The Red Team Coaching Bronze Certification (Level 2), provides additional 33 hours of live learning and access to additional 6 Red Team Coaching tools. While Red Team Coaching (Level 1) builds a solid foundation in critical thinking and decision-making, Bronze Certification goes further, and includes powerful techniques like Argument Dissection™, Toyota’s Five Whys, and Influencer Engineering™, helping coaches overcome advanced decision-making barriers, such as logical fallacies, and allowing for more strategic, systemic work with clients.

By completing both levels, you’ll receive a seamless, progressive learning experience that builds upon Level 1’s foundation with Level 2’s advanced skills, earning you Bronze Certified Red Team Coach designation.

Red Team Coaching Bronze Certification is open to anyone who has successfully completed the Red Team Coaching (Level 1) course.

In RTC Bronze Certification, you will learn 6 new tools:

Argument Dissection™: This valuable technique will enable you to help their clients objectively assess and evaluate proposals, plans, and strategies to uncover not only unconscious bias, but also conscious attempts to skew decision-making in favor of a particular course of action.

Toyota’s Five Whys: This proven tool is used by some of the most successful companies and leaders in the world to understand the root causes of problems in order to address them effectively.

Outside-in Analysis: This tool was created to help identify and understand the way that macro events – things like the economy, geopolitics, socio political issues, new technologies, and other external factors – impact our plans and strategies so that we can think more strategically and plan more effectively.

Influencer Engineering™: This is designed to identify the different internal and external stakeholders that could impact plans and strategies positively or negatively, as well as the relative level of influence that each is capable of exerting, in order to blunt the opposition of potential adversaries and enlist the support of potential allies.

Four Ways of Seeing: Used in conjunction with Influencer Engineering, this tool helps clients see how their actions, plans, and strategies are viewed by key stakeholders and consider their perspectives as well as their own.

C-Change™: This proprietary tool was developed by Red Team Thinking to help those responsible for implementing plans and strategies identify the disconnects the stated objectives and the actual execution in order to close those gaps and achieve the desired out.

Red Team Coaching Bronze Certification is a 9-week course consisting of 6 modules. Modules 1-6 will consist of:

• Pre-work (60-min)
• 1 Module Session (120-min)
• 1 Practicum Session(120-min)

Both the Module and Practicum sessions will be delivered in the same week to ensure you have an opportunity to apply what you learn in each Module session while it is still fresh in your mind.

In addition, in Week 3 and Week 6, there will be a 60-min Office Hours session for addressing questions and sharing experiences and insights.

You can check the complete course schedule here.

To be successful in the course, expect to invest around 4-5 hours per week on Module weeks, for a total of 33 hours across the total of 9 weeks in the period from April 14th to June 12th, 2025.

Each module includes about 1 hour of pre-work, a 2-hour Module session, and a 2-hour Practicum session. Additionally, in Weeks 3 and 7, there isn’t any pre-work, just the 60-minute Office Hour sessions for answering questions and sharing insights.

This schedule combines live sessions with independent work to allow for both interactive and flexible learning.

Yes, all Module and Office Hour sessions are recorded and available within 48 hours, accessible in the Learning Center. Practicum sessions, however, are not recorded.

In Practicum sessions, you’ll apply tools learned in weekly Module sessions, practice coaching, and receive peer feedback in small learning groups, fostering a community of support and learning.

To graduate and earn the Bronze Certified Red Team Coaching designation, you must:

• Complete all the pre-work;
• Attend or watch all 6 Module sessions;
• Attend 5 out 6 Practicum sessions;
• Complete the Final Assessment (with 100% accuracy).

Graduates of Red Team Coaching will receive the Bronze Certified Red Team Coach title.

You don’t need to do anything to uphold your designation. Once you’ve earned it by completing the course and meeting the graduation requirements, your designation is yours to keep without the need for renewal or additional actions.

Yes, Red Team Coaching is accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), awarding 33 Continuing Coach Education (CCE) Units, broken into 20.5 Core Competencies (CC) and 12.5 Resource Development (RD) Units.

Credits become eligible upon meeting the minimum graduation requirements.

Yes! The Red Team Coaching course is accredited by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) getting you a 33 Professional Development Credits (PDCs).

Credits become eligible upon meeting the minimum graduation requirements.