Powerful Ways to Create an Inclusive Coaching Space with Ngozi Lyn Cole

Powerful Ways to Create an Inclusive Coaching Space with Ngozi Lyn Cole

“Coaching, like many professions, is not representative of the wider society.”

Our host, Dr Julie Scanlon, is joined by Ngozi Lyn Cole in this 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.

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Ngozi Lyn Cole

Ngozi Lyn Cole is an executive coach and leadership catalyst. She holds non-executive posts including Chair of the Northeast Justice Together Initiative and Board Vice Chair at the South Tyneside & Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust. She has significant experience of leadership and executive coaching; running action learning; developing and implementing strategy; organizational and leadership development; change management; collaboration and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

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 #NorthernInnovationWomen. Ngozi believes that everyone has the passion and potential to achieve their ambition and sees her ‘why’ as supporting individuals and organizations to do just that. Her deeply personal ambition on DEI is to leave the world a better place for future generations.