Race: Ethical perspectives on equity-based coaching

Maltbia, Terrence; Prior, David

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“…We can even observe a greater social turn in coaching (Gannon, 2021; Shoukry and Cox, 2018), with questions being raised about its contribution to supporting the neoliberal excesses of corporate behaviours (Gannon, 2021), its ability to address ecological muteness and other grand challenges (Boyatzis et al, 2022), and its role in perpetuating structural racism (Roche and Passmore, 2023; Shoukry, 2021). This has stimulated calls for a paradigmatic change in coaching (Bachkirova and Borrington, 2019; Gannon, 2021) beyond psychological (Bachkirova and Borrington, 2019), white (Maltbia and Prior, 2023; Roche, 2022; Roche and Passmore, 2021), functionalist (Bachkirova et al, 2017; Fatien Diochon and Lovelace, 2015)–centred paradigms.…”

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That’s political! A Freirean perspective towards coaching as a social practice

Shoukry,

Fatien

2023

Management Learning

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Demands to re-embed coaching into its larger social context of operation have generated calls to better document the political aspects of this human learning and development process. To address this critical social turn, this empirical article explores the reframing by practitioners of their understanding of coaching practice, using a Freirean lens of oppression and emancipation. The study consists of a 9-month co-operative inquiry with a group of Egyptian practitioners engaged in a praxis comprising initial training and subsequent cycles of action and reflexive workshops about their coaching sessions. Our study found that a Freire inspired praxis led coaches to develop a dialectical understanding of oppression – moving from conflicting dichotomies to a dynamic view, which has implications for their attitude to and role in coaching. We discuss how the resulting politicization allowed the reframing of coaching as a social practice.

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That’s political! A Freirean perspective towards coaching as a social practice

Shoukry,

Fatien

2023

Management Learning

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“…Although the issue of race and racism has been a constant feature in the discourse of many disciplines, there has been a gap in the public discussion and research in coaching. Since 2020 the first few ripples have started to emerge and promise to end the silence (Maltbia, 2021a, 2021b; Roche, 2021). These are part of a concerted effort by coaching practitioners and thought leaders to place this issue on the agenda for executive coaching.…”

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“We do not see color!”: How executive coaching can help leaders to create inclusive corporate cultures by acknowledging structural racism in its ecosystem.

Roche¹,

Passmore²

2023

Consulting Psychology Journal

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While leaders are scrambling to take up the issue of diversity and inclusion in the context of the heightened consciousness of systemic and structural racism prompted by the Black Lives Matter campaign, the world of coaching has been slow to engage with the issue of racial justice. This year-long qualitative study responds to a gap in coaching literature, which is currently silent on the impact of systemic racism on coaching practice. In this paper we focus on the views and experiences of coaches who identify as Black, Indigenous, or people of color (BIPOC). The coaches are from five countries (the United States, the United Kingdom, Kenya, South Africa, and New Zealand), offering a global perspective on how this issue shows up in coaching. Focus groups were convened virtually with coaches from each region. We asked the question, “What would need to change in the world of coaching for it to adopt an anti-racist approach?” The data, which was analyzed using thematic analysis, revealed that the BIPOC coaches in this study experience the world of coaching as a White space in which colorblindness reinforces and reproduces the power dynamics of structural racism. The BIPOC coaches’ testimonies suggests that an anti-racist approach oriented toward decoloniality could be much more effective in breaking the patterns of underrepresentation and exclusion at senior-leadership levels across organizations.

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Race: Ethical perspectives on equity-based coaching

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That’s political! A Freirean perspective towards coaching as a social practice

That’s political! A Freirean perspective towards coaching as a social practice

“We do not see color!”: How executive coaching can help leaders to create inclusive corporate cultures by acknowledging structural racism in its ecosystem.

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