Certified Coaches

It is only recently, after I retired from Corporate Life, that I decided to go in for Executive Coaching as a second career. My friends and well wishers encouraged me to go in for Executive Coaching and mentioned that due to the vast experience I have had in HR in Indian and MNCs and that too in different continents, I will have something to really look forward to in this new vocation.

So I set off ( or so I thought ! ) telling people about my new career as a free lance Executive Coach. Until a few people started asking me the following questions :


-- are you a member of ICF ?

-- Have you become a member of CFI ?

-- Are you certified by any of these associations ?

-- Are you a member of the British Psychological Society ?

-- Have you registered with the American Psychological Association ?


I realzed to set off being a certified Executive Coach, especially if I were to look forward to assignments from agencies like the UN and other MNCs, I needed to be affiliated to one or the above associations.


I enrolled for Coach training with Results Coaching Systems ( RCS ), and I must admit that I was really amazed with the intense process of getting myself trained to be a Coach. I suddenly realized that Coaching has a very strong theoretical foundation from multiple disciplines and one cannot simply venture into Coaching without an appreciation of these multiple approaches. RCS follows but one methodology - the brain based approach to Coaching -- so well propounded by David Rock...but there are very many other approaches as well from other disciplines.


People ask me - is certification necessary for Executive Coaching ? From my perspective, I would resoundingly say "Yes". For there has been a very palpable, a very noticeable metamorphosis in me as I transition from an HR avataar to a Coach Avataar.