THE DR. VIBE SHOW - STEVE KIGES - LEARN TO BE A COACH - THE BUSINESS SIDE OF COACHING - JUNE 30 - 2017

Steven Kiges (pron. Key-jez) is the co-founder and director of The Coach Training Academy. The Coach Training Academy is a professional, International Coach Federation accredited coach training school. Graduates have gone on to both build very successful solo coaching practices as well as taking their coaching skills to corporate positions including Microsoft, Google, and NASA, just to name a few.

Steve is a is an experienced Master coach with over 5000 coaching hours and over 10,000 hours mentoring people that want to become exceptional coaches or as he puts it “artistic agents of change”. To the coaching world, he brings both his own past struggles of growing up in a very dysfunction home, depressed, suicidal and at one point topping the scales at over 410 pounds. Professionally his first career was as a professional musician having attended The Juilliard School, playing various orchestras and as a university lecturer. After leaving music he then went on to build one of the largest Dental Software companies in North America and after selling that, followed his life’s passion of helping others. Dedicating himself to his core philosophy that “no one breezes through life…we all have our unique struggles. With the right support and environment, everyone can live life with purpose and passion often exceeding what they think is possible for themselves. His life is a testament of that philosophy.

To coaching, and coach training Steven brings a full background in neurosciences including; crisis counseling, emotional intelligence, Time Line Specialist, Master of Communication and a trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

During this episode of the Learn To Coach series, Steve talked about:

The Business Side Of Coaching

During our conversation, Steve talked about:

Why is coaching such a hot topic and coaches in high demand?
What are the opportunities in building a coaching practice?
What coaching areas are people gravitating too?
Why are more and more companies hiring external coaches?
The challenge of Selecting a niche or specialization?
What about multiple niches?
What if I still have some of the same issues as my clients do i.e. not perfect?
Coaching Logistics – Where to do the actual sessions?
What are the ways of offering coaching services?

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