Thomas J. Leonard
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Thomas J. Leonard (July 31, 1955 - February 11, 2003) is considered a major contributor to the development of personal coaching.
In 1992, he founded Coach University, a leader in coach training with over 7,000 coaches operating in 38 countries.
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[edit] Significant accomplishments
Leonard's other accomplishments include:
- Founding the International Coach Federation in 1994. The ICF is an association of professional coaches with over 130 chapters worldwide.
- Writing 6 coaching-related books, along with 14 internally published works available exclusively to the coaches at Coach University.
- Starting TeleClass.com in 1998. Teleclass.com is a virtual university with over 20,000 students, offering over 100 classes during any given week, delivered via conference call and RealAudio.
- Writing 28 personal and professional development programs which are used by coaches, training firms, and Fortune 100 companies.
- Being featured on over 100 hours of commercially available audio-tape sets demonstrating techniques and processes of coaching.
- Developing a popular website called TopTen.org, which contains over 1,000 Top 10 Lists on all subjects. (This is arguably one of the Internet's first article directories.)
- Founding and managing of CoachVille.com as CEO. Coachville is a network and trainer of coaches worldwide with 20,000 coaches a members and graduates from 85 countries.
- Founding the Graduate School of Coaching, a comprehensive coach training school (1000 courses in development), with 1400 students from 35 countries.
- Founding the International Association of Certified Coaches, a professional coaching association with members worldwide.
- Publishing Today's Coach, a coaching industry ezine with over 30,000 subscribers.
[edit] Personal and professional development tools developed by Thomas Leonard
Leonard wrote 28 personal and professional development programs, including:
- Personal Foundation
- Certified Strategist
- Toleration-Free
- Clean Sweep
- SuperSensitive Person
- A Perfect Life
- Certified Critical Eye
[edit] Books written by Thomas Leonard
Thomas Leonard was the author of the following books:
- Working Wisdom
- The Portable Coach
- Becoming a Coach
- Simply Brilliant
- Coaching Forms Book
- The Distinctionary
