About Us & Our ICF Accredited Coaching Programs
Discover our mission, dedicated team, and unique training philosophy aimed at empowering coaches through ethical and insightful practices.
Trusted, Robust, ICF Accredited Coaching Programs
Coach Approach Training Institute (CATI) is a premier, educational institution founded in 2006, renowned for its excellence in providing rigorous training that creates synergies between neurodiversity, organizing, productivity, and leadership coach training. Offering a comprehensive range of more than 20 courses and 9 professional credentials, CATI stands out for its rigorous curriculum, highly decorated instructors, and unparalleled return on investment. Our graduates are empowered to deliver strengths-based, effective strategies for clients with ADHD, autism, and other executive function challenges, equipping them with the skills to enhance productivity, organization, and life management.
Led by pioneering industry thought leaders and award-winning trainers, our ICF Accredited Coaching programs reflect deep expertise and real-world insights that are highly valued by students and peers alike.
Whether you’re a new coach or a seasoned professional seeking specialized training or continuing education, CATI is the trusted choice for those committed to making a meaningful difference in the lives of neurodiverse individuals. At CATI, we align passion and purpose with the tools for our graduates to support their clients in creating a life that fits.
VISION STATEMENT
The coaches we nurture, and the clients they serve play a dynamic role in healing and restoring the wholeness of the Earth and its people.
Our Mission for Training
We provide high-quality, rigorous coach training and certification programs for organizing professionals, productivity consultants, advocacy, mental health, education, and other related professionals. We create safe, supportive learning environments that are inclusive and respectful of people across differences of gender, race, class, size, culture, ability, and modalities.
Our training is grounded in classic coaching skills and processes (ICF). We specialize in teaching coaching strategies that support neurodiverse clients, in the areas of life, personal organization, productivity, and leadership.
We strive to create coach training that models the values the coaching process and competencies inspire. By creating training environments that affirm differences and pausing to listen to and learn from each voice in the room, we (trainers and participants) will have opportunities to grow in our understanding of community — and unlearn internalized bias.
Our Mission for Coaches and Clients
We advocate for individual self-awareness–specifically, understanding what matters most to each person, how their brain learns, and what they need.
We are aware that variations in cognitive functioning are natural. Nonetheless, many people have experienced and may have internalized the disabling and marginalizing impact of living in a society based on neurotypical needs and expectations.
We advance client self-knowledge by offering accurate brain-based information with permission, clarity, and integrity. We encourage people to consider other sources of information and support. We maintain a respectful, compassionate detachment in these exchanges, knowing each client is the best judge of the relevance and value of offered observations and information.
We encourage client metacognition and self-compassion–to learn from experimenting and curious accountability.
We are honored to witness the soul-informed growth of individuals who have identified and are connected to their personal best ways of being, learning, thinking, accomplishing, and expressing.
We self-manage coaching power imbalances with agreements, vulnerability, transparency, collaboration, and support so that each client learns to self-advocate, grow in independence, and know themselves as the leaders of their life journey.
Our Core Values
Trust
Academic Rigor
Respect
Inclusivity
Flexibility
Accountability
Expertise
Dependability
Relationships
Years of Coaching
Combined years of experience
in the coaching industry.
Years of Teaching
Combined years of teaching at Coach Approach.
Students Served
A diverse range of individuals
since our founding in 2006.
Credentials Awarded
From one of the 9 professional certifications we offer.
We believe that the natural range of human neurodiversity poses unique challenges, even as it offers critical strengths and gifts to our world. More than simply offering tools to manage dilemmas, disorder, self-doubt, labels, or the implications of diagnoses, we equip our students to support, celebrate, and elevate the whole person and who they are – honoring the natural creativity, routines, passions, and environments that support a holistic and singular human experience. With confidence, clarity, and dignity, we commit to empowering future coaches in supporting those they serve to go forth and unapologetically create…
A Life That Fits
Our History
In the Beginning
A career evolution
2024
New Leadership
In early 2024 Denslow began conversations with CAT graduate and instructor Sara Skillen, PCC, COLC, CNC, CPO® (herself a professional organizer and coach) about transitioning out of her ownership and leadership role. Through an aligned and intuitively-informed process, they met weekly to co-design how such a transition would occur, and Sara began learning the many responsibilities of leading and operating an accredited coach training program. In July of 2024, they made it official, with the support of trainers, staff, students, and friends of the program. As part of the transition process, CAT-IAC became Coach Approach Training Institute.
What Our Students Say About Us and Our Courses
