Claim Your Unique Voice: ICF Mentor Coaching for Professional Credentialing
- Emily Cardamon
- Nov 12
- 2 min read
First things first, if you're looking for a mentor coach to complete your 10 hours of required mentor coaching, contact us here - we look forward to building a relationship with you.
The world doesn’t have too many coaches — far from it.But it does have too many brilliant leaders who haven’t yet claimed their unique space in the field.

At Mentor Coach Collective, we believe every coach has an unmistakable signature. Your life experience, your skills, your hardships, your victories — all of it shapes your way of seeing people and the world. That way of seeing is what makes you a powerful coach. Even if others share similar experiences, your presence and perspective are uniquely yours. No one will ever offer coaching exactly like you do.
And yet, many coaches hold back.
We’re taught to stay out of the way, to avoid “leading” the client, to not make it about us. These are important guardrails for ethical, ICF-aligned coaching. But when we don't understand how to show up uniquely and ethically within the competencies, we silence the very thing that makes coaching transformative — ourselves.
At its best, coaching is not a neutral performance. It’s an art form — a co-creative process where the coach’s humanity meets the client’s unfolding truth. Integrity in coaching doesn’t mean erasing yourself; it means bringing your authentic self into the process responsibly, in alignment with the ICF Core Competencies.
ICF Mentor Coaching with Integrity
The International Coaching Federation (ICF) defines coaching as a partnership that inspires clients to maximize their personal and professional potential.
As ICF Credentialed Mentor Coaches, we guide you in aligning your authentic style with this definition. Whether you’re pursuing your ACC credential, renewing it, or preparing for your PCC performance evaluation, our mentor coaching focuses on developing your voice within the ICF framework — not outside it.
You’ll learn to:
Integrate your personal worldview and intuition with ICF-aligned coaching behaviors.
Distinguish between sharing perspective and leading the client.
Use feedback sessions to deepen your presence, intuition and ability to ask powerful questions.
Understand the ICF Core Competencies from both a technical and soulful perspective.
Make Your Required Mentor Coaching Count
If you’re pursuing your ACC or PCC ICF Credential, you already know that ICF Mentor Coaching is a requirement — but it doesn’t have to be a checkbox exercise.
In our program, led by Eliza Connor and Emily Cardamon, you’ll receive both the structure and soul that bring the ICF standards to life. Through personalized feedback, recorded session review, and skill building, you’ll cultivate not just compliance — but artistry.
Because real growth as a coach doesn’t come from memorizing competencies.It comes from embodying them, in your own voice.
Ready to claim your unique place in the field?
Join us for ICF Mentor Coaching at Mentor Coach Collective.Make your required mentor coaching count — and turn it into the next level of your evolution as a coach. You can email us at hello@mentorcoachcollective.com


