President's Letter: 2020 Vision

Happy New Year!  This year, ICFTN turns 25. Coaches who have been around since 1995 can attest to the ways our profession has grown since then, and our association along with it. Like each board before us, your 2020 representatives have set aside time to reflect on our progress, consider how we can continue to improve service to our members, and prioritize activities for the coming year accordingly. 

Our organization exists to help you coach more, coach better, and generate revenue doing it.  

ICFTN helps coaches combine our resources to meet these goals through three main efforts: 

1. Excellent professional development. Our luncheon speakers and workshops will continue to address a variety of relevant topics designed to help you meet your business goals. In addition, you’ll have brand new access to 10 CCEU-eligible webinars in 2020. 

2. Community. Those of us working as internal coaches may have unique skill sets, responsibilities, and challenges among our peers and need support outside of our organizations.

3. Representing our profession to our community. We continue to value our pro bono coaching program, The Gift of Coaching, as a way to give back. Further, as a relatively new profession, we have a responsibility to educate our potential clients on the benefits of coaching and how to select a coach. 

While we’ve done a great job providing effective professional development and building community within our profession, we can take our association to the next level by doing more to represent our profession to our community. Our primary focus this year will be to accelerate the ways we form the face of coaching to potential paying clients through Coach Week and other outward-facing activities.

How does our 2020 vision help you meet your business goals? Is this vision one you can get behind by contributing your time and talent? If each of us contributes, we will achieve more together! Please consider how you’d like to be involved and contact one of us. Let’s make 2020 a year marked by more opportunity than ever to be leaders and agents of change in Tennessee.

Membership Minute

Did you know?  Your membership to ICF Global includes access to CCEUs at no additional cost.  Not available for the live webinar?  ICF Global events are the only recorded webinars that will earn you CCEUs!

2020 Board of Directors

	JOANNA WILLIAMS President
	KAREN NASH President-Elect
	DONNA YURDIN Immediate Past President
	JEREMIAH PALMER Treasurer
	GLENN MAUL Secretary
	LAURIE STULBERG MACNAIR Director of ICFTN East SubChapter
	ANGELA ELLIS Director of Marketing Committee
	DAYLE SAVAGE Director of Membership Committee
	SUSAN SALOMONE Director of Outreach Committee
	WALKER TIECK Director of Professional Development Committee
	PAT WHITE Founder and Ex-Officio Board Member

Joanna Williams, ICFTN President