BLACK WOMEN COACH CONDUCTOR CERTIFICATION
Reimagine and Create Communities Where Black Women Are Supported with Humanity and Healing Centered Coaching in the Black Women Conductor Program
NEXT COHORT BEGINS OCTOBER 3, 2026
Deadline: Apply by September 28, 2026
About the Black Women Coach Conductor Certification Program
Blooming Willow’s Black Women Coach Conductor Certification Program unites Black Women across the globe on a journey to liberation as they become International Coaching Federation Accredited Certified Coaches. This 6-month, ICF-accredited program presents an opportunity to grow, heal, challenge yourself, and build Healing Centered Coaching® skills that create liberation for all.
Our culturally relevant space invites you to stretch beyond the known as you transform and serve your community from a safe space of growth and healing. You’ll implement Blooming Willow Coaching’s signature Healing Centered Coaching® model that enables clients to Pause, Ground, Align, and Act in the liberating processes of growth and healing.
Who is the Black Women Coach Conductor Program For?
Are You a Self-Identifying Black Woman Ready to Lead?
Do you dream of liberation for all?
Are you committed to serving your community?
Have you been searching for a safe space to heal and grow?
Do you feel called to step into your power as a visionary or mentor?
If you answered “yes,” the Black Women Coach Conductor Certification was made for YOU.
For generations, Black women have been the backbone of our communities—guides, healers, and changemakers. This program is your space to grow, heal, and lead with purpose, all while honoring your humanity.
Step into your power. Create the change you were born to lead.
Your time is now.
Watch A Testimonial from an Alumni
Interested in learning more? Register for a free information session with Master Coach Leslie Avant Brown
admin@bloomingwillow.com
Fall 2026 Black Women Coach Conductor Program Enrollment Details
DURATION: 6 Months • October 3, 2026 — March 27, 2027
LOCATION: Virtual
STUDENTS & FACULTY: Self-Identifying Black Women
TELECLASS SCHEDULE:
First and Last Saturday Class 9 AM - 1 PM PST
All other Saturdays 9 AM - 11 AM PST
PARTICIPANTS: 24 Maximum
EXCEPTIONS: Students are able to miss and make up 15 hours of the required virtual classes
Application Deadline: Apply by September 28, 2026
INVESTMENT: $7,000 USD
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT: Register and pay the full tuition by June 2026 to receive a $1000 discount, or register and pay the full tuition by July 2026 for a $500 discount.
Financing and Autopayment plans for the Black Women Coach Conductors Certification Program Is Available
CONDUCTOR PROGRAM POLICIES
In compliance with ICF regulations, we request that all individuals interested view the current Conductor Program Policies
76-Hour International Coaching Federation Accredited Program Components:
20 Hours of Reading, Practice Coaching, Portfolio Assignments, and Video Reviews [Per Month]
22 Live Virtual Learning Sessions [2 Half-Day Sessions and 20 2-Hour Sessions]
20 (30-minute) Practice Coaching Sessions Completed with Peers and Community Clients Outside of Class [4 Month Monthly]
10 Mentor Sessions [3 one-on-one Individual and 7 Group]
5 Coaching Portfolio Assignments [1 Per Month]
Pass the Healing Centered Coaching Oral Competency Assessment • Score 70% or higher
Students being considered for the program may be invited to participate in an interview with Conductors Alumni or Faculty prior to admission. We use a rolling admissions process for this cohort and the application pool will close once the cohort has been filled.
Black Women Conductors Alumni Reveal Top 4 Impacts of the Conductor’s Coaching Program
Enhanced Coaching Skills
Participants will gain culturally relevant tools and strategies tailored to the lived experiences of Black women. These skills will empower them to support their clients in achieving transformative growth while addressing the unique challenges faced by their communities.Sustainable Growth
Through a focus on wellness, self-care, and leadership, participants experienced personal transformation while fostering a sense of collective empowerment and resilience within a supportive sisterhood.Strengthened Leadership
Participants developed leadership skills to engage healing-centered practices, becoming advocates for healing centered coaching approaches in their industries and communities.Deepened Network
Through a vibrant community of Black women coaches, participants forged meaningful connections, exchanged experiences, and collaborated to amplify their collective impact. Together, they laid the foundation for a lasting legacy of empowerment, success, and sustainability.
Black Women Coach Conductors Fall 2026 Schedule
October 2026
Welcome to Healing Centered Coaching Core Competencies & Coach's Stand
Asking Powerful Questions
Engaged Listening, Curiosity, Interrupting & Acknowledgment
Group Mentor Session - Core Competencies Focus 1 - 7
November 2026
Healing Centered Coaching Mindset, Pausing & Supporting Safety
Supporting Safety, Opening, Grounding & Expanding the Session
Group Mentor Session: Module 1&2 Competencies Focus: 3 Agendas 1 - 16
December 2026
Gathering and Clarifying the Client’s Agenda
Exploring the 3 Agendas, Respecting the Client & Expanding the View
Group Mentor Session: Module 3-I Competencies Focus: Play 1 - 22
January 2027
Visioning, Metaphors & Analogies
Inviting Play to Support Clarity
Exploring Limiting Beliefs & the Internal Community
Group Mentor Session: Module 3-II Competencies Focus 1 - 27
February 2027
Accessing Inner Wisdom and Power
Supporting Pausing, Reflection, and Meaning Makeing
Supporting Pausing and Identifying Goals for Action
Group Mentor Session - Module 4+ Competencies Focus 1 - 30
March 2027
Co-Designing Healing Centered North Star Goals & Accountability
Community Conversation & Practice & Exploring Action - Expanding the View
Group Mentor Session - Module 4+ Competencies Focus 1 - 30
Community Celebration & Reflection + Teach Back
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Principal Owner
Leslie Avant-Brown, Conductor# 1, is an innovator, facilitator, coach and thought leader within movement work. Her relentless desire to fuel systems change in support of vulnerable communities has changed the fabric of this work. With her down to earth demeanor, she brings a unique mix of laughter, curiosity, healing, creativity and strategy to support conductors of change – those who are designing innovative strategies that benefit future generations. She believes that moving beyond traditional leadership approaches will revolutionize the way that people work and thrive. “I have dedicated my life to supporting communities to build trust, identify new leadership, increase diversity of voice and choice, incorporate growth and healing strategies and build sustainably. I do this because I know, what we plant today will bloom tomorrow”
In 2016, through a partnership with Beyond Emancipation, her CCRW Coaching Model (focused on foster and probation youth) received the notorious International Coaching Federation Prism Award Honorable Mention (Coming 2nd only to Coca-Cola Russia) for its innovative design supporting culture change. She went on to support the development of an ICF Accredited, Community Coaching Certification Program at Leadership that Works, the first of its kind. Through this pioneering effort, she certified over 100 coaches in this new community accreditation, radically shifting how communities are supported through coaching.
Leslie serves as CEO at her firm Blooming Willow Coaching, a culturally relevant, Healing Centered Coaching practice that allows her to partner with individuals, organizations and businesses. Her specialization areas include “all things” coaching including: one-on-one and group coaching, coaching facilitation, coach training, and designing sustainable coaching models that support growth and healing in communities.
Previously, she worked as the International Program Director for Leadership that Works, and supported the development, implementation and facilitation of cutting edge coaching programs that supported value-driven transformation in India, Europe and the United States.
Prior to earning her coaching certification Leslie worked in the nonprofit capacity building sector, supporting work that promoted social justice -- she has a background in leadership development and evaluation. “What brought me to the field of coaching was the idea of supporting deep change while aligning my strengths to support conductors of change.”
Leslie received her professional coaching certification through Leadership that Works and holds a Master of Public Administration from the University of Michigan. In her free time, Leslie enjoys finding new adventures, spending time with her wife, belly laughing, eating delicious food and of course creating!!
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Feedback Mentor
Like a rocket, Nicky's coaching is the vessel that clients access when a much broader perspective is required. From a more spacious point of view, clients get to see their full operating systems--the world and themselves in it. By observing from different angles clients are better positioned to see options, opportunities, limiting beliefs and the way forward.
For over 21 years, Nicky has been exploring the impact of our systems- and rule-based society on individuals. As a workshop facilitator, coaching trainer, department supervisor and program manager, she has designed empowerment curricula centered on internal capacity building, culture change, leadership and healing for organizations.
As a Professional Certified Coach (trained in Transformational Life Coaching and Healing Centered Community Coaching), Nicky considers herself to be an intuitive partner, a wise ally and a reflector of the space between what you didn't know then and what you do know now. She brings a sense of wonder and curiosity to every session.
Nicky's coaching opens space for traditional and non-traditional leaders to slow down and catch up to themselves, to explore needs, to envision success and to create fresh boundaries and agreements before taking brave steps forward.
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Feedback Mentor
Based out of the Bay Area, California, DeShauna received her Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology, with additional coursework in Forensic Psychology. During this time, DeShauna also began working for a non-profit agency that contracts with Alameda County Social Services supporting foster youth with navigating self-sufficiency. After working in this field, she realized that the core of our problems and stress often correlate with symptoms in our bodies. Starting with self, she decided to challenge her mind, body and spiritual alignment by beginning an Ashtanga yoga practice. Also, she discovered life coaching, which quickly became an important tool in all clientcentered and leadership work. This allowed her connections with others to become more than just a mentorship, but a partnership in their goals.
Through self-discoveries in yoga and coaching, DeShauna resolved to deepen the mind/body connection and received her 250-hour Teacher Training Certification (Power Vinyasa & Yoga Sculpt). DeShauna also realizes that mastering the “self” is a lifelong path, yet the journey there is where meaningful experience happens. In June 2018, she became a certified transformational coach through Leadership that Works and uses somatic tools to support individuals with bringing their authentic selves to the surface. DeShauna will also earn her 300-hour Teacher Training (continued yoga education) in December 2021. Her ultimate goal is to create a connection with individuals throughout their personal journey, with the hopes of helping to empower them to reach their desired destinations. DeShauna believes “Health is a state of body and wellness is a state existence.”
During DeShauna’s spare time she enjoys spending time with her husband, daughter, animals (she has a dog, cat, gecko, fishes) and different species of plants as well as geodes.