What is Co-Active Coaching?

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Co-Active Coaching has impacted the lives and careers of thousands of managers, leaders, and coaches around the world. It has led to CTI becoming the world’s 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 and whole – 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 empower 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. A supportive community of coaches to foster ongoing growth

Kathy is proud to have been certified as a Co-Active Coach after completions of the Professional coaching Course in 1998.

She continues to take classes each year to keep her certification programs current and learn new methods and processes to help her clients in San Diego, California and around the world.