Coaching Dietary Strategies Course 1

How to Coach a Plant-Based Diet

A plant-based nutrition course, designed to help you understand the evidence-based benefits and trade-offs of plant-based eating, and put a practical, nutritious plant-forward plan into action.

  • Learn the truth about plant-based eating—including the pros and cons no one else is talking about
  • Help your clients get started or transition to plant-based eating with a handy nutrition calculator, meal plans, and other tools
  • Explore the value of being a diet-agnostic coach to better understand your clients and build stronger relationships with them
  • Earn continuing education credits (CECs)
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WHO IT’S FOR

Nutrition professionals who want to further develop their coaching skills—along with those who simply want a deeper dive into this topic.

COURSE LENGTH

This course is entirely self-paced, and the material can be covered in detail in about 9-12 total hours.

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Whether for health reasons, climate change, or animal welfare, stats show the plant-based population continues to spike.

As a coach, you work with a diversity of people with various likes, dislikes, beliefs, and tolerances—clients who look to you to help them navigate their food choices as they work towards their goals.

To feel confident coaching clients interested in exploring or expanding their plant-based eating, it’s important for you to…

  • Examine some of the “deep health” factors that shape people’s experiences with, and inclination towards, plant-based options.
  • Understand that plant-based eating is a varied spectrum of dietary patterns and choices that includes, welcomes, and emphasizes plant foods as important components.
  • Share evidence-based options that aren’t focused only on nutrition, philosophy, politics, or “being right”… but that affect your clients’ whole lives, and how they want to live them.

How to Coach a Plant-Based Diet is everything we know about coaching around how to eat a plant-forward diet that works for your clients’ bodies, health, and lives.

What you’ll learn in How to Coach a
Plant-Based Diet

The role vitamins, nutrients, and protein play and how they work for and against people who follow a plant-based diet.

How to create plant-based meal plans using our food lists and easy red-yellow-green food spectrums and assessments.

How to balance macros and micronutrients with our handy Micronutrient Deficiencies Reference Guide.

Unbiased information to help balance concerns around sustainability, animal welfare, agriculture, and health goals.

What all successful nutrition plans have in common, whether your client is a raw vegan-in-training, a whole-hearted carnivore, or just testing out a plant-forward way of life.

Real-world scenarios involving diverse people and complex issues based on common plant-based “problems” PN has seen while coaching over 150,000 clients.

How the course works

How to Coach a Plant-Based Diet is a self-paced, digital course that’s broken down into three carefully crafted units that cover both the science and practical application of plant-based eating. Here’s an overview of what’s covered in each unit:

Unit 1:
The science of plant-based eating

Estimated learning time: 3-4 hrs

Get an introduction to the science of plant-based eating, including: 

  • What defines “plant-based diets”
  • Why plants are good for us and the environment… or not
  • What role animal products might play
  • Whether a plant-based diet is more sustainable 

Unit 2:
Exploring plant-based eating options

Estimated learning time: 3-4 hrs

You’ll explore all the options for plant-based eating. This unit looks at what defines “good” nutrition, the value of coaching on a continuum, and options for moving along the plant-based eating spectrum.

Given there’s no single “best diet” and real life is complex, you’ll learn how to follow the evidence of your clients’ experiences to help them reach their nutrition goals.

Unit 3:
Plant-based eating in practice

Estimated learning time: 3-4 hrs

We’ll walk through the 6-step PN coaching process to show you how to build a client’s action plan for exploring and/or becoming more plant-based. This unit looks at “deep health” factors to consider for your plant-based coaching recommendations. You’ll also get tips and strategies to help clients from the “plant curious” to the “plant committed”.

Give your plant-based clients the expert advice they’re looking for

Practical information and specific how-to instructions so you never feel confused about how to help your plant-based clients again.

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What’s included in How to Coach a Plant-Based Diet?

30+ downloadable resources.

Get exclusive access to the coaching resources we use with clients at PN, like our Deep Health questionnaire, food and eating journals, Micronutrient Deficiency reference guide, and more. Includes PN’s Plant-Based Eating, Professional Nutrition Calculator.

Tools & assessments to determine plant-based readiness.

Including forms to help you assess if a plant-based diet is a fit for your client (or you), measure how well any dietary plan (including plant-based eating) is working, and adjust depending on what happens.

Apply this towards an Advanced Certificate in Coaching Dietary Strategies.

This is one of three required courses for the Specialist in Coaching Dietary Strategies Certificate. Take any course as standalone, or all three to earn the certificate and showcase your expertise.

Insider’s Expert Discussion.

Listen in as our PN experts discuss their personal experiences with plant-based eating, as well as some of the considerations shaping this Specialized Course.

Study at your own pace, anywhere.

All of the course materials are delivered digitally, so you can work through the course at your own speed, from anywhere in the world.

Use this course to earn CECs.

How to Coach a Plant-Based Diet qualifies for continuing education credits with the following organizations: ACE, AFAA, CPTN, NASM, ISSA, NBHWC, REPs NZ and UKIHCA.

Why learn with Precision Nutrition?

Here are just a few reasons…

We’re the originators of behavior-change for nutrition coaching, and since 2005 we’ve used the tools, science, and systems in our courses to help over 100,000 people transform their health and fitness. (No other nutrition company in the world can say this.) That means everything you’ll learn has been proven in the real world, with real people.

We are the experts that other experts come to for help. Precision Nutrition advises organizations around the world, coaches elite athletes and sports teams, and has been featured in leading publications. There’s a reason over 2 million people come to our website every single month.

We’re the home of the world’s #1 nutrition coaching certification, with over 150,000 health and fitness professionals choosing to get certified by us.

Science-backed and peer-reviewed. Our coaching method was recently validated in 3 peer-reviewed studies. This means everything you’ll learn is backed by science.

Bottom line: If you want to learn how to coach nutrition from the best in the field, you’ve come to the right place.

Meet the course authors

Our team includes some of the best nutritionists, PhDs, strength coaches, counselors, researchers, and specialists in the field.

Krista Scott-Dixon is Precision Nutrition’s director of curriculum. She earned her doctorate in Women’s Studies from York University. She holds counseling certifications from George Brown College and Leading Edge Training, which is certified by the Canadian Psychological Association.

Krista Scott-Dixon, PhD

Brian St. Pierre is the director of nutrition at Precision Nutrition, the coauthor of Precision Nutrition’s Level 1 Certification textbook, The Essentials of Nutrition and Coaching, and the mastermind behind the Precision Nutrition Calculator. He holds a master’s degree in Food Science and Human Nutrition from the University of Maine.

Brian St. Pierre, MS, RD, CSCS

Adam Feit is Precision Nutrition’s head strength and sport psychology coach. Feit earned his master’s degree in Exercise Science and Health Promotion from the California University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in Applied Exercise Science from Springfield College. He recently received his PhD in Sport and Exercise Psychology from Springfield College where he examined the use of mental skills in collegiate strength and conditioning.

Adam Feit, PhD, CSCS, SCCC, PN2

Helen Kollias, PhD, is PN’s science advisor and coauthor of Precision Nutrition’s Level 1 Certification textbook, The Essentials of Nutrition and Coaching. An exercise physiologist, Dr. Kollias earned her doctorate in Molecular Biology from York University in Toronto, specializing in the area of muscle development and regeneration. She has a master’s degree in Exercise Physiology and Biochemistry from the University of Waterloo, and has taught exercise physiology, molecular biology, and biochemistry at the university and college level.

Helen Kollias, PhD

Craig Weller is Precision Nutrition’s exercise systems and program director and a PN Master Coach. His certifications include US Navy SWCC (Special Warfare Combatant Crewman), Department of State WPPS-2 (Worldwide Personal Protective Service), Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) through the National Strength and Conditioning Association, StrongFirst Girya Level 1, and Precision Nutrition Level 2. He’s also a US Department of State Worldwide Personal Protective Service Security Specialist and formerly a nationally-registered emergency medical technician.

Craig Weller, CPT, US Navy SWCC, SFG1, PN Master coach

Karin is a Curriculum Writer with a PhD focused on health behavior change. In addition to that, she has a M.A. in Communications, a Bachelor's in Psychology, and she has published research on Mindset Theory.

Karin Nordin, PhD, PN1

Alexander Schwartz, PhD, is a nutrition scientist and curriculum designer with Precision Nutrition. Dr. Schwartz earned his PhD in Nutritional Sciences in the area of testosterone, appetite regulation and exercise physiology. His master’s of science degree in Human Kinetics focused on energy expenditure, weight loss and obesity and he has been heavily cited on the subject.

Alexander Schwartz, PhD

Dr. Ezinne Meribe is a Research Scientist and Curriculum Writer at Precision Nutrition. She obtained her bachelor's degree in Medicine & Surgery from University of Nigeria Nsukka. She has a Masters degree in Public Health from Kumamoto University, Japan where she is currently enrolled as a PhD candidate. The core of her work is built on using client centered communication to improve health outcomes.

Ezinne Meribe, MD, PhD(c)

Ryan Andrews is a principle nutritionist and adviser for Precision Nutrition and an adjunct instructor at Purchase College, State University of New York. He holds master’s degrees in both Nutrition and Exercise Physiology from Kent State University and a BS in Exercise Science from the University of Northern Colorado. Ryan completed his dietetic internship at Johns Hopkins Medicine and studied sustainable food systems at Columbia University in the executive education program.

Ryan Andrews, MS, MA, RD, RYT, CSCS

Dr. Marge Garrod is a retired clinical researcher with a PhD in Nutritional Biology and Masters in Pharmacology/Toxicology, who worked mostly on human nutritional absorption and metabolism studies both through UC Davis and the ARS-USDA Western Human Nutrition Research Center at Davis.

Marjorie Garrod, PhD

Carlos Davila, M.A. Developmental Psychology, is an Adjunct Professor at LIU Brooklyn (where he teaches Sports Psychology at the undergraduate and graduate level) and at John Jay College (where he teaches Intro to Psychology). He’s also a CrossFit coach and group exercise instructor at Fhitting Room.

Carlos Davila, M.A.

Laura Castellani is a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto. Her research focuses on understanding the metabolic implications of antipsychotics, and how exercise and nutrition can restore metabolic and mental health. Prior to joining CAMH, Laura completed her PhD in Exercise Physiology & Metabolism, her MSc in Human Health and Nutritional Science, and a BSc in Biological Science, all at the University of Guelph, Ontario.

Laura Castellani, PhD

Elnaz is a researcher and writer for Precision Nutrition. She holds an HBSc in Biology and Psychology and completed her PhD degree in Kinesiology and Health Science at York University. Elnaz is also a Precision Nutrition Level 1 certified coach and a registered holistic nutritionist through the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition.

Elnaz Moghimi, PhD

Pricing

Get instant access to the How to Coach a Plant-Based Diet digital course materials for only $349. You’ll get everything you need on the science and practical application of plant-based eating, so you can confidently help your clients choose their best plant-based path.

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How to Coach a Plant-Based Diet
$ 349 ONE-TIME PAYMENT
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How to Coach a Plant-Based Diet
$ 349 USD
ONE-TIME PAYMENT
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Give your plant-based clients the expert advice they’re looking for

Practical information and specific how-to instructions so you never feel confused about how to help your plant-based clients again.

START THE COURSE NOW