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Enabling Growth and Transformation Through Our High-Quality Education Experience
Impactful coaching comes from learning coaching skills, discovering your potential, and envisioning future opportunities.
Our threefold approach ensures you develop and demonstrate International Coaching Federation (ICF) competencies through practice, deepen your self-awareness, and build the capability to apply coaching in real-world contexts.
This integrated approach helps coaches become more self-aware, competent, and strategic in how they coach and how they grow their practice.
The threefold approach to coaching excellence.
Learn Coaching Skills
We teach ICF core competencies through structured practice, tools, and frameworks that support consistent application in real coaching conversations.
Discover Your Potential
Discover your unique coaching style through personal growth by role modeling the values and practice of coaching yourself.
Envision Future Opportunities
Apply your coaching in real-world contexts, using your skills, self-awareness, and credentials to support your professional and practice-based goals.
Not sure which program is right for you?
Coaching Development Pathways
We offer a range of programs, coaching support, and tools to help you develop your coaching capability and apply it in practice.
Not sure which pathway is right for you?
Coaching Programs
Coaching programs designed to build coaching capability through practice, support credentialing goals, and help you apply coaching in real-world contexts.
Coaching Elevated
Coaching Elevated
An advanced coaching program designed to deepen your practice, expand your range as a coach, and strengthen application through structured practice and applied learning.
CCE: A Logical Levels Approach to Evoking Awareness
CCE: Logical Levels
A focused course designed to strengthen your ability to evoke awareness by applying Robert Dilts’ Logical Levels framework in coaching conversations. This course is approved by ICF for 1 Core Competency CCE.
Book a free informational call to learn more about our services and see what may be the best fit for your goals.
Upcoming events
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Tuesday, May 5 · 11am PDT (1h)View more
ICF certification is not just a process to complete—it’s a standard for how you coach.
This monthly Q&A is designed for coac…
Read moreICF certification is not just a process to complete—it’s a standard for how you coach.
This monthly Q&A is designed for coaches who want more than basic information. It’s a focused, interactive session where you can get clear on requirements, refine your approach, and make real progress toward certification.
Whether you’re early in your journey or preparing to submit your application, you’ll get direct, practical guidance to help you move forward with confidence.
What You’ll Experience
- Clear guidance on ICF certification pathways (Levels 1, 2, ACC, PCC, portfolio)
- Real-time answers to your specific questions
- Practical insight into how ICF competencies show up in evaluations
- Direction on strengthening your coaching for performance assessments
- Support in navigating application decisions and next steps
What Participants Explore
- How to position your coaching experience to meet ICF requirements
- What assessors are listening for in recorded sessions
- Where coaches typically get stuck—and how to move forward
- How to close gaps between current performance and credential readiness
- How to approach certification as a development process, not just submission
Who This Is For
- Coaches pursuing ACC or PCC certification
- Coaches currently enrolled in or recently completed a training program
- Coaches preparing recordings or applications
- Coaches who want clarity, direction, and expert input
About the Host
Chelsea Seid is an ICF PCC executive coach and co-founder of Trio Coaching Academy, an ICF-accredited program. She has coached over 150 leaders and trained coaches in applying ICF Core Competencies in real conversations. Her work focuses on helping coaches translate frameworks into consistent, high-quality coaching practice.
Bring your questions, your application, or your next decision point—and leave with clarity on what to do next.
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Tuesday, June 2 · 11am PDT (1h)View more
ICF certification is not just a process to complete—it’s a standard for how you coach.
This monthly Q&A is designed for coac…
Read moreICF certification is not just a process to complete—it’s a standard for how you coach.
This monthly Q&A is designed for coaches who want more than basic information. It’s a focused, interactive session where you can get clear on requirements, refine your approach, and make real progress toward certification.
Whether you’re early in your journey or preparing to submit your application, you’ll get direct, practical guidance to help you move forward with confidence.
What You’ll Experience
- Clear guidance on ICF certification pathways (Levels 1, 2, ACC, PCC, portfolio)
- Real-time answers to your specific questions
- Practical insight into how ICF competencies show up in evaluations
- Direction on strengthening your coaching for performance assessments
- Support in navigating application decisions and next steps
What Participants Explore
- How to position your coaching experience to meet ICF requirements
- What assessors are listening for in recorded sessions
- Where coaches typically get stuck—and how to move forward
- How to close gaps between current performance and credential readiness
- How to approach certification as a development process, not just submission
Who This Is For
- Coaches pursuing ACC or PCC certification
- Coaches currently enrolled in or recently completed a training program
- Coaches preparing recordings or applications
- Coaches who want clarity, direction, and expert input
About the Host
Chelsea Seid is an ICF PCC executive coach and co-founder of Trio Coaching Academy, an ICF-accredited program. She has coached over 150 leaders and trained coaches in applying ICF Core Competencies in real conversations. Her work focuses on helping coaches translate frameworks into consistent, high-quality coaching practice.
Bring your questions, your application, or your next decision point—and leave with clarity on what to do next.
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Your Facilitators
Trio Coaching Academy facilitators are ICF-certified coaches with advanced degrees and real-world coaching and business experience. Learn more about each on the About page.
Dr. Dawn DeFrancesco, CEO, PhD, PCC
In addition to being a Co-Founder and the CEO of Trio, Dawn serves as a primary facilitator, mentor coach, and program designer.
Chelsea Seid, CSO, MBA, PCC
In addition to being a Co-Founder and the CSO of Trio, Chelsea serves as a primary facilitator, mentor coach, and program designer.
Dr. Leena Guptha, DO, PhD, PCC
In addition to being a Co-Founder of Trio, Leena serves as a facilitator.
“Dr. Dawn DeFrancesco helped me to understand the Logical Levels which has given me the confidence to drive my coaching sessions with surgical precision! Her passion for coaching is contagious and aspiring!”
Jeff Benzmiller
RN BSN LCDR USPHS
“Chelsea provided us with an immense amount of information on the business of coaching, marketing, website content, niche development, and so much more. ”
Diana Pipaloff
BA, CAS, Certified Health Coach
“I highly recommend Chelsea for providing training on Coaching! She is the perfect fit to teach on the subjects of business skills and Coaching at the ICF gold standard. I’m so thankful she helped me to build a solid foundation of knowledge and skills to apply for my own Coaching business.”
Ciera (Ciera Sunshine) Gump
BA, Certified Health Coach
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