This article aims to define Mentor Coaching and share best practices taking into consideration ICF standards and sharing our personal experiences and practices of six years mentor coaching more than 200 coaches in 15 countries from all continents.

I don’t believe the well-meaning, innovative and highly skilled pioneers of the coaching industry could have predicted the trends that are now occurring in coaching.

The use of the words Supervision and Mentoring feel arbitrary and contrary to what we have been doing as ICF credentialed coaches/coach trainers as well as compared to the broader definitions out in the worlds we work in.

The International Coach Federation (ICF) developed standards to assure that coaching training programs follow guidelines such as providing mentor coaching to participants.

Since the 1990s, coaching has been a key component of many schools’ faculty-development plans.