A coach is a partner who helps you from where you are to where you want to go.
If you are in personal transition, making changes in your career or lifestyle, or perhaps a business owner with your business on the edge of something new, working with a coach can speed up the process, help you enjoy the changes, and guide you through some personal discoveries along the way.
A coach can help you create and celebrate the changes you want most in your personal and professional life.
Coaching for non-athletes began in the late 1980's. The first coaches worked almost exclusively with top executives in medium and large businesses.
These executives found that interacting with an independent person on a regular basis was extremely valuable. Key figures, including Thomas Leonard, founder of Coach U, recognized that the value of having a coach could be offered to a much wider audience if more skilled coaches were available.
Coach training programs and schools for coaches have been established and coaching is becoming increasingly well known.