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Could the Secret to Coaching Success Be as Simple as “Add Water and Stir?”

Is the secret to launching a successful coaching business as easy as adding water and stirring? Some top coaches hope so—and they hope to prove it by providing new coaches with clients and business tools in a ready-made package. “We know there are many successful coaches,” said Bobette Reeder, a past ... Read More

Questions About IAC’s Path – and Thomas Leonard’s Legacy

Chart a course, and some will choose not to follow. Such it is with the International Association of Coaching (IAC) and its new strategic plan, first detailed in a Coaching Commons report earlier this month. As part of the IAC’s vision, “Expanding the Path to Coaching Mastery,” coaches will compose annual “learning ... Read More

Coaching Researchers Join the Drive to Collaborate

2010: Coaching’s Year of Collaboration? In February, we told you about the cooperation taking root between coaching’s dominant associations, with the ICF, IAC, WABC and EMCC all putting cooperation and collaboration among their top priorities in the new year. Now, add coaching researchers to that list. “We’ve just begun the journey,” said Kerryn ... Read More

IAC Hosts First of its Kind Coaching Conference in China

At first, the pitch—an “excellent opportunity for you to meet about 100 attendees…for innovative and collaborative exchange and learning”—doesn’t exactly jump off the page. But the title—and the location—does. Next month, coaches will gather for a noteworthy event, the “2010 Shanghai Coaching Conference: the Centre of Coaching in China—Advancing to International Excellence.” “I ... Read More