Accreditations and Standards
How ANHCO ensures training credibility is earned rather than assumed
The Advanced National Health and Coaching Organization was built around a simple but uncomfortable truth. In an unregulated profession, credibility is not created by enthusiasm, branding, or certificates alone. It is created when training produces professionals whose decisions hold up when reviewed later by clients, employers, collaborators, and credentialing bodies.
Accreditation and institutional standards exist to make that credibility legible not only with accreditation, but also with recognition of a full-depth training program. We believe training coaches to the top 99th percentile through in-depth coverage across niches, domains, and an aligned structure results in long-term career outcomes that withstand a range of clients, coaching career growth, and business needs beyond obtaining the first client.
ANHCO approaches accreditation, professional alignment, governance, and institutional accountability, and why each element exists through an in-depth scope backed by award-winning instructors and education experts. Our programs are developed for students, current coaches, employers, and reviewers who care less about logos and more about whether an organization provides a training structure and program that develops world-class coaches regardless of their initial starting point.
Institutional Identity
ANHCO operates as a training partner under Advanced Education Group LLC a non degree granting postsecondary educational institution headquartered in Orem, Utah. The organization delivers vocational and professional education designed for adult learners seeking continuing education and workforce aligned certification rather than academic degrees or licensure alone.
ANHCO issues professional certificates that are third-party verified CPD-accredited certificate alongside our URL-verifiable certificate and LinkedIn Badge. It does not confer academic degrees and does not represent its programs as licenses. All credentials are positioned accurately as professional training intended to support ethical practice, scope clarity, and long term career development in coaching and health adjacent roles.
ANHCO is a partner institution of Advanced Education Group LLC and maintains defined academic leadership, instructional oversight, advisory governance, and learner support infrastructure. This structure exists to ensure that education is accountable after enrollment and that we can provide 24/7 live student support.
Clear institutional identity matters because in unregulated fields, credibility collapses quickly when governance is unclear.
Why Accreditation Matters in Coaching and Why It Is Often Misunderstood
Many learners encounter accreditation questions only after they feel uncertainty elsewhere. They complete programs that sound impressive but still feel unsure when real client complexity arrives. Employers and partners hesitate. Referrals slow. The problem is rarely lack of passion. It is lack of defensibility.
Accreditation does not create competence. It creates shared reference points. It allows third parties to understand whether training was structured, reviewed, and delivered against recognized standards rather than assembled ad hoc.
ANHCO treats accreditation as an accountability mechanism, not a marketing badge. Every alignment described here exists to support one outcome: training that produces coaches whose judgment is trusted rather than questioned.
Continuing Professional Development Accreditation
The Advanced Dual Health and Life Coach Certification is accredited by the CPD Standards Office under recognized Continuing Professional Development criteria for 495 CPD Hours.
CPD accreditation verifies that the program meets defined standards related to instructional design, learning objectives, assessment methodology, professional relevance, instructor oversight, and documented learning hours. CPD focuses on whether education supports applied professional growth rather than memorization or attendance alone.
Select students can also qualify for the CPD Coach of Excellence badge to stand out amongst the broad coaching market.
ANHCO selected CPD accreditation because our learners are adult professionals whose careers evolve over time and reach clients with a global reach across continents. CPD accreditation allows training hours and curriculum structure to be intelligible across industries, geographies, and professional contexts. It reduces the need for graduates to justify the legitimacy of their education repeatedly.
CPD accreditation does not guarantee employment or licensure. It confirms that the training represents substantive professional education delivered under reviewable standards.
International Coaching Federation Alignment and Provisional Level 1 Accreditation
ANHCO’s Dual Health and Life Coach Certification holds Provisional Level 1 Accreditation from the International Coaching Federation and is currently conducting our first provisional cohort January to March 2026.
ANHCO describes this pathway precisely. Provisional ICF accreditation establishes eligibility alignment. Credential approval remains under the authority of the International Coaching Federation. All students receive access to the ICF-aligned structure during this time while we conduct our provisional cohort.
Why ANHCO does Not Design Programs Around Minimum Accreditation Thresholds
Many programs optimize curriculum design around what is required to qualify for a logo. This approach often leaves learners underprepared for the reality of coaching work, particularly when health, trauma, leadership pressure, or ethical ambiguity arise.
ANHCO aligns with ICF and CPD standards while intentionally building beyond minimum requirements. The depth of ADHLC exists because accreditation alone does not train judgment under pressure. It signals structure. Preparation requires exposure, repetition, and applied evaluation.
ANHCO’s position is that recognition should reduce friction, not replace competence.
National Healthcareer Association
ANHCO maintains professional alignment and organizational recognition with the National Healthcareer Association to support health adjacent coaching education, including chronic illness support within scope, preventative wellness, behavior change, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
This alignment reinforces ANHCO’s emphasis on evidence informed practice and scope clarity. It does not authorize clinical diagnosis or treatment and does not position ANHCO as a healthcare licensing body.
For learners seeking to work near healthcare environments responsibly, this alignment supports professional credibility and ethical safety.
Ethical Alignment and Professional Codes
ANHCO is an organizational member of EMCC Global and a registered supporter of the Global Code of Ethics for Coaches and Mentors.
This alignment reflects a commitment to ethical practice grounded in professionalism rather than personality. Ethics, consent, confidentiality, boundaries, scope of practice, and referral responsibility are integrated throughout the curriculum rather than isolated in a single unit.
This structure exists because ethical challenges in coaching do not arise in theory. They arise in practice. Coaches are evaluated on how consistently they hold boundaries, manage ambiguity, and protect clients when complexity increases. ANHCO trains directly for that environment.
Organizational Memberships and Professional Alignment
ANHCO maintains active organizational memberships with professional bodies that inform curriculum relevance and standards alignment.
These include
EMCC Global
The Wellness Alliance WELCOA
The Association for Coaching
These memberships connect ANHCO to ongoing professional discourse in coaching, wellness, and workplace health. They inform curriculum updates, faculty calibration, and advisory review without replacing internal governance.
Professional membership does not substitute for accreditation. It complements it by ensuring that training remains connected to evolving expectations rather than static models.
Academic Leadership and Instructional Governance
Accreditation and standards are sustained through defined academic leadership.
ANHCO’s academic leadership includes
Dr. Gina Sobrero, President and Education Director, responsible for institutional direction, educational philosophy, and alignment between mission and curriculum design.
Dr. Roxanne Kemp, PhD, Chief Academic Officer, responsible for accreditation compliance, curriculum governance, assessment methodology, and academic integrity across all programs.
Rebecca Ahmed, ICF Certified Coach and Instructor, responsible for mentor coaching, observed coaching evaluation, and applied competency alignment.
Hanna Zarour, ICF Coach Instructor, responsible for instructional calibration, performance feedback frameworks, and assessment consistency.
This leadership structure ensures that education is reviewed, challenged, and refined by professionals who understand how coaching competence is evaluated outside the classroom.
Advisory Team and Curriculum Oversight
ANHCO maintains a multidisciplinary advisory team composed of professionals across coaching education, healthcare, wellness, behavioral science, workforce development, and business execution.
The advisory team reviews curriculum relevance, industry trends, learner outcomes, and professional expectations. Advisory input informs program evolution and helps ensure that training reflects real world demands rather than static certification models.
Quarterly Curriculum Review and Continuous Evidence-based Improvement
ANHCO conducts structured curriculum reviews on a quarterly basis.
Reviews incorporate advisory input, learner feedback, accreditation standards, professional developments, and instructional performance data. This process exists to prevent stagnation and to ensure that training remains defensible as coaching roles evolve.
Curriculum updates are documented and implemented systematically rather than reactively.
Learner Support and Feedback Escalation
ANHCO provides twenty four hour learner support across academic, technical, and instructional domains. Support systems are designed to accommodate global learners and professional schedules.
Learner feedback related to curriculum clarity, assessment integrity, ethical concerns, or instructional alignment is reviewed continuously and escalated for immediate committee review when warranted.
Institutional reachability is treated as part of educational credibility. Students are not required to navigate marketing channels to receive academic or ethical support.
Recognition and External Visibility
ANHCO has been referenced in national media, including Forbes and EntrepreneurHQ, in the context of advanced and flexible coaching education. External visibility is acknowledged as third party recognition of institutional approach, not as a substitute for standards alignment or instructional depth.
What Accreditation Means at ANHCO
At ANHCO, accreditation functions as an accountability framework.
It confirms that learning hours are real. It establishes that curriculum is structured and reviewed. It supports portability and professional recognition. It reduces uncertainty for employers and collaborators.
Accreditation does not replace competence or our core structure built around thousands of potential client needs. It supports its evaluation to prepare you in alignment with core educational and major coaching body standards.
ANHCO’s Perspective
ANHCO was designed to behave like an in-depth training program rather than an online e-learning course. Leadership is visible.Standards are explicit. Support is continuous. Curriculum is reviewed. Accountability is sustained.
ANHCO exists to provide structured, evidence informed, professionally aligned education for coaches who want their work to hold up under scrutiny.
For accreditation or pathway questions, contact advising@anhco.org.
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