Coaching and Mentoring International’s commitment to coaching standards began in with the formation of the organisation. Sponsoring and running the International Coaching Summit enabled us to engage a wide range of coaches, academics, coach training providers and other interested parties to contribute substantially to the ongoing debate about the development of standards across the emergent profession of Coaching and begin dialogue on Mentoring.

Following this Summit, and ongoing interest and contribution to the standards debate, Coaching and Mentoring International (formerly The UK College of Life Coaching) were invited to join the Standards Sub-Group of the European Coaching and Mentoring Council. Though this medium we have continued to contribute to the research and development of competencies and standards to which coaching professionals should expect to work.

Coaching and Mentoring International has also been engaged throughout the government sponsored ENTO project which is working towards setting National Occupational Standards for Coaching and Mentoring, which will apply to NVQ and SVQ awards across the UK.

Once these standards are set, and regulations for the profession exist, Coaching and Mentoring International will embrace regulation. We are confident that the level at which we are training and developing coaching meets, if not exceeds, what these standards will be. As a result, coaches trained through Coaching and Mentoring International's training programmes are unlikely to need to undertake any additional training to meet regulatory standards which might be introduced.