Certificate, Diploma
and Advanced Diploma
in Personal and
Executive Coaching
Become fully professionally qualified with our Personal
and Executive Coaching courses accredited by the Association for Coaching and also the British Psychological Society.
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE IN COACHING TRAINING *
ADVANCED DIPLOMA
IN COACH
TRAINING *
BPS CERTIFICATION
IN OCCUPATIONAL
and FORENSIC ASSESSMENT
"Our unique coaching courses give you the knowledge, skills and certification you need to become a professional Personal and Executive Coach."
Learn the science and the art of coaching from coaching psychologists
Certificate, Diploma & Advanced Diploma in Coaching
Our Certificate, Diploma and Advanced Diploma courses are fully accredited by the Association for Coaching, providing you with direct access to membership on graduation. Our Diploma in Personal and Executive Coaching includes the industry-standard qualification in Occupational Testing (Ability, Careers & Personality), while our Advanced Diploma in addition includes certification in Forensic Testing (Personality Spectrum & Neurosdiversity), both accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS). Providing you with a comprehensive, fully-accredited training in coaching psychology, our Diploma and Advanced Diploma allow you to coach at the very highest level with the in-depth psychological knowledge and skills you need to facilitate executive, leadership and management development, goal clarification and attainment, career development, managing neurodiversity and maintenance of psychological health and well-being.
AC: Further details on the Association for Coaching qualifications on their website
BPS: visit British Psychological Society I Download BPS Qualifications Brochure
THE COURSE
What you will learn...
CERTIFICATE IN COACHING (Modules 1 - 4) €1,750
Module 1: Coaching and Preparation (1 Day)
The boundaries, possibilities and limits of coaching; accreditation, ethical and legal professional issues - insurance, contracts, confidentiality and GDPR. Personal preparation: professional goals and objectives.
Module 2: Presence and Rapport (1 Day)
Grounding, breathwork, relaxation, focus, connecting, inviting, listening, summarising, questioning.
Module 3: Objectives and Identity (2 Day)
Client objectives, goals and identity: Behaviour, emotion, values, traits, states, situations, narrative.
Completion of personal reflective workbook and the Personality & Values Questionnaire (PVQ) - see report
Module 4: Facilitating Strategic Change (2 Days)
Developing Strategy: Purpose, motivation, reward, resources, self-efficacy and resistance to change. Holistic Change: Body, emotion, feelings, thinking, intuition. The Psychometrix CORE+ Model: Create, Organise, Relate, Engage + Outcomes linked to the NEO-120 Personality Profile - see report.
DIPLOMA IN PERSONAL & EXECUTIVE COACHING (Modules 1 - 5) €2,750
Module 5: Coaching Ability, Careers, Values and Personality (4 Days)
(Confers the BPS Certificate of Competence in Occupational Testing, TUOAP) - full course details
Our Advanced Diploma provides you with certified training in Occupational Testing, including administration, scoring/interpretation, analysis, feedback, reporting and coaching
using tests of cognition, career interests, personality and motivational values for executive and
personal development, including:
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Ability and Attainment Assessment and Coaching to identify your client's key cognitive skills
and styles, as well as specific aptitudes for specific roles and occupations
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Career Development Assessment and Coaching with the Occupational Interest Profile (OIP+),
a comprehensive assessment of 8 career interests and 8 personal work needs based on the
5-Factor model, and linked the industry-standard database of occupational profiles
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Personality & Values Questionnaire (PVQ), based on Cattell's 16PF model, is the most
up-to-date innovation in personality assessment for coaching, providing an in-depth,
comprehensive psychological profile of your client, including standardised scores on 21
behavioural traits, 12 motivational values and key data on your client's preferred Leadership,
Team, Subordinate and Influencing orientations.
See Occupational Testing Course Curriculum
ADVANCED DIPLOMA IN PERSONAL & EXECUTIVE COACHING (Modules 1 - 6) €3,750
Module 6: Coaching Personality Spectrum and Neurodiversity for Psychological Wellbeing (3 Days)
(Confers the BPS Certificate of Competence in Forensic Testing, CCFT) - full course details
The course provides certified training in coaching personality spectrum and neurodiversity for
personal effectiveness and psychological health and wellbeing. The training includes core skills in administration, scoring, analysis, feedback, reporting and client coaching using assessments of personality spectrum (Normal to Disordered) and neurodiversity (dyslexia, ADHD), including, with Sample Reports:
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Levels of Personality Functioning (Alternative Model of Personality Disorder - AMPD)
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NEO – 120 (IPIP)
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Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5-SF)
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Brief Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (B-HiTOP)
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ADHD Clinical Outcome Scale
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Dyslexia Screening
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Autism Spectrum Screening Questionnaire (ASSQ)
See Forensic Testing Course Curriculum
CERTIFICATE, DIPLOMA AND ADVANCED DIPLOMA
Practitioner Module: Becoming and Being A Coach (1 Day)
Setting Up Practice: Purpose/Story, Community; Value/Pricing, Brand/Marketing, Administration.
Growing Your Practice: Self-care, Narrative, Vision, Expertise, Mastery, Supervision, CPD.
Learn how to help clients to balance, integrate, achieve their goals and maintain health and wellbeing with our unique training in coaching psychology. Based on state-of-the-art research and practice in embodied cognition, personal and leadership development, neuroscience and psychometrics, this course gives you the knowledge, skills and accreditation you need to coach at the highest level.
BPS CERTIFICATION
IN OCCUPATIONAL
and FORENSIC ASSESSMENT
ACCREDITED
ADVANCED DIPLOMA IN COACHING
CURRICULUM
Delegates who take this course work in:
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Personal and Executive Coaching
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Personal and Professional Development
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Learning and Development in Organisations
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Leadership and Team Development
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Forensic Assessment and Lifestyle Coaching
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Coaching Neurodiversity in the Workplace
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Private Neurodiversity Assessment
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Psychology, Counselling and Social Work
DELEGATES
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Our courses are fully accredited by the Association for Coaching allowing you to register as a professional coach.
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Your psychometrics training is fully accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS) and internationally recognised.
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Our eLearning platform Talent LMS allows you to complete your coach training through a flexible program of blended learning.
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Your course tutors are trained Coaching Psychologists and Organisational Psychologists
with 25+ years experience.
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On graduation you will have access to hundreds of assessments online on NovoPsych and GeneSys with which to coach your clients.
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You will also have access to test catalogues from world leading publishers Pearson, PAR and
many others.
UNIQUE BENEFITS OF OUR TRAINING
On completion of the course, we confer you with your graduation certificate for The Accredited Advanced Diploma in Coach Training (AADCT) from the Association for Coaching, and with course completion certificates for the Certificate of Competence in Occupational Testing (TUOAP) and the Certificate of Competence in Forensic Testing (CCFT) from the British Psychological Society (BPS).
As BPS Assessors, we register you as having met the requirements for TUOAP and CCFT with
the BPS, who will be in touch with you to complete their Certification process.
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GRADUATION & CERTIFICATION
COURSE DATES
September 2026
to March 2027
Modules 1-4
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September 18th & 19th
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October 16th & 17th
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November 20th & 21st
Module 5
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December 11th & 12th
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January 15th & 16th
Module 6
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February 12th & 13th
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March 12th
Practitioner Module
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March 13th
Course Fees not inclusive of registration fees for BPS or Association for Coaching
COURSE DATES 2026-27
ADVANCED DIPLOMA
IN COACH
TRAINING *
Diploma and Advanced Diploma - Accreditation of Prior Learning Discount
Psychometrix BPS RQTU-registered TUOAP and CCFT less €50% of paid course fee
BPS CERTIFICATION
IN OCCUPATIONAL
and FORENSIC ASSESSMENT
Psychometrix has been providing consulting and training in selection, development and coaching since the year 2000 (see Client List and Testimonials). Over the past 25 years, as Assessors for the British Psychological Society (BPS), we have trained over 2,500 professionals in Occupational, Educational and Forensic Assessment from a wide range of disciplines, including human resources, coaching, education, psychology, psychotherapy and counseling. Our unique Personal and Executive Coaching courses - Certificate, Diploma and Advanced Diploma - are fully accredited by the Association for Coaching, providing the accreditation, skills and expertise needed to become a professional coach, also uniquely incorporating training in Occupational and Forensic testing accredited by the BPS.
Course Directors
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Terry Connors, Ph.D., C.Psychol. is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, Coaching Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society with over 30 years experience in business, education and private practice. He is a Member of the BPS Division of Academics, Researchers and Teachers in Psychology, and Associate Member at the Faculty of Leadership and Management. As Director of Education and BPS Assessor for Occupational and Educational testing, he directs and lectures on the company's programs in Occupational, Educational and Forensic psychology. His professional interests are in coaching psychology, personality psychology, neurodiversity, psychological assessment, and psychological health and wellbeing.
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John Lalor, IACP, C. Psychol. is a Chartered Psychologist and Registered Psychotherapist with the Irish Institute of Counseling and Psychotherapy. Trained in clinical psychology, organisational psychology and psychotherapy, John has over 20 years experience in educational and forensic assessment as well as in the corporate sector in the design & delivery of workplace wellbeing, resilience, and mental health awareness programs. As BPS Assessor for Forensic Testing, he currently directs and lectures on the company's programs in forensic and clinical assessment. His professional interests are in coaching psychology, neurodiversity, psychopathology, personality disorders, psychological assessment and psychological health and wellbeing.
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