The Learning Coach Professional Program
Develop the professional judgment to guide learning, coaching, and capability development in practice.
Delivered through Learning Coach College, with assessment and qualification awarded by Learnivation (RTO 45570). A practical professional pathway — not a theory-first qualification — for people responsible for developing others in workplaces, teams, organisations, and learning environments.
Learn to coach. Learn to mentor.
Design learning that works.
Modern learning environments require professionals who can move confidently between coaching, mentoring, and education while understanding when each approach is most effective. The Learning Coach Professional Program develops the capability to guide learning intentionally, structure meaningful development experiences, support professional growth, and translate learning into real-world capability.
Developing others requires coaching, mentoring, and education — together.
Coaching teaches you not to advise. Mentoring teaches you to share experience. Education teaches you to transfer knowledge. This program builds the professional judgment to know when to coach, when to mentor, when to teach, and how to integrate these approaches intentionally and ethically.
Pure Coaching Mastery
Learn how to guide without stepping in too quickly.
Client Intelligence
Develop the ability to understand learners and respond to what they need in the moment.
Adaptive Application
Learn how to move fluidly between coaching, mentoring, and structured learning.
A professional capability development pathway.
For people responsible for guiding the learning and growth of others. The program integrates coaching, mentoring, learning design, facilitation, leadership development, reflective practice, and applied workplace learning.
Participants develop practical capability through real-world application, guided practice, reflective learning, professional conversations, and structured implementation — using real situations and applied work as the foundation for development.
Built around application, reflection, and professional growth.
The focus is not simply on understanding concepts — it is on developing professional judgment and capability through practice. Participants experience:
- Live learning conversations
- One-on-one coaching and mentoring
- Collaborative learning environments
- Applied workplace practice and supervision
- Reflective professional discussions and real-world implementation
Four missions that build professional capability.
Pure Coaching
Guide without taking over — ask questions that expand thinking, hold space without over-directing, and support individuals to find their own answers.
Strategic Mentoring
Know when and how to introduce your expertise — share experience intentionally, guide without creating dependency, and balance listening with leadership.
Adaptive Design
Structure learning around real people and real work — design learning experiences, adapt to different individuals and teams, and move beyond content delivery.
Professional Integration
Bring coaching, mentoring, and learning design together in real or simulated environments while building a portfolio of applied evidence.
Capability you can apply immediately.
Participants graduate with more than theoretical knowledge — they leave with a structured, repeatable professional approach and evidence of real-world capability.
- A structured and repeatable professional approach
- Applied coaching and learning experience
- Stronger professional judgment
- Confidence facilitating growth in others
- Coaching session evidence and designed learning frameworks
- Reflective practice documentation and capability portfolios
Professional growth does not happen in isolation.
The program creates a collaborative professional learning environment where participants share insights, reflect together, learn from real experiences, and strengthen their practice through professional dialogue — through group coaching, peer learning, and applied learning conversations.
The program encourages curiosity, adaptability, ethical practice, and continuous professional growth.
Designed to integrate into your professional role.
Duration
12–18 months, flexible to participant schedules.
Delivery
Online delivery integrating live sessions, applied practice, and ongoing support.
Applied Practice
Coach individual clients, facilitate group coaching, design learning programs, and apply capability in real or simulated environments.
The program may include live online sessions, one-on-one coaching conversations, group learning experiences, applied workplace practice, reflective activities, professional supervision and feedback, portfolio development, and structured implementation tasks.
BSB80120 Graduate Diploma in Management (Learning)
Participants may work toward nationally recognised outcomes through Learnivation. Pathways may include recognition of existing capability, blended development, and applied assessment based on demonstrated professional practice.
How you’re assessed
Portfolio evidence, workplace application, coaching and facilitation evidence, reflective practice, and demonstrated capability in professional environments.
What you graduate with
The nationally recognised qualification plus a professional Learning Coach credential reflecting your ability to guide learning intentionally and effectively.
Professionals responsible for developing capability in others.
This program is not designed for passive learning. It is designed for professionals willing to apply, reflect, adapt, and grow through practice.
Educators, trainers, and assessors
Coaches and mentors
Learning & development professionals
Team leaders and managers
Onboarding and workplace trainers
Organisational capability professionals
Professionals moving into leadership roles
Anyone turning expertise into learning experiences
Two ways in, one nationally recognised outcome.
Recognition Pathway
Use your current work as the foundation for your qualification. Existing capability and evidence are assessed and recognised.
Development Pathway
Build your capability through guided practice and structured scenarios, with applied assessment based on demonstrated capability.
Duration
12–18 months, flexible to your schedule.
Delivery
Online, combining live 1:1 and group sessions, applied practice, and ongoing feedback.
Investment
Payment plans available. Full fee details provided on enquiry, and funding options may be available depending on your circumstances.
Units of competency
BSB80120 Graduate Diploma of Management (Learning) is made up of 8 units — 3 core and 5 elective. Electives are selected with you to suit your role and context, and confirmed at enrolment.
Core units
Elective units
Elective units may vary to meet individual, workplace, and industry requirements. Full unit details are published on the national register at training.gov.au (BSB80120).
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BSB80120 · 2 pages — what’s covered, the four missions, pathways & investment.
Develop capability that changes how others learn.
Coach with intention. Mentor with judgment. Design learning that works in practice.