Advanced Coaching Pathway: Career Transition and Change
Career transition and change can be one of the most important areas of a person's working life. This pathway gives you the practical tools and confidence to support clients well, whatever their career situation.
This is one of TPC Coaching Academy's Advanced Coaching Pathways, two-day programmes designed for coaches who have completed a practitioner-level qualification and want to go further in a specialist area of practice. Each pathway gives you access to tried and tested tools, evidence-informed approaches, and real-world techniques used by experienced coaches.
Career coaching draws on a distinct set of frameworks and skills. Understanding how people relate to their work, how identity shapes career decisions, and how to support someone through change they did not choose requires specific knowledge and practice. This pathway develops all of that, grounded in the core principles of professional coaching you already hold.
Ready to start your coaching journey or considering this as your next step? Visit our course selection guide or book a call with the team.
What the pathway covers
Over two days you work through the key areas of career transition coaching, applying tools and approaches to real coaching situations from your own practice context. The programme is led by experienced coaches who bring both the frameworks and the practical wisdom of working in this area at depth.
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Supporting clients through career transition, career change and career development
Learn how career transition coaching works and what it requires of you as a coach. Understand the different types of career change clients face, voluntary moves, redundancy, role transition, loss of direction. Learn how to adapt your approach to each. Leave with a clear framework for entering and holding career coaching conversations with confidence.
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Helping clients clarify goals, strengths and values
Develop practical tools to help clients understand what they want, what they are good at, and what matters to them. Learn how to use strengths-based and values-clarification approaches within a coaching context, and how to help clients connect that self-knowledge to their decisions about the future.
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Working with different career situations
Build your ability to work across the full range of career situations coaches encounter, chosen change, unchosen change, redundancy, return to work, promotion, portfolio careers, and limited-choice situations. Understand what each situation asks of the coach and the client, and how to calibrate your support accordingly.
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Helping clients explore options and make decisions
Learn techniques for helping clients generate meaningful options, assess possibilities with clarity, and make confident, well-grounded decisions about their direction. Develop your ability to hold the tension between exploration and action without closing down too early or drifting without purpose.
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Working with common career roadblocks
Develop approaches for the most common barriers that arise in career coaching: self-doubt, identity disruption, fear of change, low confidence, and motivational stalls. Understand the psychological dynamics behind these blocks and learn how to work with them skilfully rather than around them.
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Building resilience and a more sustainable career path
Learn how to help clients build the resilience and self-worth needed to navigate ongoing change and uncertainty. Understand what makes a career path sustainable rather than simply successful, and how to support clients in building a relationship with their work that serves them over time.
You will leave with
- A clear framework for career transition coaching conversations
- Practical tools for strengths, values, and goal clarification
- Approaches for working with a full range of career situations
- Techniques for supporting decision-making and option exploration
- Skills for working with career roadblocks, including self-doubt and identity disruption
- Approaches for building client resilience and career sustainability
- The confidence to position yourself as a specialist in career transition coaching
Who this pathway is for
This pathway is designed for coaches who have completed a practitioner-level coaching programme and want to develop specialist skills in supporting clients through career transition and change.
It is well suited to coaches working with professionals navigating career decisions, HR professionals supporting colleagues through organisational change, coaches who want to develop a specialist offer in career coaching, and anyone whose coaching clients regularly bring career questions and challenges.
The prerequisite is completion of a practitioner-level coaching programme such as the TPC Coach Practitioner or an equivalent ICF or EMCC accredited programme. If you have not yet completed a practitioner-level programme, the Coach Practitioner is the right starting point. Our Fundamentals of Coaching is the entry point for those new to coaching entirely.
Programme details
| Detail | Information |
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| Duration | 2 days |
| Format | Online only, all sessions delivered virtually |
| Level | Advanced, for coaches who have completed a practitioner-level programme |
| Price | £1,200 inc VAT |
| Dates | Confirmed on enrolment. Contact the team for upcoming dates. |
| CPD hours | Contact the team for current ICF and EMCC CPD hour details. |
This is a standalone pathway. It does not require you to have trained with TPC Coaching Academy previously. Any practitioner-level ICF or EMCC accredited programme qualifies as the prerequisite. If you are unsure whether your training qualifies, book a call with the team or email courses@tpcleadership.com.
Other ways to develop your coaching
This pathway sits within TPC Coaching Academy's Advanced Coaching Pathways, a range of two-day specialist programmes for practitioner-level coaches. Each pathway focuses on a distinct area of coaching practice and can be taken in any order.
For ongoing reflective development and CPD hours, our Group Supervision programme provides structured supervision with a trained supervisor, eligible for ICF CCE credit and EMCC CPD recognition.
If you are working toward an ICF credential, our Mentor Coaching programme covers the 10 hours of ICF-recognised mentor coaching required for ACC, PCC, and MCC applications.
For a full overview of all TPC Coaching Academy courses and how they connect, visit our coaching qualifications page or read our guide to coaching qualifications explained.