The first coach training program? Vintage 1975
Dr. Cherie Carter-Scott, author of If Life is a Game, These are the Rules, calls herself the “Mother of Coaching.”
((Thomas Leonard, who popularized coaching in the 1990s and is credited by many as being the founder of the profession, usually dismissed suggestions that he was “the Father of
Coaching.” Once however, Leonard — who was gay — and who had just been introduced at a conference as “the Father of Coaching” playfully rejected the title and said that perhaps “Queen of Coaching” would be more appropriate, recalls Andrea Lee.)
Since 1975 her Motivation Management Institute has been teaching a gentle, Socratic form of coaching in a 12-consecutive-weekends training — and issuing graduates the title “certified master coach.”
Hers, she says was the first coach training program. Do you know of, an earlier one?
–ken winston caine
More:
• An excerpt from If Life is a Game, These are the Rules, a 1998 New York Times number one bestseller. You’ve seen this excerpt before if you’ve rubbed shoulders with coaching or personal development in the last eight years. And you’ll enjoy seeing it again.
