Foundations
What Is Intercultural Coaching?
What changes in coaching when culture becomes relevant?
This foundational guide explores intercultural coaching as a professional coaching approach, including the role of culture in meaning-making, communication, trust, identity, and the coaching relationship. It also considers the cultural lens the coach brings to the conversation.
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What Is an Intercultural Coach?
What does it mean to coach effectively across cultures, identities, and different ways of seeing the world?
This guide explores the role of the intercultural coach, the capabilities involved, and how cultural awareness, curiosity, adaptability, and professional coaching competence come together in practice.
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What Is Team Coaching?
What changes when the team, rather than an individual, becomes the coaching client?
This foundational guide explores team coaching as a professional coaching approach, including the team as a collective client, team dynamics and relationships, the wider organizational context, and the capabilities involved in coaching teams.
Our Approach
The LENSES Framework for Intercultural Coaching
The LENSES Framework helps coaches move from cultural knowledge and awareness toward intercultural coaching competence in practice.
Through six lenses, Locate, Explore, Notice, Shift, Examine, and Steward, coaches learn to notice assumptions, explore multiple perspectives, check meaning, adapt communication, attend to power and inclusion, and reflect ethically on impact.
Cultural Models and Tools for Coaches
Explore cultural intelligence (CQ), intercultural competence, cultural models, language, and practical tools for working across difference.
Rather than using cultural knowledge to predict individual behavior, these resources encourage coaches to use what they know to develop better questions, test assumptions, and remain curious about the person and context in front of them.
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Professional Development
Team Coaching Training
What should you look for when learning to coach teams?
This guide explores team coaching training, including the capabilities participants need to develop, the role of practice, feedback and supervision, ICF team coaching education, and what to consider when choosing a team coaching training program.
It also explains the distinction between team coaching training and team coaching certification.
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Professional Coaching Standards
ICF Core Competencies
The ICF Core Competencies provide the professional foundation for coaching practice. They address ethical practice, coaching mindset, relationships, communication, and supporting client learning and growth.
Within the Academy’s programs, intercultural competence is developed alongside professional coaching competence, rather than treated as a separate layer added to coaching.
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ICF Team Coaching Competencies
The ICF Team Coaching Competencies extend the application of the Core Competencies to the complexity of coaching teams, including team dynamics, relationships, stakeholders, participation, conflict, and the team as a collective client.
They are particularly relevant to coaches developing their practice in intercultural and systemic team coaching.