Become a coach for the AI Economy

Train to be a coach that business leaders need in a changing world.

Complete an accredited certificate in a proven method that turns coaching into transformational personal and business outcomes. Learn how to connect insight to action and help clients navigate change and transitions.

Human. Leadership. Business. Digital & AI

You want to make more impact and help more people

You are curious, you love to dig deeper into situations and uncover the true information. Rather than take things at face value, you explore situations and people’s reactions to them.

You are comfortable in pregnant pauses as people formulate their thoughts.

You know how to get people talking, you know when to make statements and when to ask questions, you’re a natural listener.

You’re digitally savvy and see technology as an enabler, you have helped others in the past and have considered whether you could make ‘helping’ your own career.

You know you can help people in meaningful ways and value a credible process that identified and filled the gaps in your knowledge and built your skills to make coaching your life’s work.

A woman with brown hair and a black blazer smiling and talking in a meeting with a man with a bald head, sitting at a wooden table with laptops and coffee cups, in a bright room with brick walls and large windows.

We are entering a different kind of economy

25eight research demonstrates the positive impact coaching has on capability building. And for leaders to navigate this future, coaching becomes critical.

But, not coaching as it’s traditionally delivered

Most coaching doesn’t go far enough. It often focuses on mindset, reflection and goal setting. All valuable, but not always enough to help a business leader through a growth transition in changing economies.

What’s needed now is different.

Coaches need to work across:

  • Human capability

  • Leadership capability

  • Business capability

  • Digital & AI capability

  • Adaptive skills, like creativity, innovation and resilience

The world is changing at an accelerated pace. Everyone is navigating more complexity than ever before and this is especially true for business leaders.

Leaders are being asked to:

  • Make faster decisions

  • Navigate uncertainty

  • Integrate new technologies

  • Lead through constant changes

Most are not equipped to do so without building their own capabilities or getting external support.

Businesses don’t need more information or more tools. They need to build their abilities to think strategically, make confident decisions, apply technology in meaningful ways, adapt, innovate and lead.

They need to reduce their capability gap.

Evidence-based & impact-measured

Get fast results for your clients and build a successful business

25eight is a certified B Corp that takes its impact seriously. We provide accredited coaching training, professional development, and capability-building programs that integrate leadership, business strategy, and digital and AI adoption.

Our services include the Certificate of Human-Centred Business Coaching, ongoing coach development, and structured award-winning programs that combine diagnostics, coaching, education, and applied implementation to deliver measurable outcomes.

We train coaches to:

  • Understand the human and develop leadership skills and a growth mindset

  • Navigate the business situation and help their coachee build business strategy, growth, and decision-making

  • Leverage digital and AI capability specific for small and medium-sized businesses

  • Support real outcomes and help with change management and navigating complexity

  • Build resilience and skills for long term success, such as Innovation, problem-solving, and critical thinking

We support coaches to move beyond conversation-led coaching and into structured, outcome-focused practice. This means helping leaders not only think differently, but act with clarity and confidence.

Our focus is on building coaches who can support meaningful, sustainable growth in the businesses and communities they serve.

There is a growing need for Coaches

There is a growing need for people who can:

  • Support businesses through change

  • Help people translate complexity into clarity

  • Build capacity to connect strategy, leadership and technology

  • Help leafers move forward with confidence.

Your guidance and support helps them realise their potential. Helps them to reconnect why they started their business and what success means to them.

The people you work with want to leave something greater than themselves, a legacy, and you help them develop and execute a roadmap to doing that, but on their own terms and without them burning out. Ensuring they optimise their ways of working and achieve more with less.

The is not a short-term trend.

It’s a long-term shift in how businesses grow.

The 25eight difference

A new kind of business coach

98% of businesses in Australia are classified as small-medium

98% of businesses in Australia are classified as small to medium and in 2025 the number of small businesses has risen by 2.5% totally 2.7 million.

More people than ever before are turning away from traditional employment and are looking to entrepreneurship. A desire for independence and meaning as well as more autonomy to live on their own terms and how easy technology makes starting a business.

But our modern world requires a new kind of coach, not someone who just listens.

Some one who can:

  • Guide

  • Challenge

  • Structure

  • Enable action

  • Inspire

  • Bring clarity

The career you have been searching for

When the right training is backed by a credible brand and provides pathways and opportunities to build a successful business or become a part of one, you can create a business that provides purpose, impact and the all of the flexibility you need for you to live your best life.

This is not just a coaching course. it’s a way to develop the capability to support real business outcomes, across leadership, strategy, digital and AI adoption.

You’ll learn how to work like a 25eight coach. Then choose a pathway that’s right for you.

  1. Complete the accredited coaching certificate, gain accreditation and apply the method to your own work

  2. Choose to license the 25eight Capability Building Infrastructure to access diagnostics, frameworks, and structured program models so you can deliver more consistent, outcome focused work and scale beyond 1:1 coaching

  3. Apply to become a 25eight Delivery Partner for those who would like to delivery 25eight programs in their region and gain operational support from 25eight to build a partnership business.

  4. Be invited to help delivery 25eight programs as contracted 25eight coach

A woman with long red hair smiling and standing in front of a classroom whiteboard, holding a marker, with her reflection visible on the whiteboard.

Most coaching training teaches you how to coach.

We teach you how to coach and:

  • How to build a successful coaching business in the AI Economy

  • Provide you with the tools to help you create meaningful outcomes for your clients

  • Create a business that scales

  • Provide the systems of support so you can concentrate on what you do best and we can do the rest.

Start with certification

Submit an EOI to find out more about the Certificate in Human-Centred Business Coaching.

25eight is an accredited training provider with Association for Coaching. All students receive complementary Associate Membership to the Association on completion of their course.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us with your enquiry.

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