By Glen Murdoch It started with a desire to share the skills and knowledge that transformed my own life and turned into one of Australia’s most successful Life Coach Training College’s. I was a Phys Ed teacher with a life story that could have easily rendered me dysfunctional; and for a period, maybe it did. I look back fondly of the changes and growth both as the owner of a Coach Training College and, more importantly, the changes I’ve been able to make as a man. After completing my own personal development courses and becoming a Master Practitioner of Coaching, Sports Psychology, NLP and other therapy models, and then immersing myself in the one-toone coaching service delivery, I launched my first two-day ‘Quick Coach’ course in late 2011. I had no idea if anyone would turn up and to be completely honest, I had no idea if I would really be any good at Training Coaches. I knew there was a hole in the market and hoped there would be a market in the hole. Page 32
Fast forward to 2018 and The Life Coaching College has just under 1,500 coaching students around the Globe, an incredible new training facility in Melbourne and a full complement of coach training programs in WA, Qld and NSW. My vision is simple; “change the world one life at a time” and the students our College attracts share this vision. We are proud to be Australia’s leading Coach Training College with the most live, face-to-face, in-room trainings of any provider. The student learning experience is our prime focus, and we are constantly reviewing our delivery and adding more support, resources, programs and content to deliver to their expectations and beyond.
My background as a teacher shaped the way I want to teach and I still believe the only way to learn the skills of Coaching is to immerse yourself in them, practicing with clients. The two-day ‘Quick Coach’ program was so basic when I look back at it now, and yet it was incredibly effective. If you had told me back in 2011 that I would one day own a College that was delivering 350 days of live classroom training per year, backed by hundreds of hours of on-line additional content, working with some of the world’s best trainers and impacting the lives of thousands of people, directly and indirectly, each year, I would not have believed you. The Life Coaching College has grown from demand. Demand from more students joining our College each month and their thirst to learn even more. www.coachinglife. com.au
