Executive and group coaching contract templates: the clauses each adds to a standard agreement

An executive coaching contract is a standard coaching agreement plus three clauses: who the sponsor is, the limit on what the sponsor is told, and who receives which report. A group agreement adds the participants instead: what each owes the group, and a confidentiality clause with more than two people inside it. The other ten are the same.

The ten come from Tandem Coach’s clause list, read 2026-10-06: scope, roles, goals, session logistics, fees, confidentiality, cancellation, termination, liability and dispute resolution. It publishes the ICF sample agreement beside them, and the contract template post works through all ten.

Both additions come from one change: someone other than the coach and the coachee is in the engagement, the sponsor who pays or the other people on the call.

What should be included in an executive coaching contract?

The standard ten, plus three that exist only because the person paying is not the person being coached.

1. Who the sponsor is, and what they commissioned. One r/lifecoaching coach keeps a 1.5-page client contract separate from the master services agreement and statement of work the paying organisation signed.
2. The limit on what the sponsor is told. Co-Active’s coaching disclaimer page gives the sentence to adapt: “any reporting to sponsors will be limited to what is explicitly agreed upon in advance.”
3. Who receives which report. ICF’s ethics guidance puts the right to confidentiality with the client rather than the coach, so the coachee decides what the sponsor is sent.

CoachVantage’s clause guide gives the reason for the second: executives share sensitive organisational information during sessions, so the wording has to be precise about where it goes.

What is included in a group coaching agreement?

The same ten clauses, written for a room instead of a pair. DocHub’s group coaching agreement template lists the roles of coach and participants, session structure, confidentiality, fees and participant responsibilities. Coaches & Company’s group contract names scope of services, payment terms and confidentiality.

Two things are absent from both descriptions. Neither names an attendance clause, so attendance is either folded into participant responsibilities or it is not there.

The second is the shape of the confidentiality promise. A clause that binds the coach to silence says nothing about the participant who repeats what they heard, and that reading is mine, not their wording.

Where does the agreement live, and who signs it?

Six named places, each read on 2026-10-06. Which platform keeps which document is in online coaching platforms compared.

Where it lives	What is in it	Who signs or fills it	Price on the page
ICF sample coaching agreement (PDF)	a sample to adapt	coach and client
Tandem Coach’s clause list	ten clauses plus the ICF sample	you draft, client signs	none stated
Coaches & Company group contract	scope of services, payment terms, confidentiality	coach and participants
DocHub group agreement template	roles, session structure, confidentiality, fees	filled and signed online
Paperbell			$970 a year
Ember, closed beta	no agreement; the coachee’s report in your letterhead template	you correct it; a sponsor document or group sessions, not stated	Free, 4 reports a month; Individual $8 a month billed yearly

Paperbell’s pricing page gave a year price and nothing about agreements, so its other two cells stay blank. I build Ember, so read its row as a disclosure rather than a recommendation.

None of this is legal advice, and consent rules vary by jurisdiction, so ask your client and check yours.

Name the sponsor, set the reporting limit, and decide who gets which report. Do all three before session one, while each is still a clause.

Questions people ask next?

Is there a difference between an executive coaching agreement and a contract?

Not in the templates ranking for the phrase. Scribd, HelloBonsai and DocHub call theirs an agreement; C-Suite Contracts calls its one-to-one version a contract. Pick one word and use it throughout your own document.

What should a group coaching agreement say about confidentiality?

Both group samples read on 2026-10-06, from Coaches & Company and DocHub, list a confidentiality section without saying how it binds one participant to another. Write that sentence yourself, and check your jurisdiction.