Advanced Intercultural Team Coaching
ICF Advanced Accreditation in Team Coaching (AATC) Program
Develop the intercultural, systemic, and team-coaching capability to work with teams across cultures, identities, and complex organizational contexts.
65 hours · ICF AATC accredited · 5 hours of coaching supervision · Online · Starts October 24, 2026 · Biweekly at 10:00 AM ET
About the Program
The 65-hour program builds from intercultural competence into the complexity of coaching teams across cultures, identities, and organizational contexts.
The first 30 hours provide the intercultural foundation, developing cultural self-awareness, Cultural Intelligence (CQ), and the capacity to coach across difference. The advanced stage extends this foundation into systemic team coaching, applied practice, feedback, reflection, and coaching supervision.
Throughout the program, intercultural competence and team coaching are developed together—not as separate areas of learning, but as interconnected capabilities for working with teams in complexity and change.
Advanced Learning Areas
Intercultural Team Dynamics
Explore the dynamics that can emerge beneath the surface of diverse teams—including identity, relationships, cultural patterns, resistance, and competing perspectives.
Power, Conflict & Difference
Develop greater capacity to remain present when teams encounter tension, disagreement, power dynamics, polarization, and difference.
Teams as Systems
Learn to see beyond individual team members to the relationships, patterns, stakeholders, organizational context, and wider system influencing the team.
Team Coaching in Practice
Move from conceptual understanding into application through experiential learning and team-coaching practice.
Reflective Practice, Feedback & Supervision
Deepen your professional awareness through reflection, feedback, and coaching supervision—examining not only what happens within the team, but also your own presence and choices as a coach.
Stakeholders & Organizational Context
Develop greater awareness of the multiple relationships, expectations, responsibilities, and ethical considerations surrounding organizational team coaching.
Professional Integration
Bring intercultural competence, systemic awareness, ethical judgment, and team-coaching capability together into your own professional approach.
Three Layers of Culture
The program explores three intersecting dimensions of cultural identity:
National Culture · Gender · Generational Culture
These dimensions are not treated as separate boxes. We explore how they interact with individual identity, lived experience, organizational context, relationships, and power.
The goal is not to predict someone’s behavior based on a cultural category. It is to help coaches notice more, assume less, inquire more deeply, and adapt more intentionally.
Our Approach
Culture isn’t a module. It’s a lens.
Intercultural competence isn’t something we teach once and then leave behind.
It is woven throughout how we explore coaching presence, identity, communication, trust, ethics, relationships, teams, power, conflict, leadership, and systemic dynamics.
We don’t aim to create coaches who believe they “know” other cultures.
We develop coaches who are better prepared to encounter difference with curiosity and humility, recognize their own cultural lenses, and adapt intentionally while maintaining professional coaching integrity.
Who This Program Is For
The program is particularly relevant for coaches who:
- are expanding their practice from individual to team coaching;
- already work with teams and want to strengthen their systemic and intercultural capability;
- coach leaders and teams in international, multicultural, multigenerational, or diverse organizational environments;
- want to integrate Cultural Intelligence (CQ) and intercultural competence more deeply into their team-coaching practice; or
- are interested in pursuing the ICF Advanced Certification in Team Coaching (ACTC).
An existing ICF credential is not required to participate in the program.
Coaches intending to pursue the ACTC should note that ICF has separate eligibility and certification requirements.
ICF AATC and the ACTC Pathway
The 65-Hour Advanced Intercultural Team Coaching program holds the International Coaching Federation (ICF) Advanced Accreditation in Team Coaching (AATC).
The program includes the team coaching education, observed team-coaching practice and feedback, and five hours of coaching supervision required within the AATC education pathway.
For coaches pursuing the ICF Advanced Certification in Team Coaching (ACTC), completing an AATC-accredited program fulfills the education and coaching supervision components of the certification pathway.
The ACTC is an individual ICF certification with additional eligibility, team-coaching experience, application, and examination requirements.
Program Details
| Program | Advanced Intercultural Team Coaching |
| ICF accreditation | Advanced Accreditation in Team Coaching (AATC) |
| Total learning hours | 65 hours |
| Delivery | Online, combining synchronous and asynchronous learning |
| Coaching supervision | 5 hours, included |
| Observed team coaching and feedback | Included |
| Cohort size | 8–15 participants |
| Language | English |
| Next cohort | Starts October 24, 2026 bi-weekly |
Meet the Faculty
The program is led by the founders of the Intercultural Coaching Academy, bringing together MCC-level coaching experience, intercultural expertise, and extensive experience working across cultures and organizational contexts.
Dr Melinda Zay, PhD, MCC, ACTC
Executive Coach · Team Coach · Interculturalist · Psychological Safety Consultant · Coach Mentor & Supervisor
Melinda combines advanced coaching practice with academic expertise in intercultural communication. Her work spans executive and leadership development coaching across five continents, with a particular focus on intercultural competence, team dynamics, and psychological safety.
Karoly Hanyecz, MBA, MCC
Leadership & Executive Coach · Team Coach · Agile Coach · Interculturalist & Relocation Coach
Karoly brings extensive leadership, executive, team, and intercultural coaching experience, with practical experience working across cultures and organizational environments.
Program Investment
Pay in Full — $4,250 USD
Payment Plan
4 monthly payments of $1,100 USD.
The program investment includes the complete 65-hour program, synchronous and asynchronous learning, program materials, observed team-coaching practice and feedback, and five hours of coaching supervision.
Register for the October CohortPrefer to Start with 30 Hours?
If you would like to begin with the intercultural foundation before committing to the full 65-hour pathway, you can register for our 30-Hour Intercultural Competence in Coaching & Team Coaching program.
Both programs begin together in October. Participants who start with the 30-hour program may choose to continue into the advanced stage, subject to availability.
Explore the 30-Hour Foundation Program