You already have serious training.
Now you want a way of coaching that can hold developmental change at an MCC standard.
Mastery Advantage is the 3rd level of the Transformative Edge™. It is designed for experienced coaches, typically PCC or equivalent, who want their next phase of growth to be both MCC credential-ready and developmentally grounded.
This programme is your Level 3 Pathway and practical preparation for the MCC Performance Evaluation. At the same time, it deepens your use of our proprietary transformational approach so you can work consistently at the level of meaning-making and perspective, not only at the level of issues and goals.
Since its launch in 2020, Mastery Advantage has supported 64 Coach Practitioners on their MCC journey, with many passing their performance evaluation on the first submission.
Who it's for: Experienced coaches and practitioners, typically at PCC level or equivalent, who want to specialise in developmental coaching and prepare seriously for MCC.
Time commitment: About 80 learning hours over approximately 24 weeks. Offered once a year as a single global cohort, supporting depth of supervision, continuity, and a focused learning community.
Certification Pathway: Provides ICF Level 3–accredited education and mentoring, meeting the Level 3 training requirement and serving as core preparation for the MCC Performance Evaluation.
Mastery Advantage is one of the few Level 3 journeys that deliberately ties your MCC preparation to your growth as a developmental coach. In the same conversations and recordings, you build a body of work that both meets the credentialing standard and reflects how you truly want to coach.
The result is clear: you are positioned to apply for MCC with confidence while standing in a strong professional identity as a masterful practitioner of transformational, developmental coaching. This dual focus comes to life in two promises:
You develop your practice so the ICF Core Competencies and Level 3 markers show up as a natural expression of how you think, listen, and respond in the moment.
You will:
You deepen your capacity to coach developmental and intentional change as your primary field of practice.
You will:
By the end of Mastery Advantage, you will be able to:
Your practice becomes a reliable vehicle for developmental change, and you stand on a solid foundation for your MCC application
Built from years of mentoring coaches into MCC, this programme gives you a tested, proven pathway with practical, concrete support at every step. You receive:
You are not navigating Level 3 and MCC preparation alone or in the dark. You are accompanied by a global team that has walked this path with many coaches before you.
Mastery Advantage builds on CMA's proprietary transformational framework used across Foundational and Competency Advantage. At this level, you refine the same approach into an MCC-consistent way of thinking and responding, rather than collecting new tools.
Your developmental thinking and your MCC preparation grow together. Every element of the programme is designed so that what strengthens your coaching for change also strengthens your MCC readiness - in the same conversations and the same recordings.
You work from a clear map of intentional and developmental change, linked directly to how you hold conversations.
The design gives you repeated cycles of SEE -> PRACTICE -> OBSERVE -> RECEIVE FEEDBACK -> REFINE, so your growth is steady and visible in your actual coaching.
Mastery Advantage is designed as an intensive, high-touch Level 3 journey. To protect the depth of supervision and peer learning, each global cohort is limited to 15 participants on a first-come, first-served basis. A brief interview is required to assess readiness and mutual fit, so the cohort environment supports everyone’s development.
The detailed structure, dates, completion requirements, and investment options are available in the Mastery Advantage brochure.
If you are ready to bring MCC competency mastery and mastery of coaching for change together:
Mastery Advantage is where you prepare for MCC and deepen your practice as a transformational, developmental coach – in one coherent, thoughtfully designed journey shared with a small group of equally committed practitioners.