Ready to transform your career?  

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Speak by Design’s Certification Program trains you to coach leaders and teams around you to communicate at their highest level. After you complete the program, you’ll earn certification as a leadership communication coach with our exclusive coaching tools and resources. After you’re certified, you’ll also receive additional training to continue to help you launch your business and take your coaching to a broader audience.

By the end of this certification, you will be able to:
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  • Confidently coach leaders at every level
  • Diagnose communication breakdowns quickly
  • Run private coaching sessions and group trainings
  • Use a proven leadership communication framework
  • Launch or expand your coaching practice​​​​​​​

It doesn’t matter if you’re looking to switch into a communication career or if you’re already a communication coach and want to take your coaching practice to a new level.

The Speak by Design Certification Program will teach you everything you need to know to become a distinctive leadership communication coach and enjoy a deeply rewarding career. Our coaches include marketing professionals, communications leaders, learning specialists, and speech-language pathologists who tell us we are the missing piece they have been looking for in their life and career. 

Why should YOU do it?  

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The Certification Program gives you freedom.

It helps you expand your current skill set, or step into a new career as a Leadership Communication Coach.

As a Speak by Design Certified coach, you gain the freedom to design your schedule while making a meaningful impact in your own life and in the lives of the leaders you serve.

We prepare coaches to model exceptional communication at the highest level, strengthening both their personal and professional presence.

To ensure the program is the right fit, we invite you to schedule a conversation with our team before you enroll.
 

“Speak by Design is the secret that accelerates careers and companies.”

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STEPHANIE BICKEL

Our Certification Program will elevate you to your next level as a leader.

​​​​​​​You become the role model first.

We teach you how to create and deliver incredible messages of impact.

Then, we teach you how to confidently launch your practice within your current organization or as a separate business.

What's included

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You’ll receive a high-quality education with lectures taught by Stephanie and application lessons taught by Certified Coach Instructors. Each concept is taught via video, one at a time, and corresponds with our Curriculum Book and Workbook. 
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Private coaching approaches, concepts, and skill-building lessons
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Group training and communication consulting best practices
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Private one-on-one instruction on your schedule
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Done-for-you worksheets to use with the people you coach and train
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Sales training to help launch your coaching practice
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Ongoing monthly alumni support
Ready to sign up? 

We train the best leadership communication coaches in the world.

You’ll get world-class training to become an exceptional Leadership Communication Coach. And you’ll keep growing as an alum with our team by your side for as long as you choose.
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STEPHANIE BICKEL
IMAGINE HOW PROUD YOU’LL FEEL WHEN YOU RECEIVE YOUR CERTIFICATE

Take a closer look at the leadership communication coach curriculum that leads to your transformation.

 PHASE 1 

Private Coaching Mastery

Learn to structure and run private coaching programs, and integrate mindset and behavior shifts into every session. You’ll also learn best practices for group trainings and communication consulting projects.

Submit your coaching recordings and written plan. Pass the test. Once you pass, you’re certified.
 PHASE 2

Sales Training and Alumni Benefits

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Sales Training - Sell trainings and coaching to organizations and individuals
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Alumni Vault - Access to worksheets and templates to customize and use with your clients
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Speak by Design University - Receive 6 months of Speak by Design University access to select signature trainings, so you can deepen your skills as a coach and teacher
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Alumni Networking - Attend monthly team calls and special alumni events
This was by far the best decision and investment I’ve ever made. I knew I’d learn how to coach others but I had no idea how life-changing this experience would be for myself and my own growth. I wish I had known what I know now when I was a CFO.

​​​​​​​If you’re on the fence, know that if you do sign up, the Speak by Design team has your back, and your investment will come back tenfold.
BETSY ALLEN
Certified Leadership Communication Coach

Don’t hesitate. It will transform the way you show up with senior leaders and increase your value to the organization.

​​​​​​​Not only did I see my speaking skills increase, I was able to coach my peers and my leader to do the same.
JACLYN HARRISON
Certified Leadership Communication Coach

Now it's your turn.
It's your time to shine.

Sign up to be certified by the best.

What can you expect?

Once you commit, enroll in the program. Then watch for your enrollment email with login details and next steps.
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Witness coaching in action and how to apply the tools
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Observe the diversity of coaching approaches, there are many ways to use our tools.
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Discover how to approach various problems and topics clients may bring to a session.
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Gain confidence as you watch coaching session recordings and see how to handle real-life situations
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Stephanie and the team will passionately teach the tools she has created to coach thousands of clients.
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Each concept is taught by video, one at a time, and corresponds with our Curriculum Book and Workbook.
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You can progress through the videos at your own pace. You can finish in a few weeks, or take up to one year from your enrollment date.
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Our students love to pause, take notes, and rewatch the videos for new 'aha' moments and takeaways each time.
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It’s very important that you have an opportunity to practice coaching and receive feedback from an instructor so you can be officially reviewed and certified. You’ll get 10 private Coach Instructor Sessions… We strongly encourage you to use them to ask questions, get feedback, and review Certification Requirements..
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We also offer weekly Office Hours with our Coach Instructors for you to attend and get all the answers to your questions. This is how you develop your skills and competency as a coach. You’ll demonstrate and practice with Coach Instructors.
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Certification is earned at Speak by Design. We only certify coaches who can demonstrate correct use of the tools. To confirm mastery, you must complete your submissions, a self-assessment, a final test, and an interview.
Speak by Design overdelivers. I had no idea how it would change my life and those I have had the privilege to coach. After I retired from a 25-year career as a Marketing Communications senior leader, I wanted to work more personally with professionals and help them transform. Speak by Design coaching and training transforms people.

I am able to take the tools and principles that I’ve learned at Speak by Design and apply them in my personal life, my family life, and also in my coaching practice.
LEE GUTHRIE
​​​​​​​Speak by Design Coach

When you complete our Coach Certification Program, you’ll be able to serve your company in a way you never imagined. You will be able to grow and stand up the next generation of leaders in your company.

It’s comprehensive. It’s effective.
And it’s what makes us the best
communication coaches and trainers globally.

Speak by Design Certification Highlights

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Mastery of Private Coaching approaches, concepts, and skill building lessons
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Private one-on-one instruction on your schedule
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Done-for-you worksheets to use with the people you coach and train
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Sales Training to help launch your coaching practice

Questions?

 Reach out Monday - Friday, 9 am - 5 pm ET 
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773-257-3433
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