Thus far, the options fall into three key areas:

1. Continue efforts to change the strategic direction and leadership structure of ICF in order to be more responsive to its members
2. Transition the ICF Coaches Take a Stand to its next purpose
3. Establish a new organization or align with other coaching organizations/associations

1. Continue efforts to change the strategic direction and leadership structure of ICF in order to be more responsive to its members

a. Credentialing
• Assessors suspend conducting portfolio credential assessments until such time as Assessors feel that the organization has returned to integrity
• Establish a professional diagnostic /assessment of current credentialing process conducted by an experienced assessor group and propose alternate solutions
• Allow the ISO Credential to replace ACC credential, and preserve the PCC and MCC credentials as they stand
• Establish a paid assessor system
• Return to non remunerated (i.e., receiving CCEU’s) assessor system

b. Stay with ICF and continue to work within the system for improvement:
• Accept Status Quo and see what happens with the Board’s decision January 2010 
• Initiate a process of petitioning to the Board to make changes to the ICF by-laws for a revised governance structure, a member-driven and member-representative nomination and election process
• Initiate a vote of no confidence in the Board of Directors
• Stay in ICF and put forward new Board Members
• Go public – inform the press / hire a PR company and let the public weigh in  
• Drive ICF to return to its roots of being an organization based on social norms or create a new organization based on social norms – where no one is paid – neither Assessors (in CCEUs or monetary compensation) nor Board members 
• Think about better ways to use/leverage the Chapters tied into ICF – how to think in local and global terms
• Create a Fact Sheet for members, many of whom are unaware of the issues and policies in ICF (e.g., changes in the bylaws in 2008 that no longer allow members to elect the Officers of ICF; currently, the ICF Board, not the membership, elects the Officers)
• Pursue legal course of action

2. Transition the ICF Coaches Take a Stand to its next purpose

• Convert ICF Coaches Take A Stand website to client review registry website

• Continue this group as a group of coaches with conscience and convert site to a social network
 
3. Establish a New Organization, or Align with Other Coaching Organizations/Associations
• Create a new coaching organization
• Leave ICF and join another professional coaching organization (e.g., ICCO, Association for Coaching, WABC, EMCC)
• Establish a consortium of senior coaches to affiliate /partner with another organization
• Launch a public registry of coaches where clients can rate us much like Amazon – public rating website for coaches
• Partner with ACTO to keep students informed – as we are informing each other so that misinformation does not occur
• Establish an independent credentialing body and migrate the ACC, PCC, and MCC credential, and professionally administer and fund an objective, independently run certification testing and credentialing body – completely independent from ICF and other professional coaching organizations
• Approach other organizations as a newly established group, making clear what this group of experienced coaches has to offer  
• Create a Global Council on Coaching to manage the public face of coaching 
• Resign from ICF/not renew membership
• No longer maintain your ICF credential (discontinue collecting/supporting/paying for CCEUs)

ICF Coaches Take A Stand invites you to add to this list.