Join the Ethics Community of Practice and David Ribott, MCC, for an interactive webinar. High-quality coaching that benefits the client and their organization requires careful navigation between providing coaching for the client and addressing the expectations of the client sponsor. While program sponsors’ understanding of coaching and professional coaching ethics is growing, the responsibility for ensuring the client, organization, and stakeholders are properly informed and supported throughout the process remains on us as professionally credentialed coaches. Attendees should come prepared for breakout rooms, Q&A, and real-life case studies.
Who Is This For?
- New and experienced professional coaches, including team and group coaches, who want to deepen their understanding of ethical practice in sponsored coaching engagements
- Coach educators who want to ensure the training they deliver around coaching in organizations aligns with ICF ethical standards
- HR and organizational leaders, as well as managers and leaders using coaching skills, who want to understand their role as a coaching sponsor
What You Will Learn:
- Explore the roles of coach, sponsor, and client
- Discuss how to navigate the roles ethically
- Reflect on how to ensure sponsors and clients are informed and supported
- Discuss ethics complaints case studies
Course Details:
High-quality coaching that benefits the client and their organization requires the coach to carefully navigate their role as a service provider for the sponsoring organization and a coach for the client.
While coaching program sponsors’ understanding of coaching and professional coaching ethics is growing, the responsibility for ensuring the client, organization, and stakeholders are properly informed and supported throughout the process belongs to the coach.
This 90-minute webinar will include valuable content and a discussion of past ICF ethics complaints presented in case-study format.
Speakers
Topics
Communities of Practice
- Ethics
Credit Type
Hours by Type
Delivery Method
Language

Communities of Practice
Related Events & Professional Development
Radical Listening For Coaches
As a group, professional coaches tend to be good listeners. Listening is so central to what we do, in fact, that it is one of our core competencies. This does not mean, however, that we can improve! In this interactive session, Dr. Robert Biswas-Diener invites you to reexamine listening from new angles. We will build on traditional notions of “active listening” to better understand the role of authenticity, assertiveness, and motivation in the listening process. You will leave this session with new attitudes toward listening, more targeted language to describe it, and experiments to try in your own coaching practice.
Silent Supervision: The Mystery of the Unspoken
As we serve in the role of a thought partner or facilitator, in what way can the silence support supervision? Can the silence also result in unintended consequences? While we can agree that supervision is a reflective space, we can also agree on the myriad circumstances within that reflection. Join Reginald Jackson in exploring the silent spaces between the supervision conversation and what can emerge not only IN the silence but BECAUSE of the silence. This session is meant to be engaging and interactive, sourcing the knowledge and experience of the collective. Be prepared for a rich discussion.
How Coaching Can Elevate Your Leadership at Any Level
Discover how coaching for young professionals can unlock growth, build confidence, and support career success—at the moments it matters most.


