Hello, welcome to February and happy belated year, hiker, you know, I didn't think it would be happening this soon, but here I am, literally fifteen minutes away from leaving for my very first international travel on behalf of ICF since the beginning of the pandemic. And on one hand I'm very excited. And on the other hand, I am a little concerned. And isn't that exactly what we're doing with our coaching clients every time we want to create an exciting future with them for what's what's there and what we can accomplish and then help them with the little bit of an anxiety of how to get from here to there.

最后，如果你还没有机会见到Steve vice，他是我们职业教练家庭组织的新任副总裁，我很高兴向你介绍Steve。他带着在协会管理方面的丰富经验、对教练的极大热情来到我们这里，与我们其他非常、非常有才华和敬业的员工一起，我相信史蒂夫将帮助我们将ICF提升到另一个水平，再次祝愿你们有一个非常、非常好的20岁生日。22.保持健康，保持安全，我一如既往地感谢你们成为ICF的成员，感谢你们成为榜样，感谢你们提供专业指导，感谢你们传播信息，感谢你们成为高标准的捍卫者，感谢你们通过指导赋予世界力量。非常感谢。

So this is what I see is all about helping you to be very well equipped coaches and you helping your clients, finding and reaching their potential.

So what's more exciting ICF first of all, we are introducing our board of directors and take a look. Please do. Because all the seven family organizations, sex, family organizations in the global enterprise, I should say, look at the diversity of those individuals, not only geography, but experience a niche. It's it's just it's just phenomenal to have such a rich and such a depth within our leadership this year.

So some of them may live in your neighborhood, so don't hesitate to knock on their door. Well, just call them and invite them to share with you how this organization really works, how the governance of ICF international coaching Federation is delivered on a daily basis. And while I did, please do thank them. It is a phenomenal group of leaders, and they are donating a significant amount of their time and talent to this great organization, which makes us a great organization.

And it takes me to the next point. And it is that we are already starting our renewal campaign for membership. So if you didn't think about it yet, please do please review our renewal messages. See what are the benefits that are awaiting you and how you can best take advantage of everything that the one I see of the whole ICF ecosystem has to offer.

One of our offerings is working with organizations and institutions that establish coaching competencies within their organizations, and they are often being in competition for the prison award.

Prison award is probably quite a known brand name for you, and just yesterday I was very pleased to be invited to the ceremony for one of our prison winners from last year, Tata consulting services, and their workplace coaching program. Phenomenal initiative of training close to 6000. At this point, individuals within the system to offer coaching skills and coaching approaches to people they are working with.

So I think that he may give you a little inspiration of what you can do in your communities and also maybe to seek somebody else, some other organization that would be very worthy of this recognition at the prison level.

As you know, last year we declared very strong support for the diversity, equity, inclusion and justice, and we are happy to joined by our wonderful Latisha Brooks as our director of the AJ. And now we are really talking about more what we can do with the community. So please do look into the calendar of different events that we'll be focusing and featuring the J and make sure that you take advantage of it and make sure that you can just check it out and see if you would like to continue and perhaps recommend it to your colleagues and friends.

And finally we started another program that has specifically in mind raising awareness of coaching. And as we well know, social media is now the way to do it. So we started to life. So we we just had one program.

It was well attended. So if you so wish on February 25th at 11:00 eastern us time, please join me as we will be having our second segment of linked in life. Give us some feedback. Tell us what you would like to hear about and also tell us who do you think we should be directing this message to, as always, thank you so much for being members of ICF, for being members of the coaching profession, for being professional coaches, and again as always wishing you a healthy and safe rest of the month and the rest of the year. Thank you.