The International Coaching Federation (ICF) has received three awards for excellence in association management, recognizing contributions for its community, and beyond.
The ICF has been recognised with three Power of Associations Silver Awards from the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), which recognises the association community’s economic and societal contributions locally, nationally and globally.
This marks the third consecutive year ICF’s global impact has been honoured.
The ICF received awards for three initiatives: its The Future is Coaching resource guides, which nurture the capacity for critical thinking and introspection by exploring topics such as education, work, planetary ecology, and well-being; its work on evolving accreditation, and its collaboration between the ICF Foundation, ICF Ukraine Chapter and the Academy D.TEK Project to provide executive coaching to leaders in Ukraine and in Europe, from August 2022 to December 2023.
The latter collaboration resulted in 150 ICF credentialled coaches engaging with 234 coaching clients to explore their challenges, values, and visions for the future during the ongoing war in their country.
In 2023, the Evolution of the ICF Accreditation task force completed its efforts to better align accreditation in coaching education with the needs of an evolving coaching industry. Its recommendations saw structural changes to ICF accreditation processes to make it easier for coaches to find a clear path to quality education that prepares them for the nuance, complexity, and sophistication of today’s coaching profession.
“Congratulations to the ICF Foundation for exemplifying the impact associations have on the industries and professions they represent and on society at large,” said ASAE president and CEO Michelle Mason.