Natural Leadership Equine Therapy or Coaching Certification Program

Virtual Course with Live Support and in-person Equine Experiences

Next cohort beginning October 4th, 2025!

Limited to 8 participants to ensure personalized attention.

Your clients come to you feeling disconnected—from themselves, their bodies, and their authentic power. In our increasingly digital and fast-paced world, they're searching for something real, something that can't be found in another app or online course. This 5-month hybrid certification gives you the tools to guide them back to their embodied wisdom through the profound mirror of horse-human connection.

Upon registering, you will have access to original Natural Leadership content, which will provide a basic overview of the model, how to use it to better understand yourself, and how you can begin to bring the model to life in your personal and/or professional relationships.

Natural Leadership Accelerated Coaching Certification Program

Pricing options

Pay in full now or pay monthly - you choose!

As a coach or therapist, you've likely noticed how your clients struggle with:

  • Overwhelming anxiety from constant connectivity
  • Difficulty accessing their intuition amidst information overload
  • Challenges with authentic self-expression in curated digital spaces
  • Disconnection from their bodies and embodied wisdom
  • Burnout from performing rather than simply being

Horses offer what no other modality can—immediate, honest feedback about our authentic presence. They don't respond to our stories, credentials, or carefully constructed personas. They respond only to who we are in this moment, making them the perfect partners for breakthrough transformation.

The Neuroscience of Presence

  • Evidence-based understanding of horse-human interaction

  • How equine-assisted work rewires stress responses

  • Somatic techniques that create lasting change

  • Working with the nervous system for deeper healing

Natural Leadership Framework

  • Our proven model refined over 20+ years with thousands of clients

  • Moving beyond cognitive insight to embodied transformation

  • Creating safe containers for profound breakthrough moments

  • Integration practices that ensure lasting change

Advanced Facilitation Skills

  • Confidently incorporating horses into your existing practice

  • Reading the subtle dynamics between horses and clients

  • Managing safety while allowing for authentic experience

  • Working with resistance and breakthrough moments

Building Your Equine-Assisted Practice

  • Adding this unique differentiator to your service offerings

  • Pricing and positioning for premium value

  • Finding horse partners in your area

  • Creating programs from one-on-one sessions to group retreats

Program Structure Designed for Busy Practitioners

  • Over 50 Hours of Instruction

    This hybrid course features over 20 hours of direct instruction over Zoom and over 30 hours of equine-assisted instruction.

  • Virtual Instruction

    Our team will provide direct instruction and opportunities to work with Natural Leadership Principles during Zoom calls and on Slack.

  • Two Equine Experiences

    During two separate, in-person, 2-day equine-assisted workshops, participate in hands-on learning and apply Natural Leadership principles.

  • Course Length

    This is an approximately 4-month long hybrid virtual course that features engaging exercises, two Zoom calls per module, and two equine-assisted workshops.

  • Materials

    Using a combination of reading materials, audio and video content, and exercises you will learn about, apply and integrate Natural Leadership.

  • Support & Mentoring

    Our team will provide coaching, support and mentoring through the Cohort's private Slack Channel, Zoom calls, and at the Equine Experience Workshops.

Perfect for Practitioners Who

  • Sense their clients need something deeper than talk therapy or traditional coaching

  • Want to differentiate their practice in meaningful ways

  • Believe in the wisdom of the body and somatic approaches

  • Are drawn to nature-based healing modalities

  • Seek evidence-based methods that honor both science and soul

  • Want to work with high-performing clients dealing with modern stressors

  • Are ready to deepen their own embodied presence

Our graduates aren't just certified—they're transformed.

They report:

  • Increased client retention and referrals

  • Ability to charge premium rates for unique services

  • Deeper, faster breakthroughs with clients

  • Personal transformation that enhances all their work

  • Access to a global network of innovative practitioners

Pricing options

Pay in full now or pay monthly - you choose!

Begin Your Journey This September

Join a carefully curated cohort of coaches and therapists ready to bring this transformative work into the world. Together, we'll explore how horses can help our clients—and ourselves—reclaim the authentic presence that no amount of digital innovation can replace.

Limited to 16 participants to ensure personalized attention.

Instructor

Brad Lande-Shannon

Owner, Head Leadership Coach

A long-time C-suite executive himself, Brad Lande-Shannon has a first-hand understanding of the pressures and stresses that face company founders, leaders, and high performance teams. This is partly why he first turned to Natural Leadership as he faced his own professional challenges.

Brad's passion for horses has been a life-long pursuit. Having competed with the National Cutting Horse Association as a youth and now as an adult amateur dressage competitor, he’s combined his deep horse expertise with his executive leadership coaching. Over the course of his career, Brad has guided thousands of leaders on values, purpose, emotional intelligence, and well-being.

Certified in the 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership and following training from The Center for Equus Coaching (formerly The Koelle Institute), Brad enrolled in the Natural Leadership program. Compared to other programs, Brad says Natural Leadership is, “deceptively simple and multi-dimensional in its use cases to apply and teach.”

Brad has an equestrian facility that offers Natural Leadership facilitation, coaching and programming at Awake Ranch, near Portland, Oregon, which he acquired with his husband in late 2022. “We are home to 16 horses, three goats, and two cats surrounded by Pacific Northwest trees and on farmland that regularly displays exquisite sunset and sunrise views.”

To complete the course for certification, you will:

  • Complete all of the learning modules.

  • Complete all of the exercises.

  • Attend at least 75% of the Community Gathering Zoom calls.

  • Attend two onsite Natural Leadership Equine Experience Workshops (offered as part of this program).

  • Engage with a Circle Up facilitator in-person for at least one coaching session (offered within this program).

  • Engage with a Circle Up facilitator in-person (or video recorded) showing how you apply the model to coach another individual (offered during onsite experiences).

  • Pass the certification evaluation coaching session that takes place at the final Equine Experience Workshop.