Laura Whitworth
Coach and CTI co-founder
Laura Whitworth (1947-2007) was an American coach and educator who co-founded the Coaches Training Institute (CTI) in 1992. She co-wrote Co-Active Coaching.
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About Laura Whitworth
Laura Whitworth was an American coach and educator who worked to establish coaching as a profession. With Henry and Karen Kimsey-House, she founded the Coaches Training Institute (CTI) in 1992, and she also co-founded several other coaching associations and organizations. Professional Coach Journal named her one of the 10 most influential coaches in the field. Whitworth helped shape the philosophy behind the Co-Active approach, including the belief that the client is already whole. She was a co-author of Co-Active Coaching, first published in 1998 with Phil Sandahl. Before coaching, she spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal and later worked as an accountant at Arthur Andersen & Company. Her coaching career began in 1988. She died in 2007.