Welcome to the Business of Executive Coaching

Welcome to the business of executive coaching. I'm Ellie Scarfe, an ex lawyer turned executive coach. Over the last 17 years I've coached in house, I've been an associate coach and I've run executive coaching businesses with teams of coaches around the world. My clients have ranged from global brand names to boutiques, startups and organizations doing good in the world. I now run the Impact Coach Collective, a community of executive coaches who want to level up their business skills and take action in a community of like minded peers. I'm a traveller, a reader, a mum, wife and dog parent and I know firsthand that our stories have a huge impact on our businesses. The executive coaching business is tough and I've learnt all the lessons through plenty of mistakes and also with some great mentors. This podcast is all about growing a thriving executive coaching business. You can build a coaching business that is profitable, sustainable and that supports your personal goals, whatever they are. I'll be sharing tips and ideas translated for your context as well as stories from the field with brilliant coaches and mentors. If you want to level up your executive coaching business skills, then this is the place for you. Hello and welcome to the Business of Executive Coaching podcast. Today I want to kick off with a really short episode just giving you a sense of who I am, why I'm starting this podcast and what you can expect with the episodes and guests that we'll be bringing in. I'm Ellie Scarf, I'm an ex lawyer turned executive coach and as you've heard in my intro, when it comes to executive coaching, I. I've done it all. So I've been an associate coach, I've been the in house coach for a global brand business and I've also owned and run coaching businesses with teams of coaches around the world and I've done that in partnership and on my own. So the upshot is I get it. The last 17 years of my life I've lived and breathed executive and leadership coaching. Now along the way I've learned so many lessons, generally from doing things the hard way or doing it wrong. But I've also had the tremendous benefit of having wonderful coaching mentors. Over the last 10 years, I've been privileged to help other coaches who've been embarking on their businesses, generally quite casually and eventually as a formal mentor and business strategist. In 2023, I officially launched my digital course, the Corporate to Coach Blueprint, which shares what I know to be the foundations of a thriving executive coaching business and the how to of how to make it work in just A few short weeks I'll be opening the doors to the Impact Coach Collective, a mastermind style community for executive coaches working with corpor clients. In this community, members participate in monthly master classes and challenges, deal clinics, mentoring Q and A sessions and hear from expert guest speakers and more. The Collective aims to help executive coaches level up their business to match the impact that they want to have on their coaches. In this podcast, I'm going to come to you weekly and there'll be solo episodes and guest interview episodes with a range of guest coaches, experts and mentors. My aim is to share practical tips, business ideas adapted for the executive coaching context, and stories from coaches about their own corporate to coach journey. And because I'm quite a curious person, I'll be asking them tricky questions about things like their pricing strategies, their failures, how they manage to juggle it all. I've got an extraordinary network of successful coaches and I want to share their stories with you as well as my own advice and reflections. And you'll be getting me as I am. I'm practical. There may be the occasional swear word in there, so you know, if that bothers you, you might want to make sure the kids aren't around. But I really look forward to getting to know you better too. So don't forget to send me a comment or a message across my social platforms so I can say thanks for listening. You can find out more about me and what I do on my website@elliscarf.com on the social platforms, I'm most active on LinkedIn as elliescarf or you can find me on Instagram Lyscarf and on Facebook as well. I really look forward to going on this journey with you and I'll be back in a couple of days with episode one. Thanks for listening to this episode of the Business of Executive Coaching. If you found it helpful, please share it with a colleague or friend on LinkedIn and don't forget to tag me so I can say thanks. I would be tremendously grateful also if you would leave a review on Apple Podcasts. More reviews means more people can find us this episode was brought to you by the Impact Coach Collective, where executive coaches grow their businesses in a community of peers with business education, mentoring, deal clinics and more. If you'd like to contact me or work with me further, all my free resources, courses and more info on the Impact Coach Collective can be found@elliscarf.com have a brilliant week and I look forward to talking to you again soon.