The Coaching Institute
Reviews and Complaints

This so called ‘school’ is only about manipulation and brainwashing people. They are only INTERESTED IN YOU MONEY - not education or training at all.

They over promise something they cannot deliver and they tell you that it is YOUR FAULT. TCI is a cult like environment. For more info on the way TCI operates, read the “Disturbing allegations and legal disputes: Inside 'Australia's #1 Life Coaching School”. They are an embarrassment to Australia.

Let’s spread the word.

Call Consumer Affairs Victoria and send them your contract and they will assist you. Also, add negative comments to their Facebook page or the videos they have on youtube. They cannot remove the comments from Youtube. Also report them with ACCC.

This needs to stop!!!

For a refund, go to a local court and ask for a petty claim against them.

TCI could not be bothered going to a local court. Keep pushing!

I have no words - all they want is your money - absolute crock of ***

My only advise is do not go anywhere near this "company".

Do yourself a huge favour and walk away from TCI..a friend spent over $50K on their so called education and they could not give her the "diploma" she had signed up for....they are NOT a coaching business, they are a sales and marketing business run by an ex real estate agent and a failed story writer (who wrote about criminology mind you) and also has a degree in commerce. Sharon Pearson openly admitted that each person that comes through her doors is a potential $20K increase in her annual income.

They are raking in millions of dollars a year by selling you something they insist you need rather than giving you what you want. If you get sucked in, you will become an avid believer for a time......until you finally wake up to yourself, and to them and the thousands of dollars they have fleeced from you. You'll then have to somehow pick up the pieces of your life and they will crush you to make you continue to "pay out your contract" because of the "financial commitment" you made to them. They'll call in debt collectors, threaten you with lawyers and literally send people to knock on your door for the money they say you owe them.

Good people have lost their marriages, their homes and their financial freedom because of the cunning strategies of "The coaching institute"......If you do get caught and sucked in and finally wake up to the scam, go directly to the consumer affairs website to discover just how many laws they have breeched!!

VCAT have seen many cases now and I believe they will be seeing many more..... ASQA, VCAT, ABNLP and ACCC are sick to death of hearing about this company and the 1000s of people who have been burnt by them.

I commenced with TCI very positively in 2010. I started with the intake weekend which is what it was called back then. During the weekend I was sold into the Diploma program. I think I am one of few people who actually completed it. The reason I expended the effort of completing the program was that I loathed the thought of wasting the money I had already invested to have no return.

And then things went downhill.

I, although I don't like to admit it, was absorbed into the TCI cult-like atmosphere. It's still astonishing to me that people around me could see it and I couldn't. When you are in it, everything seems good. It's when you're eyes are opened that it all becomes very very ugly.

I was attending the Selling From The Stage program when Sharon Pearson shared with the group that she had modelled TCI on the principles of Jonestown, the cult in which more than 900 people died as a result of drinking cyanide at the direction of the cult leader Jim Jones. Seriously? And this is whom she models? Fortunately, this was said on the day she decided to film the course. And I have the DVDs.

My friend and I were both offered jobs at TCI. My friend accepted but I declined. And later I would become very glad that I did. Over the course of the following year, I saw my strong, confident, dynamic friend slowly decline, morphing into a shell of her former self, her confidence and self-esteem eaten away by the constant berating from SP. Nothing she did was good enough, no hours she worked were enough. The crunch came for her at a weekend at SP's coastal retreat when during a roundtable discussion one woman was determined as being NOT on the company bus, meaning not really part of the team and everyone at the table took turns in decimating her character until she was reduced to a gibbering mess. My friend stood up and bravely resigned on the spot. She said there were two reasons, one being that that was the last straw and the second being she decided not to subject herself to the same treatment. Breaking people down does not make them stronger, it destroys them.

TCI prides itself on being a cult. And if you are not in the cult, you are out of the cult, and that means you don't exist to them. Your phone stops ringing, and you experience isolation and withdrawal as you come to terms with what has happened to you, that the past few years have all been an illusion and there was nothing real except the thousands of dollars you expended.

On a side note, for those who are interested, my understanding from a very good source is that the sudden voluntary departure of lauded NLP trainer, AH (allegedly for having not been paid in more than six months) triggered the crisis with the ABNLP as SP scrambled to hold on to students who were walking out the door on day one of NLP training when they found AH had gone.

Could everyone please get in touch with Annie or Max. The Media wants as much info as possible!! They want to hear our story, remain anonymous or not, all confidential!! We’ve been cowering for too long. It’s time we were heard!!

YOURE NOT ALONE!!! There’s at least a couple of hundred of us by now or even more, I’m guessing more than that though. Yes, we’ve been taken for a ride but we’ve got to stop being intimidated and bullied and frightened of TCI.

Yes, hyped up! Yes, manipulated! Yes, like sheep cornered and then given the spiel and hard sell. The whole room was manipulated because of everyone’s excitement, played like a fine tuned instrument. Fed off each other and controlled. It’s our turn and our time to speak up!!

Crikey, NOWS OUR CHANCE, spread the word anyway you can, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram like and follow...........angrytcistudents........ send an email of what happened to you to........kydalla@***.com.au.........

TCI are only happy TAKING YOUR MONEY but when they OWE YOU MONEY...that is when their TRUE colours really shine. TCI are THEIVES.

All they're interested in is GREED to support THEIR lifestyle. They sell the idea of what YOUR HAPPINESS should/could look like on a shiny platter...but don't be fooled.

SAVE YOUR MONEY! You DON'T need TCI to align with your happiness.

I joined The coaching institute about 8 months ago and my goodness, worst most unethical 'school' i have come accross. The whole thing is just an illusion to squeeze you for every penny.

I am currently investigating them and trying to secure a refund. Have been since november, now it has gotten to the point where they are avoiding any communication except for where 'money owed' is concerned, its rediculous. I am making complaints to the ACCC and am going to be seeking legal advice. Has anyone been able to withdraw and secure a refund?

Please let me know. Anyone looking into coaching for goodness sake stay away from these people and look elsewhere, your toilet paper is worth more than the certificate as they arent even recognised or accredited and have been investigated by SBS.

Thank you in advance for any advice and please email me @ sparklyted@***.com! X