Understanding Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Career Coaching

Join us for this on-demand webinar, Understanding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Career Coaching, where you’ll explore equity, diversity, and inclusion and gain insights into how to apply these concepts in career coaching. 

Who is This For?

• New and experienced professional coaches interested in exploring equity, diversity, and inclusion concepts and applying them in their coaching
• Team and group coaches interested in applying equity, diversity, and inclusion in their group career coaching sessions
• Coach educators interested in deepening their understanding of equity, diversity, and inclusion
• Individuals interested in experiencing coaching who want to familiarize themselves with the application of diversity, equity, and inclusion to coaching

What You Will Learn:

• Define equity, diversity, and inclusion and the role it plays in the career coaching context.
• Explain why career coaching targeting underrepresented groups is important.
• Discuss the benefits and challenges to be considered when creating a targeted program for underrepresented groups.
• Identify what constitutes a psychologically and culturally safe group coaching environment targeting underrepresented groups.
• Articulate the importance of centering identity, storytelling, sharing, and connection in building confidence in career exploration.

Course Details:

This 90-minute, on-demand webinar, originally presented to the ICF Career Coaching Community of Practice, focuses on understanding diversity, equity, and inclusion in career coaching. 

The presenters will review terminology, concepts, and a case study related to equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) using the lens of career interventions for BIPOC communities in West Coast Turtle Island. 

The presenters will share their journey to create a career development program that addresses the unique challenges that they both experienced as Black women navigating careers and workspaces within Canada, as well as the continued barriers they observed within their community.

Participants will have an opportunity to apply EDI to a career coaching context and explore how identity, privilege, and discrimination can impact both expectations and outcomes when it comes to career exploration and development. 

Through this session, there will be opportunities to discuss how applying a decolonialized lens and interventions can provide an inclusive approach to your career coaching practice.