3 Reasons Why There’s Not Enough Diversity in Coaching

Coaching is so important when it comes to career success. 

Find out why coaching has got an interesting problem with Diversity and Inclusion and why fixing it is so important.

Here are some key messages from this episode

• Why People Leaders Are Concerned About Coaching
• Why Coaches Tend To Work With People Like Themselves
• The Unusual Circumstances of Coaching, Diversity & Inclusion and much more

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Here are some key takeaways from this episode

There Is A Lack Of Diversity In The People Getting Coached

“the people who could benefit the most from coaching aren’t at the top of the organisation, the people who could benefit the most from coaching are the ones that coaches may find it difficult to connect with OR the people that coaches may not be motivated to connect with”

 There Is A Lack Of Diversity In The People Doing The Coaching

“I was invited by members of the UK board because they realized that there was a issue with inclusion, they wanted to know how they could support diversity; they recognised that the coaching industry was in their words “mainly white, middle class and female””

There Is A Lack Of Research About Diversity, Inclusion & Coaching

“There is very little research that talks about diversity, inclusion and coaching in a meaningful way. Most of the literature I’ve seen deals with it quite predictably and employs the Diversity equals Gender view of the world. This may reflect what we discussed earlier about who the coaches are”

Here are some resources so you can go deeper

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Working With Diversity in Coaching

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