Coaching is an interaction between people that offers skills, knowledge, perspective, confidence, and guidance. Understanding how to effectively integrate inclusion, diversity, equity, belonging, psychological safety, cultural competence, and other essential themes into your coaching toolkit will enhance your impact as a coach and for ICF as an organization.
Understanding what is possible with a closer inspection of IDEB+J is also key to thinking through how you, individually, can own this topic, identify your gaps, integrate it into your coaching, engage and partner with colleagues and systems, and potentially influence “coaching” as a profession. Diversity, Equity, and inclusion (DEI) as a perspective, philosophy, action, and guiding principle is under attack. The people you coach will likely be pressed to understand how this will impact their leadership, their guidance of others, and their roles within their respective organizations. Coaches need to be ready to have these conversations.
These topics and more will be explored through interactive dialogue and various learning methods. The emphasis will be on identifying subjects, areas of difficulty, and “tool set” enhancers for upcoming presentations or workshops. The presentation will intentionally invite participants in rather than exclude anyone and aim to establish an understanding that IDEB+J centers on creativity and innovation, rather than fostering an advantage for one group over another.
You’ll walk away with:
- An understanding of the “what, how, and why" for IDEB+J.
- Your role in owning and implementing this work.
- You’ll see that this work doesn’t have to be overwhelming; daily inclusive practices can be easy and impactful.
- ICF AZ will have a clearer understanding of what is possible moving forward to enhance the organization's capabilities related to global coaching efforts.
