Patrick Williams

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 joined Coach U in 1996, closed his therapy practice 6 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. 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 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, Techniques to Enhance your Practice and Your life and Becoming a Professional Life Coach: Lessons from the Institute for Life Coach Training.