Coach Training firms are doing a remarkable job of providing basic and advanced education for coaches world-wide. In the continued education of coaching practitioners they are also joined by Coaching Associations. To the extent that these programs are relevant to executive development and organizational coaching, ICCO welcomes the diversity of philosophies and methodologies taught across the world.

However, ICCO is also committed to building a more complete base of knowledge for the profession, a goal that can only be achieved through thorough and repeated research, especially into the adequacy between certain coaching approaches and certain organizational challenges, situations or individual profiles.

ICCO connects educators not only with coaches but with the organizations who ultimately see the fruit of the educators’ endeavors. Contact us if you wish to participate in research projects with coaches and their clients, to examine the efficacy of training and its out comes in the organizational world.

Through ICCO, Training programs gain access to experienced as well as beginning coaches, internally and externally active in organizations.

A most critical feedback loop can close when educators interact, in ICCO, with organizational representatives and individual coaches, to hear about case histories, concerns, objectives and shifting expectations.

ICCO is the context and the community that training graduates need as well, if they aspire to work in companies or not-for-profit firms. Here is a central resource for up-to-date information on how organizations select and then monitor and measure the success of coaches in their talent development initiatives.

ICCO fosters a climate of collaboration, intellectual curiosity and openness, and a spirit of abundance in pooling and sharing knowledge so that coaching can continue to evolve and succeed as a human service in organizations.