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Cheryl Richardson, in her own words, “had been working as a tax consultant in the late 1980s, specializing in small business development, and she discovered that a lot of life planning questions and issues would come up as a result of that work.” She joined Coach University in 1992 and soon afterward changed careers.
The first president of the ICF in 1996, she also appeared in the December 1996 New Age magazine story. Two years later, in December of 1998, she authored a life-coaching book that appeared on the New York Times best seller list. As she put it, “I wanted to bring coaching to the personal development arena because I knew that’s where people would be most open to it.”
Cheryl Richardson is the author of The New York Times bestselling books, Take Time for Your Life, Life Makeovers, Stand Up for Your Life, The Unmistakable Touch of Grace and her new book The Art of Extreme Self Care.
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The notion of becoming a coach first clicked for me 10 years ago when the Oprah Show ran a weekly series with Cheryl appearing once per week, each show focusing on a different aspect of her book. I might not be a coach or be training coaches if I hadn’t watched that series. Thanks Cheryl ~
Cheryl and I met at the first ICF conference in Houston in 1996. I sat between her and Laura Berrman Fortgang and got so inspired I closed my Psychology practice later that year and had 16 coaching clients by January 1997, moved to Florida and later in 1998 started my coaching school, The Institute for Life Coach Training.
I was in a coaching group with Cheryl when she got her first book contract and had to stop the group because she was quickly in demand as an author, speaker, and guest on Oprah!!
Cheryl has been an ‘angel’ in my life many times over in the 14 years we have known each other and she is a powerful inspiration to me and to the entire coaching profession