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Dr. Patrick Williams Ed.D., MCC

Patrick Williams, Ed.D., MCC, is founder and CEO of The Institute for Life Coach Training,
the first-of-its-kind training institute that specializes in training psychotherapists,
psychologists, counselors and helping professionals in building a successful coaching
practice. He is a licensed psychologist who began executive coaching in 1990 with
Hewlett Packard, IBM and Kodak. He joined Coach U and is an International Coach
Federation board director. He co-authored Therapist as Coach: Transforming Your
Practice and Total Life Coaching: 50+ Life Lessons, Skills, and Techniques to Enhance
your Practice and Your life. His new book with Sharon Anderson, Law and Ethics in
Coaching : How to Solve and Avoid Difficult Problems in Your Practice, will be published
Fall, 2005. He is a much sought after speaker, appearing at conferences and educational
institutions world wide.

The Institute for Life Coach Training 888-267-1206
Palm Coast, FL www.lifecoachtraining.com


Biography
One of the early pioneers of coaching, Pat is often called the ambassador of life coaching. Pat has
been a licensed psychologist since 1980 and began executive coaching in 1990 with Hewlett
Packard, IBM, Kodak and other companies along the Front Range. He is a member of PHI BETA
KAPPA and CUM LAUDE graduate of Kansas University in 1972. He went on to get his masters in
Humanistic Psychology and doctorate in Transpersonal Psychology in 1977. (Ken Wilber was too
young then to even be heard of in Pat’s curriculum exploration, although PAT did training at Naropa
Institute in Boulder).

He joined Coach U in 1996, closed his therapy practice six months later and became a full time
coach. Pat was a senior trainer with Coach U from 1997- 1998, when he started is own coach
training school for therapists only, the Institute for Life Coach Training He has trained over 1500
helping professionals at Inst for Life Coach Training and is now opening offices in Korea, Istanbul,
Italy, and Australia.

Pat is also department chair of the coaching psychology program at the International University of
Professional Studies and has taught graduate coaching classes at Colorado State University and
Denver University. He is also curriculum consultant for the Coaching Certificate program at Fielding
International University.

Pat has been on the ICF board of directors for the last three years, and co chaired the Regulatory
committee as well. He is passionate about the profession of coaching and ensuring it remains a
respected profession.

He is the co-author of

• Therapist as Life Coach: Transforming Your Practice
• Total Life Coaching: 50+ Life Lessons, Skills, and Techniques to Enhance your Practice and
Your Life.
• The Law and Ethics in Coaching: How to Solve and Avoid Difficult Problems in Your Practice

Education and Certification

• B.A. Kansas University - Psychology 1972 (Cum Laude & Phi Beta Kappa)
• M.A. West Georgia College - Humanistic Psychology 1975
• Ed.D. University of Northern Colorado - Transpersonal Psychology and Counseling 1977
• Licensed Clinical Psychologist 1980-Present • Certified EMDR (Trauma Reduction
Techniques) 1992
• Certified Ericksonian Hypnosis 1991 • Coach University - Trainer 1996 – 1998
• Coach University Graduate - 1997 • Master Certified Coach - 1998



About the Institute
The Institute for Life Coach Training, (formerly Therapist University), is the first-of-its-kind training
institute that specializes in training psychotherapists, psychologists, counselors and helping
professionals in building a successful coaching practice. Prompted by the ever-increasing number of
therapists wanting to offer coaching services to their clients, Dr. Patrick Williams, psychologist and
Master Certified Coach (MCC), founded the Institute in late 1998 after completing his own
advanced training at Coach University and other notables in the field.

As a successful psychologist-turned-coach, Dr. Williams recognized that therapists and helping
professionals are the most well-positioned professionals to transition to the world of coaching.
Because therapists and helping professionals already have the requisite skills for effective
coaching, he developed a training program that emphasizes the important distinctions between
therapy and coaching -- and builds upon therapists’ existing skills so that they can quickly translate
those skills to coaching in as little as 40 hours of tele-classes.

Since its inception, the Institute has graduated hundreds of students across the US, Canada, Asia,
Australia, and Europe. The program has expanded to include Advanced Coach Training, and offers
a Certified Life Coach designation. The curriculum for the Foundational Coach Training is continually
re-evaluated to ensure that state-of-the-art training is provided. It is approved by the International
Coaching Federation (ICF) to be an Accredited Coach Training Program.

For the exclusive benefit of our students and graduates, the Institute has established an online
Student Center, full of valuable resources that are crucial for coaching success. Graduates of our
programs also have the option of participating in once-a-month quot;Chats with Patquot;.

The Foundational Coach Training is designed to facilitate/assist those therapists desiring to
transition from a therapy practice to coaching in the shortest amount of time -- or who want to add
coaching to their therapy practice.

The Foundational Coach Training for Christian Counselors is designed to facilitate/assist people with
a people-helping background to transition from a professional, pastoral or lay counseling practice
to coaching in the shortest amount of time.

Advanced Coach Training Courses are available to anyone who has completed 30 hours of basic
coach training.



Articles

Border Line – Choice Magazine, Volume 5, Issue 3, 2007

Coaching From the Inside Out – Choice Magazine, Volume 5, Issue 2, 2007

Synergistic Relationships - Choice Magazine, Volume 5, Issue 1, 2007

From Me to We - Choice Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 4, 2006

The Coaching Profession Grows Up - Choice Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 3, 2006

The Evolving Profession of Life Coaching - Personal Fitness Professional Magazine, August, 2006

The Theoretical Foundations of Coaching - Choice Magazine, Volume 4 Issue 2, 2006

The Whole Person - Choice Magazine, Volume 3 Issue 4, 2005

Building on Trust - Choice Magazine, Volume 3 Issue 2, 2005

It's All in Your Head - Choice Magazine, Volume 3 Issue 1, 2005

Avoiding the Drama of Trauma - Choice Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 3, 2004

Wellness and Coaching - Choice Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 2, 2004

Coaching and Psychology The Great Debate - Choice Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 1, 2004

Coaching Evolution - Absolute Advantage, 2004

The Perils of Personal Issues in Coaching – Intnl Journal of Coaching in Organizations, 2003

Life Coaching in Addiction Counseling: Beyond the 12th Step - Counselor Magazine, Dec. 2002

Dysfunction or Discovery - The New Private Practice, edited by Lynn Grodzki, January, 2002

Your Personal Life Coach: A Modern Day Mentor, 2002

Wanna be a Coach? - New Therapist, May/June 2001

Coaching Patients, Reinventing Therapists - LA Times, Lynell George, Sept. 2001

Fort Collins, CO www.lifecoachtraining.com


Articles – Continued

Personal Coaching's Evolution from Therapy by Pat Williams, Ed.D - Consulting Today, 2000

Therapist as Personal Coach: Reclaiming Your Soul The Independent Practitioner, Fall, 1999

Telephone Coaching for Cash - Practice Strategies, Vol. 2, Number 11, Nov., 1997

Confessions of a Psychologist-Turned-Coach by Pat Williams, Ed. D

Using the People Map in Personal and Business Coaching

What role does advice play in coaching?

A Week In The Life of A Personal Coach



Interviews

Listen to Dr. Patrick Williams and other guests in Insight on Coaching interviews
with Tom Floyd:
When to Use a Cultural Coach
When Cultures Collide
Becoming Culturally Aware
Building and Leaving a Legacy
Life Coaching
Coaching vs. Therapy

Dr Patrick Williams' interview on The Coaching Show on wsRadio.com. To listen
click on a segment link below:

Segment 1 Segment 2
Listen to Dr Patrick Williams' interview with the PsychJourney Audio Book Club on
his book Therapist As Life Coach.

Listen to NPR's Talk of the Nation®,. Guest Speaker: Patrick Williams, Founder of
The Institute for Life Coach Training

Listen to quot;Best Coaches in Americaquot; - an interview with Dr. Patrick Williams
broadcast on Sky Radio



In the News
Dr Patrick Williams presents quot;Transpersonal Psychology Redux: Purpose, Meaning and
States of Consciousness in Whole Person Coaching,quot; at the third national Coaching
Psychology Conference - Press Release

Life Coach Training Leader Explores The Meaningful Influences of Jung, Assagioli, and
Maslow - Press Release

Founder of the Institute for Life Coach Training Releases New Book for Coaches - Press
Release

Patrick Williams Named First Global Visionary Fellow in Initiative to Support High-Impact
Social Change - Press Release

Patrick Williams Invited to Historic International Summit - Press Release

Patrick Williams Named First Global Visionary Fellow in Initiative to Support High-
Impact Social Change – Press Release

Wanna be a Coach? - by John Soderlund, New Therapist Magazine

Coaching Patients, Reinventing Therapists - Lynell George, LA Times



Photos



Products

Becoming a Professional Life Coach: Lessons from the Institute for Life Coach
Training by Dr. Patrick Williams & Diane S. Menendez

With his bestselling Therapist as Life Coach, Pat Williams introduced the therapeutic
community to the career of life coaching. Now, Williams, founder of the Institute for
Life Coach Training (ILCT), and Menendez, senior trainer at ILCT—both master
certified coaches extraordinaire—reveal all the basic principles and crucial strategies
that they have taught to thousands of coaches over the years. Beginning with a brief
history of the foundations of coaching and its future trajectory, Becoming a
Professional Life Coach takes readers step-by-step through the coaching process, covering all the
crucial ideas and strategies for being an effective, successful life coach, including:

• Listening to, versus listening for, versus listening with;
• Establishing a client’s focus;
• Giving honest feedback and observation;
• Formulating first coaching conversations;
• Asking powerful, eliciting questions;
• Understanding human developmental issues;
• Reframing a client’s perspective;
• Enacting change within clients;
• Helping clients to identify and fulfill core values, and much, much more.

Law and Ethics in Coaching : How to Solve and Avoid Difficult Problems in
Your Practice by Dr. Patrick Williams & Sharon Anderson

Law and Ethics in Coaching co-edited by Patrick Williams and Sharon Anderson. With
contributions from a dozen academic, legal, and coaching professionals, this book is
a must for anyone in the field of coaching or whose organization uses coaching as a
service. Sure to be a classic.

Falling Awake: Living Your Life on Purpose - CD
Dr. Patrick Williams offers a dynamic presentation about waking up to purposeful
living. A graduate of David Ellis' highly-touted Falling Awake program, Pat is
passionate about people not settling for mediocrity. This video will help you find
out how to create the life you've always wanted and be on purpose every day
with ideas, tips and strategies to dramatically improve the quality of your life.



Therapist as Life Coach: An Introduction for Counselors and Other
Helping Professionals, Revised and Expanded Edition
by Dr. Patrick Williams MCC, Deborah C. Davis

A book for mental health professionals considering a transition into the new
and dynamic field of life coaching! Therapist as Life Coach explores life
coaching as a profession, examines the relationship between life coaching
and therapy, and details the variety of options for professionals considering
either a transition into coaching or expanding their practices to include
coaching.

This book is one-stop-shopping for the therapist wishing to explore the coaching field. Every
chapter in this second edition has been revised, reflecting the growth of the coaching field
and its increasing appeal to therapists and all helping professionals. New material includes
an overview of recent coaching developments, updated liability concerns, new business
opportunities, and a new section on the research about coaching.

Therapist as Coach: Transforming Your Practice - DVD
U.S. News and World Report calls personal coaching the second biggest consulting
business. Therapists are well positioned professionals to transition into this exciting and
personally enriching business. Therapists who learn the business of personal coaching
will find that they really enjoy their clients, earn higher incomes, and even have a level
of friendship and community that is neither proper nor possible in traditional
psychotherapy. In this 4 DVD set you'll fully explore what personal coaching is and how
it can change your practice and your life.

Some of the topics include:

• What is a Personal Coach?
• Why are Therapists uniquely qualified to enter this explosive field?
• The Similarities and Differences between Coaching and Therapy
• Gaining Clients around the World

Plus, you'll see 5 live coaching Demonstrations and get valuable marketing tips to put to work in your
practice today!



Total Life Coaching: 50+Life Lessons, Skills, and Techniques to
Enhance Your Practice.....and Your Life by Dr. Patrick Williams MCC, Dr.
Lloyd J. Thomas

Life coaching is more than a collection of techniques and skills. It is more
than something you do. Life coaching reflects who you are-it is your
authentic being in action. Readers of Pat Williams's and Deborah Davis's
book, Therapist as Life Coach, know Pat to be a gifted life coach and
passionate teacher. Here Pat and psychologist/colleague and writer of more
than 1600 newspaper columns, Lloyd J. Thomas, build on this earlier book and share a
unique insight into the coaching process, which shows you precisely how to enhance your
professional practices through practical and effective life coaching. It also empowers you to
change your own lives through use of the practical information and philosophy presented
here.

Total Life Coaching is organized into a series of 52 life lessons, and is designed to be either
read cover-to-cover or dipped into, as needed, for assistance when conducting a coaching
session. Keeping life's processes on the quot;message and lessonquot; level makes living and life
coaching much easier and more enjoyable. Total Life Coaching guides you step-by-step
through the complex process of learning and coaching these fifty important lessons. The
lessons are organized into 8 sections: Creating a Personal Identity; Coaching Spirituality
and Life Purpose; Coaching Communication Skills; Living Life with Integrity; Success:
Clients Achieving their Potential; Coaching Cognitive Skills; Creating High-Quality
Relationships; Understanding Your Past to Create a Desired Future.

Total Life Coaching by Pat and Lloyd is more than just a book. It is an interactive experience
in which you will find recipes for living your life more authentically, as well as master time-
honored lessons that you can bring to your coaching clients [or can incorporate in your own
life]. Regardless of the personal coaching techniques or skills you may have learned, you
may still not be the most effective coach you can become. This book will help you move
closer to that goal.



Testimonials
quot;You have mastered the art of delivering several key message points in a way that is easily received by
the audience and helps builds consensus not divisiveness. Again thank you for your stellar leadership of
the profession and setting such a fine example of how to educate the masses so that all are served. It is
inspiring leaders like you that are going to truly impact the future of our beloved profession and
strengthen the ICF.quot; Robert Stack, Denver, CO

quot;Just wanted to say thank-you for making such an impact in such a short space in time! Meeting you and
learning from you was truly an amazing and enriching experience! Yes - I will become what I dream of
for nothing is impossible if you truly can believe! We had an amazing time visiting your country and
learning from you! Hope you are doing well. Wish to learn more from you and we definitely plan to be
back at the conference next year! Who knows what the future holds? I am truly excited and inspired and
look forward to meeting with you again!quot; Jannie Putterm, Wellness Africa Pty Ltd, South Africa

quot;Pat Williams is a delight! An excellent and entertaining teacher, he develops an easy and quick rapport
with his audience. The week long summer session I took with him was extremely helpful in my practice,
and his continuing availability and support is an added (and unexpected) bonus. Don't miss a chance to
learn from this gifted, thoroughly committed teacher. He is the best I have ever experienced.quot; Jane
McCauley, MA

quot;Dr. Patrick Williams was absolutely tremendous! He has a nature gift for clear, consise communication
and fully engaging his audience. The bottom line: he's authentic and inspiring.quot; John S. Allen, Ph.D.,
Health Psychologist and Wellness Consultant, East Sandwich, MA

quot;Dr. Williams' seminar was as enlightening and inspirational as he was down-to-earth and HUMAN. He
made me feel as though I could do ANYTHING. I suppose that is the essence of being a therapist and
coach. I am grateful to have been a part of that 'Therapist as Life Coach' training in Cape Cod. Thanks!quot;
Patricia G. Pishioneri, RN, MS, CHt, Virginia Beach, VA

quot;I am a senior psychologist with an extensive background in forensic and cognitive-behavioral therapy.
After reading Patrick's book on Coaching for Psychologist's I was so impressed that I telephoned him to
tell him how excited I was about the information he conveyed. He suggested that I attend the summer
workshop in Eastham, Ma. From the first day to the fifth day, Dr. Williams was superb in his
presentation, organization and content of materials. Everything he demonstrated was practical and useful
for any of us attending who needed to begin this 'new approach'. Attendees who had been coaching for a
few years told me they too found the workshop extremely helpful and original. I cannot feel more
positive. I hated to see the workshop end. As I continue my work, my marketing, I frequently think of
him and his sage advice.quot; Dr. Lorraine Wincor, Psy.D.



Speaking Schedule
2008
February 22nd – 23rd March 13th – 16th July 28th – August 1st
Glenwood Springs, CO Washington, DC New England Educational Institute
Coaching the Global Village Advisory Group The Psychotherapy Networker Symposium: Therapist As a Life Coach: Transforming
www.coachingtheglobalvillage.org The Power of Relationship: From Isolation to Your Practice
Connection, Becoming a Wise Elder Part of the 25th Annual Cape Cod
Therapist: Lessons from Africa and Tribal Summer Symposia.
Societies

November 12 - 15 November 16-17
Palais des congrès de Montréal Estes Park, CO
Montréal, Québec, Canada Coaching the Global Village Training
2008 ICF International National Conference www.coachingtheglobalvillage.org

2007
January 5th -7th February 18th - 25th March 7th - 27th
Washington, DC Marco Island, FL
Africa
Coaching the Global Village Advisory Group New England Educational Institute
www.coachingtheglobalvillage.org Life purpose trip
www.inventuregroup.com

Aptil 12th - 15th April 26th - 28th April 29th - May 2nd
Estes Park, CO Portland, OR Monterrey, CA
Coaching the Global Village Advisory Group Oregon Psychology Association Conversations Among the Masters
www.coachingtheglobalvillage.org Conference (CAM 2007)

June 24th - June 30th July 14th - 19th August 6th - 10th
Denver, CO Stephens Point, WI Cape Cod, MA
Smart Marriages Conference National Wellness Institute Conference New England Educational Institute

Sept. 30th - October 5th October 12th - 14th October 27th - 28th
Sorrento, Italy Santa Fe, NM Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Transforming your Practice: Life Coaching New England Educational Institute OACCPP Annual Conference
Skills for Therapists Symposium

October 31 - November 4th December 17th – 18th
Long Beach, CA The British Psychological Society, City
International Coach Federation Conference University London
Third National Coaching Psychology
Conference


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