WABC Certified Master Business Coach—held by professionals around the world—is a highly esteemed, world-class distinction designed for professional business coaches at the leading edge of their field with master-level expertise, specialized knowledge and coaching skills.
WABC offers a suite of rigorous, evidence-based credentials for professional business coaches at four levels. WABC Certified Master Business Coach (CMBC) is WABC’s third and master-level, held by business coaches all over the world.
Those holding CMBC represent a wide array of professional roles – leaders, managers, internal and external business coaches, external consultants – and support senior-leaders by applying their master-level specialized skills to tackle complex business and organizational challenges with open agendas, the outcomes of which may impact broader business and organizational goals and objectives. Furthermore, they may be accountable for critical analysis, diagnosis, design, planning, execution and evaluation and they may also choose to specialize. Being a CMBC means they can provide a significant professional offering for transformative impacts!
To earn CMBC, holders successfully completed either a WABC Accredited (Level 3 – CMBC)® Program or WABC Portfolio Pathway.
The WABC Business Coaching Competencies is the first-ever, global association-sponsored evidence-based professional competencies that define business coaching as a distinct discipline. This list of competencies covers an impressive breadth and depth of professional practice and is applied (at the appropriate level) to specified WABC Credentials (RCC™, CBC™, CMBC®, ChBC®) and WABC Accredited® marks for business coach training programs.
The WABC Professional Standards for Business Coaches is the first-ever, global association-sponsored evidence-based professional standards for business coaches. These professional standards describe the practice of business coaches: what we do and don’t do. All WABC Members must adhere to them. These standards also help clients, their sponsors, organizations and anyone interested in our profession understand what to expect from business coaching.
The WABC Code of Business Coaching Ethics and Integrity embodies the highest ethical standards and includes our Principles and our Safe Harbor Conciliation and Adjudication Process. It’s one of the most advanced and comprehensive codes of its kind in the world today, and is one of the key differences that set WABC business coaches apart from other kinds of coaches. All WABC Members must adhere to this Code. This Code also educates the public and helps clients and their sponsors and organizations understand what to expect from their business coaches.
As the industry leader since 1997, the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches (WABC) drives business coaching excellence with robust, evidence-based practices.
We support leaders, coaches, clients and companies with the knowledge, skills and resources to successfully navigate complexity and improve individual and operational performance alike.
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