Jeff Staggs, President of Business Coaching International, is an ICF Master Certified Coach with twenty years experience coaching senior executives.  He is also an NLP Master Practitioner and has a background in clinical psychology.

Jeff has built his business specializing in coaching senior leaders in Fortune 500 companies both in the U.S. and Internationally.   His client work has focused on CEOs, board presidents and VP and above executives.  His work with hundreds of executives has given him incisive insight into the challenges leaders face and what it takes to develop sustainable leadership in today’s global organizations.  Jeff’s work enables his clients to take on new business and personal challenges and to achieve new levels of balance and performance – akin to the world-class athlete who seeks intensive coaching to move from silver to gold medal victories.  He coaches both individual business leaders and their teams.

Jeff designed and delivered the first coaching program to be fully integrated into an MBA program for Capella University and was an adjunct staff member in the MBA program.  He is the co-designer of Breakthrough Coaching and Feedback an innovative training program that gives executives and managers practical skills for developing people and creating results through others.  He is also the principle author of A Better Way to Live & Work™ – and the 7 Entrepreneurial Skills® — a coaching program designed to empower  professionals to re-create their lives and work from the inside out.

Jeff has been a leader in the field of coaching and is a founding member of the International Coaches Federation and the Minnesota Coaches Association.  He is a current member of the ICF Assessor team and a member of the team that trains new assessors for ICF.  He was on the team responsible for writing the ICF credentialing standards and more recently, the MCC examination process.  Jeff chaired the 2008 ICF International Conference in Montreal.

He has supervised well over a hundred coaches in both the US and internationally and has trained numerous coaches as a staff member for the Coaches Training Institute.  Jeff also conducts international training courses for advanced coaching, regularly training in the UK and Denmark.

Jeff earned a BS degree in Psychology from Seattle Pacific University and did his masters work in Clinical Psychology at Illinois State University.

Jeff makes his home in Mound, Minnesota with his wife and two boys. He is actively involved in his community and gives back by mentoring new coaches and doing pro-bono work in the non-profit community.