Professional Coaching Competencies

Professional Coaching Competencies: The Complete Guide is an indispensable, comprehensive, hands-on guide to understanding and artfully applying the International Coach Federation professional coaching competencies. Complete with extensive examples and pointers, this book is a gold mine of guidance for the new or experienced coach.

Damian Goldvarg, Ph.D., MCC, has thirty years of experience in providing leadership development services including: executive assessment and coaching, facilitation, leadership training, strategic planning, and team building. Originally from Argentina, he has worked with individuals and organizations in over fifty countries, including the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, offering services in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. He is a Master Certified Coach and received his Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from Alliant University in California. He is an accredited coach supervisor (ESIA) and facilitates certifications in professional coaching, mentor coaching, and coaching supervision. He was the 2013-2014 ICF global president. Damian is the author of five coaching books, four of them in Spanish. His website is goldvargconsulting.com.

Patricia Mathews, MA, Master Certified Coach, is the owner of Mathews Associates, a leadership and executive coaching business. She completed the Georgetown Leadership Coaching Certificate Program in 2001 and has done extensive work in mentor coaching both within the Georgetown Program and with coaches who are working toward an ICF credential. Pat received her MCC from the International Coach Federation in 2006. Pat chaired the ICF Credentialing and Accreditation committee for two years and served on the committee for four years. She served on the ICF global board of directors for five years and served as vice chair in 2016. Pat was one of the members of the core team that developed the behavioral markers for ICF. She delivered the training for the trainers in this process. She has delivered the markers training for both ICF and the Georgetown Leadership Coaching Certificate Program. Since 2006, she has been on the faculty of the Georgetown Leadership Coaching Certificate Program and served as a program director from 2010 to 2014. Her website is patmathews.com.

Norma Perel, MS, MCC is a Master Certified Coach by the International Coach Federation. She holds a degree in Psychology from the University of Buenos Aires. She was certified as a coach at the Argentina School of NLP & Coaching, where she served as supervisor, evaluator and mentor coach. She is a mentor coach, certified supervisor and NLP practitioner. She is a founding member and former board member of the ICF Argentina Chapter. She was the director of Continuing Coaching Education and ambassador of Continuing Coaching Education for Latin America. She is a member of the Goldvarg Consulting Group staff. She co-facilitates, with Damián Goldvarg, virtual groups for certification in mentor coaching for Latin America and Spain. She collaborated with Damián Goldvarg authoring two books: Applied Coaching Competencies and Mentor Coaching in Action. With other colleagues she co-authored the book: Coaching. A World of Possibilities.

Dr. Jeffrey E. Auerbach, MCC, began coaching in 1986. He designs and delivers executive coaching programs, wellness coaching programs, internal coaching programs to build a coaching culture, and emotionally intelligent leadership programs globally. Although based in California, he has worked with clients in Canada, Mexico, Europe, the Middle East, Australia, India, Singapore and Korea.

Auerbach serves on the International Coach Federation Global Board of Directors, recently holding the office of Vice-President. He has also served as both President, and for five years as an International Board Member of the Association of Coach Training Organizations, an organization that has had a long strategic relationship with the International Coach Federation. He has served on the ICF Governance Workgroup, and also served on the Editorial Board of Coaching: International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice. An expert on emotional intelligence in the workplace Dr. Auerbach is a frequent speaker at academic and professional conferences on peak performance and emotional intelligence.

Auerbach is the author of the classic coaching book, Personal and Executive Coaching, as well as, Seeing the Light: What Organizations Need to Know - The State of the Coaching Industry Report, and the editor of Building Competence in Personal and Executive Coaching. His upcoming book (2014), co-authored with Dr. Sandra Foster from Stanford, is Positive Psychology and Coaching: Applying Science to Executive and Personal Coaching.

Other professional involvement includes: two years as the Co-Chair of the American Psychological Association's Society of Consulting Psychology Conference; four years as a Steering Committee Member of the American Psychological Association Healthy Workplace Awards; and Steering Committee Member of the Executive Coaching Summit. He holds a Ph.D. in Psychology and is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, the Chicago School of Psychology, and Antioch University.

Auerbach is particularly passionate about the power of coaching, emotional intelligence and positive psychology to uplift humanity.

Past non-profit, government and corporate coaching clients include Mayo Clinic, US Air Force, MCI, Tri-Counties Regional Center, Pfizer, Los Angeles Retirement System, SAGE, CenturyLink, Allergan and Wells Fargo.

Dr. Auerbach is available for keynote presentation on executive coaching, emotional intelligence, well-being, peak performance and creating a high performing coaching culture.