What Is the Commitment to Be a Coaching Fellowship Coach?

We ask our coaches to commit to coaching 2 fellows each calendar year. We currently offer 2 six-month Coaching Fellowship Programs each year.

Coaching in the 6-month TCFS Coaching Fellowship program includes:

• One 30-45 minute get to know you call with your new fellow (not a formal coaching call)
• Eleven hours of 1-1 Coaching with your fellow over Zoom, phone, Skype, WhatsApp, etc.
  • Including a Discovery/Launch Session
  • Including a Completion Session
• Each TCFS Coach commits to coaching a minimum of 2 fellows per year, 1 fellow per Coaching Fellowship program
• Total commitment to volunteer as a coach is approximately 15 hours every six months

We typically have shorter, special-focus programs offered throughout the year that our coaches are invited to support as well. Our Nightingale Fellowship for young women leaders working in COVID-19 response roles is an example of such a program.

How is The Coaching Fellowship addressing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?

We warmly and actively invite coaches with diverse backgrounds, and professional and personal experiences to reach out and connect with us. We have placed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the center of our work. We are committed to supporting and amplifying young women, social impact leaders of color who are critical to creating a new world together. It is crucial that young women who are BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) see themselves represented and feel comfortable to have a space to discuss the institutional, social, and personal challenges they face as women of color.

In embracing diversity, we welcome in and co-create a community of individuals rich with differences, including but not limited to gender identification, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, age, nationality, socio-economic situation, thinking and personality styles, physical abilities, spiritual/religious beliefs and practices, and education and professional background.

Please take a moment to understand our commitment by reviewing our DEI commitment statement.

What Are You Looking For in a Coach?

We have coaches from across the world who bring richly diverse backgrounds as well as professional and personal experiences.

Considerations for selection of coaches include:

• Passion for supporting young women social change leaders and our TCFS mission!
• Formal, professional coach training and supervised development of coaching skills
• Number of years of coaching experience / total hours of 1-1 coaching sessions 
• Emphasis on whole person, leadership development coaching
• Experience working with different types of clients
• Diverse professional experience and leadership experience
• Diverse personal and life experience

What is the Process to Become a TCFS Coach?

1. Submit an application to become a coach
2. We will confirm by email that we have received your application.
3. Please be patient with us! As a small non-profit, we focus our coach application review periods, twice per year from February to March and August to October.
4. We will reach out to you to schedule time for a 60 minute call to share more information about TCFS, learn more about you and see if it’s a fit for both of us.
5. If selected to be a TCFS Coach, we will invite you to onboard with us and we will match you with a fellow for the next available cohort.

What are the Benefits of Coaching with The Coaching Fellowship?

Many of our coaches express that coaching their TCFS fellows has been one of their most rewarding coaching experiences! We have amazing, world-changing fellows who are selected through a rigorous application process who are ready to engage, and poised for deep transformation.

Additional TCFS Coach benefits include:

• ICF coaching Hours for Advanced ICF Credentials (ACC, PCC, MCC)
• Open access to quarterly TCFS Coaches Calls with content experts
• Open access to the TCFS Coaches Resource Library
• Open access to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Calls and Learning
• Open access to the TCFS Coaches Facebook Group - share ideas, events, articles, materials, get feedback and support

What Can I Expect from Coaching a TCFS Fellow?

Our fellows are world-changing young women! Over the past decade, we have supported more than 1200 fellows. Visit our Fellows Page to learn more about these incredible women. They are motivated, strong, and engaged in all areas of social impact.

While they bring a variety of focus areas for coaching, they all seek to grow as leaders and change agents in the world. Some examples of coaching topics might include self-leadership, leading others, communication, core values and purpose, change management, self-care and well-being, courageous leadership, self-confidence, and presence.