Coach Educators

International Coaching Federation Announces 2022 Global Boards of Directors

Leading coaches and experts across profession selected.   Lexington, Kentucky, USA—The International Coaching Federation (ICF) has finalized the 2022 ICF Global Board of Directors, as well as the 2022 Board for…

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Study Shows Wide Adoption of Coaching Among Millennials Actively in the Workforce

Findings emerge from International Coaching Federation 2022 Global Consumer Awareness Study Lexington, Kentucky, USA (February 1, 2022) — Millennials are the generation most likely to be aware of coaching and…

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International Coaching Federation Surpasses 50,000 ICF Members Worldwide

Association also sets new monthly record Lexington, Kentucky, USA – The International Coaching Federation (ICF) has surpassed 50,000 active ICF Members worldwide. “The coaching profession has been growing ever since…

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The Role of Creativity in the Coaching Process

Creativity is defined as the ability to generate new ideas, solutions and possibilities. For the work to be considered creative, it needs to be both original and effective in achieving a specific…

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Reevaluating Vulnerability: Is it Weakness?

A successful senior leader, struggling in a new reporting relationship, turned to a peer for help. She voiced a desire to work with an external coach. The peer’s response was,…

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Procrastination: How a Coach Can Help

“I’ll do it later. No. Really. I will.” “Why do it today when I can do it tomorrow.”  “Oh, things came up.”  “I got so much done today! But no,…

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Coach with the Playing to Win Framework

Let me start with an honest confession: straddling the domains of strategy consulting and leadership coaching offers me an excellent opportunity to migrate frameworks from one domain to the other. Effectively, both strategy consulting and…

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Shhh, listen!

Four metaphors and several deliberate practices leading to listening mastery Not more than a few months ago, it was still hard for me to keep quiet. A quality of any master coach is the “evocative” silence – the kind…

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Assertiveness & Empathy: Underutilized and Misunderstood

Emotional intelligence is a framework we both actively use in our coaching, and we’ve noticed a pattern over time that many clients appear to overuse or underuse empathy or assertiveness and rarely…

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Navigating Life Transitions

We have all experienced a disruption in the flow of our lives that has shifted us into a season of uncertainty. We find ourselves in a space where we must reorient, learn, rise and transform.…

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