INCLUSIVE COACHING WITH NGOZI LYN COLE

Welcome to the latest edition of the Association for Coaching’s (AC) Newsletter. This week:

• Join our LinkedIn Live Coaching Conversation with ‘Leading Light’ Ngozi Lyn Cole
• Listen to a podcast with Ngozi, from our 2023 Coaching Women series, where she shares her personal poignant story
• Read an article from the July edition of our Coaching Perspectives magazine explaining how to invite inclusion into the coaching space

How can we bring issues of inclusion out of the shadows and into the light?

Join us for a thought-provoking LinkedIn Live Coaching Conversation on Tuesday 17 September, where Clare Manning will interview Ngozi Lyn Cole to explore the powerful role that coaching can play in fostering equity, diversity and inclusion

This event will focus on how coaching conversations can bring issues of inclusion out of the shadows and into the light, making a positive impact on both personal and professional levels and the choices we make as coaches to illuminate our own paths and those of our clients, helping to create a more inclusive world.

You will:

• Gain invaluable insights from Ngozi’s expertise and experiences
• Enhance your coaching skills with new techniques and strategies
• Understand how to foster inclusive leadership
• Challenge your perspectives with meaningful discussions
• Make an impact for a more inclusive world
• Leave with actionable insights and reflection techniques to apply in your coaching session

Ngozi Lyn Cole is an executive coach and leadership catalyst. In 2016, Ngozi was on the New View 50 list of most influential Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people working in the public sector. In 2020, she was on the Lloyds Banking Group Kindness and Leadership 50 Leading Lights List and in 2021, the Northern Health Science Alliance. Her deeply personal ambition on DEI is to leave the world a better place for future generations.

Find out more and register here.

• Don’t forget to check our webinar series starting on 16 September, Team Coaching: Build Your Practice Model here .
• Find out more and register about our November 2024 Mental Health and Wellbeing Conference here.

Take a deeper dive into issues of diversity, inclusion and equity and discover more of Ngozi’s personal story in our podcast

Ngozi Lyn Cole , joined the host of our Coaching Women series, Dr Julie Scanlon , last summer in a powerful, thought-provoking conversation discussing the importance of inclusion and diversity in coaching. Ngozi highlights the lack of representation and options for marginalized groups, emphasizing the need for coaches who can understand and relate to their clients' experiences: the value of truly seeing someone in a coaching relationship.

Julie and Ngozi both share poignant personal stories to emphasize the need for greater representation in the coaching world and discuss the power dynamics and inequities that exist in the coaching space. Ngozi shares useful tips, resources, and questions that coaches can use with clients, and the important role coaches have in promoting inclusion and creating positive change.

“Our coaching relationship is largely underpinned by psychological safety, which means that challenging conversations?can be had more readily.”

Listen here to discover more.

Listen to the full Coaching Women podcast series here.

You can discover our full range of podcasts on all coaching-related topics here.

“Shadow and light are the opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.”

Maya Angelou

In the July edition of Coaching Perspective s magazine Ngozi Lyn Cole demonstrates how coaching conversations are a brilliant opportunity to bring inclusion out of the shadows and into the light, emphasising the harm of inclusion staying in the shadows. She challenges our perspectives and comfort zones, and offers clear definitions of diversity, inclusion and equity. Ngozi argues the case for inclusion, discusses the lack of representation in coaching and explains what all this has to do with coaches.

**This is the article to be referenced in the above coaching conversation.

Access all editions of our Coaching Perspectives magazine here .

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