Coaching Across Cultures: Five Voices, One Conversation

Coaching is a global practice. But it does not look the same everywhere.

The relationship between coach and coachee, the silences that are acceptable, the meaning of trust, of directness, of change itself – all of these are shaped by culture. And yet, something at the core remains constant across every context.

Within International Coaching Week 2026, 5 ICF chapters from 5 different parts of the world come together for an honest, unscripted conversation about what coaching looks like where they are – and what it means to hold a coaching mindset across cultural boundaries.

What this conversation explores:

– What is different: how culture shapes the coaching relationship, client expectations, and what coaching looks like in each context

– What stays the same: the values, the presence, the human core that transcends geography and cultural background

– What we can learn from each other: perspectives that challenge assumptions and expand practice

Please join us for a live dialogue between five chapters, five cultures, and five sets of lived experience– moderated to go somewhere real.