The Level 3 Executive Coach Certification

Most leaders were never taught how to lead people. That’s the gap you’re trained to close.

A 32-week live cohort for certified Mars Venus coaches ready to work with corporate executives — and take the final step toward Master Coach.

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The leadership maturity model
Leadership maturity is not defined by title.

It is revealed by how a leader thinks, responds, decides, communicates, and leads. Leadership develops through increasing levels of awareness, responsibility, strategic thinking, transformational influence, and integration.

The progression is not always linear. A leader may operate differently depending on the situation, responsibility, or pressure. The Mars Venus Executive Coach learns to recognize where a leader is operating, what may be limiting their effectiveness, and what leadership capacity needs to develop next.

STAGE 1

Reactive

Responding to what is happening

Driven by the immediate situation. Under pressure, the leader defends and rushes, solving what’s in front of them rather than the pattern behind it.
Development focus

From automatic reaction to intentional response.

STAGE 2

Responsible

Taking ownership

The leader owns their role in outcomes, not just the circumstances. Accountability rises and issues get addressed directly — though often only the immediate one.
Development focus

From owning the problem to understanding what creates it.

STAGE 3

Strategic

Seeing beyond the immediate

The leader thinks in patterns, systems, and priorities. Decisions turn deliberate, weighed for how today’s choices shape future people and outcomes.
Development focus

From solving effectively to leading strategically.

STAGE 4

Transformational

Expanding leadership impact

Instead of solving everything alone, the leader builds the capacity of people and teams — creating the conditions for others to think, own, and grow.
Development focus

From personal effectiveness to collective capacity.

STAGE 5

Integrative

Leading complexity without losing people

The leader holds competing demands at once — performance and people, strategy and trust. Gender intelligence adds the flexibility to read differences and lead each person accordingly.
Development focus

Integrating performance, people, and human difference into wiser leadership.

You cannot move a leader from Reactive to Strategic in one conversation. Mars Venus Executive Coaches are trained to meet a leader exactly where they are — and grow with them, stage by stage, until they reach Integrative.

The Executive Perspective

Learn to see what others miss in leadership.

Leadership challenges rarely appear as clear developmental stages. They show up as communication breakdowns, stalled decisions, performance gaps, team tension, resistance, or leaders who have reached the limits of their current approach.

The executive coach’s skill is seeing what sits beneath the visible challenge — and identifying what needs to develop next.

The Mars Venus Executive Coaching Certification develops coaches who can look beyond the immediate problem and understand the leadership patterns, behaviors, relationships, and capacity underneath it.

You are not simply learning how to coach an executive through a problem. You are learning how to develop the leader who is facing it.

Your future clients
Corporate executives who have earned their seat — and are quietly aware something is missing.

Your clients have been with their organization for years. They are loyal, high-performing, and well compensated. Many were promoted because they excelled at their job, not because anyone taught them how to lead people. They carry limiting beliefs about leadership they have never had the chance to examine.

They value safety and predictability over disruption. What they want is a structured, credible process that helps them lead with more clarity and build stronger teams.

And in nearly every case, they are not paying for this themselves. Their organization is. A more capable leader makes the entire organization more productive — which is why executive coaching is one of the few engagements where the company funds the investment.

The program

Built for real life.

32 weeks that fit around your existing commitments.

DURATION

32 Weeks

FORMAT

Live Cohort

COHORT SIZE

Max 10

WEEKLY COMMITMENT

4 to 5 Hours

Level 3 requires Level 1 and Level 2. Executive coaching builds directly on the relationship foundation from Level 1 and the business acumen from Level 2 — applied to the highest level of organizational leadership.

Each week: one live Zoom session with your cohort, two to five hours of self-study on the learning platform, and up to one hour of practical homework.

Introduction
Orientation

2 weeks

The world of corporate leadership.
Two weeks orienting you to the executive arena — what corporate leaders actually face, and what separates an executive coach from a business coach. Already certified at Levels 1 and 2, you start at the level the work demands.

Phase 1

Build the Leader

12 weeks

First, the leader themselves.
The Executive Basics — mindset, organizational dynamics, mission and vision, strategic planning, communication, KPIs, and culture and ethics. Each comes with its own Mastery Tool, so you know exactly where to look, and what to do, when a leader is strong in one area and stuck in another.

Phase 2

Build the Team

10 weeks

Then, the team around them.
How a leader who has done the inner work builds a team that performs — productivity, accountability, high-performing teams, change management, and work-life harmony. The structures that turn one capable leader into a capable organization.

Phase 3

Executive Coaching

4 weeks

From methodology to the coaching chair.
One-on-one executive coaching technique — how to run the engagement itself with a corporate leader, applying everything from the first two phases in real client situations.

Phase 4

Business Model

4 weeks

Then you go and win the work.
The executive sales conversation and the workshop model adapted for corporate audiences, plus how HR and training budgets open the first door. You finish ready to land and run executive engagements.
Client acquisition at the executive level
This is not a cold-traffic business.

The most reliable entry point is HR. In many organizations, training and development budgets exist by policy or by regulation — the budget is there, and it has to be spent on something. A short workshop pitched to an HR director or a training department is often the first door that opens. We teach you exactly what to say to start that conversation.

From there, networking takes over. Executives talk to each other. When one leader sees real change in how their team communicates and performs, they tell the person sitting next to them in the next leadership meeting. By the time you reach Level 3, you also already have a base of clients from Level 1 and Level 2 — a natural starting point for referrals into the executive space.

LinkedIn supports this in a way it rarely does at Level 1 or Level 2 — not for paid advertising, but as a professional presence that backs up the conversations already happening offline.

HR & Training Budgets Referral Networking Existing Client Base LinkedIn Presence

What we equip you with
A tool for exactly where the leader is stuck.

You do not run the full curriculum on every client. You diagnose, then you intervene. Each of the six Executive Basics areas comes with its own Mastery Tool. If a leader has a strong vision and a strong team, but communication is breaking down between departments, you go straight to the communication tool — not back to the beginning. That precision is what separates a Mars Venus Executive Coach from a generalist leadership consultant.
They value safety and predictability over disruption. What they want is a structured, credible process that helps them lead with more clarity and build stronger teams.

And in nearly every case, they are not paying for this themselves. Their organization is. A more capable leader makes the entire organization more productive — which is why executive coaching is one of the few engagements where the company funds the investment.

Mindset

Builds the self-protective-to-integrative shift that underlies every other leadership skill.

Organizational Dynamics

Maps how a leader’s mindset translates into the way the organization actually functions.

Mission, Vision & Strategy

Builds the long-term direction a leader needs before they can communicate it to anyone else.

Communication

Gender intelligent communication mastery — how the message lands differently and why that matters.

KPIs & Measuring

Proves whether the strategy and the communication are actually working.

Culture & Ethics

Keeps everything running smoothly once the structure, the vision, and the measurement are in place.

Workshop Library

The current workshop library — including Gender Intelligent Leadership and a workplace-specific adaptation of the Mars Venus communication framework — has been selected for its proven effectiveness in corporate environments. The curriculum is continuously evolving, bringing the newest developments in executive coaching directly into your toolkit.

The investment
One decision. The highest tier of coaching you can offer.

Your investment

USD $14,500

The full Mars Venus Coach journey — Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 — for anyone starting from the beginning.

Saving
$4,700
Compared to enrolling in each level individually at $6,400 each.

Are you already certified at Level 1 and Level 2? Level 3 is available as a standalone at $6,400 — the last step to Master Coach.

The return

Executive coaching engagements typically run $1,500 to $3,000 per month, funded by the client’s organization rather than the individual. One retained executive client at $2,000 per month covers your full three-level investment within approximately 8 months.

Because the company is funding the engagement and the outcome is tied to measurable leadership performance, executive coaching relationships tend to be long-term — many run for a year or more.

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The final credential

One requirement away from Master Coach.

Master Coach is the highest credential in the Mars Venus community. It requires all three certifications — Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 — and a minimum of one client in each coaching area: life and relationship, business, and executive. There is no shortcut and no exception.

The award is presented in person at the annual Mars Venus conference, by the leadership team, in front of the global community of certified coaches. It is not a line added to a certificate. It is a recognition earned by very few.

Level 3 is the certification that completes the requirement. Everything you have built across Level 1 and Level 2 comes together here.

The next steps

This is the final step. Here is what it looks like.
① Book your clarity call
A 45-minute conversation with our enrollment team. No pressure, no pitch. You ask your questions, we answer them honestly, and we both decide if this is the right fit.
A short form that helps us understand your background and makes sure we are a good fit for each other.
We go through your application on a follow-up call. If it is a yes on both sides, you are in.
No pre-training, no waiting. You walk straight into week one alongside a cohort of coaches who, like you, are one certification away from Master Coach.
Ready to have the conversation? It starts with a single call.
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Is this the end or will there be a testimonial section?

Certified Mars Venus Coaches
The coaches who came before you.
Existing business coach

Khaled had been coaching in the business space for several years. The methodology was there. The system to grow his practice was not.

“The sales and marketing systems were the tools I needed to bring my coaching business to the next level.”

Khaled Ghorab
Certified Mars Venus Business Coach

Career changer

Frederikke came to Mars Venus looking for a coaching practice she could build on her own terms — one that worked around her life, not the other way around.

“All my relationships changed. I built an amazing business that not only makes me lots of money but also a lot of freedom. I can work from anywhere.”

Frederikke Strand
Certified Mars Venus Coach

Every cohort ends the same way. We hit record and ask people to say whatever is on their mind.