ABOUT US
Professional Coach Training for People Who Want to Be Excellent at Coaching + Build Something With It
IGC Coaching School is a live, virtual ICF-accredited coach education provider combining professional coach training, real-world practice, mentorship, business education, and a global community of coaches. We offer both ICF Level 1 and Level 2 Credential Paths as well as ICF Mentor Coaching and lifetime access to the Six Figure Certified™ Business Curriculum.
We believe professional coaching deserves professional training.
And we also believe learning how to coach is only part of building a successful coaching career.
That’s why IGC combines rigorous coach education, live practice, mentor coaching, feedback, professional development, community, and real-world business training in one place.
Work for yourself, not by yourself.
That’s been part of our philosophy from the beginning.
IGC at a Glance
Founded: 2015
Training Format: Virtual programming taught live on Zoom
ICF Accreditation: Level 1 + Level 2 coach education
Students Served: 5,000+
Countries Represented: 45+
IGC Graduation Rate: 97%*
Level 2 Education: 125 ICF-accredited hours
Mentor Coaching: 10 hours included in Level 2
Business Education: Six Figure Certified™ Business Suite
Professional Community: The Six Figure Circle
Standard Level 2 Timeline: 8 months
Accelerated Level 2 Timeline: 16 weeks
*97% graduation rate is based on IGC internal program records.
OUR CORE VALUES
Why IGC Exists
IGC was created to solve a problem we saw in the coaching industry:
People were learning pieces of coaching in one place, personal development somewhere else, and business through trial and error.
We wanted something more complete.
A professional school where students could learn how to coach exceptionally well, practice the skill in real time, receive meaningful feedback, understand professional and ethical standards, and also learn how to turn that skill into something useful in the real world.
That could mean building a private coaching practice.
It could mean becoming an executive or leadership coach.
It could mean bringing coaching into HR, consulting, wellness, education, sales, management, or an existing business.
Or it could mean completely changing careers.
The path doesn’t have to look the same.
The standard of training should still be high.
We Take Coaching Seriously
Coaching is a skill.
You don’t become excellent at it because you’re naturally empathetic, your friends come to you for advice, or you’ve been through hard things.
Those experiences can make you a powerful human.
Professional training teaches you how to turn your natural strengths and lived experience into a coaching skill set that serves the person sitting across from you.
IGC students learn through live instruction, demonstrations, discussion, practice coaching, coaching labs, observed sessions, feedback, mentor coaching, and application of the ICF Core Competencies and ethical standards.
We don’t believe the future of professional coaching is a race to create the fastest certification possible.
We believe it’s raising the standard of the profession.
And We Take the Business of Coaching Seriously Too
Being a great coach is essential.
Being a great coach nobody knows exists makes it pretty difficult to build a career.
IGC’s Level 2 experience therefore extends beyond coach education.
Students also receive the Six Figure Certified™ Business Suite and training related to:
- Identifying a coaching niche
- Creating coaching offers
- Pricing and packaging services
- Building a professional brand
- Marketing
- Sales
- Finding and inviting clients
- Group coaching and course creation
- Business planning
- Building additional coaching revenue streams
Our goal isn’t to promise students clients.
It’s to teach them the skills required to coach professionally and give them the tools, education, practice, and support to go build something with those skills.
Meet Liv Chapman, Co-Founder + CEO
Liv Chapman is the Co-Founder and CEO of IGC Coaching School and an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC).
Before coaching, Liv was an educator.
She earned her bachelor’s degree in education and special education and later a master’s degree in Educational Leadership and Administration. Her original career path was supposed to lead into school administration.
Instead, coaching changed the direction of her life.
After leaving education, Liv helped build IGC Coaching School and became deeply involved in the development of its curriculum, training standards, student experience, business education, and long-term growth.
Over the last decade, she has helped grow IGC into an international coach education company serving thousands of students and aspiring coaches.
Today, Liv leads IGC’s strategic direction and remains actively involved in curriculum, training, content, student outcomes, and the continued development of the coaching profession.
Her philosophy is simple:
Excellent coaches should be highly trained, highly respected, and capable of building careers that reflect the value of their work.
Our Founders’ Story
All Katie DePaola ever wanted was to find her purpose, live it and get paid. Living in New York City seemed like the big dream, but after years of working one office job after another, she found herself crying in the office bathroom, feeling hopeless and facing a major wake up call…
“This can’t be my whole life. Wake up. Go to work. Hit the gym. Repeat.”
Inspired by her upbringing in a family business, she set out to start her own. Katie started coaching, teaching online courses and leading monthly events, reaching hundreds of women. She couldn’t believe how often she heard…
This was the spark that set Katie’s world on fire.
Women were craving a shared space where they could be themselves. If she wanted to reach women across the world, she needed to expand her business to the next level.
You aren’t meant to work a job you hate, and you definitely aren’t meant to work alone. Teaching women (like you!) how to work for themselves, but not by themselves became Katie’s new goal.
Katie wrote the initial plans for Inner Glow Circle on a tablecloth at a restaurant. The following week, she interviewed 20 graduates of coach training programs. She asked what they loved about their training programs and what they didn’t love.
She decided IGC would have the best of everything — and close the gaps in the industry.
The next thing Katie needed was a team. Most self-help brands were led by solopreneurs. But Katie didn’t just want to build a brand. She wanted to build a legacy. Luckily, she didn’t have to look any further than her own coaching clients.
Liv Chapman had been Katie’s client for years. They had the same passion for supporting women, and they spoke the same language. Liv was a teacher, trained coach and could write courses in her sleep.
With a M.S. in Education, Educational Leadership and Administration, Liv felt she wasn’t using her full degree (or her full potential).
She was busy creating an after-school program for teen girls when Katie asked, “how about creating an online school for women?”
And just like that, Inner Glow Circle was born.
Joining the IGC team was a bold move for Liv. She had just left her teaching job and was still learning to “glow her own way.”
But as Liv realized, life isn’t about what you should do.
Life is about what you want to do.
With her education background, Liv stepped in to finalize the company’s curriculums. As the company’s Co-Founder and COO, Liv manages company growth, as well as our program and curriculum development.
In 2017, Inner Glow Circle became a credentialed life and business coach training company with the ICF ( International Coach Federation) coaching certification . We now have an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) program, a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) program and a handful of Continuing Coach Education (CCE) programs.
Katie and Liv say the reason they’ve been able to grow from start up to million dollar business isn’t just because they have magical powers. It’s because everything we do, every decision we make, program we sell and team member we hire, is in alignment with the company’s mission, vision and core values.
There’s no challenge that can’t be turned into an opportunity when we bring it home to what we stand for — and the shared vision of teaching people how to find their purpose, live it and get paid.
Our Approach to Coach Education
IGC’s curriculum is grounded in the ICF Core Competencies and Code of Ethics and incorporates experiential and being-based approaches to coaching.
That means students don’t only study coaching intellectually.
They practice it.
They experience it.
They receive it.
They examine who they are while they’re coaching, not only what technique they’re using.
Because coaching isn’t simply about knowing the right question to ask.
It’s about listening deeply enough to know what question matters.
ICF-Accredited Coach Education
IGC offers ICF-accredited Level 1 and Level 2 coach education.
Our Level 2 program currently includes 125 accredited education hours and 10 hours of ICF Mentor Coaching, along with practicum, observed coaching, feedback, advanced education, and business development.
Completing IGC’s accredited coach education is different from receiving an individual ICF credential.
Students who want an ACC, PCC, or eventually MCC credential apply separately through the International Coaching Federation and must satisfy ICF’s applicable credential requirements.
We believe students deserve to understand that distinction clearly.
Built for Real Humans With Real Lives
Our students are busy, working people and parents.
Executives and corporate leaders.
Teachers and social workers.
Therapists and helping professionals.
Entrepreneurs.
Sale, HR, healthcare and marketing professionals and more.
People who have spent 10 or 20 years building one career and realize they want something different.
And people who have known for years that they’re meant to help others but didn’t know there was a professional path for doing it.
Our training is virtual because talented future coaches shouldn’t have to relocate or put their lives on hold to receive excellent training.
Our classes are live because we don’t believe you should learn a deeply human skill entirely alone.
