Interview
In conversation with Shruti Sonthalia
21st October 2024 by Lee Robertson
Shruti Sonthalia is a Master Certified Coach (ICF) with extensive experience working with C-Suite and senior leaders across industries including…
A stimulating, practical and multifaceted learning experience
Registration for the Systemic Team Coaching® Diploma (Senior Practitioner) is now open!
To be eligible for this Diploma programme you must have completed the Systemic Team Coaching® Certificate (Practitioner) run by the AoEC in partnership with Renewal Associates, or the Systemic Team Coaching® Practitioner Certification run by coaching.com including attendance on one of the Action Learning/Supervision Groups.
If you have previously completed the Systemic Team Coaching® Certificate, you are able to join any of the future Action Learning/Supervision Groups to meet the entry criteria.
02 June 2025 - 06 April 2026
London, UK/In-person
Register your place on our free, one-hour virtual open event to learn more:
A virtual exploration of our Systemic Team Coaching® Diploma (Senior Practitioner)
Wednesday 22 January 2025
12.00 - 13.00 GMT
Exponential change and greater stakeholder complexity call for new forms of leadership development that can create learning at individual, team and organisational level. As senior executives adopt a more collaborative team-based leadership style, systemic team coaching can play a pivotal role in their development strategy so that organisations become better equipped in understanding their stakeholder needs and anticipating what customers will value tomorrow.
The theoretical foundations and practice of Systemic Team Coaching ® – one of the longest running team coaching programmes available, you will master your understanding of the Systemic Team Coaching model. Based on Professor Peter Hawkins’ established and proven research, methodologies and training you will gain the skills, experience and knowledge to work as an AoEC qualified systemic team coach.
How to apply the Hawkins’ Five Disciplines Model – you will work with a real-life client case study as part of the programme in order to gain experience of how this coaching model is applied in a real world client setting with support and supervision from both your fellow course participants and an experienced faculty team.
About who you are as a team coach – you will develop your own signature presence as you craft your own model of systemic team coaching and supporting marketing statement.
How to work confidently when coaching client teams – you will gain confidence, presence, authority and resilience when contracting and working with teams at all levels.
How to use and apply the Team Connect 360 diagnostic tool in client work – you will be licensed to use the tool and gain experience of interpreting a TC360 report.
The programme runs over the course of a year and is provided through a blend of both virtual and in-person modules, held in London.
Please note the Systemic Team Coaching® Certificate (Practitioner) and attendance on one of our Action Learning/Supervision Groups help you to prepare for the Diploma programme and form part of the entry requirements.
You will explore and discuss the practice of systemic team coaching and the research and theory which underpins it.
You will practise key skills and supervision through team coaching with your peers, by working with the dynamics of the learning community, by using the Team Connect 360 diagnostic tool and by arranging a team coaching case study with a client.
The programme uses its large group experience with observations and comments from the faculty team who will openly discuss the process.
Personal development comes through being a participant on the programme and examining the process of being in it, while going through it and from the final assessment.
You will learn from individual tutorials and a final assessment viva.
Learning is shared through faculty-led sessions and the whole learning group which is facilitated by the faculty.
You will work with your external client team between and during models and receive supervision from the faculty.
Practitioner groups of four to six will work together on their client teams and provide supervision for each other. This will also be facilitated by a faculty member in support of the practitioner team’s learning.
EMCC Global
The Systemic Team Coaching® Diploma (Senior Practitioner) holds the EMCC Global Team Coaching Quality Award (TCQA) at Senior Practitioner level.
Graduates of the Systemic Team Coaching® Diploma (Senior Practitioner) have completed the training requirements for EMCC Global Individual Team Coaching Accreditation (ITCA) at Senior Practitioner level.
For more detailed information see the EMCC Global website.
International Coaching Federation (ICF)
Until 2023, the Systemic Team Coaching® Diploma (Senior Practitioner) held accreditation with the ICF for 121 ACSTH (Approved Coach Specific Training Hours). The ICF no longer offers this accreditation, but the hours can be used towards an ICF credential via the portfolio route and the ICF Advanced Certification in Team Coaching.
For more detailed information see the ICF website.
The Systemic Team Coaching® Certificate (Practitioner) (entry requirement for the Systemic Team Coaching® Diploma (Senior Practitioner), is accredited for 19 CCEs (Continuing Coach Education units) - 3 Resource Development and 16 Core Competency.
For further information on routes to coach accreditation please click here
This programme is designed to build on your substantial knowledge and experience of creating, developing or leading teams. You must have completed the Systemic Team Coaching® Certificate (Practitioner) run by the AoEC in partnership with Renewal Associates, or the Systemic Team Coaching® Practitioner Certification run by coaching.com including attendance on one of the Action Learning/Supervision Group, before you can start the diploma programme.
If you have previously completed the Systemic Team Coaching® Certificate you are able to join any of the future Action Learning/Supervision Groups to meet the entry criteria.
In addition, you must be:
In all cases you will need to secure a client team, or be a leader of your own team, in order to complete a case study – which will be an important opportunity to experiment and practise your developing systemic team coaching skills.
We limit the maximum number of delegates on each course to 24 in order to maintain a minimum faculty/student ratio of 6:1.
No, the course isn't residential.
You can apply for this diploma programme online. The course is also offered in other locations such as New York via our official partners Renewal Associates and Metaco in South Africa.
If you would like to find out more before applying, please do not hesitate to contact us and we will be delighted to help you in any way we can.
As this is a one year Diploma programme there is a recommended pre-course reading list and an entry tutorial with a member of the course faculty. You will be expected to arrange your own client team to work with for the duration of the programme, ideally you will have this client team in place prior to attending the first full Diploma module.
You will work with our team of highly trained and experienced team coaches, some of whom have played a key role in developing the programme’s content. Click here to see a list of faculty.
We suggest allowing approximately 15 days, for your client case study, this will include your contracting meeting with the Team, each of the team coaching intervention sessions, attendance at business at usual meetings and preparatory and reflective work. In addition, there will be self-study, in the form of personal reading and reflection and to achieve the EMCC, Team Coaching Quality Award at Senior Practitioner Level you will need to evidence a further 23 days of personal study time.
The Systemic Team Coaching® Diploma (Senior Practitioner) run in London costs £8,995 + VAT.
Places are offered with the requirement to pay a non-refundable deposit of £1,000.
You will also need to attend a minimum of four to six supervision sessions with an experienced team coaching supervisor as a part of your work with your client. The typical cost for this is £250 per session, usually payable by your client (and agreed in your contracting with them). We are able to provide this supervision through our faculty.
Please note that the price may vary depending on other locations if you are booking via Renewal Associates or Metaco.
It covers the price of all study materials, refreshments and lunch.
We recommend wearing comfortable, casual clothing.
On graduation you can apply for a free 12-month AoEC individual accreditation. You will also receive free membership of the AoEC’s Alumni Association which includes discounted subscriptions, Alumni events, discounted AoEC courses, special offers and access to the Alumni LinkedIn Community and more.
Dr Colm Murphy Faculty
Dr Colm Murphy has over twenty years’ experience of designing and delivering coaching and team coaching to individuals and teams across the public and private sectors. His team coaching experience ranges from working with globally dispersed teams, to leadership teams of publicly quoted organisations, to project teams. He is the Program Director of the Global Team Coaching Institute Senior Practitioner Program and was Director of Coaching Programs at Smurfit Business School, University College Dublin from 2017‑2022. Colm’s area of expertise is in taking a psychological approach to assist leaders and their teams to achieve meaningful behavioural changes that drive business results, through focused and engaging coaching and training interventions. Colm has a special interest in team dynamics and completed his Doctoral research in the University of Portsmouth on the contribution of team coaching to team effectiveness. He is co‑editor of the ‘Team Coaching Casebook’ (Open University Press, 2022) and is an accredited Master Practitioner Coach (EMCC). He has been the global work stream lead on Team Coaching Accreditation for the EMCC.
John Hill Faculty
John is an accredited Systemic Team Coach and Executive Coach working with leaders and senior teams, both in the UK and internationally. He has a background in the cut and thrust of the world of business, gained in global organisations, SMEs and start-ups, and moved into coaching and leadership development around 10 years ago. John is passionate about being an agent of positive change, drawing on his fascination with the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ of people and organisations, which informs what makes them the way they are – and, perhaps most importantly, what they could be.
John Leary-Joyce CEO and Founder
John is our CEO and founded the Academy of Executive Coaching in 1999 with one administrator and over the years recruited and collaborated with many talented directors, trainers & administrators to develop AoEC into the prestigious brand it is today.
With his tireless entrepreneurial spirit, AoEC has become a highly successful international coaching training organisation with professional accreditation from ICF, EMCC, & AC. Previously, he was MD of Gestalt Centre London growing the business fourfold in six years and gaining a Company Director diploma with the Institute of Directors.
John is a highly principled leader, drawing on and applying his experience from a long career as a Gestalt psychotherapist, executive and team coach, trainer and supervisor. He is past president of EMCC UK where his focus was on maintaining standards for coaching and mentoring and building collaboration between the different professional bodies.
In 2010, he founded with Peter Hawkins the Systemic Team Coaching programmes. He has an MA in Executive Coaching, is PCC with ICF, qualified supervisor, regular presenter at international conferences and author of Fertile Void, Gestalt Coaching at Work 2014 and co-author of Systemic Team Coaching - 2nd Edition, 2024. His other passion is dancing Tango which links with leadership, coaching and Gestalt.
Maxine Gooding Faculty
Maxine Gooding is a team coach, facilitator and organisational dynamics consultant. She has over 25 years’ experience in business leading teams, developing strategy, managing global change initiatives and improving customer experience. She knows first-hand the complexity of working in fast moving large-scale organisations. A graduate of the Systemic Team Coaching Diploma and OD practitioner, Maxine focuses on liberating the human element of business through leadership, teamwork and organisational performance.
Moira Nangle Faculty
Formerly Director of Organisation Development at Virgin Atlantic Airways, Moira is a creative, perceptive OD professional with qualifications in Training, Teaching, Psychotherapy, both one to one and team coaching, and an MSc in Organisation Development. She has Director level experience in all three sectors. Moira has designed, delivered and evaluated OD interventions from Board to Shop-floor level ranging from business strategy to organisation design, new product development, talent management, culture change, and customer service. During the last few years she has worked with senior teams in a coaching or consulting capacity across Europe and in Hong Kong, Malaysia and the Middle East to develop the internal capability and capacity to lead and manage change. Moira is a visiting lecturer in HRM and leadership at City University London, and is also an associate of Roffey Park Leadership Institute where she works primarily in the areas of leadership and change.
Neil Atkinson Faculty
Neil worked in the business world as a digital communications and marketing expert for three decades before moving into coaching and leadership development. An ICF PCC-accredited Advanced Coach, he’s passionate about supporting people to develop themselves, their careers and their potential, as well as helping teams become more effective. Neil has studied positive psychology and mindfulness/meditation and created training programmes in wellbeing and resilience. He brings these interests to his coaching practice and his role as a facilitator on many coaching training programmes.
Professor Peter Hawkins Honourary President
Peter Hawkins is Honorary President of the Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC). For the last 30 years he has been helping organisations in many parts of the world connect their strategic change, their organizational culture and their leadership development. He has written extensively about leadership, leadership teams, coaching and supervision. Currently his major concern is the growing gap between the increasing and changing challenges for individual and collective leadership and how leadership development is failing to evolve at the same speed. The AoEC Systemic Team Coaching suite of programmes, diagnostic tool and coaching are based on Peter’s 5 Disciplines model which in used internationally. He regularly blogs and publishes papers on these and other topics. He also is also Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School University of Reading UK and Emeritus Chairman of Bath Consultancy Group, visiting professor at the universities of Bath and Oxford Brookes, chairs Renewal Associates and is enjoyably kept busy by his wife, three children and their partners, five grandchildren, and numerous hens, sheep, goats, steers and guinea fowl and large gardens where he lives on the edge of Bath in the UK.
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