Author: Gary Wood

Why is coaching certification so important? Because the people coaches serve are important. We really have no way of knowing the exact number of those who call themselves coaches in an unregulated profession … the low hundreds of thousands? Each training organization have their own alumni numbers. International Coach Federation, International Association of Coaches and Christian Coaches Network have their numbers but still there is no accurate aggregate. Anyone can call themselves a coach and they do. Anyone can designate someone else to be a coach and they do. Anyone can train a cadre of men and women around...

There are at least four types of life and business coaches. We are now half way into the second decade of the modern coaching profession. Many new developments that have taken place over these years. The landscape for professional coaching looks quite different from what it did in the early days of Thomas Leonard, considered by most to be the grand daddy of the profession. The most noticeable difference is the sheer number of those who advertise their services as a coach and the areas of society into which they provide those services. There is a coach for almost...