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The Personal Coaching Profession

Summary & Nature of The Market

The International Coaching Federation  (ICF) defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. Coaching is a distinct service and differs greatly from therapy, consulting, mentoring or training. Individuals who engage in a coaching relationship can expect to experience fresh perspectives on personal challenges and opportunities, enhanced thinking and decision-making skills, enhanced interpersonal effectiveness, and increased confidence in carrying out their chosen work and life roles.

Coaching is an interactive process that helps individuals and organizations to develop more rapidly and produce more satisfying results. Coaches work with clients in all areas including business, career, finances, health and relationships. Professional coaches are trained to listen and observe, to customize their approach to the individual client’s needs, and to elicit solutions and strategies from the client. They believe that the client is naturally creative and resourceful and that the coach’s job is to provide support to enhance the skills, resources and creativity that the client already has. While the coach provides feedback and an objective perspective, the client is responsible for taking the steps to produce the results he or she desires.

Personal and life coaching represents the largest portion of the market. It first developed in the United States. The corporate coaching market is smaller in size.

The market is very broad-based. Typical customers include retired persons, people in transition phases of their lives (i.e. those coming to the end of their career or work lives), Baby Boomers, and even college students. College students’ parents may pay for coaches to help their children with career counseling, so that they have more focus or get a jump on the competition of new graduates. Coaches may also work for people starting a new business, or for small business owners that are looking to grow their ventures.

Some claim that recessions are actually good for the coaching business. In these rough times, there is more demand for career coaching and help getting over lay-offs.

People hire a coach when they are starting a new business, making a career transition, reevaluating their lifestyle choices or simply feel ready for a personal or professional breakthrough.

Most coaches working with individuals charge between $200 and $500 per month for one  half-hour call per week. Executive coaches charge more and have clients who work with them for an hour or two a week. Average hourly fees range from $100 to $200 per hour. Corporate coaching or other coaching related programs are priced substantially higher. Most clients stay with a personal coach for six months, but many stay longer, depending on what they are doing. With as few as 15 regular clients, a diligent coach can earn $50,000 per year working part-time from home.The ICF (the field’s trade group) estimates that coaches have an average annual income ranging from $46,399 to $65,318. Some specialty coaches can make much more, over $100,000. It is estimated by various sources that there are currently 30,000+ part-time and full-time coaches worldwide. A November 2002 Wall Street Journal article said that as many as 25,000 people in the United States then called themselves life or work coaches. There is no doubt that the field is becoming more widely recognized and is growing. As an example, the ICF had just 1,500 members in 1999. This has risen significantly, to 14,000 today. One interesting aspect of the field--many coaches have their own personal coaches as well (kind of like a psychiatrist having his own psychiatrist).

The coaching field is unregulated. No license is required. Consequently, anyone can be a coach. The profession is painfully aware that inept coaching makes the field look bad. As a result, the field’s main trade group, the International Coaching Federation, stresses its ethics guidelines and certification programs. The ICF credentials coaches, but is independent of the estimated 250-300 different training programs that exist. Some of these programs are home study, while others use courses given at local universities. The oldest training program around is “coachu.com”.

Some Personal/Life Coaching specialties:

  • Life planning

  • Life vision & enhancement

  • Extreme self care

  • Spirituality

  • Relationships (singles, couples, families, etc.)

  • Health & Fitness

  • Creativity

  • Financial Freedom

  • Organization

  • Children/Teens/College Students

  • Attention Deficit Disorder

There are even “niche coaches”, who specialize in coaching farmers, lesbians, housewives, comedians, golfers, or smokers.

More Information

The International Coaching Federation (ICF) is the largest non-profit professional association worldwide of personal and business coaches with more than 10,000 members and 144+ chapters in 39 countries worldwide. The ICF was founded in 1992 and originally incorporated as the National Association of Professional Coaches, Inc.

International Coaching Federation

2365 Harrodsburg Rd.

Suite A325

Lexington, KY 40504  20005   (859-219-3580)  

 

Executive Director: Gary Boyler

 

Website: www.coachfederation.org.

 

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Coaches

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Dr. Miriam Reiss, DSS, MCC, President of Spirited Marketing (tm), is a business, career and personal coach who helps business and individuals uncork their power, passion and purpose. Specializing in business marketing and career makeovers, Miriam has been cited as an expert coach in publications ranging from the Wall Street Journal to Good Housekeeping magazine. Co-author of the book, "Branding and Marketing Mastery," Miriam is Past President, Puget Sound chapter, International Coach Federation. She holds a doctorate in spiritual science, and was one of the earliest coaches to attain the Master Certified Coach ranking, senior ranking held by fewer than 2% of coaches worldwide. Miriam can be reached at 323-650-3795, miriam@spiritedmarketing.com, www.spiritedmarketing.com.

 

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Dr. Miriam Reiss, DSS, MCC (Doctor of Spiritual Science; Master Certified Coach)
Business, Career & Personal Coaching
Executive Coach, Speaker, Trainer, Author
Seattle, WA
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miriam@spiritedmarketing.com
phone: 206.545.0809
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Chanda Carlson - chanda@coachmagic.com

Chanda is a playful, free spirit who inspires magical transformation in others. She has a conviction that the most effective change in people comes when they take exquisite care of themselves, so they have what it takes to be of service to others. As a professional coach, she partners with people from all walks of life who go after change to bring about more balance in their lives! She works successfully with organizations developing their leaders to renew and retain key people. Her clients include individuals and groups from city and county governments, school districts, non-profit organizations, as well as the corporate and manufacturing environments.

 

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Frances J. Fisher, MCC - Hello! I am a Master Certified Coach, MCC, and Licensed Living Your Vision® Coach, pioneer of the coaching profession, published author and international speaker.

My passion is partnering with individuals, entrepreneurs, executives, and collaborative teams who have a compelling vision to fulfill or they want to discover their compelling vision. My gift is providing the art of visioning with the structure of planning and my intuitive ability for empowering clients to greater personal and professional fulfillment. My clients are changing outmoded thinking and behaviors, inventing new futures and unleashing their personal power to greater success and fulfillment.

I am the author of Violet’s Vision, violetsvision.com, and a contributing author to the Simon and Schuster bestseller Chocolate for a Woman’s Soul; also, A Guide to Getting It, A Clear Compelling Vision and A Guide to Getting It, Passion and Purpose. In my leisure time, I enjoy ballroom dancing and long walks on ocean beaches.

When you are ready to call yourself forth powerfully, call me!

Please feel free to contact me: Bellevue, Washington, USA
franfisher-coach.com; 425-401-1374; fran@franfisher-coach.com


15600 NE 8th Street, B1 PMB #360, Bellevue, WA 98008 ~ Phone: 425- 401-1374
franfisher-coach.com ~ Email: fran@franfisher-coach.com

 

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Karen A. Christopherson, MSW, LMSW, CAAC – Hi! I’m a corporate and personal life coach, relationship counselor, lecturer and Life Coach columnist who has completed training with The Coaches Training Institute, the Dr. Phil by Frank Lawlis PhD method, Sharon Wilson and Terri Levine’s Coaching from Spirit program, and Bob Proctor’s (of “The Secret”/Law of Attraction) coaching program. I’m also trained as a mediator and an arbitrator. My background is in the corporate and entrepreneurial arenas – corporate coaching for 28 years, and my own practice for the last nine years in coaching and counseling.

I have been described as the "queen of reframing," and an "out-of-the-box" thinker, due to my ability to experience the seemingly impossible as a welcomed challenge, and to readily reframe life's obstacles into growth opportunities. I love sharing my excitement for growth and learning with clients, inspiring them to find their own passion for life and work, to triumph in the face of adversity, and to seek practical, constructive resolutions to complex issues in an ever-changing world. My innate interpersonal and intuitive skills, contagious enthusiasm, lighthearted sense of humor and personal/professional life experience equip me to engage others in creative problem solving and positive change efforts under adverse conditions. My work reflects my belief that everything happens for a reason, and that there are lessons to be learned from all events that occur in our lives. I encourage coaching clients to create and sustain meaningful, conflict-free connections with others along life's journey. My personal and professional mission is to be a positive influence in the lives of others and to make a difference in an often negative or troublesome world.

You can learn more about me, my coaching approach/specialty areas and my ebooks by visiting my web site at www.trilliumconsultants.com. You may reach me at 616-975-1159 or TrilliumConsult@aol.com.

 

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Hallie Crawford, Career Coach Extraordinaire

Finding the right job can be exciting… and sometimes very exasperating as well. I know, because I’ve “been there, done that.”

I was lost after college. I jumped around from one job to another in a variety of fields, trying to find something that satisfied me. I know my parents were worried. Other people kept asking me what I wanted to do, but I couldn’t answer them. I didn’t know!

As I moved from job to job, I felt like all I was doing was identifying what I didn’t want to do instead of what I did want.
It was all very frustrating.

Somewhere along the way, it dawned on me that I probably wasn’t the only one trying to find a fulfilling career. Others were undoubtedly experiencing the same thing. That’s when it hit me! This is what I wanted to do! I wanted to help others avoid the struggle I was going through, especially young adults who were going through a career transition. I wanted to be a Career Coach.

It took a few years, but I finally became a certified coach (Certified Professional Co-Active Coach) through the Coaches Training Institute. And I love it! I’ve found my passion.

My practice has grown by leaps and bounds, which validated what I knew all along – that others were seeking to find that ideal job, that perfect career, that rewarding profession.

I live in Atlanta, Georgia with my husband Frank and son Vaughn. When I’m not helping clients in their career search, I’m out horseback riding or traveling.

For more information about my career coaching packages,
visit my Coaching Packages page or contact me for a complimentary consultation.

Complimentary consultation

If you’d like to learn more about me, I invite you to visit my blog or check out my Squidoo page.

Education

  • Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, Coaches Training Institute

  • BS Communications, Vanderbilt University

  • MA Communications, University of Illinois at Chicago

  • Member, International Coach Federation

  • 2007 Board Member, Georgia Coaches Association

  • Trained in EFT: the Emotional Freedom Technique

  • Completed The Inside Team Intensive: Coach training for advanced coaches, The Coaches Studio

  • Scholarship to National Training Labs “Experiential Education” seminar


 

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Matt Traverso is an international business consultant, executive coach and certified trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). Matt has been training groups, companies, and high-flying business leaders for over 10 years across Europe and around the world. His mission in life is empowering people to create extraordinary lives – helping people make personal breakthroughs that unleash their self expression, personal effectiveness, and leadership.


Through a unique approach combining the latest advancements in human psychology, accelerated learning technologies, and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), Matt delivers innovative, personalized solutions to both individuals and organizations.


One of Europe’s most highly-paid coaches, Matt works with entrepreneurs and other business professionals seeking to enhance their business success while deriving a healthy work/life balance that supports their Vision, Mission, and Purpose.


As a trainer and consultant, Matt has empowered and taken the work forces of multinational corporations to new heights. Companies like, American Express, HSBC, RAS, Monte Dei Paschi, Starwood, L’Oréal, GTS Group are just a few of the companies that have used Matt’s insightful and engaging style to train their most valuable asset, their people.


He’s worked with speakers like Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Richard Bandler, Paul McKenna, Robert Dilts, John Grinder, Norman Schwartzkoff, Zig Ziglar, Jim Rohn, and is one of the very few Anthony Robbins Senior Mentors in the world.


A sought after speaker for meetings, conventions, and conferences, he’s also a supervisor to a number of training companies for quality control purposes and leads the annual International Coaching Conference in Nice, France. As a professional keynote speaker, Matt delivers compelling speeches on a variety of life-changing subjects such as personal achievement, peak performance, NLP and absolute health.


He’s also written three books – Realize Your Potential; The Abundance Zone and The Bible of Quantum Coaching – and is regularly featured in the press, on radio shows, and on TV.

 

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Unconventional, spirited and delightfully curious, Shann Vander Leek is a fresh new voice in the arena of mindfulness and extreme self care. She is the founder of True Balance Life Coaching, LLC and a Coach Training Alliance Certified Coach and Certified Yoga Instructor. Shann inspires creatives and women in transition to create balance in their lives through personal coaching, yoga, and creative expression. She is the author of the eBook Getting Your Groove Back - A Luscious Living Guide, and Co-author of a new series of team authored books for women titled,

Wake Up Women BE Happy, Healthy & Wealthy. Shann's personal style and direct approach have guided many in overcoming personal and professional challenges. Her background in broadcast television advertising sales, marketing and client development along with leading a talented sales force for 11 years prepared her for the business of professional coaching.

Telephone and email consultations make Shann accessible to clients all over the world. Please go to www.truebalancelifecoaching.com to sign up for a complimentary life balance e-course & e-zine delivered to your inbox every month.

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Marion Franklin, MS, MCC
Tarrytown, NY
marion@lifecoachinggroup.com
914-333-0443
http://www.lifecoachinggroup.com

As a Master Certified Coach (MCC)** since 2006, and a Professional Certified Life Coach (PCC) since 1998, Marion is a former faculty adjunct teacher at Coachville/The School of Coaching currently teaching her own unique program that offers ICF CCEU's (Coaching Continuing Education Units towards certification or renewal of) Laser Coach Your Way to Sustainable Success - Intensive--a 12-week intensive course emphasizing masterful coaching skills (formerly known as Learn How to Coach). She facilitates an ongoing Mentor Practicum, one of the few supervision groups for coaches.

Marion is a co-author of 7 Simple Secrets to Successful Workshops and provides consulting services for the design and delivery of workshop presentations on a global basis. She has been attending the School of Practical Philosophy that emphasizes putting philosophical principles into practical terms.. She is a member of ICF - New York City Chapter and has a Master's Degree in Business and in Education, co-founded a healthcare publishing company, and taught High School Business Education.

Aside from coach training and mentoring, Marion finds it critical to maintain individual coaching clients. It's through her clients, that she is richly rewarded as they move closer to their vision. She has worked with clients in large corporations dealing with the stresses of the workplace as well as clients who want to get into (or out of) a relationship. She loves working with clients who are experiencing a conflict or struggle in any of their relationships: boss, employee, co-worker, significant other, family dynamics, etc.

Marion has been interviewed on television for her coaching expertise. She has been a featured guest speaker and presenter at meetings and retreats throughout the northeast, is a recurring lecturer for an ongoing Women's Series, and has been cited in The Journal News and The Wall Street Journal. In 2009, she will be presenting two of the Core Competencies at the Annual International Coaching Federation Conference.

Most recently, she serves as an examiner for the Columbia University Coaching Certification program. Executives from the following corporations have sought Marion's coaching expertise: Abbott Laboratories, Exxon-Mobil, Reader's Digest, Toys "R" Us, Pepsico, AT&T, Prudential, JP Morgan Chase, Kraft Foods, Maryknoll Brothers and Sisters, and the US Tennis Association. She coaches executives as well as entrepreneurs to hone their leadership qualities, enhance communication skills, and strengthen interpersonal relations and is in demand for her laser approach and direct style of coaching.

**To date, less than 1% of all coaches in the world that hold this distinguished credential granted by the International Coach Federation (ICF). There are currently over 30,000 coaches worldwide of which ICF has over 16,800 members in 93 countries.

To reach Marion: marion@lifecoachinggroup.com or by phone: 914-333-0443 To review more information and details, visit my website:
http://www.lifecoachinggroup.com

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Barbara Wulf, MS, CPCC, ACC
BECKON CALL
Menasha, Wisconsin

Barbara is a career/life coach helping people redesign their career paths for work/life fulfillment, balance and success. She coaches clients who are asking the question, what’s next? She offers career assessments and is a certified provider for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and The Birkman. With a background in career consulting, Barbara is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, Coaches Training Institute. Barbara coaches teens and college students who are beginning their college or career journeys as well as long distance travelers.

Barbara is a contributor to CareerBuilder, Jobing.com, Examiner.com. Her monthly e-zine, OWN IT, WORK IT, LIVE IT can be obtained at www.beckoncall-coach.com.

To explore your beckon call, contact her at bwulf@beckoncall-coach.com or call 920-725-2930.

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