Our students love our approach to learning
The best way to understand the impact of our work together is to hear it from the people who have been in your shoes. Read through the experiences of our past and current clients below.
OLIVIA ROTH
"The ILM L7 Certificate allows me to intentionally build leadership capacity in others. As I travel extensively, the program's flexibility is vital, allowing me to learn from anywhere. Andy and Jo are wonderful mentors, and I highly recommend this wholly positive experience."
LORRAINE PEGDEN
"This qualification is accessible to a broad range of professionals. It enables me to support senior leaders in transforming their presence and achieving strategic goals. Being highly portable, it appeals to anyone passionate about enhancing organisational culture and collective growth."
VANESSA REID
"I was attracted to this credible qualification because it combines educational leadership with coaching. The structure is clear and engaging with excellent support from Jo and Andy. I feel challenged yet supported by their attentive teaching style."
ALEX KILPATRICK
"Embedding coaching principles empowers staff and enhances student outcomes. This programme deepens my understanding of advanced techniques, helping me build capacity across my team. It creates a sustainable framework for professional learning that benefits our entire school community."
JOANNA POVALL
"As the principal of a busy international school in the UAE, the programme has been an ideal fit. Delivered entirely online, it offers the flexibility I need. What has truly elevated the experience is the community of international leaders I have connected with along the way. This has been one of the most positive professional steps I have taken recently, and without doubt, some of the best training I have experienced in years."
KATHRYN KEESHAN
"This course equips leaders with skills to strengthen performance, enhance wellbeing, and build a solution-focused culture. It aligns with a commitment to innovation and excellence, helping create high-impact learning communities. It is particularly beneficial for those in fast-paced environments."
SHANE LEANING
“I don't recommend anything I don't believe in, and I'm genuinely excited to be strengthening my coaching practice this year with the ICCE. Their ILM Level 7 Certificate in Executive Coaching is built specifically for senior leaders in international schools. It's fully online, really practical, and honestly? Learning alongside other school leaders who get the context we work in has been brilliant.”
JOANNE KNIGHT
“I’m currently on this course and can honestly say it’s incredibly relevant - even for those of us working in leadership roles beyond a school environment. The focus on coaching has really strengthened how I approach leadership, communication, and professional growth. It’s helping me refine the skills I use to support colleagues, foster reflective practice, and develop leadership capacity across wider education settings. I wish I had done a coaching course much sooner in my career! ”
JULIA KNIGHT
"This has been the most transformative CPD course I have ever undertaken. The extensive reading list, the accessible lectures and the personable approach by the team has made it a rewarding and thoroughly enjoyable experience. If you are a school leader looking for impactful, insightful and transformative professional development then definitely reach out to the fabulous Joanne Robinson and Andrew Bridge! "
PAUL JOHNSON
"Halfway through the course and thoroughly impressed. Highly structured, accessible, and supported by relevant (and enjoyable) reading. A valuable opportunity to explore the theory and approaches behind developing leadership capacity in others. Undoubtedly worth doing."
GAVIN FLECK
"As the principal of a busy international school in the UAE, the programme has been an ideal fit. Delivered entirely online, it offers the flexibility I need. What has truly elevated the experience is the community of international leaders I have connected with along the way. This has been one of the most positive professional steps I have taken recently, and without doubt, some of the best training I have experienced in years."
GEORGIE MCINTYRE
"I’m incredibly grateful to ICCE for the depth, challenge and care you bring to L7, it has shaped my thinking, my practice, and the way I show up for leaders and organisations every day."
RAZA ALI
"The ILM Level 7 Certificate in Executive Coaching with ICCE has been an extremely valuable part of my professional journey as an experienced educational leader.
The programme has strengthened my ability to support and develop other leaders through purposeful coaching conversations that encourage reflection, accountability and growth.
Equally important, it has enhanced my own leadership practice by increasing my self-awareness, improving my listening and questioning skills, and helping me adopt a more reflective and strategic approach to leadership.
The learning has had a direct impact not only on how I lead others, but also on how I lead myself, making me a more effective and thoughtful leader overall.
A huge thank you to my supervisors Andy and Jo for their continued support throughout the 12 month journey."
MARIE AL NASRAWI
"Studying the ILM Level 7 Coaching Certificate through the ICCE has been an incredibly worthwhile professional experience and has had a strong impact on my growth as a school leader. The programme is exceptionally well structured, with excellent support provided throughout, making it both engaging and manageable alongside the demands of leading a busy international school. The flexible online format, combined with the opportunity to collaborate with educators and leaders from a range of international contexts, created a highly enriching learning experience.
The course has strengthened my coaching and leadership practice, equipping me with practical strategies to support staff development, enhance wellbeing, and build a more reflective and solution-focused school culture."
The course has strengthened my coaching and leadership practice, equipping me with practical strategies to support staff development, enhance wellbeing, and build a more reflective and solution-focused school culture."
TODD THORNBACK
"Great to see recognition of the great stuff ICCE - International Centre for Coaching in Education are doing. Their courses are making such an impact on individuals, leaders, and schools involved. I couldn’t recommend more highly."
DANIELLE PHILLIPS
"The ILM Level 7 Certificate in Executive Coaching with ICCE has provided me with a structured and rigorous framework to develop leadership skills in both myself and my colleagues. What I have found particularly valuable is the way the programme bridges coaching models with real leadership challenges, enabling me to apply theoretical approaches and structured feedback frameworks directly to situations involving performance management, team development, and whole-school improvement. This has strengthened my ability to support colleagues in navigating difficult conversations and situations while maintaining a balance of empathy and accountability, and has enhanced my capacity to contribute to a coaching culture across the school. The flexibility of the programme, combined with the shared experience of working alongside other international school leaders, has made it both accessible and highly relevant to my professional context.
Overall, the course has not only deepened my understanding of coaching theory but has also reshaped my approach to leadership practice. It has reinforced my belief that effective coaching is not an isolated intervention but a strategic tool for developing reflective practitioners and strengthening organisational culture. I am now more confident in using coaching to support colleagues in leading with clarity, emotional intelligence, and purpose, and to contribute more intentionally to whole-school improvement and leadership development."
EMILY HOPKINSON
"The ILM Level 7 Coaching Certificate with the ICCE is some of the best professional learning I have had. Many courses give you a theoretical grounding, or practical strategies, but this course has combined the best bits of both. At the start, it can all feel overwhelming but very quickly you start to draw connections between all the different parts of the course and you get to practically apply the theory that you have learnt. I feel that I have developed my coaching knowledge and skills far beyond what I had expected to at the start of the course. Furthermore, the structure and design of the course means that I can learn flexibly, balancing this learning alongside my busy day job.
The support from Andy and Jo is superb, nothing is too much trouble, and the response time is always impressive. I have been coaching for years, however, I feel that as a direct result of this course, I have the knowledge and experience to have much more impact on those I coach."
The support from Andy and Jo is superb, nothing is too much trouble, and the response time is always impressive. I have been coaching for years, however, I feel that as a direct result of this course, I have the knowledge and experience to have much more impact on those I coach."
ROB HENRY
"In my role as Deputy Director at the International School of Monaco, I've been looking for meaningful ways to develop a collaborative coaching network that strengthens teaching, learning and leadership across the school. We have been incredibly fortunate in opting for the ILM Level 7 Certificate in Executive Coaching delivered by ICCE to support this with me and two other senior leaders enrolled.
The programme has offered exactly the kind of professional development we were hoping for: flexible, rigorous, highly professional and deeply relevant to the realities of leading in an international school context. What makes the experience particularly powerful is the sense of community that Jo, Andy and the ICCE team create. This moves the programme beyond being just another course; it becomes a meaningful and sustained act of professional growth that is already helping us build capacity and embed a stronger coaching culture within our school. As a result, we have a further three staff now enrolled on the Level 5 cohort which I am confident will be just as impactful."
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