Our July 10 virtual program features Kelley Johnson, Founder and CEO of KJE Consulting & Coaching. For the past five years, she has provided strategic diversity, inclusion, executive coaching and talent management solutions to clients across a number of industries. Previously the Chief Diversity Officer for JCPenney, Kelley was instrumental in linking business innovation with Inclusion and Diversity and helping the retailer achieve rankings on the DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list and the Corporate Equality Index.
She is the author of EMERGE!, a graduate of Texas Woman’s University, and a HoganLead Certified Executive Coach. She has held strategic advisory roles with several organizations, including INROADS, the Latino Leadership Initiative at SMU Cox School of Business and the Executive Leadership Team for March of Dimes Dallas. For more information, please visit
kelleyjohnsonenterprises.com
Online Program Description:
Among many things, the updated ICF Competency Model highlights the importance of cultural, systemic and contextual awareness within the coaching partnership. Embodying a Coaching Mindset requires coaches to remain aware of and open to the influence of context and culture on self and others. But what does that look like—particularly in cross-cultural coaching engagements? As we understand the cultural context of our clients, we strengthen the coaching relationship as we foster more trust and safety—allowing clients to express concerns, thoughts and beliefs about sensitive issues such as cultural authenticity, bias, and inequality.
Online Program Outcomes:
During this session, we will learn how coaches of all backgrounds can create greater awareness with their clients by deepening our listening for what may be unsaid about cultural influences and how they are showing up in the client’s professional life.
- Culturally Intelligent Coaching brings to the practice of executive coaching an understanding of how culture is formed, and influences are beliefs, actions and results.
- Culturally Intelligent Coaching provides leaders the opportunity to align their unique cultural context and experiences with current and future goals. This safe space allows leaders to achieve greater levels of congruency and capacity in their careers.
- Culturally Intelligent Coaching mitigates performance and leadership gaps, creates a deeper level of satisfaction with work and life, and enables leaders to achieve and sustain more effective contributions to the organization.
Through Culturally Intelligent Coaching, we can help our clients achieve a more authentic leadership approach that empowers leaders to leverage, rather than dismiss, their unique perspectives and background.
CCEUs for July 10 Online program: 1 Core Competency Credit