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Coaching organizations
The accrediting bodies and training organizations that define the coaching profession — and the coaches certified by them.
Professional Accreditation Organizations
International Coaching Federation (ICF)
The world's largest non-profit coaching body — setting credentialing and training standards across 160+ countries since 1995.
EMCC Global
Global coaching, mentoring, and supervision body — founded in Europe in 1992, the only major credentialer spanning all three disciplines.
Association for Coaching (AC)
UK-based non-profit body for coaches and coach trainers — founded 2002, with a distinctive Executive Coach accreditation track alongside general coaching.
Coach Training Alliance (CTA)
US-based ICF-accredited coach training school offering structured programs from foundational coaching skills through advanced certification, with a practical, real-world application focus.
Coach Training Organizations
iPEC (Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching)
US-based coach training organization founded in 1999 — known for its proprietary Core Energy Coaching™ methodology, the ELI assessment, and ICF Level 2 accreditation.
Adler Graduate School
Toronto-based graduate professional school offering Canada's first ICF-accredited coach training program — rooted in Alfred Adler's individual psychology since 1998.
Co-Active Training Institute (CTI)
Coach training organization founded in 1992 in San Rafael, California — developer of the Co-Active model and the CPCC credential, with ICF Level 2 accreditation and programs delivered in over 16 countries.
Center for Executive Coaching (CEC)
ICF Level 1 and Level 2 accredited coach training organization founded in 2006 by Andrew Neitlich — built for experienced professionals entering executive coaching, with an explicitly practical, business-first curriculum.
Coach U / Corporate Coach U
The world's first coach training school — founded in 1992 by the father of professional coaching, with over 50,000 coaches trained across six continents via virtual delivery.
Erickson Coaching International
Vancouver-based coach training school founded in 1980 — ICF-accredited at all three levels and winner of the ICF's 2024 Distinguished Coaching Education Provider Award.
Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC)
UK-based executive coach training provider founded in 1999 — triple-accredited by ICF, EMCC, and AC, with 15,000+ coaches trained across 100 countries.
Institute for Life Coach Training (ILCT)
US-based virtual coach training school founded in 1998 by ICF founding member Patrick Williams — accredited by ICF at both Level 1 and Level 2, with specialty tracks across eight applied coaching domains.
Certified High Performance Coaching
Brendon Burchard's proprietary coach training system — a structured, framework-driven certification delivered in a 4-day intensive, not ICF-accredited.
Principles You Certified Coach
Assessment-literacy certification training coaches to debrief the PrinciplesYou personality instrument — co-developed by Ray Dalio, Adam Grant, and Brian Little — in individual and team coaching contexts.
Robbins-Madanes Training (Strategic Intervention)
Co-founded by Tony Robbins and Cloe Madanes in 2002, RMT teaches Strategic Intervention — a coaching method that blends human needs psychology, Ericksonian therapy, and family-systems thinking.
Tony Robbins Coaching Academy
Tony Robbins' proprietary coaching certification program — training coaches in his peak performance methodology: the Six Human Needs, the Triad of State, and 40+ years of rapid behavioral change tools distilled for professional coaching practice.
WILDFIT Coach by Eric Edmeades
Certification program training coaches to deliver Eric Edmeades' WILDFIT 90-day nutrition and health transformation system — grounded in evolutionary biology and the psychology of food behavior, with 400+ certified coaches in 100+ countries.
NLP Training Schools (e.g., NLP University, Society of NLP)
The NLP training landscape spans dozens of schools across multiple lineages — rooted in Bandler and Grinder's 1975 modelling work, with no single certifying authority.
Positive Intelligence by Shirzad Chamine
San Francisco–based mental fitness training company founded in 2008 by Shirzad Chamine — teaching coaches and individuals to quiet inner Saboteurs and activate Sage powers through a structured app-based program.
Reiki Master Certification
A category overview of Reiki certifications — energy-healing lineages tracing to Mikao Usui's 1922 Tokyo school, spanning traditional Japanese degrees to modern Western variants.
EFT (Tapping) Certification
Certification category for Emotional Freedom Techniques — a meridian-tapping modality developed by Gary Craig in 1995, with a growing peer-reviewed research base.
Relationship Coaching Institute
The world's first and largest relationship coach training organization — founded by David Steele in 1997 — offering ICF-aligned singles, couples, and professional coaching certifications through a membership model with 144 training hours.
Clear Beliefs Coach
Specialty certification program founded by Lion Goodman — teaching a proprietary trauma-informed method for identifying and clearing limiting beliefs at the subconscious level, with graduates in 45+ countries.
Enneagram Coaching (Integrative9, IEQ9, etc.)
A personality typology rooted in nine interconnected types, used in coaching to deepen self-awareness and uncover patterns that drive behavior, relationships, and growth.
HeartMath Coaching
A US nonprofit founded in 1991 by Doc Childre — combining peer-reviewed HRV research with practical biofeedback tools and proprietary coaching certifications for emotional self-regulation.
Precision Nutrition Level 1
Nutrition coaching certification founded in 2005 by Dr. John Berardi and Phil Caravaggio — the world's most widely adopted nutrition and behavior-change coaching program, with 150,000+ certified practitioners in 140+ countries.
Mindvalley
Global personal-growth platform founded in 2003 — offering ICF-accredited coach certifications in life, business, health, fitness, and hypnotherapy specialisms.
Lifebook
A life-design certification program founded by Jon and Missy Butcher — built on a 12-category framework and now distributed globally through Mindvalley.
Rapid Transformational Therapy® (RTT)
A therapy-rooted training school founded by Marisa Peer in 2015 — combining hypnotherapy, NLP, CBT, and psychotherapy into a proprietary method with 18,000+ graduates across 100+ countries.
HypnoBirthing®
A perinatal education program founded in 1989, teaching self-hypnosis, breathing, and relaxation techniques to reduce fear and the perception of pain during childbirth.
QHHT – Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique
Dolores Cannon's proprietary past-life regression and Subconscious-communication method, taught through a three-level certification program by the Quantum Healing Hypnosis Academy since 2002.
Wellcoaches School of Coaching
Professional health and well-being coaches are expert facilitators of sustainable change in mindset and behaviors. Translating science and innovation into coaching practice, Wellcoaches teaches how to use evidence-based coaching tools and processes designed to help others change, grow and thrive. Coaching is healthcare. The Wellcoaches Protocol is the most thoroughly tested coaching protocol in healthcare and well-being, resulting in positive, statistically significant outcomes in all 22 peer-reviewed studies.