Importance of Volunteer Leadership
ICF recognizes that the strength of our coaching profession lies in the leadership of our dedicated volunteers. Like the impact of coaching, your contributions ripple out to the individuals you serve at ICF. And the impact of those contributions spread further across the larger ICF ecosystem and into your communities and society.
ICF GLF nurtures this leadership, providing the resources, connections, and insights necessary to strengthen your influence, foster a sense of belonging, and cultivate a diverse network of empowered leaders committed to excellence.
How to Participate
GLF is an exclusive, online event for all volunteer leaders within the ICF ecosystem. Each year, volunteer leaders receive an invitation to participate in the event, and the recordings can be accessed throughout the year on the ICF Learning Portal. By participating, you can contribute to fostering a more diverse and inclusive culture that positively impacts ICF, the coaching profession, and beyond.
GLF 2025 Event Overview
Set the tone. Lead the conversation. Inspire collaboration. ICF GLF 2025 is focused on strengthening the global coaching community’s role in creating caring communities that drive positive change in our dynamic world.
This free event is designed to equip you with the tools, insights, and strategies to lead with confidence and purpose. By participating in ICF GLF 2025, you’ll gain:
- Global Perspectives: Learn from thought leaders, cultural experts, and fellow volunteers to gain actionable insights on complex conversations.
- Practical Strategies: Access powerful resources to manage conflict, encourage empathy, and foster understanding within diverse teams.
- Elevated Leadership Skills: Enhance your ability to lead with resilience, respect, and clarity, particularly in times of challenges and change.
By clicking the button, you will be directed to the ICF Learning Portal. Please ensure you are logged into the ICF Learning Portal, and then you will be able to view the GLF content if you are a volunteer leader.
Agenda Highlights
Step into your leadership potential with GLF 2025. Through thought-provoking content, you’ll explore:
The Power of Dialogue
Great leaders foster conversations that inspire connection, even in challenging times. Discover how to model and facilitate meaningful discussions that bring people together, spark innovation, and create lasting impact.
Wellness as a Leadership Foundation
Your ability to support and uplift others starts with your own well-being. Learn how to prioritize mental, emotional, and physical health so you can lead with resilience, energy, and balance while also setting the tone for your teams and communities.
Building Teams and Communities that Promote Belonging and Unity
In a global network as diverse as ICF, fostering unity is essential. Explore strategies to create spaces where trust, mutual understanding, and collaboration thrive — empowering your volunteer teams to make a difference worldwide.
Leading by Example
As an ICF volunteer leader, you are a catalyst for change. Discover how to lead with authenticity, courage, and vision to inspire others and make a lasting impact in your community and beyond.
Past ICF GLF Events
GLF 2024 was an exciting event that engaged our volunteer leaders in conversations around building and retaining engaged teams. ICF GLF 24 included the following sessions:
- Connect, Inspire, Lead.
- Building Stronger Teams.
- Leadership for a Shared Mission.
- Building Stronger, Purpose-Driven Volunteer Communities.
- Fostering Global Engagement and Shared Mission.
GLF 24 recordings are now available on demand to volunteer leaders in the ICF Learning Portal.
Testimonials from Past ICF
GLF Attendees
“GLF 24 allowed me to meet coaching leaders from all over the world. It was an inspiring combination of learning and connecting to ICF's broader vision for a new era in coaching.”
Jen Lewi, ACC, ICF Career Coaching Community of Practice Volunteer Ambassador
Featured Events
Looking for additional ways to connect with the ICF community and learn with fellow coaches? Check out our upcoming events.
Executive and Leadership Coaching in 2026
Join us for a new webinar where we’ll explore together key trends and topics in Executive and Leadership Coaching in 2026, deepening our awareness about the current global scenario and how it’s impacting our clients. During this webinar, PCC Credential holders Diana Tedoldi, Ellen Zimmermann, and Lina El-Assaad will share insights and perspectives from their coaching practice with clients in organizations across three different regions.
We’ll reflect together on key topics that are emerging as trends across coaching conversations, as well as the most recurrent needs we observe in our clients and how they’re responding to the global scenario, marked by impactful events, crises, and opportunities.
During this interactive webinar, the three presenters will share their experience, provide space for self-reflection and sharing, harnessing the power of our community of practice to give us tools to develop our impact as coaches working with executives and leaders.
Holistic Coaching for Healthcare Providers
Join Kenzie Wilcox-Ingebrand, PCC, certified holistic life coach and presenter with ICF, for a powerful exploration into the world of holistic coaching for the healthcare community. In this session, Kenzie shares her integrative coaching method designed to support those who witness trauma routinely, often without emotional release or processing. You’ll learn how to help clients identify emotional states using tools like the Feelings Wheel, reframe limiting patterns, create self-awareness through prompted journaling, and implement restorative grounding exercises.
Kenzie will also demonstrate how to support clients in developing healthy boundaries rooted in their core values, while distinguishing them from reactive or self-protective barriers that can hinder wellbeing. Attendees will walk away with practical tools, coaching prompts, and body-based awareness practices that they can immediately use with clients.
Kenzie’s work reflects her unwavering belief that when healers receive healing, the ripple extends to the entire system — colleagues, partners, children, and communities.
Supervision for Wellbeing
Participants will observe a live supervision process with an experienced coach (with a particular focus on the realities of team coaching – complexity, multiple stakeholders, systemic pressure). A well‑held supervisory space enables coaches to slow down, name what they are carrying, and reconnect with their own judgement, boundaries and inner resources.
We’ll explore what actually shifted for the supervisee, what enabled that shift, and how this differs from mentoring, peer support or simple venting. We will explicitly link what happens in the room to core dimensions of practitioner wellbeing: emotional containment, reduced isolation, ethical robustness and sustainable engagement with clients and teams.
The session is designed for coaches and team coaches who are curious about supervision but may not yet have experienced it and want to explore its deeper, restorative function. Participants will leave with a clearer felt sense of what supervision can offer them personally and professionally.
Networking Opportunities for Volunteers
GLF only happens once a year, but you can connect with fellow volunteer leaders at any time via ICF Engage. This exclusive platform is your gateway to connect, collaborate, and network with peers, making it the largest and most dynamic coaching community in the world — all accessible right at your fingertips.