Mentor Coaching Specialization Training

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Course overview

This 10-hour program prepares experienced Mentor Coaches to achieve their Mentor Coach Specialization accreditation through ICF's Credit for Prior Learning pathway. The self-paced program has been built for coaches who already have real mentor coaching experience and who have completed the ICF evaluation training at the level at which they mentor coach.

Seven modules take you through the complete arc of mentor coaching: the ICF framework and your role within it, contracting, managing the mentor coaching process, formative appraisal, facilitating skill development, giving feedback, group mentor coaching, and integrating it all into your ongoing practice.

What's included?

Interactive, reflective workbook
Video lessons
Knowledge checks
Example coaching session and mentor feedback
All new ICF MCS forms
Certificate confirming 10 hours of education aligned to the mentor coaching competencies

Develop your skills as a Mentor Coach

Based around the ICF Mentor Coaching Competencies, we move beyond theory into the actual tools of the work, including the ICF standardized forms, and a full practice scenario - a recorded coaching session built specifically to give you material to apply your learning to - from formative appraisal through to capturing the developmental feedback.

Meet the ICF MCS requirements

The program supports experienced mentor coaches working at ACC, PCC and MCC levels. On completion, you receive a certificate documenting 10 hours of education aligned to the ICF Mentor Competencies, ready to support your MCS application via the Credit for Prior Learning Path.

Course Lessons

Meet the instructor

Jude Fairweather

Jude Fairweather is an executive and leadership coach, coach educator, mentor coach, and accredited coach supervisor. She brings extensive experience in coach development, including four years as a coach educator at one of the UK’s top-ranked business schools and many hundreds of hours supporting coaches through mentor coaching and coaching supervision. Her work is grounded in curiosity, reflective practice, respect for difference, and a systemic understanding of people, teams, and organisational culture. Jude is particularly interested in helping coaches deepen the quality of their practice, work more intentionally with the ICF Core Competencies, and develop the confidence, clarity, and maturity needed for impactful professional coaching.

Patrick Jones - Course author

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Rebecca brings extensive experience and deep expertise to her work facilitating learning with leaders and professionals across a wide range of roles, sectors, career stages, and cultural contexts. Her approach is highly adaptable, grounded in a strong evidence base, and carefully shaped around the goals, challenges, and realities of those she works with.

Those who work with Rebecca value her ability to create thoughtful, psychologically safe learning spaces that invite honest reflection, dialogue, and deep self awareness. She combines academic rigour with real world relevance, offering supportive challenge while remaining approachable and grounded in her style. Her facilitation is characterised by curiosity and humility, enabling participants to engage openly with complex issues without feeling judged or directed.

Rebecca is particularly skilled at guiding individuals and groups to notice patterns in their thinking, behaviour, and interactions that are often taken for granted. By helping people slow down and make sense of their experiences, she supports meaningful insight and learning that can be translated into purposeful action and sustained change.

Rebecca is a Professor in Coaching and Behaviour Change and is internationally recognised for her research on learning and development in coaching and leadership contexts. She has published extensively in leading academic journals on coaching effectiveness, alongside a second stream of research focused on equality, diversity, and inclusion, including inclusive leadership, group based learning for women in leadership, and menopause at work.

She is the author of three books, Coaching with Research in Mind, Key Topics in Coaching Psychology, and Simplifying Inclusive Leadership, which translate research evidence into practical insight for leaders, practitioners, and organisations. Outside work, Rebecca enjoys countryside walks, weightlifting, and time with her two sons. She also serves on the Advisory Board of a non profit CIC dedicated to making high quality coaching and development accessible to all.