Escuela Europea de Coaching is celebrating its 20th anniversary with its sights set on the present and the future, on innovation, on the conviction that success means collaboration, curiosity, learning and constant transformation.
What started out as the pioneering school in Spain for certification as an executive coach is now a space for all types of professionals and organisations interested in the development and well-being of people in the professional sphere.
"When we started, leadership in Spain was still old and we dreamed of helping Spanish companies to become more modern and effective," recalls Eva López-Acevedo, executive director. "We created something that didn't exist and that was sorely needed, a space where managers could really train in a new way of leading and managing people and teams.
Today, Escuela Europea de Coaching is a company that trains coaches to the highest certifications and works closely with companies and their HR departments. offering, from its consultancy area, services and development itineraries adapted to their challenges and needs, incorporating new methodologies to promote the change chosen by the companies and participants.
European School of Coaching, Success and Sustainable Change
In these 20 years, and thanks to the trust of more than 18,000 students and 400 organisations, EEC claims to have evolved "incorporating perspectives, feedbacks, methodologies, technologies and strategies" while also conserving "values, principles and the same centre, people".
"Everything and nothing has changed," says Silvia Guarnieri, MCC coach and academic director. "Nothing of what we are has changed: what moves us, the values, the commitment, the dedication... But also, everything has changed. The colours with which we paint our pictures today have taken on many shades. Our commitment to the empowerment of the person is intact, but the ways in which this is materialised is completely different".
"It is precisely this careful balance between what changes and what remains that makes it possible to celebrate 20 years," says Eva López-Acevedo.For him, "the challenge is not to be 20 years old, but to adjust rigorously and relentlessly, without being out of tune in the slightest, and to be, for 20 years, a reference of quality in the sector".
Escuela Europea de Coaching was founded in Madrid in 2003 under the initiative of Silvia Guarnieri and Eva López-Acevedo, founding partners, and since then it has taken its coaching, team and emotion training to people, teams and organisations all over the world: in person in Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Bilbao, Italy, Portugal, Andorra, Chile, Argentina, Mexico and Colombia; and through synchronous online methodology to all corners of the planet. In 2022, EEC was the first school in the world to have the new certifications designed by ICF, Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3.
"The key to success is not to give up", Silvia Guarnieri advises after her successful experience. "If you have an idea, insist, change it, adjust it, until all the variables are tuned and you can say that the music that plays is yours"..
Eva López-Acevedo, for her part, recommends thinking big. "When you start a business, you think big, you think that the project will have continuity, that it will have a future. You have to dream without limits, Otherwise, one would never start a business". Then, he concludes, "my credo is never give up".
A year to celebrate 20 years
On the occasion of this 20th anniversary, EEC has organised a series of events that will run throughout 2023. Among them, a series of free monthly webinars under the name of "The 20 Years Windows".
These online meetings, which will feature EEC coaches and facilitators from around the world, will take place on the 20th of each month and will last 20 minutes. The aim of the cycle is to celebrate, generate conversation and reflection, and spread creativity and openness among the entire community of students, stakeholders and coaches.
