Business View Oceania - June 2023

34 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA VOLUME 5, ISSUE 6 The fifth ICF brand is Coaching in Organizations. It provides standards for businesses and organizations that already use coaching within their own cultures in order to further develop their coaching capacities and capabilities. The sixth brand is the Thought Leadership Institute. Its goal is to create and influence the future of coaching by facilitating interaction between innovators, researchers, technologists, venture capitalists, press, and influencers to build and maintain the most comprehensive and highest-quality body of knowledge on the art and practice of coaching. “Coaching is still fairly new and evolving,” Mook relates. “So, there is quite a lot of research being done about coaching and the efficacy of coaching; what coaching does; how coaching supports the development of new ways of working. So, our Thought Leadership Institute looks into the future of coaching and how it can support development in different aspects of society. Our vision calls for coaching to become an integral part of a thriving society where individuals can reach their highest potential by fully living and contributing to the overall good of humanity.” Mook shares that the ICF is “keen on building strategic alliances with other associations and organizations that are like-minded, that share our values, that share our vision. So, we have worked with several other coaching organizations that exist in the marketplace, like the Association of Change Management Professionals” “We recently started working with the World Federation of People Managers Association. So, we are very keen on helping our members expand their views by exposing them to other associations that are bringing value and adding to what ICF offers as an organization, directly. We believe that by those strategic alliances, we can leverage each other and, in the end, offer our clients the best service that they can receive,” Mook notes. “We also spend quite a lot of time focusing on regulatory issues, positioning coaching as a self-regulating profession, while also seriously looking into attempts to regulate it,” Mook adds.