Academy of Choice
Continuing Education for Board Certified Coaches (BCC)
Great coaches never stop learning.
Our Board Certified Coach (BCC) continuing education courses are designed to strengthen your coaching skills with practical, immediately applicable learning experiences that support both your professional growth and your BCC renewal requirements.
Whether you’re meeting ethics or multicultural competence requirements or exploring new coaching frameworks, you’ll find engaging, on-demand courses designed to help you become an even more effective coach.
Continue growing as a professional coach through practical, evidence-informed continuing education designed to strengthen your coaching effectiveness while supporting your Board Certified Coach (BCC) renewal requirements.
Credential Information
These courses are approved for Board Certified Coach (BCC) continuing education.
If you hold a coaching credential from another organization, please check with your credentialing body to determine whether these courses meet your continuing education renewal requirements.
Current Course Offerings
Ethics in Coaching
4 BCC CE Hours
Join Sylvester Baugh and Kim Olver for an engaging exploration of ethical decision-making in professional coaching.
Designed to meet the ethics continuing education requirement for Board Certified Coaches (BCC), this four-hour asynchronous course examines real-world ethical dilemmas through the lens of the BCC Code of Ethics and introduces the CCE Ethics Case Procedures, an essential resource every BCC coach should understand.
Through discussion, case analysis, and practical application, you’ll strengthen your ability to recognize ethical issues, make sound professional decisions, and confidently navigate challenging coaching situations.
The course includes two 2-hour video modules and a final knowledge assessment. Upon successful completion, participants receive a certificate awarding 4 BCC continuing education hours.
Multicultural Competence Through Personality & Self-Awareness
1.5 BCC CE Hours
Develop greater multicultural competence by exploring how personality, life experiences, and identity influence the way people perceive themselves and others.
Using Kim Olver’s unique animal-based learning model, you’ll discover practical strategies for replacing judgment with curiosity, building stronger coaching relationships, and creating an environment where every client feels understood, respected, and empowered.
This 90-minute asynchronous course includes video instruction, a knowledge assessment, and awards 1.5 BCC continuing education hours upon successful completion.
Mental Freedom® Certification
31 BCC CE Hours
Professional Certification
Mental Freedom® provides coaches with a practical framework that complements virtually every coaching approach.
Rather than replacing the skills you already possess, Mental Freedom helps clients develop greater self-awareness, increase personal responsibility, reduce emotional barriers to change, and create lasting transformation.
Whether you coach leaders, couples, teams, or individuals, Mental Freedom can become one of the most versatile and effective frameworks in your coaching toolkit.
More Courses Coming Soon
Additional courses are in development.
Future topics include:
- Choice Theory® Psychology
- Choice Coaching Techniques
- Communication Skills
- Leadership
- Relationships
- Mental Freedom Applications
Looking for a different continuing education topic?
We’re continually expanding our Academy of Choice® continuing education catalog.
If there’s a topic you’d like us to offer, we’d love to hear from you.
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