Professional Coaches

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Cultivating Coaching Cultures That Shape Individual Contributors Into Leaders

In my coaching work with organizations, I continue to see a recurring challenge, one that has a quiet but profound ripple effect across entire systems: the struggle of talented individual…

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Walking the Talk: Reflective Practice for Coaches

Embodying presence and self-care through ICF Competency 2. This article explores how practices such as pausing, self-reflection, and self-care help coaches cultivate ICF Competency 2: Embodies a Coaching Mindset. It…

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Belonging Beyond Numbers: How ICF Demographic Trends Are Shaping the Future of Coaching

What does it really mean to belong? For the International Coaching Federation (ICF), it’s not about counting members or checking diversity boxes. It’s about trust, psychological safety, and the feeling…

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Measuring Progress: A Reflective Analysis of Member Demographic Trends from the ICF Member Values Survey

Get an inside look at how the global coaching community is evolving and becoming more diverse. Measuring Progress: A Reflective Analysis of Member Demographic Trends focuses on understanding who is in the coaching space and how they feel represented.

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Coaching for Inclusion and Community Change: Highlights from ICF’s DEIB Chapter Initiatives

Discover how coaching can drive social impact and change. Coaching for Inclusion and Community Change explores how the ICF DEIB Chapter Initiative empowered local chapters to create community projects that expanded access to coaching to promote belonging.

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Professional Coaching Relationships That Work: Respect, Boundaries, and the Art of Mutuality

This post comes from Dr. D. Ivan Young, an ICF Business Solutions Partner who offers ICF members discounts or special pricing on goods and services as part of their ICF…

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International Coaching Federation Gathers Rapidly Growing Coaching Community at Converge 2025

–The world’s largest organization leading the coaching profession celebrated coaching’s legacy and future amid its 30th anniversary in San Diego– Lexington, Kentucky, USA — The International Coaching Federation’s (ICF) Converge…

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Measuring Coaching ROI and the Ripple Effect

A Moment of Realization: When Coaching ROI Becomes Visible “I never envisioned our coaching sessions would change the collaborative approach across our division.” A senior executive said these words during…

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Why Coaches Need Other Coaches

Setting the Foundation When you’re learning about the field of coaching while simultaneously building a coaching practice, the advice comes at you from all angles. “Grow your network!” some insist.…

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Staying OPEN: A Coach’s Framework for Working With Bias

As coaches, we take pride in staying present, holding space, and trusting the process. But let’s be real, bias comes with us. It travels quietly alongside our questions, our curiosity,…

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