior Learning path eligibility. All three need a yes.
Credit for Prior Learning is narrow by design. If any answer is no, the Standard Path is likely your route, and it's better to know now than after you have paid.
Got the right credential?
You hold an active PCC or MCC, or an ACC renewed at least once and in good standing.
Mentored five candidates?
You have mentored within the past three years five or more practitioners who have since earned an ICF credential, and you can document it.
Got ACC BARS and/or PCC Marker training?
You have taken or are planning to take these classes available through the ICF website.
Each session builds on the ICF Mentor Coaching Competencies.
Role, scope, and ethical foundations
Define your role as a mentor coach. Get clear on the difference between coaching, supervision, mentoring, teaching, and assessing. Protect recordings and client data.
Agreements, safety, and learning design
Empower the coaches you mentor. Build agreements that hold, co-design development goals, and balance real challenge with real safety across identity, culture, and power.
Formative appraisal and calibration
Support the development and advancement of your coach, for the benefit of their clients. Apply credential-level standards without drift, then calibrate your observations against peers.
Feedback that develops practice
Work to the guidelines for skill-focused feedback. Turn observation into feedback a coach can act on, manage your own bias, and honor a coach's style while holding the standard.
Group mentor coaching and application readiness
Mentor a coach for credential preparation and for continuous development beyond it. Deliver transparent, high-quality mentor coaching consistent with industry standards.
Format and investment
Small, live, and interactive.
| Format | Five live two-hour Zoom sessions. Ten instructional hours, all synchronous. |
|---|---|
| Cohort | Up to 12 participants per cohort, with structured practice in small groups. |
| Schedule | 5 evenings: W, Th, M, W, Th, 7–9 p.m. ET. All five sessions are required. |
| Attendance | Full live attendance is required for the 10-hour certificate. Sessions are not recorded. |
| Tuition | $599 |
| CCE status | 10 CCE Credits Approved by ICF |
What's included
- Ten hours of live, instructor-led mentor coach education.
- A participant workbook with observation, feedback, group-facilitation, and application-readiness tools.
- Structured practice, peer calibration, and facilitator feedback in a small cohort.
- A certificate of completion showing program, provider, dates, and ten education hours.
- A checklist for the evaluation training, experience evidence, and application steps that remain yours.
Who teaches it
Dr. Alina Bas, PhD, PCC, MCS
Alina is an executive coach, strategy consultant, and adjunct professor of organizational psychology at NYU GSAS, where she has taught Advanced Executive Coaching and Development, as well as Personnel Selection to graduate students. She holds the ICF Mentor Coach Specialization at the ACC and PCC levels, and has more than twenty years coaching senior leaders through high-stakes decisions.
Her doctoral research at the University of Strathclyde Business School (UK) examined the way knowledge workers advance under the conditions of uncertainty, when reliable data is lacking and previous protocols fail. She has presented in front of audiences at the U.S. Army War College, Academy of Management, Garrison Institute, MIT Sloan, Google, the Oceania Futures and Foresight Symposium, and the American Council on Education. Dr. Bas is a best-selling author and a co-author of several book chapters and peer-reviewed academic papers.
Questions about the Mentor Coach Intensive
Before you decide
Does this course grant me the MCS?
No. It provides the ten hours of education required under Credit for Prior Learning. You apply to ICF separately, and ICF decides. You will also need ICF evaluation training for each level you seek, plus evidence of your recent mentoring.
Does it replace ICF evaluation training?
No, and the two do not overlap. Evaluation training hours do not count toward the ten education hours. This course builds the observation, calibration, and feedback capabilities in the Mentor Coaching Competencies; it does not reproduce confidential ICF evaluation materials.
I am not sure Credit for Prior Learning is my path.
Please ask before you register. If you do not meet all three conditions, the 41-hour Standard Path is likely your route, and this course will not get you there. Email me and I will tell you plainly.
Are sessions recorded, and what if I miss one?
Sessions are not recorded; this protects candid practice and confidentiality. Full attendance is required for the 10-hour certificate. When space permits, a missed module may be completed live with a later cohort; partial attendance is documented only for hours actually attended.
How do I pay, and are there fees?
Tuition is $599 whichever way you pay. You can pay with a credit card or via PayPal during the registration. Please reach out to me at Alina@AlinaBas.com if you prefer to make a bank transfer. No processing fee is added to your total.
Can my organization request a private cohort?
Yes. ICF-accredited programs, universities, and coach communities can request a dedicated cohort with its own schedule. Please email me with your group size and timing at Alina@AlinaBas.com.
Continue the work you already do, with the preparation the new standard requires.
10 CCE Credits Approved by ICF
Additional dates are coming soon. The intensive meets for 5 evenings: W, Th, M, W, Th, 7–9 p.m. ET. If you are unsure whether Credit for Prior Learning is your path, please ask before you register.
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