The Coach Resource Portal is the world's first mobile app for the coaching profession and provides easy access to information and resources for new and experienced professional coaches and those interested in the coaching profession such as therapists and other helping professionals, media outlets, colleges and universities, and anyone considering becoming a professional coach as a career change.

For Professional Coaches:

- Extensive information and strategies for building your business

- Carefully selected resources to help manage and grow your practice

- Creative strategies for marketing and getting clients

- Job listings for coaches, free coaching forms and assessments and access to an extensive Resource Bank of free and low cost tools to better serve your clients and grow your practice

- Access to audio, video, and live programs from leading experts in the coaching profession

- Solid information on topics such as getting paid speaking gigs, building a niche community, designing profitable coaching packages and programs, getting clients in a down economy, even building a million dollar practice

For New and Aspiring Coaches and Interested Others:

- Where to get the best coaching training that fits your needs

- How to get started in the coaching profession

- Comprehensive listing and descriptions of coaching specialties

- How to choose a niche

- Understanding the difference between coaching and therapy

- Do's and Don'ts of coaching

- Access to free starter training

- Access to audio, video, and live programs from leading experts in the coaching profession

Please note: This app is intended to be for and about the coaching profession and does not provide coaching training, specific information about how to coach, personal or professional advice to the public, or referrals to coaches.

Professional Coaching is a positive, empowering and highly effective way to help others achieve their most important life, relationship, and business goals. Being a Professional Coach is the best and most fulfilling way to make a living you can imagine!

If you don't have any counseling training but are passionate about making a significant difference in the world, becoming a professional coach is a great option for you. Building a successful business as a professional coach is much easier than you might think.

If you're a therapist, clinician, or other helping professional attracted to coaching for expanding your practice by working with more functional, private pay clients, coaching might be a good fit for you as many of your colleagues have found.

The Coach Resource Portal is hosted by Relationship Coaching Institute (RCI), the first and largest international relationship coach training organization and includes information about training with RCI. It is our privilege and pleasure to promote the benefits of coaching, provide solid information about coaching, and to put in your pocket the best available information about how to become a coach and build a successful coaching practice.

We invite you to contact us with your suggestions and feedback for making this app the most useful tool possible for professional coaches and those interested in the coaching profession.

David Steele, MA, LMFT, CLC
Founder, Relationship Coaching Institute
Author of From Therapist to Coach (Wiley, 2011) and Million Dollar Private Practice (Wiley, 2012)

Frankie Doiron, PCC
President, Relationship Coaching Institute