Life Coach certificate templates and badges
3 free designs. A set is one design as a badge, a landscape or a portrait certificate, or all three.
Free for up to 20 recipients a year
Balanced Wheel set
Badge · Landscape · Portrait
A life coach certificate template gives coach training schools a ready layout for the day a trainee finishes the course. Coaching academies, wellness centres, adult education colleges and coaching associations award it when a trainee has done the training hours, the observed practice sessions with real clients and the final assessment.
Life coaching is not a licensed profession in most countries, so clients look for proof of training. A good certificate says what the coach studied (active listening, powerful questioning, goal setting, accountability and ethics), how many hours and practice sessions it took, the level reached, the date and a signature from the lead trainer.
The designs come as certificates in A4 and US Letter and as digital badges. The coach can print the certificate for the wall of a coaching room and add the badge to a LinkedIn profile or a booking page, where a future client can verify it.
Wording
What to write on a life coach certificate
Use these lines as they are, or as a start for your own. Every template comes with wording you can change in the studio.
Wording for a life coaching certificate of completion
- “Has successfully completed 60 hours of life coach training, including supervised practice with real clients.”
- “For completing the Life Coaching Certification and showing the skills to help clients set goals and act on them.”
- “Has met every requirement of our life coach training program, from the core competencies to the final observed session.”
Coaching certificate level 1 and advanced wording
- “Awarded on completion of Coaching Certificate Level 1: foundations of life coaching.”
- “For completing the advanced practitioner level of our life coaching course, beginner to advanced.”
- “In recognition of the practice hours and mentor feedback that complete this level of training.”
Short lines for the badge or the email
- “Certified life coach. Ready for your first clients.”
- “Trained to listen, ask and help people move forward.”
Why send it with Hyperstack
More than a PDF
Customize the template free. When it is ready, send it to everyone at once.
One design, every name
Upload a spreadsheet and Hyperstack makes a certificate of completion for each person on it, in one go.
Sent by email
Each recipient gets their own email and link. You see who opened it, downloaded it and shared it.
Anyone can verify it
The QR code opens a page that proves the certificate is real. Recipients add it to LinkedIn in one click.
FAQ
Questions, answered
In most countries no law asks for one, so anyone can call themselves a life coach. That is why a certificate from a recognised training school matters: it shows clients and employers that the coach has studied the core skills and practised them under supervision.
Yes. Clients, employers and coaching bodies all ask how much training a coach has had, so put the training hours and the number of supervised sessions on the page, next to the skills covered, the level, the date and a credential ID they can check.
Only when the course is accredited by the International Coaching Federation or another coaching body. Those bodies set their own minimum training hours and logged coaching hours for each credential level, so state the hours clearly on the certificate to help graduates apply.
Yes. Many coach trainers run small programs on their own. Sign as the lead trainer, add a mentor coach who observed the practice sessions as a second signer if you work with one, and keep the same design for every cohort.
It is a tool coaches use with clients: a circle cut into life areas such as career, money, health, family and fun, each scored from 0 to 10. A balanced wheel stands for the progress coaching aims at, which makes it a fitting picture for a coach's certificate.
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