We develop coaches who go beyond competence through training and mentoring that cultivate depth, presence, and real impact.
We partner with organizations that use coaching as a strategic lever to grow leaders, strengthen teams, and deliver sustainable results.
We develop coaches who go beyond competence through training and mentoring that cultivate depth, presence, and real impact.
We partner with organizations that use coaching as a strategic lever to grow leaders, strengthen teams, and deliver sustainable results.
Coaching Outside The Box is officially recognised as an ICF Level 1 and Level 2 Accredited Education Provider, delivering high-quality coaching education aligned with the highest international standards. This means we can support you from your first steps to your final performance evaluation, including being your assessors.
The path to an ICF credential can feel complex and overwhelming. That’s why we offer everything you need in one place: highly rated training programs, mentoring, supervision, and ICF exam preparation, designed to support both your professional and personal development.
Our approach blends rigorous professional standards with deep human work. You don’t just learn how to coach. You grow as a coach, with clarity, confidence, and purpose, guided by experienced mentors and held by a passionate community committed to your development.
Our offer for coaches includes:
Over the last decade, we have refined a unique training method that has helped hundreds of coaches successfully graduate, earn their credentials, and build flourishing coaching practices.
At Coaching Outside The Box, we don’t just teach you the competencies; we help you internalise them so you can eventually break them with artistry. Our approach is the reason our alumni stand out in the global marketplace as confident, human-centred professionals.
Our method is designed to take the noise out of your education so you can focus on the heart of the work:
We eliminate the overwhelm of ICF requirements. Using our signature Starter Kits, we provide a clear map for your specific level, whether it’s ACC, PCC, or MCC. This clarity is why our students move through their certification journey faster and with more confidence than those going it alone.
A great musician doesn’t think about the scales while they play. We train the ICF Core Competencies and PCC Markers until they become part of how you think, listen, and respond. By building this strong technical skeleton, you are freed from overthinking your questions and can focus on being fully present.
Real growth happens in real-world scenarios. In our classes, Dojos, and our Coaching Chains, you move beyond theory and practice with peers from over 18 countries. Our expert mentors act as a mirror, providing live feedback on complex, unscripted human emotions, the kind you’ll actually face with your clients.
The most successful coaches aren’t the best at following a script. Our method helps you unmask your unique voice. We bridge the gap between your professional skill and your personal humanity, allowing you to coach with an effortless impact that clients can feel.
Through regular sessions, you have ongoing support, allowing you to reflect, adjust, and continue growing as you face new challenges.
Prepare with confidence and pass your ICF exam with clarity, calm, and solid preparation.
Preparing for the ICF Credentialing Exam can feel overwhelming, especially when you’re not sure what the exam really looks for. At Coaching Outside The Box, we support you with structured exam preparation led by ICF Master Certified Coach mentors, so you know exactly what to expect and how to respond.
Our exam prep goes beyond theory. We help you think, decide, and show up as an ICF-aligned coach in real exam conditions.
How we support your exam preparation
Whether you’re preparing for ACC, PCC, or MCC, our support helps you move from uncertainty to readiness, so you can approach your performance evaluation with confidence.
Not sure where to begin with your ICF credential? Start here for free.
Out ACC, PCC, and MCC Starter Kits is a curated collection of practical resources designed to help you gain clarity, avoid common mistakes, and move forward with confidence.
Develop leaders, strengthen teams, and create lasting impact with coaching.
We partner with organizations to help you improve team collaboration, leadership effectiveness, and performance — working directly on the human dynamics that drive results.
Our approach supports leaders and teams to navigate complexity, communicate more effectively, and build trust-based relationships that sustain change over time.
Every intervention is tailored to your context, goals, and culture, ensuring coaching becomes a lever for meaningful, lasting change—not an isolated event.
We design tailored journeys built around four core offerings:
Lead with confidence, clarity, and self-awareness—unlocking your full leadership potential.
Develop leaders who inspire, collaborate, and drive measurable results across the organization.
Strengthen trust, communication, and collective performance to make teams more effective and resilient.
Align strategy, accelerate decision-making, and turn insights into focused action and tangible results.
Hi, I’m Lucia Baldelli, your partner when it comes to amplifying your impact as a coach, leader, or organization.
I am an ICF Master Certified Coach and an ICF Advanced Certified Team Coach, with over two decades of experience supporting people and systems through meaningful transformation.
There isn’t one single definition of success, and there certainly isn’t just one path to get there. What makes the difference is having the right support along the way. A qualified, experienced coach can help you see more clearly, navigate complexity, and grow with confidence.
I founded Coaching Outside The Box to help coaches and organizations unlock their potential by working on what truly drives sustainable success: human connection, self-awareness, and healthy relationships. Whether I’m working one-to-one, with teams, or at an organizational level, my focus is always on creating space for real change to happen.
My credentials
We don’t just offer ICF-accredited programs. We guide you through your coaching journey with clarity, depth, and real support: before, during, and after certification.
Our approach combines professional rigor with human connection, helping coaches and organizations grow in a way that’s sustainable, practical, and aligned with ICF standards.
Explore our ICF knowledge hub: practical tips, in-depth guides, and expert insights for aspiring and certified coaches.
On our blog, we share clear, up-to-date content to help you navigate your ICF journey with confidence: from exam preparation and credentialing to coaching mindset, professional growth, and real-world practice.
Whether you’re just starting out or already credentialed, you’ll find resources designed to support your learning and decision-making at every stage.
Starting on the journey to become an ICF Associate Certified Coach can be exciting but it’s natural to be confused. Here are some of the most common questions we get about our Level 1 Certification Program.
Coaching Outside the Box is a Gibraltar‑based company with a truly international footprint. Our faculty and mentors are based across Europe and the United States, and our community of students and clients spans the globe.
Our coach training programs are delivered fully online and designed to work seamlessly across Europe and US time zones. Live classes usually take place between 5:00 and 7:00 pm CET, making them compatible with full‑time work schedules.
Our coaching services are offered both online and in person. One‑to‑one coaching is primarily delivered online, while in‑person coaching and team interventions are available for clients based in Europe.
The International Coaching Federation (ICF) is the world’s leading global organization dedicated to advancing the coaching profession. ICF credentials are widely recognised as the gold standard in coaching.
Training with an ICF‑aligned school ensures that you are learning coaching competencies grounded in ethics, rigor, and professional excellence. For organizations and leaders, working with ICF‑credentialed coaches means partnering with professionals who adhere to high standards of practice, confidentiality, and continuous development.
Our core training programs typically last 9 months, with 90‑minute live classes each week.
We intentionally designed this structure to support deep learning alongside a demanding professional life. The rhythm allows you to integrate the competencies gradually, practice consistently, and grow into your coaching identity without overwhelm.
Leadership coaching is most powerful for senior leaders, executives, and founders who recognize that external success eventually demands internal alignment.
Our leadership coaching supports leaders who want to:
This is not performance coaching in disguise. It is developmental work for leaders who are ready to look inward to lead outward
Organizational coaching is ideal for organizations that understand that systems don’t change unless people do.
We work with organizations that:
Our approach is systemic and reflective, helping organizations develop the capacity to think, learn, and adapt — not just comply.
Yes. We regularly coach senior leaders, executive teams, and leadership cohorts across sectors. Our coaches are trained to work with authority, complexity, and organizational realities, while maintaining a strong ethical and reflective stance.
The best next step is a conversation. We offer exploratory calls to understand your goals, context, and expectations, and to help you decide whether Coaching Outside the Box is the right partner for your journey. Book a chat with our founder Lucia to explore how we can help.
I am an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), a Coach Trainer, and Mentor Coach. I enjoy when others improve the impact they have in their jobs, family, and the world by helping them discover and move through new awareness and into new action.
My goal is to partner with individuals and groups to help them gain clarity of their goal then help them unleash their stored-up potential to reach it. I believe everyone is capable of setting and reaching aspirational goals.
I am also a Scrum Alliance Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC), Certified Team Coach (CTC), Path to CSP Educator and an ICAgile Instructor. I have experience teaching, coaching, and mentoring individual contributors, teams, managers, directors, and VPs to help them be the leader everyone wants to work with and improve the impact they have in their organizations.
I am a professional coach who supports individuals, teams and whole organisations to become the best versions of themselves and to realise their potential. I work holistically within companies to build people’s capabilities, coach teams to enable them to achieve their goals, and coach the whole organisation systemically, to create the environment, culture and ways of being that will enable them to attain the positive outcomes they desire.
Much of my work is focussed on the growth of the leaders in the organisation, so that they can build the right capabilities to take on the challenges their organisations face.
I am an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), a Certified Systems Coach (ORSCC), a Scrum Alliance Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) and an NLP Master Coach.
I am an experienced Executive, Leadership and Neurodiversity Coach (ICF PCC), working with leaders across corporates, professional and financial services, as well as startup and scale-up founders and senior leadership teams.
I began my career in finance within global investment banks, before moving into the startup and scale-up ecosystem as a leader, founder, consultant and coach. This background gives me a deep understanding of the demands of high-performance environments.
I work with senior leaders and entrepreneurs seeking to realise their full potential, often addressing limiting beliefs, interpersonal challenges and internal barriers. I have extensive experience supporting neurodiverse clients and am a senior credentialed ADHD coach with PAAC. My approach is integrative, compassionate and appropriately challenging.
I am a multilingual Life Coach, Facilitator, and Mental Health First Aider passionate about helping people move from stuckness and uncertainty into clarity, confidence, and purpose. I’m based in France, and I work in English, French, and sometimes in Spanish.
I trained with the MOE Foundation and I’m currently on the ICF PCC pathway. I’ve coached individuals across industries and continents, with a strong focus on emotional well-being, neurodiversity, and meaningful life transitions.
With a background in International Business and a deep love of learning, I’ve lived, volunteered, traveled, and contributed to development programs globally. I’ve facilitated coaching certification courses, supported students at the University of Oxford, and spoken on international stages and podcasts about resilience and recovery.
Hello, I’m Maria, an ICF Professional Certified Coach, Trainer, Facilitator, and Mindfulness Teacher. My superpower is empathetic joy, and I genuinely thrive when contributing to others’ well-being and success.
With a Master’s in Computer Science, specializing in Artificial Intelligence, and expertise as a Senior Agile Coach, I’ve supported organizations through transformations, acquisitions, and rapid growth in the AI and e-commerce industries.
Beyond the technical realm, I’m a Registered Yoga Teacher and Mindfulness Meditation Teacher. My true passion lies in providing holistic support to individuals and teams, enabling self-fulfillment and sustainable change.
I am Italian and have had the privilege of calling Barcelona and Berlin home. Currently, I am based in London.
I co-founded The Mindful Facilitator Certification Program.
