The Academy for
Coach Supervision & Mentoring
The Academy for
Coach Supervision & Mentoring
The Academy for
Coach Supervision & Mentoring
(ACSM)
A VISION FOR A MATURING PROFESSION
As the world becomes more unstable, more anxious, and harder to interpret—and as the rise of artificial intelligence profoundly challenges the meaning, responsibility, and purpose of our actions—the question is no longer simply how to coach, but how to think, discern, and act with accuracy and integrity.
We believe that the growth of coaching without the development of coaches themselves leads to a dead end.
We observe a profession that is rapidly expanding, yet increasingly exposed to risks of superficiality, commercial drift, and ethical erosion, within a still largely unregulated environment.
We advocate for a demanding profession, grounded in rigor, humanism, and responsibility—where supervision becomes a core pillar: a space for truth, professional maturation, and discernment, enabling coaches to deepen their maturity, reflexivity, and their capacity to serve clients and the systems they contribute to with accuracy and integrity.
A MISSION GROUNDED IN DEPTH AND RESPONSIBILITY
Supervision as a space for truth, discernment, and practitioner transformation.
In a world where coaching is evolving faster than its level of maturity, we support experienced coaches in developing their professional maturity, discernment, and systemic impact through a rigorous supervision training.
We train supervisors who can create spaces in which coaches engage in deep work on their posture, awareness, and responsibility—thereby supporting a practice that is more grounded, more ethical, and more sustainable, in service of clients and organizations.
In a world where coaching is developing faster than the maturity of its practitioners, we train supervisors who bring discernment, depth, and ethical rigor to the profession.
We contribute to the greater professionalisation of coaching by developing high quality, trained supervisors and mentors and making a strong positive impact on the reputation of coaching in the world. We do so through our accredited training programmes and supervision services.
In a world where coaching is developing faster than the maturity of its practitioners, we train supervisors who bring discernment, depth, and ethical rigor to the profession.
The team
Sylviane is one of the pioneers of coaching in Belgium – with thousands of hours of coaching, and among the first MCC coaches in Europe. She was the first French-speaking coach to hold the triple accreditation: Master Certified Coach by ICF, Master Practitioner by EMCC and Accredited Supervisor ESIA by EMCC. And she was one of the 15 supervisors in the world to be trained in 2021 in the first accredited program in Supervision of team coaches.
She started by adopting a “coach attitude” while training executives (1994) and when mentoring and teaching students at the university. She started to coach executives on an individual basis early 2000 and continued coaching teams. She launched her first supervision groups in 2006 after discovering the systemic supervision offered by Alain Cardon and intensified her supervision skills with CSA and in Supervision for Team Coaches with the association between Clutterbuck, Lise Lewis and Transcend International. She has supervised and mentored hundreds of coaches in Belgium, Russia and around the world. In Russia, Sylviane has been training and supervising coaches since 2012 and two of her books are available in Russian. Since 2019, she is operating mentoring with a coach attitude via her company MentoringCo in China and around the globe. She is also the President of the non-for-profit organization GO-TKM dealing with the transmission of tacit knowledge across generations.
In 2010, she was Vice-President of the International Coach Federation (60 000 members in 140 countries) and part of the Global Board between 2008 and 2010. Between 2014 and 2016, she has been one of the five members of the Regional Advisory Council of the ICF for the EMEA Region. Today, she is an assessor for EMCC (individual and program accreditations).
Ludmila
is an accomplished Senior Executive Coach, ICF-certified Mentor Coach and
Supervisor. She offers executive development and business coaching services in
French, English and Russian to business leaders and their teams worldwide. For
nearly 25 years, she has accompanied the transformation of public and private
companies internationally as a financial advisor, consultant, coach, supervisor
and facilitator of collective wisdom. As such, Ludmila is involved in Reseau
EVH, a network of humanistic leaders engaged in in-depth personal
transformation in service of the collective transformation of their
organisations.
In parallel, for over 10 years, Ludmila served as a volunteering leader elected to the EMEA Regional Advisory Council at the International Coach Federation (40+ chapters, 8000 coaches). Ludmila focused her contribution on promoting the standards of the coaching profession, working on its visibility and ethics.
In supervision, Ludmila combines her in-depth understanding of the systemic approach, which she developed with Paul Watzlawick and Richard Fish at the Palo Alto Mental Research Institute (California, US), with the systemic psychodynamic perspective and clinical approach to change acquired as part of INSEAD’s Executive Masters’ Program Consulting and Coaching for Change. She creates a profoundly reflective space for her clients, nourished by her passion for science (physics, cybernetics, mathematics, neuroscience), art, literature, and world spirituality.