DEIJ Developments including Onboarding of LaKisha Brooks, Director of DEIJ

As we begin this year, we are grateful for the community and our membership focusing on humanity and our opportunity to help us all become better. To that end, we thank our DEIJ Task Force 1 for the work completed in the first half of 2021. Their proposal to build a new task force, focused on embedding DEIJ in ICF, and including a new role of Director of DEIJ, has been accepted and acted upon. Our new director of DEIJ, LaKisha Brooks, joined the team on January 4. Welcome, LaKisha! 

We will also be building out our global task force under the leadership of Sackeena Gordon-Jones, MCC. Stay tuned! We want to include your voices and participation so that we can create a more just, diverse, equitable and inclusive coaching ecosystem. 

Learn more about LaKisha

LaKisha C. Brooks, M.Sc., M.Ed., CDP, CDR, is a nationally recognized Certified Diversity Professional and a columnist for The DimEnsIons of Organizational Development: The Bottom Line of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at HR Exchange. She also serves as a Coaching and Mentoring Advisory Board Member for HR.com and a Professional Advisory Board Member at Central Michigan University.

LaKisha was honored as a Top 100 HR Influencer in 2021 in Talent Management by Engagedly. She has over 14 years of consulting and diversity experience and has worked at organizations such as BioAgilytix, ATD, National Hemophilia Foundation, to name a few.