The Institute of Executive Coaching was established in 1999 as a centre of excellence for executive coaching in Australia and the Asia-Pacific.   Since that time we have trained over 1,400 coaches, and have become known as one of the region’s most respected coaching and coach training organisations.

Our team of experienced coaches and facilitators work at CEO, Board and senior executive level in the public, private and not for profit sectors, providing innovative leadership programs and executive coaching. The Institute’s clients include some of the region’s best known organisations, including ANZ, the Asian Development Bank, Citigroup, Dell, Insurance Australia Group, ING, Perpetual, Westpac and various federal and state government departments.

The way we work is as “a team of leaders” who coach and challenge each other and our clients to fulfill their potential.  Our Institute coaches and facilitators are recognised internationally, and are passionate about the work they do. Through our strategic alliances we strive to remain at the leading edge of the best and most innovative practice in executive coaching.

We also train executives in coaching and related skills, and provide an accreditation program for in-house coaches in addition to our public coach training program. 

At the Institute we support the developing field of executive coaching through:

• our extensive experience in the field;

• reflection on our practice as executive coaches and facilitators;

• rigorous coach training and accreditation programs for individuals and organisations; and

• conducting and supporting research.

The Institute maintains a vigorous Community of Practice that supports its alumni through ongoing professional development and peer supervision.

“It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong;
Not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich;
Not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned;
And not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.”
- Francis Bacon

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The IEC Integral Coaching Framework

The Institute has shaped its training and practice in executive coaching to reflect an integrated approach that addresses the whole person within a context. Using Wilber's (1996, 2000) Integral Model as a landscape for the coaching process, the Institute takes into account that people both influence and are influenced by personal, organisational, social and cultural demands.

Executive coaching, for the Institute, is a transformational process that regards the coachee as a participant in a whole system that includes the culture, systems and social context of their situation. We therefore identify three domains of coaching outcomes that lead to sustained change: the intrapersonal, interpersonal and instrumental domains.

The coaching outcomes in these three domains are influenced by factors that include resource factors bought to the coaching from the coachee, the coach and the environment/context that the coaching is embedded in, and quality of relationship factors, which include the mindset and worldview of the coach, their ability to contain the space, their skills and knowledge, their ability to manage an adult learning process and their understanding of the business context. Cumulatively the three domains of integrate to produce outcomes for the person as well as the organisation.