The AC Podcast

152: Powerful Ways to Create an Inclusive Coaching Space

In this Episode

Ngozi Lyn Cole, executive coach, and leadership catalyst, joins our host, Dr Julie Scanlon, in this powerful, thought-provoking conversation discussing the importance of inclusion and diversity in coaching. Ngozi emphasizes 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 industry and Ngozi explains the important role coaches have in promoting inclusion and creating positive change.

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You Will Learn

• About the lack of representation for marginalized groups in coaching and why that matters
• The power dynamics and inequities that exist in the coaching space
• Tips, questions and resources coaches can use with clients

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Guest Bio

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. Her deeply personal ambition on DEI is to leave the world a better place for future generations.

 

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