Academy of Choice
Academy of choice
A Certified Coaching Program
Our coaching process is about helping people to stop creating their own misery, while taking responsibility for their own happiness and success by putting their time and energy into the things they control, rather than the things they don’t. This means leading people away from blame, anger, and resentment and into introspection, acceptance and proactivity. Our process demolishes the victim mentality and empowers clients to reach their goals, while creating the meaningful relationships in their lives that will support and encourage them along the way.
AOC certifies its coaching participants when they achieve competency. You will receive a coaching certificate from AOC and become a certified coach. If you are interested in the additional credential of Board Certified Coach (BCC), click here to learn the program you need that matches your background.

A Board Certified Program

30-Hour Program
- Are you a counselor who wants to move into the field of coaching either full or part time?
- Tired of paperwork and insurance panels?
- Want to spend your time serving your clients instead of completing endless forms and paperwork?
- Want to work with clients who are healthy, highly motivated and looking for support in accomplishing their goals and dreams?

60-Hour Program
- Are you a master’s-level professional looking to add coaching to your repertoire of services?
- Are you seeking to make a career change into coaching full- or part-time?
- Want to spend your time serving your clients who are happy for your services?
- Want to work with clients who are healthy, highly motivated and looking for support in accomplishing their goals and dreams?
- Is your place of employment asking you to develop coaching skills for your current position or a promotion?

120-Hour Program
- Are you at least a bachelor's -level professional looking to add coaching to your repertoire of services?
- Are you seeking to make a career change?
- Do you like to help others?
- Are you successful at reaching your own goals?

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“Success is being able to affect the change in your life that you want, while gracefully accepting, and even appreciating, those things that come your way that you didn’t want originally.”—Kim Olver
Get Certified and Learn Innovative, Successful Techniques to Use with Your Coaching Clients
- Are you aware that if you are NBCC-certified and offer coaching services to your clients, you must now be certified through one of the Center for Credentialing & Education Board of Certified Coaching approved coaching programs?
- Would you like to learn the coaching skills that are so effective with Millennials and Gen-Z in the workplace?
- Would you like to be a coach who stands out in the field of coaching?
- Would you like to learn an established coaching method that will help you in any area—personal life coaching or business/executive coaching?
Training Outline
Ethical and Professional Standards:
The principles and guidelines that govern the conduct and behavior of coaches to ensure integrity, credibility, and accountability within the profession.
Agreements and Goal-Setting:
The process of establishing mutual understanding between the coach and client about the purpose of and commitments required for effective and efficient coaching.
Coach Presence and Applied Skills:
The skills and abilities coaches should demonstrate to provide effective and efficient coaching.
Effective Coach–Client Communication and Rapport:
The creation and maintenance of a strong working relationship between a coach and a client.
Facilitating Client Growth and Accountability:
The ability to help a client reflect on their progress, identify next steps, and ultimately move toward achieving their goals and transition upon attainment.
Coaching Business Practices and Professional Development:
The strategies and techniques involved in running a coaching business and staying up to date on coaching best practices.
Our revolutionary process is not just a coaching technique. It becomes a lens through which you learn to view the world and possibly a way you choose to live your life. There is application for every area of your life, e.g. relationships, parenting, self-growth, diversity, counseling, teaching, leadership, and goal attainment. The coaches at The Academy of Choice live and breathe the concepts of our revolutionary coaching process—showing, not just telling you, how to move from an ordinary life to an extraordinary one. You will apply the concepts in your own life as you learn to use them with your clients. It has the potential to be a transformational experience for you as you learn to live your life according to the principles of Mental Freedom®. Many people casually talk about change coming from within but our process shows you step-by-step how to do that so you can live it and then show others the way.
What are people saying about the Choice Coaching program?
“I came across the 30-hour coaching training program from the Academy of Choice through Olver International while searching for approved training toward my board coaching certification. I could not have been more pleased with the training. Not only did it help prepare me to take the BCC exam, but it also made me think deeply about my coaching practices and habits. Kim Olver’s training is substantive, concise, and relevant. There is no wasted space. The program included a variety of learning mechanisms, from audio and video to workbooks and external resources. Kim is accessible and responsive, as well as extremely qualified and knowledgeable. As an online course creator, I can tell the planning, thought, and diligence put into this program. I highly recommend it to anyone in the coaching field because it covers concepts relevant to executive coaches, life coaches, career coaches, and more.” – Patrick Jinks
“Thank you for creating a terrific learning experience with your 30-hour Choice Coaching program. I have finished all of the modules, and I thought the overall program was extremely valuable. What took me four combined academic years of an MBA and a Masters in Counseling Psychology to learn, you managed to successfully deliver in your training program! And, you added some valuable new stuff as well (e.g., The 10 Principles of Choice Coaching, GLOW, AOC Decision-Making Process). I will happily recommend your program to any of my colleagues who are, like me, looking for an approved training program in support of obtaining BCC certification.”–David Ransburg
Is Coaching for You?
Ten Reasons to Become a Coach:
- You want to get the best from your employees or students
- You want to help people accomplish their hopes and dreams.
- Your passion is helping others.
- You know how to align your client’s goals with their values and passions.
- You are goal-oriented and know how to help others accomplish theirs.
- You want a flexible schedule.
- You want to be your own boss and have your own business.
- You want to work from your home and from anywhere you are in the world.
- You have expertise and life experiences that will help others.
- You see yourself as a lifelong learner.
Why Choice Coaching?
Learning Objectives:
- Create an informed consent form.
- Discuss the differences between counseling, coaching, and consulting.
- Create a list of essential coaching behaviors.
- Review the BCC Code of Ethics.
- List the five basic human needs.
- Assess need-strengths in practice clients.
- List the elements of the Choice Coaching model
- Practice using Choice Coaching’s Powerful Questions techniques.
- Role play using the the Choice coaching process.
- Distinguish between disconnecting and connecting relationship habits.
- Assess when you are working harder than you client.
- List the elements of an effective plan.
- Explain organizational roles and culture.
- Discuss the three conditions of quality.
- Practice systemic, rather than individual, solutions in management.
- Teach the coaching process as a mentoring model.
- Practice win/win/win solutions in conflict management.
- Discuss coaching business practices—creating website, newsletter, niche, product funnel, SEO, article marketing, etc.
- Develop your budget for your coaching business.
- Define your niche.
- Develop a business plan. Complete a thorough self-assessment.
- Create a plan for improvement with a partner.
- Create your own personalized coaching forms.