Health coaching wasn’t designed for work. Until now.
Work shapes health. - so health coaching should be built specifically for work. Get certified and coach confidently across the domains of health, safety, rehabilitation, wellbeing, sustainability, and leadership.
Places are filling quickly.
AI, climate change, cost of living pressures and changing worker expectations are reshaping how people work, lead, recover and adapt.
And the pressure is showing.
In Australia, mental health conditions accounted for 17,600 serious workers’ compensation claims in 2023-24, with a median 35.7 weeks of work lost per claim (1)
Globally, only 20% of employees are engaged at work, with low engagement estimated to cost the world economy US$10 trillion in lost productivity
AI is changing work rapidly, and 1 in 3 employees say they’re struggling to keep up (3).
The capabilities we need now - wellbeing, coaching, leadership, systems thinking, psychosocial risk literacy, climate adaptation and regenerative practice - have historically been taught in silos. Until now.
Kinwork’s Occupational Health Coach Certification brings ICF aligned coaching, workplace health, systems thinking and regenerative practice together into one bespoke program for the first time.
Our training equips new and experienced coach practitioners to support healthier people, stronger organisations and more sustainable ways of working - not by treating wellbeing as an individual problem, but by understanding the relationship between people, work, systems, sustainability, and the wider world.
We like to think of it as becoming a certified coach for people and planet positive work - and given the health of our people and planet, there has never been a more important time to begin.
We combined health coaching with leadership and sustainability coaching - and built the coaching model work has been missing.
This is occupational health coaching for the future of work.
Get in-demand capability
EMPOWER INDIVIDUALS
Support people to build clarity, agency, and resilience as they navigate work and life transitions.
ALIGN PEOPLE TO THE RIGHT ROLES
Elevate fit between people, roles, capacity, values, and organisational needs.
STRENGTHEN RESILIENCE
Use evidence-based coaching to develop emotional, cognitive, relational, and systems-level resilience.
ADDRESS PSYCHOSOCIAL RISK
Use coaching-informed approaches to recognise work-related stressors, strengthen protective factors, and support healthier work.
EMBED SUSTAINABILITY
Help individuals and organisations integrate people and planet positive thinking into everyday decisions, behaviours, and systems
IMPROVE TEAM COHESION
Help teams improve clarity, focus, energy, and practices so they can do better work without unnecessary strain, rework, or burnout.
Help people and organisations adapt in ways that strengthen agency, connection, wellbeing and sustainable capability at work.
What you will learn
Occupational Health Coaching: Professional Practice Foundations
Build the professional clarity to coach confidently at the intersection of work and health. You will explore what makes occupational health coaching distinct, why it matters and how to practise safely within complex workplace and organisational systems.
YOU WILL LEARN TO
Define occupational health coaching and explain its value.
Support healthier work and sustainable participation across the workspan.
Coach with curiosity, autonomy and non-judgement.
Distinguish coaching from therapy, consulting, rehabilitation and WHS/OHS practice.
Navigate workplace, health and organisational systems.
Set safe boundaries and make appropriate scope, referral and escalation decisions.
Practise ethically using regenerative and systems-aware perspectives.
Coaching, Communication and Relational Skills
Develop the presence and communication skills to build safe, trusting and client-centred coaching relationships across the complexities of health, work and life.
YOU WILL LEARN TO
Build trust, connection and psychological safety.
Listen deeply and ask questions that create insight.
Structure purposeful conversations around clear goals.
Communicate in ways that strengthen autonomy and agency.
Work sensitively with vulnerability, distress and uncertainty.
Coach inclusively across cultures, neurodiversity and life stages.
Navigate power, sponsorship and relational boundaries.
Law, Ethics, Scope and Safe Practice
Build the professional judgement to navigate legal duties, ethical tensions, confidentiality, sponsorship and risk in complex workplace coaching situations.
YOU WILL LEARN TO
Understand the legal obligations relevant to workplace coaching.
Establish informed consent and transparent agreements.
Manage confidentiality and role clarity across funded and collaborative arrangements.
Keep appropriate records using minimum necessary documentation.
Distinguish coaching from clinical care, case management and consulting.
Recognise when to pause, refer, escalate or seek supervision.
Apply legal and ethical judgement in realistic, complex situations.
Behaviour Change and Systems-Aware Coaching
Explore how motivation, habits, work conditions and organisational systems shape health and behaviour. Learn to support sustainable change without placing responsibility for systemic problems on the individual.
YOU WILL LEARN TO
Apply behaviour-change principles in occupational health coaching.
Work with readiness, motivation, ambivalence and self-efficacy.
Support habits and routines that sustain change.
Understand how work and health influence one another.
Explore work ability, job demands and sustainable participation.
Recognise patterns across people, jobs, teams and organisations.
Identify practical leverage points without individualising systemic problems.
Integrative Health and Wellbeing Foundations
Explore how health, work, daily practices and wider determinants interact. Learn to support wellbeing, self-management and sustainable participation while remaining firmly within coaching scope.
YOU WILL LEARN TO
View health through a whole-person, integrative lens.
Understand the determinants shaping health across work and life.
Support self-management and sustainable behaviour change.
Explore sleep, stress, movement, nutrition and recovery.
Recognise common health issues affecting work and wellbeing.
Understand function, capacity and participation across the workspan.
Coach inclusively while remaining within professional scope.
Workplace Mental Health and Inclusive Coaching Practice
Build the mental health literacy and relational capability to coach safely across vulnerability, trauma, neurodiversity and difference - without stepping beyond your professional scope.
YOU WILL LEARN TO
Understand how mental health influences work and participation.
Recognise common presentations affecting coaching conversations.
Apply trauma-informed principles of safety, trust and choice.
Respond sensitively to distress and fluctuating capacity.
Coach inclusively across identities, experiences and neurodiversity.
Navigate stigma, disclosure and workplace context.
Maintain role clarity and know when to refer or escalate.
Rehabilitation and Return to Work Coaching Foundations
Learn to support recovery, confidence and sustainable participation while navigating changing capacity, stakeholder relationships and the boundaries of coaching practice.
YOU WILL LEARN TO
Understand coaching’s role in rehabilitation and return to work.
Support safe, person-centred and sustainable work participation.
Recognise factors shaping recovery, identity, confidence and function.
Strengthen motivation and self-efficacy through changing capacity.
Support pacing, adjustments and realistic return planning.
Collaborate confidently across the rehabilitation ecosystem.
Maintain scope and know when to refer or escalate.
Healthy Work Design Across the Workspan
Explore how job demands, workplace conditions, life stages and changing capacity shape health. Learn to support healthier ways of working without individualising systemic problems.
YOU WILL LEARN TO
Understand how work design influences health and participation.
Recognise harmful and protective workplace conditions.
Connect work demands, capacity and ability across the workspan.
Support people through changing life and career stages.
Distinguish individual, relational, job design and systemic issues.
Coach for healthier boundaries, recovery and work patterns.
Know when to collaborate, refer or escalate concerns.
Coaching for the Future of Work: Climate, AI and Sustainable Participation
Explore how climate change, AI and evolving business models are reshaping worker health. Learn to support adaptation and sustainable participation without shifting systemic responsibility onto individuals.
YOU WILL LEARN TO
Understand how climate change is reshaping work and health.
Recognise the impacts of heat, disruption and displacement.
Support recovery and participation through climate-related strain.
Explore how AI is changing work and worker experience.
Coach through uncertainty, fatigue and role disruption.
Understand sustainable and regenerative models of work.
Support agency and adaptation through a systems-aware lens.
Professional Practice Labs and Supervised Coaching
Integrate your learning through live coaching, realistic simulations, observation and structured feedback. Build the confidence and professional judgement to coach safely in real-world work and health contexts.
YOU WILL LEARN TO
Practise core skills in supported live coaching labs.
Coach across realistic work, health and rehabilitation scenarios.
Receive structured feedback on observed coaching sessions.
Integrate communication, behaviour change, ethics and scope.
Apply boundaries, referral and escalation with sound judgement.
Strengthen self-awareness through reflection and self-assessment.
Demonstrate your readiness through practical assessment.
AI alone is rapidly reshaping the way we work - but most organisations haven’t built the human capability required to respond safely or sustainably.
Occupational health coaching directly addresses this gap.
Coach training aligned to international standards and global best practice.
Certified Coaches support:
Individual agency and organisational capability
Wellbeing and sustainable performance
People and planet positive outcomes
This is coaching embedded into decision-making, leadership practice, and everyday work design, building capability that endures, rather than relying on short-term wellbeing initiatives to buffer the impacts of work as it evolves.
Kinwork’s Occupational Health Coaching Certification is grounded in:
ICF coaching principles
Australian and international health coaching standards, and
Best practice systems and regenerative thinking.
We equip you with core coaching capability to work confidently at the intersection of health, leadership, and systems of work.
Be part of the innovative new program that redefines coaching at work
Discover why it’s important to develop your coaching skills now
The pace of change at work is no longer episodic - it’s constant. Organisations are navigating climate transition, AI adoption, hybrid work models, shifting regulations, and rising psychosocial risks simultaneously. This isn’t just fast - it’s complex, systemic, and unpredictable.
Burnout and stress are no longer fringe issues. Recent data shows that most employees around the world report work-related stress, with up to 77% of workers saying they felt stressed at work in the last month and a majority experiencing chronic stress and burnout symptoms (1). In Australia, around 61% of workers report burnout, with 60% of absenteeism linked to stress (2), highlighting the real cost to productivity and wellbeing.
Employee engagement - a key driver of performance - also remains alarmingly low, with only about one in three workers actively engaged at work (3). Disengagement erodes performance, innovation, retention, and organisational resilience.
These patterns are signals of systems under pressure, not individual failure. Yet most leadership, health, career, and climate adaptation skills continue to be developed in isolation, leaving practitioners under-prepared to support people and influence the way work is designed and led.
In this context, coaching capability is no longer a ‘nice to have’. It is essential - equipping practitioners to strengthen agency, support adaptation, and build capability that helps individuals and organisations navigate complexity, maintain performance, and thrive in a rapidly evolving world of work.
References
1) American Psychological Association (2023), 2023 Work in America Survey
2) Mental Health First Aid (2023), Navigating Burnout
3) Gallup (2020), US Employee Engagement Reverts Back To Pre-COVID-19 Levels
Climate impacts, laws and transitions are already shaping how we work - and the health impacts are already visible.
Join the first occupational health coaching program to integrate green skills, climate-health literacy and systems-aware coaching. Learn to support safer adaptation, sustainable participation and people and planet positive work.
Occupational Health Coach Certification
Our course is for you if:
you believe work should support people, communities, and the planet
you want to integrate health, leadership, and systems thinking into the performance of work
you value evidence, standards, and ethical practice
you are open to reflection, feedback, and ongoing development
you see coaching as a lever for meaningful, systems-level change
This includes emerging coaches, health and wellbeing professionals, leaders, HR/OHS practitioners, and those transitioning into purpose-driven work.
Our course may not be for you if:
you’re looking for a quick certification without practice or depth
you’re interested only in surface-level wellbeing initiatives
you see coaching as purely transactional or profit-driven
you’re unwilling to engage in reflection, learning, or assessment
you’re not interested in people and planet-positive outcomes
We’re building a profession - not a shortcut.
About Kinwork
Kinwork is a social enterprise building the next generation of workplace coaches.
We translate global best practice into human capability - through coaching and education that works in the real world of work.
Our approach is informed by:
evidence-based health and occupational guidance (WHO, ILO)
coaching principles aligned with ICF standards
climate science (IPCC)
regenerative frameworks such as B Corp, Doughnut Economics, and the Wellbeing Economy Alliance.
This is coaching for people and planet positive work.
Places in the first intake are limited. Join the wait list now to:
be the first to know when enrolments open
access early release pricing and bonuses
secure priority access to the program.