Graduates from these organisations have trained through The Transformational Coach.
You've built a successful career
— but something feels missing.
Maybe you've been thinking about coaching for a while, circling it, wondering if now is the right time. Maybe you want to help people in a more meaningful way but aren't sure where to start. Maybe you're ready for a change, but the idea of starting something new feels both exciting and a little terrifying.
If any of this sounds familiar, you're in the right place.
You might be thinking:
"I've achieved a lot — but is this it?"
"I want to help others, but I don't know how to start."
"I'm curious about coaching but worried I'm not ready."
"I want something that goes deeper than most training programmes."
"I'm looking for community, not just a qualification."
If you recognise yourself here — even in just one of those thoughts
We'd love to welcome you into this journey.
You don't need to have it all figured out.
You just need the desire to help others.
We'll teach you the rest.
There are a lot of coaching courses out there.
So we want to be honest with you about what makes this one different, because it matters.
Head and Heart,
working together
Most coach training programmes give you one or the other. Either they're heavily academic and competency-focused, or they lean into the spiritual and leave you wondering where the rigour is.
The Transformational Coach gives you both. We blend contemporary neuroscience and the AC Coaching Competency Framework with mindfulness, deep self-enquiry, and intuition. The science grounds you. The depth transforms you.
The Sacred
Container
From the moment you join us, you step into what we call a Sacred Container. A safe, supported space where real transformation can happen. This isn't a transactional learning experience. It's deeply human. You'll be held, challenged, celebrated, and never left to figure it out alone.
Our students consistently tell us that the environment itself, the warmth, the safety, the quality of connection, is unlike anything they've experienced in training before..
A Dedicated Mentor
and Your People
From week one to graduation, you'll be assigned a dedicated mentor, an experienced, qualified coach who knows your journey and supports your development throughout the full 20 weeks.
Every two weeks, you'll come together with your mentor and a small peer group of four or five fellow coaches-in-training. You'll learn together, practise together, and grow together. It's one of the things our graduates talk about most: the depth of connection formed in these small groups, and the friendships that last long beyond graduation.
A Community that doesn't end at graduation
When you complete The Transformational Coach, you don't just receive a qualification. You join a growing global community of heart-led coaches who support, inspire, and learn from each other long after the course ends. Those small peer groups don't disappear when the course finishes.
For many of our graduates, they become some of the most meaningful relationships in their lives. Our community includes graduates from every cohort since 2017, and it continues to grow. You'll never coach alone.
A Philosophy
for Life
What you learn here isn't just for your coaching sessions. The tools, the frameworks, the self-awareness, they change how you show up everywhere. In your relationships. In your leadership.
In how you parent, listen, and love. Graduate after graduate tells us the same thing: they came for a qualification and left as a changed human being.
By the time you graduate, you'll have more than a coaching qualification.
— You'll have a new relationship with yourself and the people around you.
- AC Accredited Qualification - A recognised professional coaching certification from an AC accredited programme. This is a credential that opens doors — in your own practice, in leadership, and across the organisations that take coaching seriously.
- 30 Hours of Real Coaching Practice - Not role play. Real conversations with real people, supported and guided throughout. By the time you graduate, you'll have coached with confidence across peer partnerships and case study clients, and you'll know what it feels like to create genuine change in someone's life.
- A Neuroscience-Informed Toolkit - A rich set of tools, frameworks, and approaches grounded in brain-based coaching and mindfulness practice. These aren't just for your clients. They'll change the way you think, communicate, and make decisions in every area of your life.
- Deep Self-Awareness - Increased confidence, clarity on your values, and a coaching presence that is authentically yours. You'll understand yourself more fully, and that understanding will make you a better coach, leader, parent, and friend.
- A Coaching Identity You Can Stand Behind - You'll graduate knowing who you are as a coach. Your style, your values, your presence. Not a copy of someone else's approach, but something that is genuinely and completely your own.
The Transformational Coach is a blended learning programme, combining live online sessions, one-to-one and small group mentoring, peer coaching, and self-directed study. Everything is designed to build your confidence gradually, so that by the time you graduate, coaching feels completely natural.
Module 1
The Coaching Practitioner
Establishing a firm foundation
We start by deconstructing what great coaching actually looks like. You'll learn the ACORN Coaching Framework, develop your core skills, and begin to understand the AC Competency Framework that underpins everything we do. By the end of Module 1, you'll have the foundations in place and your first real coaching conversations under your belt.
Module 2
Deepening Your Coaching Capability
Presence and Awareness
This is where things go deeper. We explore the neuroscience of coaching, develop your self-awareness, and help you find your own coaching presence. Module 2 is where many of our students experience their most profound personal shifts — not just as coaches, but as human beings.
Module 3
Building Your Coaching Capacity
Continuous Development
The final module is about completing with confidence and stepping forward with clarity. You'll finish your case study coaching, complete your Coach Portfolio, and graduate ready to coach professionally. We also explore how to build a successful coaching practice and how to consciously create clients.
Your weekly rhythm
Weekly online units released through your virtual learning environment, with live group Zoom calls every Monday evening. Training calls run 7-9pm UK time, alternating fortnightly with small group mentor calls from 8-9pm. All call replays available, so life doesn't have to stop for you to keep pace.
We could tell you this programme is life-changing.
You won't be learning from a faceless organisation.
You'll be learning from people who coach, who practise what they preach, and who genuinely care about your growth.
Alister Gray
Founder & Lead Trainer
Alister is a founder, executive coach, meditation guide, and teacher who has trained 600+ coaches across 20+ countries and partnered with global brands including Google, Nike, and KPMG. His work blends neuroscience, human behaviour, and deep self-enquiry to help leaders rediscover purpose and confidence. Featured in Forbes, GQ, and Business Insider.
Ilaria Nardini-Gray
Head of Student Experience & Mentoring
Ilaria is an AC-accredited coach with a holistic, intuitive approach that blends coaching, mindfulness, and spiritual awareness. Since joining Mindful Talent in 2019, she has led the student experience and mentoring programmes, ensuring every coach-in-training feels held, supported, and seen throughout their journey. She is the heartbeat of our community.
Raymy Boyle
Lead Trainer
Raymy is a leadership and mindfulness coach with over 30 years of experience, a Postgraduate Diploma in Mindfulness, and ILM accreditation in coach supervision. His coaching is grounded in the belief that, with the right conditions, every person has the capacity to fulfil their own potential. He brings that conviction to every cohort.
Ian Dunnett
Lead Mentor
Ian is an accredited executive coach, mediator, and coach trainer with over 42 years of experience across the Scottish Government, NHS, and Third Sector. Specialising in Functional Fluency and behavioural coaching, he helps leaders who feel stuck find fresh ways forward. Ian brings extraordinary depth, warmth, and wisdom to his role as mentor.
Michele Armstrong
Advisor
Michele has over 25 years of coaching methodology development, a deep grounding in neuroscience and mindfulness, and a lifelong belief in the untapped potential within every human being. She set up her first coach training business in 2003 and co-founded Mindful Talent in 2016. Her vision and methodology are woven into everything we teach.
We want to be honest with you about what these 20 weeks will actually feel like.
Because this isn't just a course. It's an experience. And like all meaningful experiences, it will take you somewhere you didn't entirely expect.
Many of our students come to us having not been in a formal learning environment since university or school. Some arrive excited but quietly nervous. Others feel a little overwhelmed in the early weeks, wondering if they're keeping up, taking it all in, doing it right.
That's completely normal. And it's completely okay.
From the very first session, we meet you where you are. Our role isn't just to teach you how to coach — it's to hold you through the process of becoming a coach. With guidance, reassurance, and over 25 years of experience doing exactly this, we know how to support you through every stage of the journey.
Our one ask? Trust the process.
It's our mantra, and our graduates will tell you it's the best advice they ever took.
Module 1
The Coaching Practitioner
(Weeks 1—6)
Expect a mixture of excitement, apprehension, and moments of self-doubt. You'll be learning new skills, having your first real coaching conversations, and stepping outside your comfort zone in ways that may feel unfamiliar. This is intentional. Just as you will one day challenge your clients to grow, we will gently challenge you to do the same.
The foundations being laid in these weeks are deeper than they might first appear.
Module 2
Deepening Your Coaching Capability
(Weeks 7—12)
This is where the journey goes inward. Module 2 is the part of the process where students most commonly experience profound insights and realisations — about themselves, their relationships, and the way they show up in the world. Coaching presence deepens. Self-awareness grows.
Many of our graduates describe this as the point where everything shifted. Not just their coaching, but their lives.
Module 3
Building Your Coaching Capacity
(Weeks 13—20)
By the time you reach Module 3, something has changed. We watch it happen in every cohort. The nervousness of week one has given way to confidence. The overwhelm has given way to clarity. What emerges in these final weeks are coaches who are assured, grounded, and uniquely themselves — full of ambition and aspiration to bring coaching into every corner of their lives.
Graduation isn't an ending. It's a beginning.
Everything you need to become a confident, qualified, professional coach.
— Nothing left out.
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10 Live Group Zoom Training Calls
Two hours each, every other Monday evening from 7-9pm UK time. These are the heartbeat of the programme — where learning comes alive, questions get answered, and your cohort comes together as a community. -
Fortnightly Small Group Mentor Sessions
Every other Monday from 8-9pm, you'll come together with your dedicated mentor and your small peer group of four or five fellow coaches-in-training. These sessions are where your learning deepens, your confidence builds, and some of your most important connections are formed. -
30 Hours of Real Coaching Practice
Peer coaching partnerships and case study clients give you genuine, supervised coaching experience from as early as week three. Not role play. Real conversations, real transformation. -
3 Assignments and a Recorded Coaching Assessment
A continuous assessment process designed to consolidate your learning and evidence your growth as a coach. Your mentor is with you every step of the way to support your submissions. -
3 x 1:1 Mentoring Calls
One personal 1:1 mentoring call per module, giving you a dedicated space to check in with your mentor, work through any challenges, and receive individual guidance at every stage of your journey.
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Coach Supervision
In Module 3, you'll participate in a dedicated three-hour Coach Supervision session, supporting your transition from coach-in-training to professional practice. A powerful and often deeply moving experience that marks how far you've come. -
A Rich Resource Library
Three module manuals, coaching materials, learning exercises, planning and feedback sheets, recommended reading, and a Coaching Competency Self-Assessment tool. Everything you need, when you need it. -
Access to the Mindful Talent Community
From the moment you enrol, you become part of a private community of current and alumni coaches. A place to share, to learn, to be supported, and to belong — long after graduation. -
Call Replays
Life happens. All training call replays are available so you never fall behind, even when the unexpected gets in the way.
"I have handed in my notice at work and am graduating leaving my self-doubt behind and confident in my abilities to step into my light and work self-employed as a Life Coach."
— Lucy S, April 2019 Graduate
"This course goes beyond just teaching you to become a unique skilled coach. It transforms you from the inside out. The qualification will launch your career into coaching from the best place possible — but the person you become will attract the clients and audience you desire."
— Mustahzar Gill, September 2020 Graduate
"The course has developed my confidence and ability as a coach, and has enabled me to understand others better, to lead teams in a more mutually beneficial way and to provide life-long tools to assist with the above."
— Stefanie Paterson, HR Manager, June 2017
"It has fundamentally changed the way I approach people, not just in my leadership role but across all my relationships for the better."
— Kristen Smith, September 2020 Graduate
"I did not sign up to change careers or to become a professional coach. I signed up to change my relationship with my family, my friends, and my colleagues. I got all of that and a lot more."
— David Lane, January 2023 Graduate
"I initially chose to do this course to gain motivation in what I do but I've got much more from it. I've discovered the power of coaching, a version of myself that I love, and the difference I can make."
— Fred Burns, Transformational Coach Graduate
"Although I heard great things about the course, it still exceeded my expectations. The practical coaching was not role play — it was very real and through this I was able to discover how powerful coaching can be, far more powerful than I had ever imagined."
— Liz Hoskins, September 2018 Graduate
"I have never experienced anything like this. My every expectation was beyond exceeded. I cannot put into words the fire of passion that this has ignited in every single one of us."
— Christiana Syrris, Transformational Coach Graduate
"This course is completely life changing. Alister and Michele are extremely knowledgeable and very patient. They really allow you the room to learn and develop at your own rate."
— Alis, Yoga and Mindfulness Instructor, October 2017
The Investment
This is more than a course fee. It's an investment in yourself, in your future, and in the people whose lives you'll go on to change.
£3,495 inc. VAT
Choose the payment option that works for you:
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"This course is world class. The depth of knowledge, the layers of support, the tools for life and self-enquiry — worth every penny."
— David Millar, January 2023 Graduate
Still deciding? Book a free Discovery Call and let's talk it through together.
Our next cohort begins Monday 20th April 2026. Graduating Monday 31st August 2026.
We run a limited number of cohorts each year, and places are finite. Each cohort is intentionally kept to a size that allows every student to feel known, supported, and genuinely held throughout the journey.
If you feel called to join us this April, we'd love to hear from you.
Course Dates
Start date: Monday 20th April 2026
Graduation: Monday 31st August 2026
Live calls: Every Monday evening, 7-9pm UK time
