CTI – Coaching People toward Success
The Coaches Training Institute (CTI) is the largest in-person coach training school in the world and the only to teach CTI's ground-breaking Co-Active Coaching model® in highly-interactive courses. CTI's proven whole-life coaching approach enables people to achieve success and fulfillment in their work and life, through a powerful coach/client alliance that promotes and enhances the lifelong process of learning.
Whether you are looking for an accredited coach training program, comprehensive leadership training, professional coaching certification, or powerful coaching skills to help you be more success in your business and life, you will find it with CTI.
History
The Coaches Training Institute was founded in 1992 by three of the earliest recognized luminaries in coaching: Laura Whitworth, and Karen and Henry Kimsey-House, whose earlier collaboration with Thomas Leonard had given rise to coaching as an industry.
Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, CTI is the largest in-person coach training school in the world and the only to teach CTI's ground-breaking Co-Active Coaching® model of coaching. It was also the very first organization accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF).
CTI's founders, along with Phil Sandahl, are co-authors of the ground-breaking industry bestseller, Co-Active Coaching: New Skills for Coaching People Towards Success in Their Work and Life.
Philosophy
At CTI, we believe that our industry is still only in its infancy and that huge opportunities for significant impact on our world lie ahead.
Our courses are held primarily in-person because we believe that students learn best by addressing the rigors and challenges of coaching with as much personal experience, interaction with others, and hands-on practice as possible.
We also conduct all our workshops with two co-leaders and a small class size to ensure the personal attention and individualization of the instruction that allows each student to find his or her own unique voice and style.
At CTI, we also appreciate that the greatest results are often achieved when you accept that real learning and growth can emerge from the seemingly illogical combination of divergent goals. To that end, we believe that passion is the greatest tool a professional can have to achieve success.
- Training can be both rigorous and fun
- Being and doing go hand-in-hand to foster growth
- Effective learning involves both individualized training and benefiting from the strengths, experiences and contributions of others
- Approaches to change can be both idealistic and pragmatic, and most importantly,
- Passion is the greatest tool any professional can have to achieve success.
International Scope
The coaching profession has taken off, with the International Coach Federation (ICF) now representing over 8,000 professional coaches, with 133 chapters in 30 countries. To help meet the need for professionally trained coaches, CTI courses are now available worldwide.
Our founders' involvement with the coaching industry and ICF from its very inception has resulted in a significant influence on the industry, including much of the framework adapted by the ICF to represent coaching competencies.
What is Co-Active Coaching?
Co-Active Coaching has impacted the lives and careers of thousands of managers, leaders, and coaches around the world. It has led to the first ICF accredited coach training program, the most widely used text book in coaching, the largest number of certified coaches globally and a powerful, experiential leadership program that unlocks participants' unique and natural leadership strengths.
CTI coaching holds that people are naturally creative, resourceful, whole, and completely capable of finding their own answers to whatever challenges they face. The job of a Co-Active Coach® is to ask powerful questions, listen and observe to elicit the skills and creativity a client already possesses, rather than instruct or advise.
To train successful coaches, CTI uses an approach that includes four key elements:
1) In-depth, in-person Co-Active training
2) Professional practicum leading to certification
3) Business/entrepreneurial skills development
4) Supportive community of coaches.
CTI Impact
To date, more than 20,000 coaches, consultants, managers, and new career explorers have been trained through CTI. CTI-trained coaches come from varied backgrounds such as entrepreneurs, CEOs, scientists, dentists, parents, educators, therapists, and community leaders. Many will go on to focus in a specialty segment, such as relationships, executives, career, transitions, teenagers, and more.
In addition, major organizations, such as Marriott, IBM, Boeing, and the EPA, have offered Co-Active Coach® training within their organizations to increase management and employee effectiveness.