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Advancing Ethics in Coaching, Mentoring & Leadership

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Coaching Ethics Forum

Advancing Ethics in Coaching, Mentoring & Leadership
The Coaching Ethics Forum (CEF) is an independent, global platform dedicated to strengthening ethical awareness, dialogue, and practice.
Through our annual conference, professional courses, research, and community initiatives, we bring together coaches, mentors, leaders, and educators to explore integrity, responsibility, and courageous leadership in action.

Our work includes conferences, professional courses, research initiatives, and a growing archive of ethics conversations.

REGISTER for CEF2027 February 4 & 5, 2027

In a time of rapid change and increasing complexity, this question invites us to consider what must endure at the heart of professional practice.

CEF2027 will explore the human dimensions of our work: presence, responsibility, trust, relationship, judgement, and the courage to act with integrity when the path is not clear.

Across two days of international dialogue, presentations, and shared inquiry, we will examine the tensions shaping coaching, mentoring, leadership, and professional practice, and consider what we must protect, strengthen, and carry forward.

Designed to Fit Around Your Day

CEF2027 is designed as a two-day virtual conference, and we would love you to stay for the whole experience, as many participants do.

We also know that working days are busy. You are welcome to join the sessions that matter most to you and move in and out of the conference as your schedule allows.

Professional Development & Recognition

CEF2027 supports continuing professional development across coaching, mentoring, supervision, psychology, leadership, education, and related professional fields.

Participants may use their Certificate of Attendance and completed Reflection Journal as evidence of reflective professional development, subject to the requirements of their own professional or accrediting body.

CEF2027 is recognised by Ethics Forum International (EFI) as part of the pathway towards EFI Ethics & Ethicality Recognition. This Recognition provides a distinctive benchmark of sustained ethical engagement, reflective practice, and commitment to the development of ethicality in professional life.

Details of ICF Continuing Coach Education (CCE) hours will be added once confirmed.

EFI Membership

CEF Conference access is included as part of Ethics Forum International membership, alongside opportunities for ethics dialogue, learning, professional connection, resources, and professional development.

Learn more about Ethics Forum International Membership.

Join us for CEF2027 and the conversation about what must remain human.

Our Sponsors & Supporters

We gratefully acknowledge the organisations that support the Coaching Ethics Forum through sponsorship and in-kind partnership.

Silver Partner

Ethics Advocate

About Ethics Advocates Ethics Advocates provide valued in-kind support to Coaching Ethics Forum by helping to promote CEF conference and its mission through their networks and communications.

Ecosystem Showcase

A Global Resource

Coaching: A Guide for the Curious

An internationally informed guide to understanding coaching in practice, developed through global collaboration and published within Ethical EDGE Insights.

Convened and led through the Coaching Ethics Forum, this resource brings together perspectives from across the field to support clearer understanding of coaching, its foundations, and its evolving role in professional life.

Available in multiple languages: English, Arabic, Mandarin, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Freely available to read, download, and share.

An introduction to the Coaching Ethics Forum and Ethics Forum International

CEF Community Reflections

“I was most challenged when the discussions moved from ethics as a formal code to ethics as a lived human responsibility.”

“My main learning is that the future of coaching is profoundly human.”

“thinking with vs thinking about”

“What protects the profession is not a set of techniques alone, but ethical safeguards, human values, and the capacity to create a safe, respectful, non-exploitative space.”

“It was challenging and at the same time validating to share experiences with colleagues and learn form them.”

“The CEF2026 was for me a good example of a practicing sensitive conversation while feeling included, supported, invited to share without any pressure, and having in front qualitative content.”

“I love this conference. Second time attending.”

“I found understanding, lack of judgement, willingness to listen and be there for the others.”

“I feel this is ‘my home’ in the coaching association world, and the conference was of high value for me personally.”

“It’s lovely to have an international view of coaching at present.”

“seeing ethics as something I apply toward something I practice as a way of being”

CEF Offerings

* Annual Coaching Ethics Forum Conference – two days of presentations, conversations and shared reflection.
* Ethics Beyond the Code™ – Foundation, Professional Certificate Pathways and Diploma.
* Ethics Circles – facilitated reflective spaces for ongoing ethical dialogue and practice.
* CEF Vault – conference and webinar recordings, included with Ethics Forum International membership.

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