Teri-E Belf, MCC has been a purposeful coaching leader since 1987, offering personal and professional coaching, coach training, and mentoring on five continents. She is the founder and director for Success Unlimited Network®, which offers ICF-approved coach-specific training rooted in life purpose and spirituality. She is the author of Coaching With Spirit (Pfeiffer, 2007) and Facilitating Life Purpose (Purposeful Press, 2005) and coauthor, with Charlotte Ward, of Simply Live it Up (revised edition, Purposeful Press, 1997). Teri-E initiated and chaired the first ICF Accreditation, Credentialing and Continuing Education Committee, which established the foundation for the coaching profession. Contact Teri-E at coach@belf.org and learn more at www.belfcoach.com and www.wrinklewisdom.com.
Michael Marx, Ed.D., PCC specializes in Executive, Business and Life Coaching, and has devoted himself to the advancement of the coaching industry, with an emphasis on the ethics of the coaching practice. His enthusiasm for the subject brought him to write the forthcoming Ethics and Risk Management for Christian Coaches (Christian Coach Media Group). He also leads ICF’s Ethics Community of Practice. Michael is a Certified Professional Life Coach through the Professional Christian Coaching Institute, where he now teaches ethics. He is a Certified Professional Christian Coach through the Christian Coaches Network International, and is currently president of that organization. Michael earned a doctorate in adult education from Regent University and an MBA from the University of Louisiana at Monroe. Learn more at www.blazingnewtrailscoaching.com.
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