Before I set up my coaching business, I worked for over 20 years in People Teams. I experienced the power of coaching cultures, and I've seen the research evidence build up to prove how coaching transforms business and people alike.

I've watched organisations struggle to evolve their culture to meet the changing world customers and employees want. I've watched leaders struggle to adapt their leadership style, and businesses wrestle with how to really engage people and help them build fulfilling careers. These were the moments when I understood that coaching is at the core of all successful organisations.

My last corporate role was Head of Talent & Organisational Development in a rapidly growing organisation whose success was grounded in its culture and investment in people. That meant building a coaching culture. We trained all our leaders in coaching skills, established a team of 20 professionally credentialed internal coaches and embedded coaching in our ways of working.

To do it well I partnered with external experts, and I was always keen to learn from other organisations and coaches who had done the same work. I found there wasn't an easy way to do that.

As our coaching culture matured, other organisations and internal coaches began asking if I'd share what I'd learnt. It gathered steam, and that's when this community was born.

The Internal Coach Network started in 2018 and has grown organically to provide connection, learning, innovation and conversation for internal coaches and the leaders building and sustaining coaching cultures. The content of our sessions is designed by experienced internal coaches, for internal coaches, so we know it's relevant and practical.

We bring internal coaches together across diverse sectors to learn from each other.

Our goal is to keep developing professional coaching practice in organisations, because we know coaching transforms lives and organisations when it's aligned to the organisational strategy, professionally managed and properly embedded.