What is the Certified Advanced Life Coach?

The Certified Advanced Life Coach is a globally recognised professional certification by the Global Leadership Institute (GLI), designed to equip professionals with advanced competencies in Soft Skills & Personal Dev..

How long does this certification take?

The programme is 12 Week and can be completed at your own pace through our self-paced online option, or alongside live virtual sessions.

Is this certification globally recognised?

Yes. GLI certifications are internationally recognised and carry CPD credits, making them valuable for career advancement worldwide.

What level is this certification?

This is a Advanced Level certification, suitable for professionals with relevant experience or background in the field.

You can enrol by emailing info@leadership.rw, contacting us via WhatsApp at +250 788 000 000, or filling the enrolment form below.

Certified Advanced Life Coach (CADLC) | Online Certification

Executive Summary

Certified Advanced Life Coach

Designed for today’s high-impact professionals, the Certified Advanced Life Coach (CADLC) delivers a rigorous Advanced-level curriculum that equips participants with the knowledge, tools and frameworks needed to excel in counselling, coaching and psychological wellbeing.

This 12 Week programme is structured around recognised counselling, coaching and ethical practice standards, ensuring every graduate applies internationally validated methods to real-world challenges.

GLI’s CADLC holders are recognised by leading organisations across Africa, the Gulf, Europe and the Americas as qualified, results-driven professionals. Whether you are advancing your current career or transitioning into new responsibilities, this certification provides the competitive edge you need in 2026 and beyond.

Programme Overview

Certification at a Glance

Certification

Certified Advanced Life Coach

Acronym

CADLC

Who Should Enrol?

Counsellors and Therapists
Coaches and Wellbeing Practitioners
Social and Community Workers
Helping-Profession Practitioners

Programme Inclusions

Everything Included in Your Enrolment

All study materials and study guide
Access to GLI online learning portal
Online examination and assessment
Digital certificate and digital badge
Physical certificate (shipped to you)
CPD credits for professional bodies
GLI alumni network membership
Facilitator and tutor support
Resource downloads and reference library
Automatic enrolment confirmation

Certification Benefits

Why This Certification Matters for Your Career

Career Advancement

Accelerate your career towards senior counselling, clinical and practice-leadership roles

Professional Recognition

Credential aligned with recognised counselling, coaching and ethical practice standards

Leadership Capability

Develop the strategic and operational skills to lead complex counselling functions

Organisational Impact

Design and implement counselling systems that drive performance and measurable results

Compliance Readiness

Master the standards, compliance and ethical governance central to counselling

Global Employability

Qualify for counselling roles across clinics, NGOs, schools, community organisations and private practice worldwide

Competency Framework

Core Competencies You Will Develop

✦Advanced Life Coaching Frameworks

✦Personal Vision Architecture

✦Limiting Belief Transformation

✦Life Decision Architecture

✦Personal Resilience Development

✦Values-Based Living

Course Curriculum

Programme Modules

The full programme, module by module.

Core CurriculumModules 1–20 · specific to Certified Advanced Life Coach · module 20 is the capstone

1

Advanced Life Coaching Frameworks

Career, transition and life coaching · Building a coaching culture and an internal coaching function · Coaching for performance versus coaching for development · Wellbeing coaching: stress, energy and sustainable working

2

Whole-Life Assessment

Organisational maturity, assessment and improvement programmes · Security assessment, vulnerability management and remediation · Supervision, ethics and the coach’s own development · Questioning, listening and the coach’s restraint

3

Identity and Life Narrative

Identity, access management and the zero-trust shift · Feedback and challenge in coaching: saying the hard thing well · Digital delivery of coaching: video, asynchronous and hybrid practice · Ending the coaching relationship well

4

Personal Vision Architecture

Career development, adaptability and personal reinvention · Older adults and later life · Wellbeing and resilience coaching · Measuring coaching outcomes

5

Life Direction and Meaning

Life transitions: adjustment, loss and meaning · Positive psychology practices: gratitude, optimism and strengths · Career and talent development · Building a coaching culture

6

Deep Behaviour Change

Habit and behaviour change: making it survive a bad week · Habit change and behaviour design · Behaviour change and adoption of innovations · Culture, ethics and behaviour change

7

Limiting Belief Transformation

Confidence, self-belief and working with the inner critic · Circular economy and life cycle thinking: designing waste out · Powerful questions and listening · Designing and running a mentoring programme

8

Emotional Self-Management

Questioning and reflection skills · Managing emotions in session · Wellbeing and the biopsychosocial model · Resilience for practitioners

9

Personal Accountability

Scalability, resilience and HA · Managing growth, risk and resilience · Peer review and expert feedback · Active listening and empathy

10

Life Decision Architecture

Discovery questioning: diagnosing before proposing · Consultative discovery and diagnostic questioning · Anxiety, mood and behaviour in youth · Decarbonisation: targets, abatement and transition pathways

11

Relationship-Life Integration

Supervision, reflective practice and practitioner sustainability · Working with ambivalence and motivation · Experiential and body-based practice in the session · Systems thinking, feedback loops and second-order effects

12

Career-Life Alignment

Workplace wellbeing strategy · Measuring wellbeing outcomes · The executive transition: from function to enterprise · The executive transition: what changes when you lead the whole

13

Personal Resilience Development

Continuity, disruption and organisational resilience · Resilience: recovery, adaptability and sustainable performance · Consulting skills and contracting with the business · Performance management that changes behaviour

14

Major Life Transition Coaching

Setting goals, roles and accountability · Motivation theories and engagement · Empathy, active listening and trust-building · Difficult conversations and feedback

15

Personal Growth Roadmaps

Personal development: identity, values, habits and growth · Operational resilience · Cyber resilience in payments · Operational resilience, outages and contingency processing

16

Values-Based Living

Values-based living · Values-based leadership: what you do when the numbers argue against it · Values-based decision-making · Youth work: engagement, voice and transition to adulthood

17

Sustainable Lifestyle Change

Capstone scoping: an area of practice or client group · Accountability and follow-through · Resilience and post-traumatic growth · Diagnosing client problems before prescribing solutions

18

Advanced Coaching Conversations

The coaching session: structure, pacing and the contract for the hour · Central banking, monetary policy and supervision · Stakeholder accountability: to whom the board answers, and how · Clinical documentation: notes that serve the client and stand up to scrutiny

19

Life Coaching Outcome Measurement

Life transitions: adjustment, loss and meaning · Voice of the customer: listening programmes that change something · Client protection and fair practice · Executive presence, professional brand and career growth

20

Advanced Life Coaching Practicum

Wellbeing and holistic health strategy · Corporate governance and HSE accountability · Workplace wellbeing and mental health · Behaviour-based safety

Professional ElectivesModules 21–30 · common to all GLI certifications · broaden your professional range

21

Strategic Communication and Executive Presentation

Vision, purpose and translating direction into work · Audience-centred communication and message structure · Executive leadership: the board interface and enterprise stewardship · Persuasive structure: framing, evidence and the ask

22

Leadership and Team Effectiveness

Leadership identity, style and the limits of style · Leadership assessment, feedback and continuous self-review · What critical reasoning is and what it is not · Situational and adaptive leadership

23

Analytical Thinking and Evidence-Based Reasoning

Creativity and critical-thinking development · Analytical techniques and bias · Evidence-based improvement · Problem framing: symptoms, definition and scope

24

Professional Decision-Making

Managerial decision-making, bias and decision rights · Escalation and decision-making · Decision support: briefs, options and judgement under pressure · Decision frameworks: criteria, weighting and trade-offs

25

Negotiation, Influence and Stakeholder Management

Negotiation preparation: interests, options and the walk-away · Power, followership and organisational politics · Negotiation: preparation, interests and value creation · Concessions, anchoring and the shape of a bargain

26

Project and Execution Management

Proposals, bids and the business case · Project roles and the project manager · Developing the project business case · Planning, scheduling and personal workflow systems

27

Financial Literacy for Professionals

Financial reporting standards and their application · Financial management for the operating manager · Liquidity, funding and balance sheet management · Management accounting: costing, budgeting and decision support

28

Digital Skills, AI and Technology for Professionals

Digital workplace, collaboration and user support · Productivity, collaboration and workflow tools · Tools for interaction and collaboration · Working with data: quality, interpretation and honest presentation

29

Ethics, Governance and Professional Accountability

Ethical leadership: integrity, tolerated behaviour and moral courage · Ethics, conduct and speaking up · Business development risk, ethics and integrity · AI for managers: adoption, oversight and governance

30

Personal Effectiveness, Productivity and Career Growth

Emotional competence: awareness, regulation and expression · Self-awareness, strengths and the accuracy of self-image · Emotional intelligence and self-regulation · Priority: outcomes, importance and the urgency trap

Every module opens in the learning portal with its full lesson set, worked examples, further reading and video masterclasses. 30 modules · 150 lessons.

Learning Outcomes

What You Will Achieve

Establish a comprehensive understanding of Certified Advanced Life Coach principles aligned with recognised counselling, coaching and ethical practice standards
Apply evidence-based methods to improve counselling, coaching and psychological wellbeing
Master counselling theories, models and approaches and assessment, case formulation and treatment planning
Apply therapeutic skills, alliance and communication and specialised populations and presenting concerns in real-world settings
Lead risk management, quality and compliance relevant to your field
Design stakeholder engagement and professional communication strategies
Use data-driven decision-making and performance-measurement tools effectively
Apply internationally recognised best practice to advance your career in counselling

Enrolment Process

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common Questions

What is the CADLC certification?

The Certified Advanced Life Coach is a professional certification awarded by the Global Leadership Institute. It covers 20 core modules specific to Advanced Life Coach, culminating in the capstone “Advanced Life Coaching Practicum”, plus 10 professional elective modules common to all GLI certifications. Candidates study through the online portal, submit the capstone project and sit a final examination; those who pass receive a verifiable certificate carrying a unique certificate ID.

Who should enrol in the CADLC?

This certification is ideal for Counsellors and Therapists, Coaches and Wellbeing Practitioners, Social and Community Workers and Helping-Profession Practitioners, and other professionals seeking to formalise their expertise in counselling, coaching and psychological wellbeing with a globally recognised credential.

How long does the CADLC certification take to complete?

The programme is structured over 12 Week and offers flexible learning modes. Self-paced learners can progress at their own schedule, while live virtual participants follow a structured cohort schedule with facilitator-led sessions.

Is the CADLC internationally recognised?

Yes. GLI certifications are recognised across 100+ countries and are aligned with recognised counselling, coaching and ethical practice standards. Graduates receive a digital certificate, a physical certificate and CPD credits recognised by employers worldwide.

What is the cost of the CADLC certification?

The Certified Advanced Life Coach is offered in two formats: Self-Paced at USD 449 and Live Virtual at USD 649. Corporate group rates are available for organisations enrolling 5 or more participants. Contact GLI for a bespoke corporate training quotation.

What does the CADLC certification include?

Enrolment includes all study materials and study guides, access to GLI's online learning portal, online examination, digital certificate and badge, physical certificate (posted), CPD credits, GLI alumni network membership, and ongoing facilitator support.

What is the assessment format for the CADLC?

The Certified Advanced Life Coach is assessed through an online examination consisting of multiple-choice questions, case study analysis, and practical application assignments. The assessment is designed to evaluate real-world competency, not just theoretical recall.

What CPD credits do I earn from the CADLC?

The Certified Advanced Life Coach carries Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits, which can be applied towards professional body requirements including recognised international professional associations.

Can I study the CADLC while working full-time?

Absolutely. The self-paced option is designed for busy working professionals and allows you to study when and where it suits you. Live virtual sessions are typically scheduled in the evenings or on weekends to accommodate professional commitments.

What career outcomes can I expect from the CADLC?

Graduates progress towards senior counselling, clinical and practice-leadership roles. The CADLC strengthens your expertise in counselling, coaching and psychological wellbeing and positions you for advancement across clinics, NGOs, schools, community organisations and private practice.

Graduate Voices

What Our Alumni Say

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The curriculum was directly applicable to my daily work. I immediately applied what I learned and saw results within weeks of completing the programme.

Clinical Lead

Private Sector

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GLI's certification is the most practical professional programme I have attended. The international frameworks gave me credibility with my employer and clients.

Senior Counsellor

NGO Sector

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I earned my CADLC while working full-time. The self-paced format made it possible, and the quality of the content is genuinely world-class.

Wellbeing Programme Manager

Government

Certified Advanced Life Coach

Certified Advanced Life Coach

Certification at a Glance

Who Should Enrol?

Everything Included in Your Enrolment

Why This Certification Matters for Your Career

Core Competencies You Will Develop

Programme Modules

What You Will Achieve

How to Get Certified

Common Questions

What Our Alumni Say

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