Seattle Satellite

COACHING THROUGH CULTURAL COMPETENCY AND UNCONSCIOUS BIAS

Presentation:

In our ever-diversifying world, coaches must be acutely aware of their own biases and have the skills to help clients and organizations quickly and effectively reduce bias and build diversity in a sustainable fashion. Coaches help provide direction, adaptive skills and a sense of purpose for all clients. This overview will give you insight in the skills needed to utilize your real world expertise and realize your own biases to better empower your clients to do the same. You’ll gain skills through these unique models and tools designed to help you overcome challenges and use your strengths to build strong diverse organizations/teams and overcome bias.

Your facilitator for this workshop/presentation is:

LaVonne Dorsey - MA, Clinical Psychology, LMHCA, CCM, Certified with Coach Training Alliance (CTA) - Human Element B- FIRO B Certified - Empowering Life’s Energies and Mastering Life's Energies -Academy of Coaching Excellence

LaVonne brings a combination of 18+ years of academic, and corporate experiences into her coaching, consulting and therapy practice, developing, designing, and delivering comprehensive programs and tools to increase human development – counseling, on-boarding, career growth, succession planning strategies and consulting.

LaVonne utilizes her behavioral analysis, assessments and communication skills to assist leaders and organizational cultures work through change, clarify, set and attain goals collaboratively.

Executive Coaching and Leadership Development process enhances a leader’s success in achieving professional objectives within the context of an organization’s values and business goals. LaVonne’s coaching process focuses on assisting the individual to achieve personal success/goals while adding significant benefits to the organization - guiding people to being capable and aware of what they must do to be successful.

LaVonne’s work is focused on the design and facilitation of conversations necessary to enable forward movement and sustainable change.

Expertise:

• Strategic position to design, implement, evaluate and administer individual and organizational development strategies to successfully move individuals and organizations forward.
• One on one executive, career, management consulting, training, facilitation, leadership effectiveness.
• Short term intensive interventions to build core executive teams in business, human service, government, academic and private sectors.
• Provide advice and guidance/coach professional women through critical life transitions
• Foster an environment where diversity is the organizational norm and an integral part of the organization’s culture.

LaVonne has held key leadership roles at several iconic organizations. Her clients say that LaVonne is credible, passionate and able to inspire trust in others and in themselves.

How does this link to ICF Core Competencies?

3) Establishing Trust & Intimacy with the Client

Creating a safe, supportive environment that produces ongoing mutual respect and trust.

6) Powerful Questioning

Asking questions that reveal the information needed for maximum benefit to the coaching relationship and the client.

8) Creating Awareness

Integrating and accurately evaluating multiple sources of information, and making interpretations that help the client to gain awareness and thereby achieve agreed-upon results.

1.5 CCEU’s will be offered to anyone attending the entire event who wants to receive them.