CEF2025 Sponsors & Ethics Advocates
Our 2025 Sponsors and Advocates play a vital role in supporting the Coaching Ethics Forum, in advancing ethical practice in coaching, mentoring, and leadership.
Their partnership enables deeper engagement, broader access, and courageous reflection on ethical practice in coaching, mentoring, and leadership. We are grateful for their commitment to advancing the mission of CEF and standing alongside us in creating meaningful spaces for ethical dialogue and development.
Gold Sponsors
The Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC) is a globally recognized provider of executive coach training and leadership development. With triple accreditation from ICF, EMCC, and AC, AoEC offers experiential programs that blend academic rigor with real-world application, empowering professionals to lead with integrity and impact.
The International Coaching Federation (ICF) is a global leader dedicated to advancing the coaching profession by setting high standards, providing independent certification, and building a worldwide network of trained coaching professionals. With a commitment to excellence, ICF supports coaches in delivering quality and ethical coaching services across various sectors.
Silver Sponsor
The Townsend Institute at Concordia University Irvine offers fully accredited online graduate degrees and professional certificates in Organizational Leadership, Executive Coaching and Consulting, and Counseling. Established by Dr. John Townsend, the Institute equips professionals to lead with competence, character, and connection through a relational and research-informed growth model.
The UK’s leading provider of accredited life coaching courses and training
Since 1999 we have delivered internationally recognised life coaching diplomas and practical, industry-approved courses designed to help individuals transform lives — including their own.
Silver Sponsor
MBCC (Mindfulness-Based Coach Camp) is a coaching school that offers an accredited program in Japanese, meeting the standards of both the ICF and EMCC . As a member of the Japan Climate Leaders’ Partnership—an alliance of companies leading the response to the climate crisis—MBCC is also committed to advancing social transformation through coaching.
Ethics Advocates
The Asia Pacific Alliance of Coaches (APAC) is a diverse and dynamic community of professional coaches committed to the highest standards of coaching across the region. With members spanning more than 20 countries, APAC serves as a platform for collaboration, learning, and ethical excellence in coaching practice.
The Journal of Coaching Ethics is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal committed to advancing ethical scholarship in coaching, mentoring, and leadership. Proudly supported by CEF.
Ethical Edge Insights is a digital magazine celebrating bold thinking, courageous reflection, and ethical practice in coaching, mentoring, and leadership. Alongside its written features, the magazine also hosts the Changemakers in Conversation series—spotlighting diverse voices and real-world stories.
An initiative supported by CEF.
The Global Supervisors Network (GSN) is a worldwide community of senior practitioners committed to developing excellence in supervision. Through shared learning, research, and reflective practice, GSN fosters ethical depth, integrity, and global collaboration in coaching and supervision.
The Americas (and Beyond) Coaching Supervision Network invites all coaches and coaching supervisors to monthly calls at no charge, and to an annual conference at a nominal charge. There are close to 100 videos of monthly calls available for viewing on our website.
Helping the world and communities flourish and thrive since 2007
Positive psychology is an exciting field of inquiry that has captured the interest of scholars and researchers, practitioners, and students around the world. This burgeoning area of psychology focuses on the study and practice of the positive emotions, strengths, and virtues that make individuals and institutions – all of humanity – thrive.
The Institute of Coaching (IOC) was founded in 2009 to empower the coaching field through science to expand the consciousness and upgrade the well-being of the world, one client or patient, one organization, one community at a time. The IOC delivers world-class professional development and community networking through our conference, webinars, research doses, seminars, courses, discussion groups, roundtables, and an unparalleled coaching library of 3,000+ resources. IOC provides grants to support promising coaching research and conducts research programs.
The Americas (and Beyond) Coaching Supervision Network invites all coaches and coaching supervisors to monthly calls at no charge, and to an annual conference at a nominal charge. There are close to 100 videos of monthly calls available for viewing on our website:
The Americas (and Beyond) Coaching Supervision Network invites all coaches and coaching supervisors to monthly calls at no charge, and to an annual conference at a nominal charge. There are close to 100 videos of monthly calls available for viewing on our website:
International Mentoring Association is holding their biennial conference May 13-14, 2026 (Pre-Conference May 12)
The International Association of Coaching® is a coaching association with a difference.
Our measure of coaching practice is the global standard for Masterful Coaching.
The BPS Division of Coaching Psychology promotes high standards of practice, research, and ethical awareness within the field of coaching psychology. As a professional home for coaching psychologists in the UK and beyond, it supports the advancement of psychologically grounded and ethically informed coaching.
The Association for Coaching (AC) is a leading independent, not-for-profit professional body dedicated to promoting best practice and raising the awareness and standards of coaching worldwide. With members in over 60 countries, AC champions coaching excellence and ethical practice across diverse sectors.
PDF Net is a separate limited company whose purpose is to enable individuals and organisations to develop work based research, consultancy and educational activities. It is a recognised institution for the development of work-based postgraduate awards and research. It provides the programmes listed on this website unless otherwise stated.
Through its partner institutions it creates bespoke work-based accreditation. It currently provides practitioner based Masters and Doctorate programmes on three continents.
The Champions of Courage Awards honour and celebrate individuals who embody ethical courage in action—shaping more humane, just, and values-driven professional cultures. These awards recognise moments of integrity that strengthen the fabric of humanity.
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