WBECS (the World Business and Executive Coach Summit) is an annual online conference for professional business and executive coaches, founded and operated by 📝Ben Croft since 2011, with a stated community of over 100,000 coaching professionals globally and a mission to raise the global standard of coaching practice.
The summit runs as a multi-week online program that combines thought-leader keynotes with practitioner-level workshops, pre-summit and post-summit components, and supplemental certification tracks. WBECS sits inside Croft's broader WBECS Group, which also operates the IGNITE conference, the Practical Coach Conference, and the Modern Methods of Coaching certification program — a tiered set of offerings aimed at the gap between basic coach certification and full long-form expert training. It is one of the largest commercial events in the professional-coaching education category.