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Career Pivot – Corporate Leadership to Professional Coaching: In 2012, when I decided to pivot from corporate to entrepreneurship, I thought of becoming a consultant and a functional trainer. The idea was to leverage my two decades of work experience, with all its ups and downs. Divine Grace, I discovered coaching at INSEAD. I knew this was my calling.

Congrats, if you have completed your ICF-ACC training and are practicing as a Coach. The critical question pressing your mind may be, What next, from here? “What got you here, will not get you there. Where are you heading to?”

Life is not a linear journey, where everything is rosy & predictable. It has its own way of surprising us with the unexpected in both good & bad ways. Vasudha (name changed for confidentiality reasons) was elated to see the two lines on the pregnancy test kit. She has been waiting to experience this for the last 6 years. But the happiness was short-lived. She was recently promoted & was due to take a transfer to a new city. She felt torn between embracing motherhood full-hear

Introductory Case study: A middle-level executive working with a global brand, had a difficult boss, and a difficult relationship. At some stage, he decided to find best executive coaching programs for himself. In their first meeting, he shared with his executive coach, that he had a fight with his boss and had just quit. He did not want the coach to take him beyond his career, a burning issue then. His coach partnered with him to set long-term goals, work backwards, and ta

A webinar on professional coaching in India as part of ICF International Coaching Week 2022 on 17th May, 8 PM IST/GMT+530. If you are an aspiring coach, you don’t want to miss this!

Topics covered in the webinar What is Agile Coaching? The CORE Coaching competencies of ICF and their relevance for Agile Methodology The circle of influence for Agile Leaders Merging the Agile Philosophy with ICF Coaching competencies How can Agile leaders embody the Coaching Mindset Merging the SCIENCE of Coaching with the ART of Coaching Merging Process Coaching (Agile) with Behavioral Coaching (ICF Coaching) Brief Summary of the Webinar As an Agile Coach – are you truly

Agile Coaching Institute has carefully crafted the four critical roles that Agile Coaches/Leaders must exhibit in order to deliver excellence. But the questions loom large Are the Agile Coaches rightfully bearing those four roles? Are they adequately equipped to execute these four roles? Is there a missing piece? The answer is NO! The answer is NO, because, of the nature of these four roles. Facilitating Mentoring Teaching Coaching On the face of it, these four roles look ver

“Why become an ICF Certified Coach?” Why become an ICF coach is a question that every aspiring coach asks himself/ herself at the outset of the training journey. In a world of self-acclaimed coaches, why pay for training and accreditation, one may wonder. This question, I have asked myself at different juntures and have been asked by many others who want to pursue, or are curious about coaching. If I had to sum it up in one word, for me, it is ‘freedom’. I got to this in par