Our pricing is lower than the average cost for professional coaching certification.  When you set up a phone interview we will discuss your investment costs.  

Yes. Please inquire. We also have partnered with Astera Credit Union, Lansing Michigan, who will offer a 10-year educational loan at competitive rates for qualified individuals. This program is for Michigan residents only. We also encourage participants to seek funding from their own financial institutions in their state.

The unique thing about our training process is that it works!  Our graduates know how to coach. Whether it’s on-site or online, our instructional designers know how to design learning experiences so that students actually learn something.  We’ve had the opportunity to observe several “professional” training programs that are currently being offered in the world of coaching. One of the things that we consistently find is that the majority of training programs have been developed by people who are good coaches but don’t know how to design effective learning experiences that train people to coach. There’s a big difference between being a good coach and knowing how to effectively design learning experiences in which people actually “learn something.” Most “trainings” are presentations of large amounts of information with no process to put all the pieces together. So, the unique thing about ECNI training programs is that we have professional instructional designers and facilitators who know how adults learn and how to deliver effective training.

We will be using Simplero, one of the best available platforms for online delivery. In addition, we’ll be using ZOOM to give you the best online experience possible.

Yes. Whether you charge them, and how much you charge them is up to each student. Some professional training organizations require students to have “paying clients.” We haven’t required our students to get paying clients, but we will expect every student to find at least 5 different people to coach.  Many of our coaches are charging $50/hr. before they graduate.  

Throughout the training we will help to equip students with the basics of starting a coaching practice. All of the instructors and coaches at ECNI currently have their own private coaching practices, including their own websites, products and niche coaching services. We’ll equip you with the basics to build and sustain a successful practice, but we encourage all of our coaches to invest in professional marketing and web development services in order to flourish.

According to MarketResearch.com: 

• Number of coaches: It is estimated by The International Coach Federation that there are currently 53,300 coaches, up from 47,500 part-time and full-time coaches worldwide in 2011. About 92% of these are active. Of these, 33% operate in the United States — a total of 17,500 coaches. One would think that the U.S. market is saturated, but demand appears to still be growing.
• Market size and growth: The U.S. estimated market value for personal coaching was $955 million in 2015 and $1.02 billion in 2016, compared to $707 million in 2011. We expect this market’s value to reach $1.34 billion by 2022 — or a 6.7% average yearly growth rate from 2016 to 2022.

• Average coaching income: The ICF (the industry’s trade group) estimates that coaches have an average annual income ranging from $27,100 to $73,100. Some specialty coaches can make much more, over $100,000.

• Please be advised that being a good coach, and running a profitable coaching business are two different things.  Individual coaches need to invest in learning how to run a profitable business while they’re learning how to coach. We encourage all our graduates to seek out further training or courses for entrepreneurs or new business owners.