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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, and 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.
Institute of Coaching (IOC), McLean Hospital
The scientific home of professional coaching: a research institute and professional association based at McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, founded in 2009.
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.
Institute for Life Coach Training (ILCT)
US-based virtual coach training school founded in 1998 by ICF founding member Patrick Williams. ICF-accredited at both Level 1 and Level 2, with specialty tracks across eight applied coaching domains.
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.
Goal Imagery Institute
Goal Imagery® Institute offers ICF-accredited holistic life, career, and executive coach training founded in 2005 by Marianna Lead MCC, with graduates from 60+ countries across 6 continents and affordable all-inclusive tuition.
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 Results Coaching is a one-to-one coaching service for clients, delivered by coaches the Robbins organisation hand-selects and trains internally in his peak performance frameworks: the Six Human Needs and the Triad of State. Coaches seeking certification in a Robbins-lineage methodology should look to Robbins-Madanes Training.
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)
NLP training 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. Teaches coaches and individuals to quiet inner Saboteurs and activate Sage powers through a structured app-based program.
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.
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.
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.
Relationship Coaching Institute
The world's first and largest relationship coach training organization, founded by David Steele in 1997. Its Relationship Coach Training Program runs in three parts, a foundations module plus singles and couples specialisations, delivered 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.
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 175,000+ certified professionals in 140+ countries.
Mindvalley
Global personal-growth platform founded in 2003. Its Life and Business Coaching certifications carry ICF CCE accreditation (40 units each); health, fitness, and hypnotherapy tracks are proprietary Mindvalley credentials.
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 10,000+ graduates across 100+ countries.
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.
Animas Centre for Coaching
London-based coach training organisation founded by Nick Bolton in 2007. Home of transformative coaching and the 12 Principles framework.
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.
Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching
The principal institution for the Stakeholder Centered Coaching methodology developed by Marshall Goldsmith. A global certified-coach network delivering structured executive behaviour change.
NeuroLeadership Institute
Research and consulting institute founded by David Rock in 2008. Originator of the SCARF Model and home of brain-based coaching.
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.