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Agile Coaching != Life Coaching...Really?

Agile Coaching != Life Coaching...Really?

Brett Maytom posted some thoughts on LinkedIn, including an article entitled Exposing the Truth: Life Coaches Masquerading as Agile Coaches. As of March 2, 2023, there were 69 comments on LinkedIn to the post. 

Brett is a trainer with Scrum.org (PST) with over 20 certifications posted on his LinkedIn profile. Simply as a reference, I saw no certifications or training mentioned around any aspect of agile, professional, or life coaching, which I found interesting. He only references himself once as an agile coach in his experience history from 2014 – 2016.

In one of the comments, Brett gives some additional background context behind the article—

Context:
One ruffled my feathers last week, and what they were saying just had no business or product sense.

A few people in my network and local communities are like this. They only talk about agile in the context of a life coach for a few years now. I have tolerated it because I know them personally. I have now had enough of it.

Also, many companies promote life coaching courses, claiming they need this. People are getting suckered into that.

I attended an "agile coaching" course in 2014 (ish), which was more of a life coaching course. I was not impressed. Ken was on it too, and he walked out after the first half day. I should have too but I did not as I traveled to USA for it.