Every year ICF awards special recognition to high-performing Chapters around the world. ICF Australasia is one of 11 to have won the 2021 Chapter Recognition Award for our contributions to coaching and the ICF in the period between September 2020 and August 2021.

The award recognises the chapter’s efforts and impact in the following areas:

  • Creating an attractive, credible presence and voice for professional coaching in Australia and New Zealand
  • Advancing the Profession of Coaching
  • Providing member infrastructure
  • Creating Sustainable Governance
  • Ensuring financial viability

Highlights 2020 – 2021

In numbers

ICF Members (as of August 31, 2021) 1,777
ICF Credential Holders (as of August 31, 2021) 734
In person programs / events 13
Virtual programs / events 63
Core competency (CC) CCEs offered 115
Hosted a conference? Yes

 2020 TRANSFORM

The 2020 TRANSFORM virtual summit delivered 40 events, across 4 themes over a period of 4 weeks and represents the most significant undertaking thus far by the ICF Australasia Chapter during COVID times.

The summit was a creative, collaborative, inspirational and excellent Chapter wide online event that demonstrated the transformative powers of coaching and how it prepares people and organisations to thrive in the future.

The learning objectives of the summit were to transform yourself, teams and leaders, organisations and communities.

91% of the 300+ attendees indicated that the summit met or exceeded their expectations.

International Coaching Week 2021 – Defying Challenging Times

International Coaching Week (ICW) is an annual weeklong global celebration of the power and impact of professional coaching.

The ICF Australasia Chapter flagship ICW2021 event, Why Coaching? A powerful Way to Defy Challenging Times brought together four experienced and successful organisational leaders from Cisco, Fronterra, BHP and Māori Women’s Development Inc, to share their reasons for and experiences of establishing and coordinating coaching programs within their organisations.

New Zealand Northern’s main ICW event Coaching in Organisations targeted the business community. Buyers of coaching were engaged to share their coaching experience, how they have used coaching in their career and life and what impact was achieved in their organisations through implementing coaching programmes. It was a very well attended event, creating an opportunity to demystify coaching. Speakers shared good organisation practices encouraging buyers of coaching in organisations.

Between May 17-23 a variety of additional webinars, conferences, educational workshops, panel discussions, coaching demonstrations, pro bono sessions and social activities were organized by the ICF Australasia Chapter and its branches:

  • Anxiety, Identity and Cultural Bias in the Coaching Context
  • Super-Charging Client Acquisition through a Deep Relational Approach
  • Coaching Demonstration by experienced and credentialed ICF coaches
  • Pro Bono Coaching Conversations
  • Value and impact of Coaching in Organisations
  • Leading Through Change
  • World Voices – Coaching in a cross-cultural context with a diverse cultural background
  • Coaching research – coaching in public sector, and coaching in high performance and performance conversations
  • Coaching in organisations – highlighting buyers voices
  • Coaches social gatherings

Pro-bono Coaching Initiatives

The number and variety of pro-bono programs across New Zealand and Australia highlights the generosity of the ICF Australasia community of coaches.

ICF Australasia Southern States Branch

Based on the goals and principles of the ICF Ignite Program “ICF Ignite Engaging Humanity in Education” the ICF Australia Southern States Branch to organised a pro bono coaching project with an Educational Institution (Victoria University). ICF coaches worked alongside 7 women in the University’s Senior Leadership Group or on senior staff contracts.

ICF Australasia New Zealand Southern and New Zealand Northern & Central Branches

The New Zealand branches worked together on their pro-bono program with the goal of helping and supporting 5 charities (World Vision, KidsCan, Starship, Springboard and St John) to be able to coach leadership and talent, which otherwise would be cost prohibitive.

ICF Australasia Queensland Branch

The Queensland Branch’s University of Queensland pro bono program is delivered twice a year, aligned with the university’s semesters. Its main objective is to support final year students from the Faculty of Business Economics & Law, as they prepare for transition into the workforce.

ICF Australasia Western Australia Branch

The WA Branch delivered the Western Australian Aboriginal Leadership Institute Pro Bono Coaching Program. The WA Pro Bono team worked with WAALI on supporting two leadership programs through coaching: the Yorga Djenna Bidi Aboriginal Women’s Leadership Program, and for the first time in 2021 also an Emerging Leaders program for young people (aged around 18-25).

ICF Australasia New South Wales Branch

The NSW branch ran an Ignite program with United Way, providing pro bono coaching to this global charity.

ICF Australasia ACT Branch

The ACT Branch’s annual Pro Bono coaching program matches ICF coaches with not-for-profit and charitable organisations in the Canberra region. For the second year we extended the program to bushfire affected areas of the NSW South Coast with the goal to support staff working in the sector and to build personal and organisational resilience and leadership capacity through coaching.

Modernising member infrastructure

In October 2020 ICF Australasia launched its new chapter website. It is a fresh, newly branded, fit-for-purpose website environment that is easily maintained with integrated ‘off the shelf’ event management software and the ability for the ICF Australasia Branches to deliver their own content and communications.

With the new website connecting seamlessly to the ICF global website, the ICF Australasia member has one single place for

  • ICF Australasia events, news and blogs
  • Member benefits – both local and global
  • Joining and renewing membership
  • Know and contact your Chapter and Branch leadership
  • Finding coach training

A high-performing Chapter

2017 Chapter Recognition Award

2018 Chapter Excellence Award

2018 ICF Foundation Gift of Coaching Award

2019 Chapter Excellence Award

2021 Chapter Recognition Award

As members of the ICF community, we ascribe to the core values of integrity, excellence, collaboration and respect. The foundation of these values is a shared commitment to diversity, inclusion, belonging, justice and equality. 

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands within Australasia: Torres Strait Islands, Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend our respect to all indigenous people across land, air and sea.