For coaches
Developing coaches
Alongside my client practice, I work on the profession itself: developing coaches, mentor coaching, overseeing coaching quality, and giving practising coaches honest, evidence-based feedback on their real work. This page is for coaches. If you are looking for coaching for yourself or your organisation, start with executive coaching.
The work
The work I do with coaches
I develop business and executive coaches across Vietnam and APAC and support them toward ICF accreditation, and I have supervised and developed coaching pools across the region with responsibility for coaching quality beyond my own practice. Coaching is a craft, and crafts develop through practice examined by someone further along. My work with coaches centres on that examination.
Mentor coaching
Structured work on your actual coaching, usually against the ICF Core Competencies: reviewing recorded sessions together, examining what you did and did not do, and building the specific capabilities your next credential level or your practice requires.
Developmental feedback on real sessions
Detailed, honest review of recorded coaching conversations: where the coaching created movement, where opportunities were missed, which patterns repeat across your work. Feedback tied to evidence from the session, not to impressions.
Training and supervision-informed development
I contribute to coach training and to the ongoing development of practising coaches. The common thread is rigour: coaching improves when it is looked at closely, with standards, by someone who has been examined against those standards themselves.
In development
Recording readiness support
Coaches preparing for an ICF performance evaluation face an uncomfortable decision with limited information: is this recording strong enough to submit, should it be improved, or would another recording serve better? Feedback after an unsuccessful attempt is often too thin to answer those questions for next time.
I am developing a structured recording-readiness review to support exactly that decision: an evidence-based look at a session against the standard you are submitting to, with a clear view of the risks, before the recording is committed to an application. It is independent of the ICF, it is not an official assessment, and it will never promise an outcome. What it will do is replace guesswork with evidence.
If you would find this useful, register your interest and I will let you know when it is available. Registering commits you to nothing.
Questions
Common questions
- Do you offer mentor coaching for ICF credential applications?
- Yes, mentor coaching is part of my work with coaches. Requirements for specific ICF credentials change over time, so check the current requirements on the ICF website and get in touch to discuss what you need.
- Is the recording-readiness review available now?
- Not yet. It is in development. Register your interest through the contact form and you will hear when it opens, with no commitment implied.
- Are you affiliated with the ICF?
- I hold an ICF credential and work within its competency framework, but my services are independent. Nothing I offer is an official ICF assessment, and nothing I say about readiness replaces the ICF’s own evaluation processes.
A short introduction
Short videos
Are we getting coaching cultures wrong?
A coaching culture is not a replacement for management. It gives leaders another approach, and the best know when to use each. For organisations building coaching skill in their own people. 1:13
Most coaches fail at the very first step
Contracting. Get it wrong and everything after it is a polite conversation. 1:47
Talk about your development as a coach
Whether you are working toward a credential, wanting rigorous feedback on your practice, or building coaching capability in your organisation, start with a conversation.