Equipping Leaders and Organizations to Excel in Today's Dynamic Environments

ICI integrates transformative coaching with systemic leadership development to support sustainable, inclusive impact.

Most diversity training falls short when it comes to creating change

Traditional training programs often focus solely on awareness, which may not effectively change attitudes or behaviors and can sometimes lead to discomfort among participants. Our approach emphasizes practical strategies that foster genuine understanding and collaboration.

WE BELIEVE

Lasting change happens at the individual level

True organizational transformation begins with personal growth. When one person changes their habits and perspectives, ripple effects can drive enduring change across the system.

THE COACH APPROACH

Empowerment Through the POWERS™ Framework

The signature POWERS™ model bridges awareness and action. In multicultural, complex work environments, it helps leaders to: clarify values, activate vision, and coach with intention across difference and ambiguity

It’s not about unlearning. It’s about upskilling.

We don’t erase what you know we build on it. Our future-forward coaching tools enhance curiosity, expand influence, and elevate effectiveness.

Shaping the Future of Leadership & Coaching

I absolutely loved the ECDC training experience The trainers, the cohort, the content, the sharing of stories, the passion, the authenticity present in the virtual learning session was an opportunity to recieve an extrodinary gift of support!!!

Dr. Marla E. Williams-Powell
Relevant, timely, immediately applicable and inspiring. This program truly delivered. The content is sticky and I am already applying my learnings. I cannot say enough about ICI President Towanna Burrous, who is a rock star! Thank you, ICI and Howard University.

Kristi Plain
ICI offers a training experience which is unique in its expertise! If desired to add such an experience to one’s already established niche or to create a new endeavor entirely, this is an ideal path!

Lesleigh Tolin
My original focus for enrolling into Coaching Innovation Institute was all about becoming a coach, however, I quickly realized that coaching skills would impact my entire life. I have seen coaching transform my personal and professional life! For three years I had contemplated becoming a coach, and I’m so excited that I made that choice to start this journey. Something shifted while going through the process and learning so much more about coaching. It quickly became apparent that coaching is the secret sauce!

Patrease Douglas
Coaching Innovation is the antithesis of corporate trainings - it is vibrant, honest, transformational, fun, and worth it. This training placed a mirror before me to shed light on disempowering beliefs and then used those same beliefs to uplift and build me up higher than where I was before. That left a lasting, deep impact on me and how I will coach my friends, family, and clients moving forward.

Lauren Chambers

Impact Consultant
ICI has engineered a model of interpersonal communication that builds courage and confidence to step into the arena of any difficult conversation with grace and skill. The 3-day training was structured in a way that participants shared their personal experiences with racism, oppression and other challenges rooted in power differences. The incremental approach to skill building provided real-time opportunities to practice the coaching skills and sequences taught. The community created in the training was a bonus, and offered just the right mix of support and challenge to grow my skills and perspective so that I may become a better agent of change in my efforts to empower others.

Dr. Yvonne Unrau
The Executive Certification in Diversity Coaching was transformational in how I approach my work in equity, diversity and inclusion. The training truly pulled out the innate wisdom that I already possessed and empowered me to be powerful. The significant focus on staying razor-focused and coaching one individual at a time to effect systemic change was at the forefront of each day of training, a constant reminder of sustainability of the work we do.

May yer Thao