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The International Coach Federation Quick Facts
Founded in 1995, the International Coach Federation is the professional association of personal and business coaches that seeks to preserve the integrity of coaching around the globe.
ICF's core purpose is to advance the art, science and practice of professional coaching.
ICF's Core Values are:
Integrity: We uphold the highest standards both for the coaching profession and our organization.
Excellence: We set and demonstrate standards of excellence for professional coach quality, qualification, and competence.
Collaboration: We value the social connection and community building that occurs through collaborative partnership and co-created achievement.
Respect: We are inclusive and value the diversity and richness of our global stakeholders. We put people first, without compromising standards, policies and quality.
- ICF is a non-profit organization with board members, volunteers, and members in 80 countries. ICF's 15-member board includes members from Australia, Canada, China, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.
- ICF sets the standard for professional coaches through a rigorous credentialing program. ICF credentials professional coaches to ensure the public that participating coaches are experienced, educated and committed professionals.
- ICF has credentialed a total of approximately 2,000 coaches. Credentialing has been conducted in 11 languages.
- ICF is the leader in developing a definition and philosophy of coaching, as well as establishing a set of ethical standards that ICF members pledge to uphold. ICF has also developed an Ethical Review Process to address ethical issues of concern among ICF members and credentialed coaches.
- ICF has accredited 39 coach training schools as Accredited Coach Training Programs. These programs are located throughout the world.
- ICF has more than 11,000 members in approximately 80 countries and 144 local Chapters in 39 countries.
- In 1999, only 15 percent of ICF’s members were located outside the U.S. That statistic has now jumped to 44 percent.
- Gender Demographics of ICF Members: 70 percent are women, 30 percent are men.
- ICF membership growth
1999 — 2,122
2000 — 3,240
2001 — 4,691
2002 — 5,825
2003 — 6,791
2004 — 7,912
2005 — 9,041
2006 — 11,100
- The 11th Annual ICF Annual Conference was held November 1-4, 2006, in St. Louis, Missouri, with 1,400 coaches from 33 countries in attendance. In addition, ICF hosts two other conferences: a European Conference and an Australasian conference, both held every other year.
Other Facts about International Coach Federation members:
- The two biggest challenges ICF members see for the coaching profession are professional credibility (77%) and public awareness of coaching (64%)
- 86% or ICF members are self employed
- 54% of ICF members classify themselves as business coaches; 38% as life coaches
- 71% of members say they currently hold an ICF credential or are working toward a credential.
- 57% of ICF members say they coach part-time.
- 66% of ICF members have been coaching five years or less.
- 67% of ICF members are between 45-65 years old.
Some other interesting statistics about ICF members:
- 56% live in the United States; 23% live in Europe and the Middle East; 8% live in Australia and New Zealand; 8% live in Canada; 3% live in Asia; 1% live in South America and Mexico; and 1% live in Africa
- Over the last three months, ICF membership grew by 1,080 members. Out of that number 56% came from the United States and 23% came from Europe. All current growth patterns mimic the existing geographic structure of the ICF membership.
- 81% of ICF members are native English speakers.
For more information on ICF, please visit www.coachfederation.org.
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