The ICF Core Competencies Updates for 2025

The ICF Core Competencies have been developed to establish benchmarks of excellence for professional coaches. The ICF Core Competencies define essential knowledge, skills, and behaviours that support professional coaches to deliver result-driven coaching.

.On September 8, 2025 the ICF released an update to their Core Competencies document. The previous update of the Core Competencies was in November 2019 and I wrote about that here.

What Are the Main Changes to the ICF Core Competencies in 2025?

The ICF writes the following about the changes –

“While no new main competencies are introduced, five new sub-competencies have been added, and revisions have been made to 11 existing sub-competencies. One competency definition was updated, and a glossary of terms has been added. The glossary can be found in the appendix.”

Where Can I Find the Updated 2025 ICF Core Competency Document?

The Updated 2025 ICF Core Competency document can be found here. On this page, you will also see a variety of languages available (including English). The document that I found most useful when looking at the updates was the comparison chart, which you can access here. The comparison chart succinctly shows the changes from the 2019 document to the 2025 document.

Over to You…

I hope this post has helped you to identify where to find the documents for the 2025 updates to the ICF Core Competencies. If you have any questions, please let me know. Also – if you are looking for an ICF Mentor Coach, please click here to find out more. I have also created an On-Boarding and Off-Boarding System for Coach’s here.