Coaching Across Differences
Help your leaders develop the coaching skills and cultural fluency to navigate today’s complex, identity-rich workplaces.
Why Coaching Across Differences Matters
Today’s leaders must do more than understand culture—they must be able to navigate it with awareness, empathy, and skill. At the Institute for Coaching Innovation (formerly CoachDiversity Institute), we equip leaders with the ability to coach across cultures, identities, and lived experiences—because cultural fluency is now a core leadership capability.
Whether you’re working across departments, generations, geographies, or gender identities, coaching across differences enhances team cohesion, reduces miscommunication, and supports inclusive, sustainable workplace cultures.
What You’ll Learn
Participants will gain practical tools to:
- Recognize and respond to cultural dynamics in real time
- Identify unconscious bias and microbehaviors
- Practice curiosity as a leadership superpower
- Facilitate respectful dialogue across identity-based differences
- Use coaching techniques to navigate cultural misunderstandings
- Lead teams with empathy, equity, and emotional intelligence
This program draws from real-world leadership challenges and ICI’s proprietary coaching methodology.
Who Should Attend
This program is designed for people leaders, HR professionals, team leads, and executive coaches ready to move beyond awareness into application. It’s ideal for organizations that want to invest in inclusive leadership, not just as a value, but as a business capability.
Industries served include:
- Healthcare and human services
- Government and public administration
- Education and academia
- Corporations and tech
- Nonprofits and foundations
A Coaching-Centered Approach
We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all training. At ICI, our methodology blends:
- Experiential learning
- Real-time feedback
- Peer coaching
- Scenario-based practice
- Reflection and intentional action
Participants leave with tools they can apply immediately, and the confidence to use them.
Flexible Delivery Options
Our “Coaching Across Differences” program is offered in formats tailored to your needs:
- Half-day or full-day workshops
- Virtual learning intensives
- Multi-session learning labs with coaching
- Leadership cohort programs
- Customized organizational experiences
Let’s Talk Strategy
Whether you’re just beginning or evolving a mature strategy, we’ll help you build the leadership capacity to coach across differences. Let’s explore what’s possible together.