Coaching Through the Lens of DEIJ
“Coaching is a part of a thriving society”. This statement from ICF asks coaches to bring equity to the coaching landscape. Ensuring access to coaching all people including the under-represented groups. Given the state of our society, and those in the regions around us, Coaches will be experiencing and addressing the feelings that come with encountering clients’ perspectives of identity, privilege, diversity, equity, and inclusion. To be clear, these are issues that affect everyone. Yet for coaches there is a heightened sense of need to demonstrate awareness, mitigate biases, and attune to client. To do this well means incorporating a wider systemic lens of diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging and justice. Coaches’ ability to strengthen core competency #1 and #2: Demonstrate Ethical Practice and Embodying a Coaching Mindset makes it possible to support the client’s context of identity on multiple levels.
Earn 1.5 Core Competency CCEUs
Objectives - This session will address what the coach needs to know, do and be when coaching someone whose culture, sexual identity, religious belief, social class, ancestral heritage, language, background, etc. are different from yours.
Core Competencies addressed - Demonstrating Ethical Practice, Embodying a Coaching Mindset
About the Speaker: Sackeena Gordon-Jones, Ph.D., MCC
Sackeena Gordon-Jones is an award-winning global Executive and Leadership Coach, Leadership Consultant, facilitator, strategist, speaker, coach educator and author.
She is a past president of the International Coach Federation (ICF) Raleigh Chapter, Past Regional Co-Chair, and past Director of the global board for coaching in organizations. Sackeena is the also the director and lead facilitator of the several coach training programs at the Transformation Edge Business Coach Institutes (TEC BCI). Sackeena has been featured in psychology today, wall street journal, Choice magazine and other publications. A past corporate leader, Sackeena was head of global leadership, learning and development, where she led a group of global consultants, coaches, and leadership development specialists. Sackeena’s client are from various sectors and include the U.S. Military, and many Fortune 100 and 500 companies. Over the past decade she has been providing executive, team and mentor coaching, internal coach training, as well as her proprietary program on the Science of Bias.