Being a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) brings instant credibility. It means you are dedicated to coaching excellence and ethics as defined by the largest and most influential professional coaching organization in the world – ICF. Now, you can showcase your membership and dedication to the art and practice of coaching with the ICF Member Digital Badge.
ICF is excited to recognize your membership. We are pleased to provide this new service through our official digital credential provider, Credly. Your badge can be easily shared on social and professional media and added to your email signature. There is no fee for this service and your participation is optional, though highly encouraged to further promote your dedication to the ICF coaching community.
For trained professional coaches, this badge is another way to give credibility to your personal coaching brand and show prospective clients that you’re committed to coaching excellence and ethical practices. This digital badge sets you apart in an increasingly crowded marketplace. According to the 2020 ICF Global Coaching Study, coach practitioners, managers and leaders agree: untrained individuals who call themselves coaches are the greatest obstacle for the industry. Credibility matters – the ICF Member Digital Badge helps you show it.
The ICF Member Digital Badge is a global badge relevant in all countries and territories worldwide. ICF Members may also need the member badge for verification purposes, as it helps identify active ICF Members and separates you from those who call themselves coaches but may have no formal coach training or experience.
Your digital badge is designed for easy access! Beginning on or about February 11, 2021, current ICF Members will be invited to accept their digital badge.
Here’s how you can accept and share your digital badge:
Learn more about how to use your new digital badge.
Find out more about Credly and digital badging by browsing these FAQs.
Yes, you can download your badge from the Share Badge page. Your downloaded badge contains Open Badge Infrastructure (OBI) compliant metadata embedded into the image. This allows you to store your badge on other OBI-compliant badge sites, such as the Mozilla backpack.
We have partnered with Credly to translate the learning outcomes you’ve demonstrated into a badge, issued and managed through the company’s Acclaim Platform. The technology Credly uses on its Acclaim Platform is based on the Open Badge Standards maintained by IMS Global. This enables you to manage, share and verify your competencies digitally.
You will receive an email notification from the Credly Platform (admin@credly.com) with instructions for claiming your badge and setting up your account.
You can find answers to frequently asked questions in the Credly Support pages.
No. This is a service we provide to ICF Credential-holders at no additional cost.
Representing your skills as a badge gives you a way to share your abilities online in a way that is simple, trusted and can be easily verified in real time. Badges provide clients, employers and peers concrete evidence of what you had to do to earn your credential and what you’re now capable of.
You can easily configure your privacy settings in the Credly Platform. You’re in complete control of the information about yourself that is made public.
Open badges are web-enabled versions of a credential, certification or learning outcome which can be verified in real-time, online.
As an ICF coach, you should take pride in what you do and your effort to help others! Digital badging helps ensure that all credentialing and your hard work as a coach is validated. ICF digital badges validate your Associate Certified Coach, Professional Certified Coach and Master Certified Coach levels.
While badges are simply digital image files, they are uniquely linked to data hosted on Credly’s Acclaim Platform. This link to verified data makes them more reliable and secure than a paper-based certificate. It also eliminates the possibility of anyone claiming your credential and your associated identity.
You can share your badge directly from the Credly Platform to LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook; over email; embedded in a website or in your email signature.
Credly is the end-to-end solution for issuing and managing digital credentials. Credly works with credible organizations to provide digital credentials to individuals, worldwide.
To share or add a badge to your LinkedIn profile, LinkedIn requires an authorization process, that is required and standard for all third-party programs creating a connection between the two accounts.
When you connect your Credly and LinkedIn accounts, you will receive a message outlining the permissions you are granting in the process. LinkedIn predetermines this message based on the authorization scope required to share your badge. Credly will not post to LinkedIn without your initiation or permission. Credly will only add badges to your profile or post them to your newsfeed upon request.
You can disconnect Credly’s access to your social media account after you have successfully shared your badge to your profile or newsfeed. You can also manage Credly’s connection through your privacy settings within your social media account.
According to the 2020 ICF Global Coaching Study, coaches say the No. 1 obstacle for the coaching profession is untrained individuals who call themselves coaches. Digital badging gives ICF Credential-holders a way to share their knowledge, skills and abilities online in a way that is simple and trusted and can be easily verified in real time.
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