Optimus coach Academy Recensioni 

The best investment in myself and a transformational experience

I initially signed up because I wanted to become an ICF accredited coach. I was a business consultant and I was looking for ways of creating sustainable transformation for my clients and increase my credibility.
I had no idea how much transformation I myself will have after this program.

The trainers and coaches in this program are experienced and knowledgable and very supportive. I have met amazing people in my cohort and built meaningful friendships.
As a result of increased confidence I dared to increase my prices and market my services with more courage.
I made my investment back a couple of months in the program and I am so proud of my clients.

What I love about this school is that they are open minded, always listen to the students and everyone gets the attention they deserve.
I had the opportunity to practice coaching in a safe space and be coached and mentored.
There is also alot of support for building and growing a coaching business.
I recommend Optimus to everyone who is serious about coaching.

Practical enriching and value adding. I'm coming to the end of my ACC coaching training with Optimus. I've appreciated of course the content and the range of approaches we have covered. But it's refreshing also to work with an organisation that recognises this is an investment of time and money and openly acknowledges and embraces the business element of coaching that other training providers I felt either are squeamish and gloss over how to repay your investment or make promises that don't feel trustworthy. I've felt during my time with Optimus the value-add is ever present, there's more than I could consume in six months whilst working full time but I have an alumni group and access to more learning even post ACC training. Within reason they recognise sometimes life gets in the way of a best laid training plan and do what can be done to help students complete. I do sincerely feel and have felt Optimus trainers want you to do well, most have trodden the same path in recent years - standards are uncompromisingly high which is a good thing but people want you to succeed and be a coach with strong ethics and integrity.

Training with Optimus Coach Academy has taken my coaching to another level. There has been an abundance of opportunities to coach, receive feedback on my coaching, mentoring and explore many different aspects of coaching. I have truly loved every single moment. The support and guidance has been high quality and I am now continuing my journey as a coach feeling more confident and skilled. This has been one of the best investments I have made! Thank you to the Optimus Team

Best decision I have made in years was to join Optimus and upgrade my skills, knowledge and coaching. Excellent content and delivered by some of the best talent in the industry. I feel like a far more confident coach, have met the most amazing people and made life time friendships and a robust support network. I have also gained complete clarity of my coaching style, niche and my next steps. Optimus has been completely life changing and I recommend highly.

Without a doubt the training from Optimus is the very best on the market. Not only to go for the ICF accreditation but also the additional training in Neuroscience, Positive Psychology and the support to set up your business. The training is incredible and I’ve always felt very supported. I’m just finishing the training now and we’re being invited to an Alumni group where we will continue to get support. If you’re thinking about where to get the best training to become a qualified coach then you’ve found it!

I’m so thankful for Optimus and everything all the trainers do. The course is in-depth, the right length, and wonderfully supportive. You have hugely helped me on my journey personally and professionally, opening up a whole new world of possibilities! Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Before I started the coach training, I had spent a lot of time deciding whether coach training was appropriate for me, I felt that I already “coached” my clients so I spent a great deal of time researching courses.

Of all the ICF courses I looked at, Ruth's offered a community, business development opportunities and I felt like she came across as a person where the others I had looked at felt more institutional and less personal.

I've thoroughly enjoyed the course – the surprise books arriving on my doorstep, the 4 hours a week on Zoom, the variety of interesting people and knowledge, the mentors and coaches and motivation of the Hub.

Now that I am further along in my training, I really feel that I have found “my right place in the world” – Ruth’s course has been transformational in my personal life and in changing how I approach my business, my clients and even where I see myself in the long term. Empowering women to take ownership of their wellness and wealth has taken on a distinctly more powerful meaning for me and I’m working on how that will impact my future clients.

I’d be contemplating training as a professional coach for years and finally decided to bite the bullet after working with a coach myself.
I was lucky enough to get my employer to pay and spoke to numerous colleagues and friends about their learning paths.
Another supplier kept coming up and I joined one of their taster mornings.
It was fine, but I just didn’t have the chemistry I’d hoped for. They were less flexible on their timings too and it would’ve meant lots of weekends away from my family.
A trusted connection then mentioned she’d done her training with them and if she was doing it again would’ve picked Ruth and Optimus.
I joined and listened to taster week sessions and immediately loved Ruth’s energy and the feelings I had around needing to become a ‘sage waving Stepford coach’ were banished.

The Tuesday night sessions worked well for me around work and family, although I would admit I was often pooped after a long day at work.
I was blessed with a super friendly cohort and peer coach and the size of c15 was perfect for creating rapport and trusted relationships. They will be friends for life.

Some of the content was material id covered throughout my career, but it either went deeper or the time and space to have practical supervision really added to it. The new content was just enough to be able to apply, but also to whet your appetite if you wanted to go deeper as part of your CPD.
I really appreciated the thoughtful matching with my incredible mentor Lizzie.
They also requested regular feedback and listened and adapted accordingly to enhance the experience.
What really sets Optimus apart is the significant bonus training. At times those of us working felt a little overwhelmed as we were unable to attend live, but the content remains available for you to watch and download for life. We’ve have meet ups post the course to review and discuss the content together.
The community support 121 service provided by Cherry and the team is outstanding and upon talking to others using different providers who have to pay extra to get ACC ready I wouldn’t hesitate in recommending Optimus to friends and colleagues.

As a dating coach I wasn’t sure if an ICF accredited training would be useful for my clients, nor did I understand what it would involve. If I’m honest, I was afraid that the course would be a wasted investment, that it would take over my life and that it might even be boring!

I was already working as a dating coach for an award-winning matchmaking company and had trained elsewhere, yet my background left me wondering whether I was in a position to best serve my well-educated clients.

I didn’t want to be an average coach; I wanted to be excellent. I craved more evidence-based techniques and approaches to add to my business, but I was struggling to figure out what route to take.

After mulling it over for weeks, speaking to students who were already on the course, and lightly ‘observing’ Ruth Kudzi on social media, I decided to speak with her directly. Having discussed my fears I was still sitting on the fence. She gently joked that I was a dating coach struggling to commit. Ruth was right. Unwilling to let my risk-averse nature get the better of me, I signed up immediately.

Training with Optimus was a brilliant investment. For myself, my clients, and for my relationship too. I’m no longer anxious about needing to have all the answers and it’s enhanced my self-awareness and professionalism. I’ve seamlessly incorporated my new skills with my clients and the feedback has been staggering.

When I was looking for coach training there was a lot out there. I felt overwhelmed looking at all of the programs and didn't know what to go for. After speaking to someone who knew Ruth, having her recommended and having a call with her, I immediately felt that Optimus was the right choice – I felt they were invested in me and my success.

When I joined the course I was a beginner and I have grew so much in such a short space of time. I think this is down to the training and the support you get on the course - For example my amazing mentor Sandra, the sessions and the community. I can't sing their praises highly enough! The course is value for money and I believe it is life-changing.
It is the sort of thing which works whether you are a beginner or more experienced: I met people on the course who have been coaching for years and want to upskill.

2 years on, I now run my own coaching business and I have also been hired as an in-house coach for an educational organisation. I love my job-and I believe it’s all down to the training I received while on the course and the support Optimus continue to offer after you graduate.

I had been thinking about training as a coach for a while but somethings always stopped me from committing. After receiving some professional coaching in March/April 2021 from an Optimus trained coach, I was impressed and reached out to Ruth Kudzi.

Ruth and I spoke on Zoom and I decided to commit. Ruth was very confident this would be one of the best decisions I ever made.

My life has changed so much since that day and I could never thank Ruth and her team enough!

The course began in May 2021. I felt overwhelmed at the start but I trusted the tutors and the process and was thrilled to be the first from my cohort to gain my Diploma in November 2021.

It has been said that expectations can lessen the joy but this was not the case here!

Armed with the pretty big expectation that this would be one of my best decisions, I was very pleasantly surprised to find it was definitely one of my best decisions!

I got more from this course than I ever anticipated!

The knowledge, tools, teaching, and support is phenomenal. If you are sitting on the fence, my advice would be to go for it. You have very little to lose and so much to gain!

I highly recommend @optimuscoachacademy to anyone looking to complete any coaching qualifications- they are a great bunch of people with an such a passion for coaching that makes the course both insightful and enjoyable.

I am just coming to the end of my diploma with Optimus Coach Academy and have been studying and working as a coach for over 10 years! The past 6 months have been truly transformative in enhancing my skills and knowledge, deepening my reflective practice and self awareness. It has been the best investment in me since my Msc and the support from the Optimus Team has been outstanding.

Alongside my own learning I have partnered with Optimus to bring coaching to communities I work with who would never normally get access to that opportunity for personal development. Thank you Ruth and everyone at Team Optimus.

Penny

Great course, great support and great sense of community. Very comprehensive and high quality curriculum with lots of business support too. Not only do you learn the skills that you need to develop into a coach, but you learn a lot about yourself in the process.

I looked around for the right course for a long time and when I came across the Optimus Coaching Diploma I knew it was the right one for me straight away.

The course is wide-ranging, comprehensive and stretching. The fact that it includes mentoring is one of the things that made it stand out from other courses.

Highly recommended!

I’ve just completed my training with Optimus Coaching Academy and I’ve struggled to put into words how incredible my experience has been, but here goes…I was going through massive changes in my life and was receiving coaching at the time, so had the opportunity to personally experience the power of coaching. In my business I was mentoring clients and could see the mindset blocks that they faced and wanted to be properly trained to support them with that, so I took the decision to sign up to do my ICF Coaching Diploma with Optimus…No stone is left unturned by Ruth and her amazing team - their attention to detail is unreal. They equipped me with so many tools and techniques and also supported me in finding my own coaching style amongst all of the different methods and approaches they taught, which I thought was amazing. They care and support you with your personal and professional growth. The training covers everything to set you up to become a ACC, then PCC with the ICF, which is incredible as no other provider offers this. I will forever be grateful for the professional and personal growth joining the course has given me. I could not recommend Optimus more highly!

I joined Optimus Coaching’s Feb ‘21 cohort having studied ‘coaching’ with two organisations prior to this course. The ability to train at the weekend was so helpful as someone already running a full time + business. The online resource was easy to access. It’s also available indefinitely after the course allowing you to revisit as your skills evolve. Completion of the course has allowed be to widen the offering within my current business. I have seen my clients experience more penny drop moments as a result of my improved ability to question. The awareness of so many elements (transactional analysis, beliefs, emotions, neuroscience, psychology, positive psychology and coaching models) and consciousness have improved my service offering in what is usually a very analytic process. My own self awareness and mindset have improved 10 fold and I am starting to see those results in my existing business and my personal life. Putting in the effort with coaching practice meant that I was able to achieve ACC accreditation within 2 weeks of completing the Diploma by steady completion of 4-6 hours coaching each week alongside the weekend modules. This is such an efficient and effective path to ACC! The personal & group mentoring sessions provide a safe space to get support and ask those questions that I wouldn’t previously have asked, improving my own confidence in discussing my thoughts/feeling and asking for help. I have also met a fabulous group of people in my cohort whose support helped massively. Thank you OCA for such a worthwhile journey and experience.

Absolutely brilliant! I cannot recommend this training enough.
I have been in the coaching world since 2012 and I can say that this course delivers and then some. The depth of training and range of tools taught really help you to see coaching as a whole and to bring lots of different techniques to your sessions.
The knowledge and support from the trainers is second to none and means that by the time you are ready to qualify, you are fully confident in your ability.
It is also the best way to become accredited which I think is hugely important as the coaching world grows and adapts. For a lot of associate positions now, it is a minimum requirement.
And last but absolutely not least, the friends I have made on this course have been an unexpected bonus. I wouldn't say we like each other but even though the course has finished, we are now arranging monthly catch-ups on zoom because we miss seeing each other so much.
All in all, a fantastic experience. If you are even half considering doing a coaching diploma, I would highly recommend you take this one.

I've wanted to train as a coach for years. I looked at a LOT of different companies over the years and never signed up. The more companies I looked at, the more I felt that coaching wasn't for me.

They were just not aligned with my values at all! I then found Ruth.

I'd worked with her before. So when I knew that she was setting up a coaching academy, I knew Optimus was for me.

I've loved every minute of being on the course. The team are amazing, really supportive and really knowledgeable. All of my cohort are amazing too. The environment is so supportive, you'll never feel alone.

If you're looking to become a coach, then you really do need to check out Optimus.

I’ve just completed the Professional Coaching Diploma with Optimus and what an amazing experience it has been! The support, right from the outset, has been incredible. Ruth really has designed a one stop shop for everything you need to become an accredited coach and set up your own coaching business. I already have several paying clients and have secured some corporate work, and really feel that my business is poised for more growth! In fact, 7 months after starting the course I will have earned more than half my fees back already through coaching - so a great investment by all accounts!

The course content has been fantastic - as someone who has two psychology degrees and has been working in health research for over 20 years, my standards were pretty high - but I was not disappointed! The training was evidence based and the concepts were rooted in sound psychological theory, yet the information was presented very accessibly within a coaching context.

I don’t think I fully appreciated the amount of personal growth I would experience. Being able to receive regular peer and mentor coaching has enabled me to achieve so much more than I felt possible, and feel calm and confident in my own skin! I’ve made some amazing connections and life long friends too!

If you’re unsure about whether to commit to signing up, I’d encourage you to speak to one of the very friendly Optimus team who will be able to talk you through the course and what’s ahead. I am so grateful to have had this experience - it really has been life changing! I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend!