Explore the importance of allyship in this roundtable discussion, enhancing your understanding of coaching for awareness and culture.

Who is This For?

  • Coaches at any stage and in any niche who want to deepen their allyship practice within their work.
  • Aspiring coaches seeking to build a strong foundation rooted in awareness, inclusion, and responsible coaching.
  • Professionals committed to expanding their coaching perspective through an ally‑informed approach to growth and impact.

What You Will Learn:

  • How to practice allyship in everyday coaching conversations through presence, curiosity, and intentional language.
  • Practical ways to build trust and create psychological safety with clients from diverse backgrounds.
  • How to strengthen your relational awareness so clients feel genuinely seen, heard, and respected.
  • Strategies for navigating bias, power dynamics, and difference with confidence and care.
  • How allyship extends beyond sessions into leadership, decision making, and community engagement.
  • Concrete actions you can take immediately to foster more equitable and inclusive coaching environments.

Course Details:

Allyship is not a label. It is a daily practice. In this interactive session, we explore what it means to show up as an ally in real time, in real conversations, and in real communities.

Rooted in awareness, presence, and intentional action, this conversation moves beyond theory into lived application. Our speakers will share practical strategies for building trust, strengthening relational awareness, and cultivating coaching environments where clients feel genuinely seen, heard, and supported. Together, we will examine how allyship shows up in language, listening, feedback, decision making, and the subtle dynamics of power and identity that shape every coaching relationship.

Participants will reflect on their own habits and assumptions, explore how to navigate moments of difference with confidence and care, and consider how allyship extends beyond one-on-one sessions into leadership and community engagement. Whether you are a credentialed coach, exploring the profession, or simply interested in creating more equitable spaces in your work and life, this session offers tools you can immediately apply.

If coaching is a partnership, then equity must be practiced within it. Join us as we explore how intentional allyship elevates relationships, strengthens trust, and advances a more inclusive future for the coaching profession and the communities it serves.

Speakers

Jeremy May, ACC

Latish Reed, Speaker with International Coaching Federation. Known author

Latish Reed