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President’s Log: Katherine Limjoco
Embracing Unity: Shaping Tomorrow with ONE ICF Philippines As we embarked on the 2022-2023 term, the words of John Buchan echoed in our minds—leadership’s true essence lies not in infusing…

ICFP Achievements
Membership Committee (Te Benitez, Director and Lea Ungson, Vice President) Credentialing Committee (Carla Manas, Director; Nikka Santos, Ruby Palma, Team Members) Professional Development Committee (Irvin Domingo, Jr., Director; Brian Quebengco, Jomari…

“MAKATAO” LEADS FILIPINO LEADERS
How does “Makatao” Leadership look like for you? What meaningful difference will “Makatao” Leadership brings to you and your team? For me, “Makatao” Leadership is about the practice of leaders…

Working with a Life Coach : Don’t Wait Until a Crisis
For many years, successful individuals have relied on the guidance of life coaches. Yet many still feel uncertain about seeking their services. A life coach can assist in determining your…

Why Life Coaching Works for ADHD
We live in an age where workplaces are becoming more inclusive and sensitive to a more neurodivergent reality. The increase of awareness also brings with it niches in our ever-evolving life coaching…

Three Leadership Beliefs I Changed my Mind About (and how neuroscience helped me get there)
When did you last change your mind about something? Maybe this morning, when you decided to wear a different shirt. Maybe yesterday, when someone convinced you that pineapple on pizza…

Democratizing Coaching in the Workplace
The way professional coaching is perceived and experienced in the workplace has significantly changed in the last decade. It used to be an intervention reserved for either top leaders working…

Coaching Leadership in Organizations
Time and again, I would often come across this kind of leader – the frazzled and frustrated type who feels the whole building will collapse if he loses focus for…

Narrative Identity: How Coaches Can Help Clients Shape Their Stories
As a coach, one of my practices is to review the coaching relationship with the client and ask for feedback at the end to see if there’s anything I can…

What Does It Take To Be A Leader As Coach?
As an activity in one of our Coaching Conversation Workshops, we asked groups of participants to illustrate how they were with their company’s current coaching practice, alongside how they would…

ICF Philippines Honors APEC Schools in its First Prism Awards Night
The International Coaching Federation Philippines (ICFP) Charter Chapter recently honored three organizations at their first PRISM Award virtual ceremony. The PRISM Award originated in Toronto, Canada and has since been…

Light Bulb Moments: On finding my niche and more
by Matthew Sy Co-founder of What Really MattersLife Coach & Program Designer under Haraya CoachingPositive Psychology Practitioner “I used to be the type of coach who feared having a niche…

Three’s Company: ICFP Launches Its First Global Coaching Triad
By Dennis Montecillo, ACC In February, ICF Philippines, in conjunction with sister chapters in South Africa and Nigeria, completed its first global coaching triad sessions. A brainchild of the Professional…

Lightbulb Moments – Team Coaching
Last March 30, ICF Philippines hosted a session “What You Need to Know About Team Coaching”. Here’s what one of our participants shared as her key takeaway from the session.…

Reflections on Actualizing My Highest and My Best
By Nikka Santos, Leadership and Career Coach and Creator of The Future Leaders Program “The meaning you give is the instinct you will live.” For me, that distills what we do for…

Why do we coach?
by Bing Matoto Her mantra succinctly captures the value of coaching: Coaching good leaders to become great coaches, because great leaders lead great teams. I am very passionate about coaching,…

4 Key Takeaways from CONVERGE21
The ICF CONVERGE21 is a bi-annual coaching summit that brings the global coaching community together to learn, grow, connect, lead and inspire together. In this year’s CONVERGE21, here are 4…