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President’s Message – from Melissa Pylypchuk

Welcome to our ICF Prairie Chapter!

I’m delighted to serve another year leading our chapter board to create a thriving community of professional coaches.

We look forward to welcoming you into many of our monthly events, opportunities to get involved, and support you toward new or furthering your ICF professional credential and application.

Warmly,

Melissa Pylypchuk

Purpose and Goals

Our Purpose and Goals

On June 3, 2021, the Prairie Professional Coaches Association officially change its operating name from ICF Saskatchewan Charter Chapter to ICF Prairie Charter Chapter in our newly approved bylaws.  These bylaws state our Purpose and Goals to be:

Purpose: Prairie Professional Coaches Association (ICF Prairie Charter Chapter) is a non-profit association with individual membership, formed to raise the profile of executive, leadership and life coaching in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, to provide a network for coaches within Saskatchewan and Manitoba, to create awareness of ICF credentialing as a manifestation of coaching professionalism and to promote the profession and the members.

Goals:

  • Increase the success of its membership. 
  • Increase the skills and effectiveness of its members. 
  • Raise the awareness to the wider community about the coaching profession and that ICF credentialing is a manifestation of coaching professionalism. 
  • Provide a network through which its members can learn and share opportunities.
  • Provide a forum wherein the members can discuss issues of professional concern. 
  • Provide the opportunity for its members to collaborate in providing resources and solutions for their clients. 

The Prairie Professional Coaches Association was established in 2010.

Founding Members

Founding Members

In 2010 Saskatchewan coaches founded the Prairie Professional Coaches Association (PPCA) – a Saskatchewan Chapter of the International Coach Federation (ICF). The Founding Members included: Donna Kane, Larry Steeves, Shana Ring, Yvonne Taylor, Greg Wensel and Mick Williams.

In 2021, the name of the Chapter was changed to ICF Prairie to reflect the participation of both Saskatchewan and Manitoba coaches.
Our Board at the time included:

Brian Mitchell-Walker
President

Paula Koch
President Elect

Dianne McCoy
Past President

Shauna Hammer
Treasure

Marina Jeffery
Secretary

Vera Keown
Community Services Program

Jeff Lobb
Director, Program Services

Shahira Mabrouk
Director, Communications

Christa Ross
Director, Prism Awards

Kathy Randall
Director, Membership Services

Kathy Randall
Director, Membership Services

Niña Reynolds
Director (Member at Large)

ICF Prairie Charter Chapter's Privacy & Consent Statement

ICF Prairie Privacy & Consent Statement

Privacy Policy

Updated: January 13, 2022

ICF Prairie Charter Chapter Website Privacy Policy (www.icfprairie.ca)

The ICF Prairie Charter Chapter (ICF-PCC) recognizes the importance of protecting our users’ privacy. To that end we have created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices.

What Information is Collected

ICF-PCC collect and store technical information about your visit to our web site. We use this information for statistical purposes to make our site more accessible to visitors and the information we collect is not provided to any other third party. Specifically, we may record:

  • The name of the domain from which you access the Internet.
  • The Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our site, if any.
  • The type of web browsing software and operating system you are using to view our site.
  • The date and time you access our site.
  • The pages you visit on our site.
  • The amount of time spent on the site.

Some parts of the ICF-PCC website may use a “cookie,” which is a file placed on your computer hard drive, that allows the ICF-PCC web server to log the pages you use in the ICF site and to determine if you have visited the site before. The ICF server uses this information to provide certain features during your visit to the website. You can set your browser to warn you when placement of a cookie is requested and decide whether or not to accept it. By rejecting a cookie, some of the features available on the site may not function properly. We do not use cookies to collect personal information (e.g., email address, etc.)

Throughout the website there may be forms to request information, products, and services. These forms typically ask for contact information (such as your phone, address or e-mail address), financial information (such as your credit card numbers), and demographic information (for example, company product categories, areas of interest, location, etc.) Contact information from these forms is used to send the products, promotional materials or membership information that you request.

How Information Collected is Used

Member profile data collected at our site is added to a database maintained by ICF to customize your website experience and enable us to send emails based on categories (e.g. Membership, Accreditation).  No personal information is ever shared or sold to a third party.

Links to Other Sites

The website contains links to other sites. ICF-PCC is not responsible for the privacy practices of such websites. Inclusion of links to an outside website, whether in an advertisement or content area of ICF-PCC’s website, is not an endorsement of the website or a guarantee that the information it contains is accurate.

Forums

This site may offer web forums available to its users. Any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information, and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose personal or business information.

Security

This site uses physical, electronic and managerial procedures to protect information collected online including firewalls to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. The use of these security measures is not a guarantee that information supplied over the Internet will not be intercepted.

Choice/Opt-Out or Corrections/Updates

Users of our website have the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners. If you no longer wish to receive any future communications or need to change or modify information previously provided please use the contact form on our website to send a message.

Change in Terms of Privacy

ICF-PCC reserves the right to alter its privacy policies. Any changes to the policy will be posted on this page.

This Site is controlled and operated by ICF-PCC from its offices within Canada. ICF-PCC makes no representations that materials, information, or content available on or through this Site are appropriate or available for use in other locations, and access to them from territories where such materials, information, or content are illegal is prohibited. Those who choose to access this Site from other locations do so on their own volition and are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws.

Site Content

You may access, download and print materials on this website for your personal and non-commercial use. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information, software, products or services obtained from this website without first obtaining written consent from ICF-PCC. Furthermore, you may not use the materials found on this website on any other websites or in a networked environment without first obtaining written consent from ICF Prairie Charter Chapter (ICF-PCC).

All materials on this site are owned and copyrighted by the ICF Prairie Charter Chapter (ICF-PCC). © Copyright ICF Prairie Charter Chapter (ICF-PCC) 2022. All rights reserved. No reproduction, distribution, or transmission of the copyrighted materials at this site is permitted without the written permission of the ICF Prairie Charter Chapter (ICF-PCC).

Contacting the Website

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, please use our contact form and the message will be forwarded to the appropriate person:

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Meet our Chapter Members

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I joined ICF Prairie to find a community of coaches that could help me grow professionally and in my business. I volunteered to be a community support coach and then for a position on the Board. I ended up with amazing friends and colleagues. Get involved, you have so much to gain!

Jackie McConaghy, CEC, PCC

I joined the ICF back in 2011. I was starting up my coaching business and desperately needed local colleagues. I found a wonderful community in the Prairie ICF group. As a matter of fact, a large number of the members became participants in my doctoral dissertation, and I am deeply grateful. My business has benefited from the networking and referrals making the membership fee easily pay for itself. Over a decade later, I am still happy to be part of the chapter, especially for the friendships.

Scott Francis, PhD, ACC

I joined the ICF Prairie Chapter to find a community of people to learn and grow with in my coaching journey. I found much more than I anticipated. I found a diverse group of extremely caring and professional people. This community has been essential to my growth as a coach and a human being over the last 4 years. It is because of the depth of experience and character in our members.

The call to action should be first to discover the benefit of a great community of people in our chapter. The second is that we aren’t meant to do life and business alone. There are lots of possibilities to learn and grow together and this chapter is one place to discover just that.

Jeff Lobb, ACC