#009 - The Coaching Contract: The "We did not think of that" moments | 2026.09.23

What happens when reality does not match the coaching contract? Dr Teeroumanee Nadan, an executive leadership coach and mentor, brought four real cases to the Hub4Coaches "Back to Skool Bonanza" - real talk about turning coaching from a passion into a sustainable practice. She ran it as a conversation rather than a lecture, asking the room what each case assumed before giving her own view. Some of these cases, she shared, are being written up for a code of ethics publication due later this year. It is for coaches working with individual clients, sponsors, or platforms, and for those just starting out. 🚨 Join the community by the coaches for the coaches on the Skool platform: https://www.skool.com/coaching-journey 📲 Connect with Dr Teeroumanee Nadan, SFHEA, EMCC SP: LinkedIn: teeroumaneenadan 📲 Connect with Rimvydas: LinkedIn: rimvydasjanciauskas WHAT WE COVERED Contract, contracting and the ongoing conversation: the document that gets signed, the shared understanding beyond the words on the page, and the recontracting that keeps it current. Two coaches coaching each other, and the assumption that "we are both coaches" means everything is already understood - scope, confidentiality of recordings sent for accreditation, boundaries, competence, referral and where the notes are kept. Sponsored coaching: two-party and three-party contracts, who owns what, and what to do when a client stops showing up. Why a report to the sponsor is a different role, and a different price. Coaching through a platform, where the coach has no contract with the sponsor or the client, and a serious duty of care question comes up with no route to raise it. When the organisation changes shape: restructuring, redundancy, a sponsor who leaves, and who owns the coaching notes then. The four patterns behind the cases - assumption, expectation, structure and change - and why contracting is about enough clarity to navigate what nobody predicted. FROM THE ROOM One participant on whether to sign a new agreement when something was never in the original contract, and Teeroumanee's answer on corporate sponsors and their legal teams. Another asking whether it is possible to cover everything in a contract at all. A coach who asked an organisation to see its contract with clients, and what she found missing on confidentiality. A new coach asking whether contracting with an individual client deserves a full session of its own. Teeroumanee's parting wish: there is no one contract that fits everyone, and even a single question taken away to reflect on is enough. Watch the full session. The conversation continues in the Hub4Coaches community.