When you see this badge next to someone's name . . .
It means that this coach has completed the rigorous process of becoming a professionally certified coach with SeattleCoach and the International Coaching Federation.
It means that they continue to deepen the skills, competencies, and presence of a professional coach.
It means that, as they have continued to grow, they have met regularly with SeattleCoach founder, Patricia Burgin, to further develop the art of coaching and facilitating a Coaching for Leaders executive education program.
And that they have collaborated with other SeattleCoach Fellows to complete an initial round of CFL.
It means that this coach continues to grow alongside other select SeattleCoaches with whom they find support, challenge, innovation, and fun.
And that they know how to uncork a little magic.
The bottom line: The "SeattleCoach Fellow" Badge is deeply earned.
The ability to coach well adds an extra gear to the professional identity and engine of leaders, managers, and health care professionals. It is equally rewarding and demanding.
At SeattleCoach we understand that the ability to coach well is both ancient and new. As practitioners of this maturing work, our goal is to stay on the leading edge. We under‐promise and over‐deliver and think SeattleCoaches are among the best-prepared anywhere. As an intentionally small but scrappy program, we're like a good Northwest craft brewery: We start with excellent ingredients, work with small batches and add lots of careful attention, mentoring, supervision, excitement about learning and yes, fun, along the way. No fog machines. No one-size-fits-all formulas. The results are delightful.
Since 2008, nearly 600 seasoned leaders have joined us. They represent scores of backgrounds, organizations and companies--and five continents. We’ve trained and developed each one in small, face-to-face, interactive Cohorts,