I’d like to take a moment to thank you all for the growing participation and excitement in our ICF-OC Chapter. The new Business and Coaching Excellence Program has proven to be quite a success! Plus the headliner speakers who have visited us this year have all been quality contributors to our participants and to our profession.

My promise to you when I took the presidency this year was that you and your businesses would “grow like weeds” with your active participation in the Chapter. Think about it… having growing pains where your coaching businesses became so successful you would have to hire professionals and colleagues to come and join you in your continued growth in your coaching businesses!

Come and join us soon! Next month’s speaker came highly recommended by our sister chapter in San Diego and will prove to be quite magical!

Have you heard the great news?

We are now affiliates with NAWBO-OC (Check our website for details: www.icforangecounty.org/affiliates.htm) ! This means that for a deeply discounted rate of $125 over the price of ICF-OC membership, an ICF-OC member will also be able to become a member of the well established NAWBO-OC, founded in December 1990. What wonderful timing too! The esteemed businesswomen and men of NAWBO-OC have just announced their newest Education Center classes designed to meet business needs at every stage of personal and company growth. The classes include: 1) Business Planning, 2) Marketing and Public Relations, 3) Sales and Business Development, 4) Finance and Accounting, 5) Operations and Processes, and 6) Leadership and Management. What a perfect time for coaches to deepen their knowledge in creating their coaching businesses successful!

On the home front of ICF-OC, our Board members are offering a discount on your monthly ICF-OC Chapter meeting fees. As a member in good standing, if you assist our Logistics/Special Events Director with registration duties before the meetings, your admission to the ICF-OC Chapter meetings will be $25. You can’t beat that! (Email: Anita Goldin at logistics@icforangecounty.org for details)

Unless of course that for a limited time, as a member of the ICF-OC Chapter in good standing you find, manage the preparation, setup and host or hostess all presentation needs for a quality speaker for one of our ICF-OC Chapter meetings. (The speaker is to be approved by our Board of Directors.) Your registration fee for that evening will then be free and clear of any payment. That’s right! Your dinner and the headliner meeting will be complimentary. (Email: Sandy Scheppmann at secretary@icforangecounty.org for details)

Respectfully,,
Patricia Hirsch, MCC, MBA, RN
ICF-OC President, 2006