Training and certification may teach you skills to enable you to be a better coach, but you still have to market yourself. Giving presentations to small and/or large groups is one way coaches can choose to promote their expertise and services. Instead of reinventing the wheel, learning from someone who is successful using that strategy is a great idea.

One way to find coaches in your area is to go to the websites of the International Coach Federation or a coach training school and find a local branch. Then attend a meeting and find someone (or a coach who knows someone) who is successfully getting clients by presenting to groups. You could also use the ‘find a coach’ features on these sites and find local coaches who do this as well.

Hope that helps.

Sue

In so many ways I have been coaching professionally for years and years, but without compensation. Obviously, I would like to have the certification to hang outside of a door but at this point in my life, my primary question is marketing myself. I do equally well in large settings (seminars) and in small groups/one on one but I am not sure how to get my foot in the door. Any suggestions? I would just love the opportunity to coop/piggyback on someone else’s seminar just for the experience.

Jerry Gurrado