ICF Credentials are highly recognized coaching qualifications with credibility around the world. If you are serious about building or maintaining your coaching business and care for being part of a well-respected, self-regulating profession, you will be interested in gaining an ICF Credential.
There are three ICF Credentials: Associate Certified Coach (ACC), Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and Master Certified Coach (MCC). Each credential requires a specific set of required hours of coach-specific training and coaching experience.
Benefits of an ICF Credential:
- Enhances your credibility and reassures potential clients that you are an experienced and professional coach
- Demonstrates that you have high professional standards
- Demonstrates that you stand by a strong code of ethics
- Demonstrates a high knowledge and skill level
- Demonstrates that you take on-going professional development seriously
- Develops you as a professional coach – to further enhance your skills
- Brings personal satisfaction - in achieving a career goal
- Brings personal satisfaction - in gaining a credential from the only internationally recognized independent coaching body
- Reinforces the integrity of the coaching profession nationally and internationally