Safely share your experience with an unethical coach or coaching program, anonymously.
Review Your Coaching Experience
We know how frustrating it is to get scammed (we’ve been there). We also know that there’s a lot of illegal contracts and legal bullying tactics being used to silence negative reviews. This forum will enable clients who have been financially harmed to share their experiences without fear of retaliation.
The reviews platform will serve as a reliable and trustworthy resource for people searching for a reputable coach, not a venting forum. That’s why all submissions are reviewed prior to being posted and must meet specific criteria to qualify as honest and fair in accordance with the Consumer Review Fairness Act in order to be posted publicly.
We’re currently taking submissions for reviews, and plan to launch a searchable database in the near future.
Fair and Honest Coaching Review Criteria:
Coaching reviews must be as fair, unbiased, and honest as possible.
Reviews about life or business coaches must be relevant to your personal experience and not based on speculations, assumptions, or faulty reasoning.
Reviews about your coaching experience must not contain any form of hate speech, bullying, or bigotry.
Coaching reviews must not contain inflammatory, aggressive, or hostile language. (If you’re feeling emotionally flooded, come back at a later time).
Reviews about life or business coaches must respect ethics as a nonpartisan issue and be free from polarizing political opinions unrelated to ethical practice.
Coaching reviews must provide a verified proof of purchase where appropriate. This does not include private banking information or other sensitive data.
We recommend that reviews do not include information that may make you identifiable, if possible. Your identity and any other information shared as part of this process will never be divulged publicly.
Submit Your Review
A note about anonymity: If posted, your review will be completely anonymous to the public. However, we need to collect your email on our end in order to verify your proof of purchase where necessary. We may contact you to collect receipts or more information.
Thank you for taking the time to share your experience. Please use a separate form for each coach or program you’re reviewing.
Why review your coaching experience?
In addition to providing a database of coaching reviews to help other prospective coaching clients avoid coaching scams and psychologically harmful coaches, the data collected on the reviews platform can support advocacy for state, local, and federal legislation by showing lawmakers the harm that is occurring in the coaching industry.
Did you sign a contract that prevents you from speaking negatively about your coach and are worried about legal retaliation? Your right to post fair, honest negative reviews is federally protected in the United States. Learn more on our Consumer Rights page.
Next Steps
Thank you for sharing your experience. Your review may help someone avoid being scammed or harmed by an unethical coach. Visit the Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Consumer Protection to report a scam and/or learn more about your rights as a consumer or find a consumer rights attorney.