This week Cal airs Pt. 1 of a 2 part interview with Michael Marx, of New Trails Coaching and Co-leader of the ICF Ethics Community of Practice.

Coaching Ethics: Interview with Michael Marx

• Coach & Mentor Mentor Coach
• Co-Chair of ICF
• Member, ICF Independent Review Board
• Member of 2019 Review board of ICF Code of Ethics
• Past Presidient of Christian Coaches network International (2015-16)
• Author: "Ethics and Risk Management for Christian Coaches" (2016)

Michael's contact info:

• com
• [email protected]

Questions:

1. How did you come into coaching and what is your coaching specialty?

• Michael's differentiation:
  • Executive coaching-focuses on the executive as the representative of an organization/organism. The executive is the input/output person for all of the people.
  • Business coaching-focusing on one business person, perhaps their interactions, maybe their communication, such like that.
  • Life coaching-on their personal development
• Often a coaching call will touch on all three.

1. What led to this specific interest in coaching ethics
2. What were/are the ICF Ethics Subcommittee, the Ethics Community of Practice, and the Ethics Basecamp?
3. Why are ethics important in coaching; why do we need an ethical code?
4. Current Code of Ethics

• Definitions
• How do coaches interact ethically with the world & society?
• What are coaching conflicts of interest
• Ethical conduct with clients
• Confidential/Privacy
• Ethical Pledge

1. ICF Independent Review Board

• Number of complaints so year
• Reasons for complaints

1. Written or Oral Coaching Agreements?

Important contact information:

• [email protected]
• Ethics Hotline 1.859.226.4245.

Part 2 Next week