Being Premier Starts with YOU
At The Premier Coach, we believe being premier starts with you—because every person is both a leader and a learner. Each of us has the power to lead with purpose and the courage to keep learning and growing. Premier isn’t a title; it’s a mindset shaped by curiosity, accountability, and a commitment to continual development. When we embrace the dual role of leader and learner, we unlock our potential and elevate what it means to be premier—from the inside out.
We believe excellence begins within. Every coach needs a coach—and every leader thrives by remaining a learner. Our programs equip you to lead with clarity, influence with integrity, and create lasting results that extend beyond performance into purpose.
"The Path to Premier," our competency-specific mentor coaching program, helps certified coaches elevate their craft through structured, high-impact mentor coaching designed to build confidence, sharpen competency, and sustain transformation.
Step into your next level of excellence.
The Problem:
Premier Competency-Specific Mentor Coaching Experiences Are Hard to Find
Every coach needs a mentor coach. Most mentor coaching programs serve broad developmental goals. Ours are intentionally narrow to support consistent, observable growth in specific ICF competencies over time— providing a truly transformative mentor coaching experience that delivers real client results, maintains credentials, and supports the lifelong learning goals of the coaches who demand excellence.
The Solution
The Path to Premier
"The Path to Premier" mentor coaching program helps new and renewing ICF coaches master the two competencies that make or break great coaching —Competency 3 (Establishes & Maintains Agreements) and Competency 8 (Facilitates Client Growth). This focused three-month mentor coaching experience meets the ICF mentor coaching requirements, transforms your confidence, and elevates your competence—delivering exactly what new and renewing ICF coaches seek in mentor coaching.
Where Excellence is Standard and Outcomes Are Measured
"The Path to Premier" is designed to do more than “check the box” on mentor coaching hours—it is built to measurably improve your skills, confidence, and credentialing outcomes as a coach. By concentrating on the ICF competencies that most directly influence real‑world coaching impact and performance evaluations, you get a focused experience that translates into stronger sessions and better client results.
Proof It Works:
Proven Mentee Success
Over 90% of our former mentees successfully met their ICF credential requirements and report significant increases in coaching confidence, clarity, and effectiveness in their practice.
Mentor Coaches at the Highest Standard
The program is led by experienced ICF‑credentialed coaches who have mentored and assessed new coaches, helped design internal coaching programs, and model the professional presence and performance standards expected at evaluation.
Trusted by High‑Stakes Leaders
This approach has been refined through years of coaching leaders operating in complex, high‑stakes environments, including C‑suite executives, senior leaders, high‑potential successors, and emerging people managers stepping into their first leadership roles.
Offer
Mentor Coaching That Actually Makes You a Better Coach
Complete your ICF mentor coaching requirements — and finally feel confident, clear, and ready to coach at a professional standard.
What You Get:
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7 Live Hours of Mentor Coaching (ICF Compliant)
Complete your 7 hours of ICF‑aligned group mentor coaching through 5 live sessions—four 90‑minute mentor coaching & practice calls, capped off with a focused 60‑minute peer lab.
3 Live Hours of Mentor Coaching (ICF Compliant)
Complete your required 3 hours of individual ICF mentor coaching with three 60-minute private sessions dedicated to detailed, actionable feedback on your coaching.
Competency Mastery Tracker
Competency Master Tracker: visually map your growth across key coaching competencies and see your improvement in real time.
"The Path to Premier Coach"
Schedule & Access
Pilot Program Details
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Start Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2026 at 6:30 pm CT
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Duration: 3 months
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Cohort Size: Limited to 12 participants (4 groups of 3) for high-touch interaction and accountability
Investment
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Regular Tuition: $1,500
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Pilot Rate*: $750 – 50% off regular tuition when you join the pilot and agree to provide feedback and a testimonial. Use code PILOT50 at checkout.
*By joining the pilot program at a discounted rate, you agree to share feedback during the program and provide a testimonial upon completion.
Who It’s For
1 / Coaches pursuing their first ICF credential (ACC).
2 /ACC & PCC coaches needing mentor hours for first renewal.
3 / Coaches who want to master the craft, not just tick a box.
4 / Coaches who want to strengthen ICF Competencies 3 and 8 in their coaching sessions
Who It’s Not For
1 / Coaches only seeking low-cost compliance hours.
2 / Those unable to attend live or unwilling to be coached and receive feedback.
3 / Coaches who want broad exposure to all ICF competencies.
4 / Coaches who prefer passive learning or content-heavy programs.
Why It Works
Because "The Path to Premier" is built around what makes coaching effective: real practice, targeted feedback, and measurable growth in the core competencies premier coaches need — not worksheets and busywork. You’ll work with mentor coaches who operate at the highest professional standards, understand the ICF performance expectations, and know how to help you coach with confidence.
About
The Premier Coach
Get to Know Us
The Premier Coach is a transformative professional development company engineered to prioritize people—multiplying authentic leadership and coaching impact. Our mission is to develop coaches and leaders who create sustainable, people-first transformation. Here, presence always precedes position, and excellence is lived out daily in every interaction, offering, and relationship.
The Premier Coach is built on four key pillars designed to elevate excellence across the coaching spectrum — supporting certified coaches, uncertified coaches, internal coaches, and high-potential leaders. Our journey begins with the mentor coach program, "The Path to Premier" for certified coaches, laying the foundation for the full suite of offerings to come and setting the stage for cultivating a community of continuous growth and impact.
Meet Your Mentor Coaches
Meet your Mentor Coaches—experienced, ICF-trained professionals dedicated to helping you grow with confidence and clarity. Each coach brings deep expertise in leadership, adult learning, and integrated practice to support your development, whether you are pursuing ICF credentials, sharpening your coaching skills, or simply ready to lead with greater impact.
Co-Founder + Mentor Coach
Marlin Blankenship, Ph.D., PCC
Marlin Blankenship, Ph.D., PCC is an executive and mentor coach who helps new coaches build confidence, clarity, and authentic coaching presence as they pursue their ACC credential or first credential renewal. With a background in leadership development, systems thinking, and adult learning, he brings more than 25 years of experience supporting leaders and coaches across corporate, higher education, nonprofit, tribal, and emergency management settings.
Marlin is an ICF Professional Certified Coach with 1,000+ coaching hours and extensive experience training and supervising new coaches. He has designed coach training programs, taught graduate-level leadership courses, facilitated team coaching, and mentored new coaches within organizations. His background in systemic leadership, emergency management, positive psychology, and organizational development allows him to help new coaches see themselves — and their clients — through a broader, more confident, and more capable lens.
Marlin is known for creating psychologically safe, reflective spaces where emerging coaches can deepen their skill, integrate feedback with ease, and develop their unique coaching voice. His mentoring approach blends ICF competencies with practical wisdom, systemic awareness, and a supportive developmental mindset — helping new coaches grow into capable, grounded professionals.
Mentor Coaching Philosophy
Marlin’s mentoring philosophy is simple: new coaches don’t need to perform coaching; they need to become coaches. His work helps emerging practitioners build not only competency, but identity — empowering them to coach with clarity, depth, and a sense of genuine presence that clients can feel.
Co-Founder + Mentor Coach
Misty Helm Chadwick, PCC
An ICF-certified coach since 2014, Misty Chadwick, PCC, is passionate about facilitating transformation. With over 20 years of experience developing leaders and 15 years as a coach, she has designed and delivered ICF-accredited Level 1 coaching programs for diverse adult learners and mentors ACC and PCC coaches, drawing on advanced training in PCC Markers and ACC BARS.
A dynamic leadership development executive, Misty has spent more than two decades modeling, coaching, and mentoring high-potential talent in performance-driven environments. She is recognized for building cohesive teams, empowering employees through strengths-based coaching and inclusive practices, and creating value-driven learning experiences with innovative, operationally sound solutions. Skilled at coaching leaders to elevate organizational performance through people and process optimization, she is also an accomplished workshop facilitator, adept at impacting organizational culture during periods of transition and change.
Her background includes facilitating coaching programs, leading workshops on ICF core competencies, and personal and professional development. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Education, a Master’s in Business Administration, and a Graduate Certificate in Executive and Professional Coaching. In addition to being a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), she is a Certified Group Coach (CGC).
Mentor Coaching Philosophy
For Misty, mentor coaching is about helping coaches become the best version of themselves. She creates reflective, encouraging spaces where they can uncover their unique coaching identity, clarify their strengths and niche, and discover the “secret sauce” that sets them apart—all while serving clients with excellence and authenticity.
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