The Institute for Credentialed Coach Training was formed by leaders in the Coaching industry, and an Affective Neuroscientist Tony Vernon to provide the best coach training education in the marketplace and as our mission statement says ‘Mental & Emotional Health to Well-Being and Coaching to Performing at your Best’. It involves Fellow and Master Level Coaches with the International Authority for Professional Coaching and Mentoring (IAPC&M) and International Coaching Federation (ICF) trained coaches. We are the only coach training company in the World with 43 International Awards and with corporate clients that include: IBM, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, AIRBUS, Citibank and BP to name just a few notable clients.

Noble Manhattan Coaching, our partner, was founded in 1993 and is one of the longest established life, executive and corporate coach training companies in the world providing accredited life, executive and corporate coach training. With the now 900+ coach training companies worldwide Noble Manhattan Coaching stands for accreditation to protect and grow the coaching industry. They have to date trained more than 26,000 coaches worldwide. Loves Hidden Policy, another partner with credentialed coach training has decades of experience coaching clients with expertise in couples, parent-child and family coaching.

Life coaching as a profession began only in the 1980s when Thomas Leonard, an American financial planner developed his career with a then relatively unheard of term ‘Life Coach’. Our CEO, Gerard O’Donovan was one of the first people in Europe to train with Thomas Leonard at Coach U, the very first coach training school founded in 1992 by Leonard to train professional life coaches. This was even before Tony Robbins launched his career as a ‘Peak Performance Coach’ in 1988 with his first Infomercial, Personal Power. In 1994 Thomas Leonard founded the International Coach Federation (ICF) and in 2000 Coachville.

Gerard was the founder of The International Authority for Professional Coaching and Mentoring (IAPC&M) and has coaching courses accredited with the International Coaching Federation (ICF), Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM), The Institute of Leadership and Management (TIL&M) and was too requested by government officials to form the International Regulator for Coaching & Mentoring (IRCM). He is an internationally acclaimed authority in life and executive coaching and leadership. He is one of under ten fellow coaches in the world, a world class motivational speaker, consultant, author of A Coach’s Story and trainer. Gerard’s outreach has grown over the last 27+ years. The Head Office remains in the United Kingdom but there are now offices in: Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Croatia, Denmark, Greece, Herzegovina, Hungary, Ireland, Jordan, Kosovo, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria and Turkey with Credentialed Coach Training, a partner with Noble Manhattan Coaching being located in Miami, USA.

In 2017, Noble Manhattan Coaching launched The Alpha Group. The Alpha Group is an exclusive peer-to-peer executive board targeted at business owners and managers helping them to double the value of their business and dominate their market place in 2 to 3 years. The Alpha Group provides a trusted, confidential environment for SMEs, CEOs, Managing Directors, Senior Executives and Leaders to overcome strategic barriers, test new plans and decisions and build leadership skills using coaching as the foundation for growth and excellence. There are now Active Boards with trained Regional Directors in 19 countries.

Tony Vernon, HWC, NMC, AMC, AMM is a member of the United States Ombudsman Association for public and child protection, and a US Representative for the International Authority for Professional Coaching & Mentoring. Tony is an established Couples, Parent-Child, Family & Business Coach, because unless couples in love are personally and professionally successful, their loving relationship and/or family usually suffers from the instability that happens with inadequate communication skills, character development and overall personal and professional success. Tony is also the CEO of a digital marketing agency www.purposeful-agency.com because he believes medical, mental health and helping professions must become modernized and provide engaging supportive online education to be of better service to clients, companies and humanity in this modern age of videos on the internet and information technology.