About Us
We are a passionate team dedicated to bringing social justice to leadership coaching.
Our History
Following the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, the coaching community’s despairing outcry stood out to me as an alarming sign of a paralyzed system. Something needed to be done to get us unstuck. And I felt confident I wasn’t alone in my preference for action. So I began asking colleagues, one by one, if they wanted to form a group to explore actual social-justice issues and cases arising in our own coaching engagements.
Not just theory, but an exploration of “What’s really happening and what can we do about it?”
Everyone I asked said yes. Within three months of Floyd’s killing, 18 experienced leadership coaches from across America, representing a mix of gender, racial and ethnic identities, banded together to learn from one another. For a year, the group convened every month for two intensive hours. Each time, coaches presented their real-life experience around coaching a client surrounding issues at the intersection of race, ethnicity, and gender.
So profound was our collectively generated awareness, increased skillfulness, and shift in our unexamined coaching models that we quickly realized something. We had to ensure coaches everywhere who were committed to DEIJB could benefit from the same rigorous collective learning experience we enjoyed and continue to apply in our coaching engagements.
Our successful 2020 pilot laid the foundation for what today stands as one of the country’s first group and individual supervision programs focused squarely on organizational coaching in the domain of social justice.
In 2023, Coaching for Social Justice launched a second pilot group, with trained coaching supervisors, each of whom has significant experience working with DEIJB. These coaching supervisors will be leading the coaching supervision groups starting in Spring 2024.
On June 15, 2022, the Internal Revenue Service granted Coaching for Social Justice its official status as a tax-exempt non-profit. We have the legal status, financial footing, and leadership to make good on our mission to equip coaches with heightened awareness, knowledge, coaching skill, and the courage to engage with clients when matters of social justice are present.
We look forward to you joining in the effort to turn leadership coaching into a force for equitable and inclusive leadership, fostering American workplace cultures where all people flourish.
— Dan Brown, MCC, Executive Director & Board Chair
Our Program
Learn with other coaches committed to DEIJB in the workplace. Examine client cases. Raise ethical dilemmas. Work through personal barriers. Discover effective interventions – and avoid missteps.
Meet the Supervisors
Frequently Asked Questions
Training typically follows a curriculum with differing degrees of interactivity, depending on the training program and trainer. In our reflective supervision program, a coaching supervisor helps the members of your small group (typically 7 members including the coaching supervisor) to explore your work, as coaches through a DEIJB lens. After an initial meeting where members meet each other and decide how you will work together, a typical session will provide time for 1 - 2 members of the group to share a case or issue that they would like to explore through a DEIJB lens. In a final session, group members will explore together what they are taking away from their work together.
Yes. We are committed to it being possible for all coaches to benefit from the program regardless of their monetary circumstances. The equity rate is currently available to 20% of accepted registrants on an honor-system basis. If socio-economic factors would make investing the full rate a financial hardship and there are still discounted spots available, then please use the discount, no questions asked.
Yes, you may deduct the $250 difference between the $2,100 benefactor rate and the full and fair-market rate of $1,850. If you pay the benefactor rate, we will provide a receipt substantiating the $250 tax deduction.
Yes. Those who complete Social Justice in Coaching: Transforming Yourself & Your Practice will earn 10 core competency and 5 resource development CCEUs from the ICF.
Groups are kept to no more than seven members, including the facilitating supervisor, to ensure rich dialogue and learning. If there is sufficient interest, CSJ plans to offer affinity-group supervision for coaches who would like to join a cohort composed of colleagues with the same or similar ethnic/racial identity. If an affinity-group experience interests you, please let us know.
To ensure the group and individual supervision sessions are safe learning environments, all communication that takes place within them will be held in strict confidence by the participants and supervisors indefinitely. Sessions will not be recorded.
The chemistry call affords you and your potential supervisor the opportunity to assess whether this program and the supervisor’s group seem likely to be a good fit. You might also have specific questions about the process that can be answered during the call.
If you cancel your registration and request a refund of your tuition payment, we will refund the full amount, less a $150 processing fee, on two conditions: (1) you request in writing to cancel your registration at least 28 days prior to the date of your cohort’s Initial Group Session (to give us time to try to find someone to take your place); and (2) we are successful in finding another participant for the group. If you miss the 28-day deadline or CSJ is unable to recruit another paid coach participant to take your place you will not receive any refund. If you drop out of the program (other than due to extraordinary circumstances), you will not be entitled to any refund. Our full cancellation and refund policy will be provided to you prior to paying to register.
Although we don’t require specific training in DEIJB prior to enrolling in our program, it will be helpful for you to have had some exposure to some of the basic concepts of DEIJB (e.g., systemic factors supporting racism, privilege, intersectionality).