Become a certified
CAREER COACH
by Classy Career Girl®
Launch your career coaching business without quitting your job first.
Get the certification, proven coaching programs, real practice clients, sales scripts and personal feedback you need to start coaching — in just 5 to 10 hours a week.
Everything unlocks the day you enroll. Graduate in as little as 90 days, or take the full year. You pick.
Most certifications teach you how to coach. We help you launch the business, too.
You do not have to figure out your niche, your offer, your pricing, your sales calls, your coaching frameworks or your client materials on your own. That is where most new coaches stall.
Here you get the proven coaching materials and business systems already built for you. You practice with real clients we provide, you get personal feedback on your coaching, and you learn how to enroll paying clients while you complete your certification. You are not starting from scratch. You are starting with a system.
How certification works
Four steps to a paid coaching business
Every module unlocks the day you join. Start where you are and work at your own pace.
Step 1
Nail your niche
You do not have to be all things to all people. Use our formula to find your sweet spot and confidently own your lane.
Step 2
Master enrollment
Sales is where most new coaches lose clients. Follow our plug and play scripts to enroll clients without ever feeling salesy.
Step 3
Coach real clients
Practice with people who genuinely want coaching, not friends and family, and get video feedback from Anna on your sessions.
Step 4
Graduate and get listed
Earn your badge, join our public coach directory, and keep going with a full year of live group coaching behind you.
You can start coaching in your first week. You do not have to wait until you graduate to get paid. Graduate in 90 days if you want to move fast, or take the full year and go at your own pace. You pick.
Meet your coach
Hi! I'm Anna.
Since 2012, I've helped thousands of women launch their dream careers and businesses.
As the founder of Classy Career Girl®, one of Forbes' Most Influential Career Websites, and the Classy Career Girl® Career Coach Certification Program, I've been helping professional women go from stressed out, struggling to find clients, and lacking steady income to fulfilling second careers, attracting clients and finally having the freedom to quit their day jobs and make a lasting impact.
I launched my own business in 2014 with a newborn on my hip, so I know what it takes to build something that fits around your family.
I built this certification to be the program I wish I had: not just how to coach, but how to get paid for it. Our graduates are listed in our public coach directory and are out there changing lives every day.
Inside certification
What you get
The full curriculum, unlocked on day one
Five modules plus orientation, all on demand. Start at the beginning, or go straight to the module on getting your first clients.
A year of live group coaching and Q&A with Anna
Bring your niche, your offer, your pricing, your sales call. Every call is recorded, so you never miss one.
Real practice clients, not role play with classmates
We provide people who genuinely want coaching, plus our market research data, so you meet your coaching hours without surveying your friends and family.
Personalized video feedback from Anna
Submit your recorded sessions and get specific feedback on what worked and what to change, before you charge for it.
Done for you scripts, templates and success paths
Sales scripts, coaching frameworks, the 90 day client program, onboarding emails and the systems playbook. Nothing built from scratch.
Your certification badge and a directory listing
Graduate as a Classy Career Girl® Certified Career Coach, with a badge for your site and a profile in our public directory that clients can find and book.
This is a certification you earn
You are not buying a badge. You coach real clients, submit recorded sessions for feedback, complete the full curriculum and pass a graduation exam one to one with Anna. That is what makes the credential mean something when a client checks you out.
Your specializations
One certification. Four ways to coach.
All four are included. You do not have to choose now — you are trained in all of them and lead with the one that fits the clients you want.
Leadership Coaching
Grow leaders
Help your clients manage and engage their teams, get promoted, and make a bigger impact in the work they do.
Productivity Coaching
The PLAN System
Help your clients turn their goals into an organized plan and make more time for what matters most, from their vision down to their daily plan.
Business Coaching
Corporate Rescue Plan
Help your clients go from employee to running something of their own, building the business one essential plan a month.
Job Search Coaching
Love Your Career Formula
Help your clients find the career they were born to do, from figuring out what they want to landing the job and thriving in it.
Leadership Coaching: The Leader Phase
Your client has a job she loves and now wants to get ahead: level up, get promoted and make a bigger impact. You help her get clear on where she wants to go next, build the plan to get there and lead with confidence along the way.
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Know which relationships at work matter most and invest in them on purpose.
Know your job priorities and have a 90-day plan to hit them.
Get early wins and have the review conversation with your boss that moves you forward.
Know what makes you a strong leader and where you want to take your team.
Delegate what others can do so you can focus on the work only you can do.
Make a real difference for the people you lead.
Work your ideal workweek and go after the salary you want.
Manage stress before it turns into burnout, take real time off with your family and feel happy as a leader.
Productivity Coaching: The PLAN System
Anna’s step by step planning system for turning goals into an organized plan. More than 50,000 women have used it, and you will be certified to coach it.
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Get clarity on your 5–10 year vision and make sure you’re headed in the right direction.
Break your vision into an annual plan with the one priority that matters most this year.
Turn your annual plan into a 90-day plan and choose what to focus on first.
Stay on track, measure progress, and pivot when something isn’t working.
Put the important things ahead of the busy things, even with a full plate.
Take small, consistent action every day, even in 15-minute pockets of time.
Job Search Coaching: Love Your Career Formula
The quickest way to find the career you were born to do, be wildly successful at it, and leave your lasting mark. Your client starts at her phase and you guide her to the next one.
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You have no idea where to start. You aren’t even sure what your passion is, and you’re frustrated with where your career is right now. You’re ready to figure out what steps to take to be happy again.
You’re motivated to change careers but confused about what type of career to start. You’re figuring out your purpose and strengths and how they fit into your ideal career.
You don’t know what career you want. You’re tired of being stuck in a job that doesn’t fit you, and you’re ready to find your ideal career fit.
You know what your ideal career is and you’re ready to find it: your resume and cover letter, applying for jobs, growing your network and practicing interview skills.
You’re getting interviews and expanding your network, and you need advanced job search strategies to take your career search to the next level.
You have a job you love and now want to get ahead: level up your career, get promoted, and make a bigger impact.
Business Coaching: Corporate Rescue Plan
Your clients always know what to work on next. Each month gives them one clear focus, a practical plan to complete, feedback, time to implement and live coaching.
Plan → Get feedback → Implement → Get coached → Repeat
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You have no idea what to do first. You have no plan, and it is hard to see your future vision. You desperately want more freedom and flexibility in your life.
You are motivated to start your own business but confused about what type of business to start. You are scared to take the first step and struggling to find the time. You are beginning to figure out your purpose and strengths and how they fit into your ideal business.
You know what business you want and you are ready to write your business plan and do your market research. You want to map out how to make your business grow quickly and successfully.
You are taking action and implementing your business plan. You have a product or service people want and you are selling it. You are still working out how to balance your time, and you are working hard. You badly need a day off.
You are getting closer to making enough income to support yourself full time. You are confident in your future and excited about the opportunities ahead and the difference you can make as a full-time entrepreneur.
You are starting to grow your team and your passive income. You are ready to scale, with even more freedom and flexibility. Your business serves others and is making a difference.
The 12-week certification experience
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- Certification Requirements Tracker to track your progress through the program
- Anna’s market research data, to use for your own copy and offers
- IP Guide, so you can use Classy Career Girl® resources and tools with your clients from day one
- FAQ library: how to set up your tech and payment processors
- The mindset of a successful career coach
- How to stick with certification on one hour a week, or 15 minutes a day
- What career coaching is, and how to become a successful career coach
- Market assessment and niche evaluation
- Done-for-you sales scripts and coaching call scripts
- Sales practice call recordings: how to sell on a discovery call without being salesy
- The Career Coach Systems Playbook
- Pricing, and handling objections
- How to get clients in 3 days and make your first $1,000
- How to listen, onboard, enroll and support your new clients
- How to provide value and impact your client on the very first call
- How to run an impactful career coaching session every single time
- Our proprietary Client Career Transformation System, techniques and tools
- How to create, structure and sell a 90-day coaching program that gets results
- Anna’s master coaching shadow session recordings
- How to narrow your specialization so clients are easy to find
- Productivity Coaching — help clients get organized and reach their goals
- Job Search Coaching — help clients find their ideal careers
- Leadership Coaching — help clients manage and engage others
- Business Coaching — help clients build a profitable business they love
- How to do practice coaching on nights and weekends
- Study guides and answer key to prepare for the exam
- Practice call feedback, plus personalized video feedback from Anna
- How to get clients for VIP days, group coaching and individual coaching
- The $100K Career Coach Marketing Plan
- How to create your unique, irresistible coaching offer
- How to build a brand that attracts high-quality clients
- The roadmap to $10K months as a career coach
- How to build a coaching business without a website, funnel or ads
- How to grow your social media on one hour a week
- How to market consistently, day by day and month by month
- Tech stack for new coaches and for advanced coaches with group programs
- Bookkeeping best practices, from our bookkeeper
- Legal best practices, from our lawyer
- Forecasting and budgeting template for career coaches
- How to hire a virtual assistant, and what to delegate first
- Career coach sales funnels: automating calls and evergreen applications
- From one offer to many: building a group program on the side of your day job
- How to build authority and leads through easy marketing activities
- Your Certified Career Coach badge
- Your listing in our public coach directory
- Promotional interviews to introduce you as a certified coach
Results
Real coaches. Real clients.
Find the woman whose starting point looks like yours.
Coming from corporate?
Jen was in corporate and wanted a coaching practice
Jen now has five clients and is fully booked. She raised her prices, launched a group coaching program, and is no longer nervous on sales calls.
Starting over?
Nicole was laid off and had no idea where to start
Nicole had eleven years of leadership experience and no idea how to begin. She is now getting PR and was recently ranked one of the top career coaches in Las Vegas.
Want to be taken seriously?
Suzannah wanted to be taken seriously as a coach
There is something powerful about being able to say I am a Certified Career Coach. Suzannah now has speaking engagements and big name clients, and sells herself with confidence to large organizations.
Worried about building it all yourself?
Candace was building everything from scratch
The systems in certification helped Candace stress less. She does not sit and brainstorm what to say, because it is all done for her, and she stands out from her competition immediately.
Want your first clients?
Mariyah started by narrowing her niche
Mariyah narrowed her niche, crafted her bio, put her offer out, and booked ten calls in just a few weeks.
Want to work from anywhere?
Caitie wanted a business that travelled with her
Caitie is booked with clients and ready to launch her group program. She works from anywhere and travels all the time, and grew her business while she was in Europe.
Lori Lawrence
Three VIP clients, all paid
“I have 3 VIP clients and started two clients in my group coaching program. All paid. And I am also offering a paid workshop thanks to Anna’s great idea. This has been an awesome experience and I am loving coaching so much!”
Brie Johnson
Women supporting women
“There is something magical when women support women. Being an entrepreneur feels a little lonely sometimes. Even beyond the individual attention Anna provides, this community has been amazing.”
Melanie Smith
From HR to entrepreneur
Erin Treacy
Building a grounded coaching business
Dr. Tina Wheat, MD
A practicing physician coaching others out of burnout
Michelle Knight
Her first client two days after launching
After 18 years as a lawyer, Michelle launched Transforming Her Work International while raising three young boys. She landed her first client two days later, and now coaches women in the built environment.
Support
You are not doing this alone
- Live Q&A and feedback calls with Anna. Every one is recorded, so missing a call never costs you anything.
- A halfway coaching call with Anna, one to one. Real coaching on what is actually stuck, while there is still time to change course.
- Private one-to-one messaging with Anna on Slack, for the questions that come up between calls.
- Real practice clients, provided. People at every stage of a career change, so you see the whole journey and not one slice of it.
- Personalized 1:1 feedback on your real coaching calls. Anna listens to your recorded sessions and then coaches you through them, so you know what to do differently next time.
- The market research done for you. No surveying friends and family, and no asking favors to reach your coaching hours.
- Your graduation exam, one to one with Anna. Coaching is built into it, so even the last step of the program moves your business forward.
- Alumni access once you graduate. You keep your place in the community, with more trainings and new material added over time.
Is this you?
This is for you if
- You want to help other women with their careers and you do not know where to start.
- You have bought courses before and you still feel stuck.
- You want a business that fits into 5 to 10 hours a week, around the job and the family you already have.
Included when you enroll
Three bonuses, yours the day you join
Value: $7,000+
Bonus 1 — Certification LIVE, our done-with-you implementation day, valued at $5,000
In one day we help you finish your coaching hours and requirements, get feedback from Anna, and graduate faster.
Bonus 2 — The AI Workshop for Certified Coaches
Live builds on screen, not slides. Anna shows you how to build a full team of AI agents so you can spend your time coaching instead of on admin, and you get the systems playbook built with AI.
Bonus 3 — TODAY ONLY: a 90-minute VIP session with Anna, valued at $2,000, to build your digital product. Join by midnight tonight to get this one. Together you will create your:
- Sales page copy and the AI build out
- Email copy and your launch schedule
- Launch plan, calendar and action items
- Pricing, positioning and your upsell path into coaching
You will leave that session done and ready to sell.
What our grads say
And the results speak for themselves
“Thanks to Certification, I can literally run the backend of my business on autopilot. My only job is to deliver the best coaching session I know I am capable of. I feel unstoppable and much more confident in my skillset.”
Carina Lawson
“My fear decreased because I know I have Anna and the community of other coaches. I am not afraid any more. I can learn from a challenge and move forward, because I can ask for help and I have the support.”
Sarah Mestiri
Enrollment
Your investment
What's included in your business launch plan
Four parts. Everything unlocks the day you enroll.
Certification & curriculum
All five modules plus orientation, the Career Coach Roadmap with fast-track access, and all four specializations: Leadership, Productivity, Business and Job Search.
$13,000 value
Business launch system
Sales scripts, the Marketing Academy, funnels and social strategy, the Launch To $10K workshop, and the Career Coach Systems AI Playbook.
$4,970 value
Practice & feedback
Real practice clients we provide, Anna's feedback on your recorded sessions, shadow coaching, and the Certification LIVE fast-track day.
$5,000 value
12 months of support
A full year of live group coaching and Q&A with Anna, private Slack access, your certification badge and your listing in the public coach directory.
$8,500 value
$1,000/month for 12 months
or
$10,000 paid in full (save $2,000)
A full year of coaching, systems and support.
Your 14-day fit guarantee
Enroll, come to the first live call, send in your branding survey and start module one. If within 14 days you do not believe this is going to work for you, email Anna and get a full refund.
There are coach certification programs at $20,000, and others at $2,000 that will not get you a single client. What you are paying for here is the launch: the materials, the practice clients and the promotion, so you finish with a business rather than a certificate.
You do not have to wait until you graduate to start coaching and getting paid. Everything you need to find clients and coach them is there from week one.
You are not buying a certificate. You are building a coaching skill set, a business model, a client acquisition system and a library of proven coaching materials you keep using long after you graduate.
Buy Now, Pay Later options are available on the pay in full price, and many employers reimburse certification. We will provide a receipt and a letter.
Everything unlocks immediately · 14-day fit guarantee · Employer reimbursement available
CLASS or certification?
CLASS is for your own career or business. Certification is for when you want to coach other women using our materials and get paid for it. Start where you are, and upgrade when you are ready.
CLASS
“I want help with my own career or business.”
$300/month
for 12 months, or $3,000 paid in full — save $600
A one-year program. Try it for 90 days.
- Full curriculum: LYCF, CRP, the PLAN Course and Magic Income Streams training
- 2 private coaching calls a month with a coach
- Monthly group coaching call with Anna, bring what you are stuck on
- One plan of the month
- Quarterly PLAN LIVE, build your next 90-day plan live with Anna
- In-person meetups and networking events
For your own growth. Not licensed to coach others using Classy Career Girl® materials.
Certification
“I want to get certified and coach other women.”
$1,000/month
for 12 months, or $10,000 paid in full
A one-year program. 14-day fit guarantee.
- Coach others using Classy Career Girl® materials
- Practice coaching with real clients
- Certified by Anna, with her personal feedback
- All four specializations included
- Certified coach community and directory listing
- Graduation bonuses: badge, podcast and social features
- AI training for an admin-free coaching business
- Alumni access at graduation
- Group coaching calls
Launch a coaching business in 5 to 10 hours a week and get paid to change lives.
Upgrade within 6 months and your CLASS payments credit toward certification
What it takes
Certification requirements
To earn your certification
Complete 10 hours of practice coaching and submit 2 recorded sessions. Watch at least 10 hours of live certification training, recordings or Q&As.
And to graduate
Complete 40 hours of independent study and submit your certificates of completion, finish the Career Coach Roadmap curriculum, modules 1 to 5, pass the graduation exam and requirements tracking sheet, and adhere to Classy Career Girl® values and mission.
Not sure you can fit it in? Everything is on demand. The training itself takes as little as 15 minutes a day. Plan on 5 to 10 hours a week overall once you add practice coaching, finding clients and building the business.
FAQs
How long does it take?
You pick. You can graduate in as little as 90 days if you want to move fast, or take the full year and extend at your own pace. Everything unlocks the day you join, so nothing is holding you back except your own schedule.
Is this ICF-accredited?
No. Classy Career Girl® Certification is an independent certification and is not affiliated with or accredited by the ICF. There is no governing accreditation body for coaching, which means we can teach what actually works to get you clients and get your clients results.
What you get instead is certification under the Classy Career Girl® brand, a badge for your site, and a listing in our public coach directory.
Our grads have spoken at Fortune 500s, been featured in Forbes, and are booked solid. You join a global network of trusted coaches.
Will my company help pay for certification?
Many do. We will provide a receipt and a letter for employer reimbursement.
It is worth asking even if you are planning to leave. Professional development budgets often cover exactly this.
Won't AI replace coaches?
It replaced the information, not the relationship. Your clients now arrive having already asked ChatGPT, and they are still stuck.
They do not need more answers. They need someone who notices what they are avoiding.
What AI did take is the admin, and your bonus workshop is about handing that over so you can focus on what you do best, which is coaching.
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