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Become a Certified High Performance Coach
Learn directly from industry-leading experts and build a strong coaching foundation in as little as 6 months. Our high performance coaching certification provides you with the structure, curriculum, and skills to help both you and your clients master mindset, break through limitations, and reach their highest potential in every area of life.
Our High Performance Coaching Certification is For You If…
- You want to gain credibility and adopt a science-based approach to building a career helping people reach their potential, but don’t have the time to go back to school or to waste on trying to figure everything out on your own.
- You know in your heart that your purpose is to serve others but are struggling with confidence in yourself and often doubt your ability to create consistent results with your clients.
- You’re looking for an evidence-based approach to help your clients build higher levels of clarity, confidence and motivation while developing the routines and habits they need to consistently show up at their best.
- You’re craving the ability to be a leader in your field and wake up feeling excited and passionate about the work you do every day.
- You’re an existing coach, trainer, teacher or leader who wants to take your practice to the next level by helping your clients/team master their mindset to improve their mental health and maximize their performance.
The coaching industry is growing rapidly, but the biggest problem is that most coaching certifications fail to teach what truly drives long-term success.
We all know that mindset dictates 90% of results in life. Yet, most high performance coaching certifications only focus on surface-level strategies—leaving coaches without the tools they need to create real transformation.
That’s why our Elite High Performance Coaching Certification is different.
Elite High Performance has been leading the industry for more than 15 years working with the world’s highest performing athletes, executives, coaches and entrepreneurs. Our speciality is mindset strategy architecture that helps high performers know how to think strategically so they can have maximum impact.
High Performance Coaching Certification
to Deliver Real, Measurable Results
Elite’s high performance coaching certification trains you to become a certified high performance coach equipped with neuroscience-based tools and strategies for deep, lasting transformation. Through our proprietary Mindset Architecture Framework, grounded in neuroplasticity, psychology, and high performance mindset coaching, you’ll learn how to:
- Identify and rewire limiting beliefs, mental blocks, and subconscious patterns
- Shift high achievers—like perfectionists, people-pleasers, and those battling imposter syndrome—into aligned, sustainable high performers
- Apply simple, practical coaching tools across mindset, leadership, health, relationships, and career
Unlike traditional coaching programs, Elite’s high performance coaching certification goes beyond surface-level techniques. We teach you how to access and reprogram the subconscious mind—where 95–97% of decisions are made—making mindset rewiring foundational for lasting change.
When you enroll, you gain full access to our proven coaching frameworks, exercises, and tools—with no licensing fees or commissions required. These resources are designed to be simple and immediately implementable, so you can confidently coach clients toward consistent, high-impact results from day one.
Whether you’re entering the coaching profession or scaling your existing practice, this certification gives you all you need to deliver high performance coaching with credibility, clarity, and authority.
Here’s a taste of what you’ll learn in our certification program:
How to Inspire Change
Learn how to harness the power of your unique story so that you can build trust and motivate potential clients by helping them see the potential they have within themselves both before and throughout your coaching relationship.
The Art of High-Performance Coaching
Coaching is as much an art as it is a science. We’ll help you develop active listening skills and teach you how to build and sustain high levels of rapport with your clients so that you can nurture your coaching relationships and feel confident knowing that you are getting the most out of each and every session.
Architecting a Growth Mindset
It’s easy to set big goals, it’s a whole other ball game to develop the self-awareness and growth mindset required to achieve them. This certification will provide you with the strategies you and your clients need to uncover blindspots, build self-worth and break through the limiting beliefs that have been holding you back for years.
Cultivate Purpose and Passion
During this certification, you will learn how to help your clients get clear on their core values and uncover their innate gifts so that they can tap into their sweet spot and create more meaning and fulfillment in every area of their life.
Developing Peak Mental Performance
Build out your own coaching toolbox with the same mental strategies and exercises that world-class athletes, executives and leaders use to build and sustain high levels of confidence, focus and motivation. These science-backed techniques will help you and your clients stay positive, overcome roadblocks, and accelerate both personal and professional growth.
What Makes Us Different from
Other Coaching Certifications?
- Our Methodology — our methodology is neuroscience backed, data and research driven and rooted in the best practices in High-performance coaching and leadership development
- Not surface-level coaching — our approach combines elite-level experience in sport (National Women’s Hockey League & National Champion), business, and academia (B.A. in Sociology from Princeton & Executive Coaching Leadership Strategy from Harvard University), along with 20+ years of real-world success coaching elite-level athletes, professionals, and teams at Fortune 500 companies like Nokia and Google.
- 1:1 personalized coaching — tailored to your goals and delivered by a certified High-Performance Coach who meets you where you’re at.
- Real-time transformation — coaching helps you identify and move past hidden roadblocks as they arise, not after the fact.
- Scientifically proven results — mindset coaching is rated by Harvard Business Review as the most effective method for long-term behavioral change.
- Leader and coach development — improve others while unlocking your own growth and impact potential.
- Beyond standard certifications — while ICF is known in coaching circles, Elite’s results and methodology stand out in the real-world market.
- Elite advantage — backed by 20+ years leading the industry, trusted by top athletes, Fortune 500 companies, and high-performing individuals worldwide.
Become a certified high-performance coach in as little as 6 months…
Our certification process involves self-study homework and flexible call times so that you can earn your high performance coaching certification without putting your life on hold.
- Lifetime access to our 24-week online course
- 19 weeks of video lessons including worksheets and exercises
- 3 one-on-one sessions (1 hour each) with a certified High-Performance Coach.
- Additional support via email
- Engage in role play and practice coaching sessions to hone your skills
- Learn how to ask powerful coaching questions
- Work with a proven coaching model to help engage in effective coaching conversations
- Adopt a high-performance coaching mindset
- Improve your skills in giving positive and constructive feedback
- Acquire tools to build motivation, confidence and engagement
- Build your personal coaching style and learn how to adapt your style to different situations
- Gametape review and feedback from coaches on practice coaching sessions
Meet The Coaches
Coach Lauren
Certified High Performance Coach & Athletic Mindset Coach
Lauren Williams is a former NCAA Division 1 and professional ice hockey player. Her experience with coaching began in high school as she pursued playing hockey at the highest levels in Canada while navigating significant life struggles for the first time in her life. Using mindset coaching to propel her to the highest levels of the sport, Lauren became a two-time Team Ontario member, 3-time WCHA All-Academic team member, two-time all Big10 student-athlete, and senior captain. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin with degrees in Psychology and Sociology and after completing her collegiate career and undergraduate degrees, she moved on to graduate school and to the CWHL.
Coach Liane
Certified High Performance Coach
Liane Wansbrough is a High Performance Leadership Coach dedicated to empowering clients through a fresh, internal-to-external approach to leadership. With a mission to bridge the gap in leadership training, Liane emphasizes the transformative power of mindset. As a mindset strategy expert, she inspires her clients to enhance their performance and ignite growth in self-leadership and team-dynamics. Her expertise lies in cultivating a performance-driven mindset that thrives on complexity, embraces feedback and champions sustainability.
Liane’s journey into leadership began as a nutritionist and entrepreneur. Witnessing clients struggle to reach their goals lit a passion within her to explore the root causes of behaviour change. As she delved into the dysfunctional frameworks holding her clients back, Liane recognized her own challenges with a classic high achiever mindset—characterized by rigid thinking and self-criticism. This realization was a turning point, helping her shift away from the perfectionism, imposter syndrome and burnout that was slowing her growth.
Drawing from both professional and personal experience, Liane is uniquely equipped to guide high achievers in aligning with their growth and discovering true fulfillment as a path to high performance. Liane is also adept at navigating the midlife challenges of perimenopause and menopause, emphasizing the importance of mastering a mindset that encourages growth, risk taking and authenticity.
With over a decade of experience in behaviour change, Liane offers both one-on-one self-leadership coaching and corporate leadership development. As a certified trainer in the Elite High Performance Coaching method, Liane teaches and mentors new coaches. Additionally, Liane co-hosts the Leadership Launchpad Podcast. Past clients include industry leaders such as the Royal Bank of Canada, Facebook and Mt. Sinai Hospital.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is a certified high performance coach?
Unlike life coaching or personal development coaching, which often focus on support or motivation, high performance coaching is results-driven, science-based, and designed to create measurable change. It also differs from therapy by focusing on the future—helping clients set goals, overcome internal blocks, and consistently operate at their highest level.
Who can become a certified high-performance coach?
How long does the certification take?
Is there an exam?
What's included in the tuition?
- Online access to the High Performance Coaching Certification Program
- 19 weeks of video lessons (50+ Videos) including worksheets and exercises
- 3 one-on-one sessions (1 hour each) with a certified High-Performance Coach.
- Email support between coaching calls
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