Vanessa G. Tennyson
Founder & CEO, Capitalize Your Humanity
The purpose of this paper is to explore barriers to LGBTQ+ leadership development. Executive and leadership coaching has been embraced as an effective tool for C-Suite, executive and management staff, and yet, there is a considerable lack of engagement in this process for diverse populations.
The diversity & inclusion initiatives corporations have begun, could secure meaningful validation by exercising the whole-human approach to development through executive and leadership coaching for these diverse individuals. By making a commitment to executive and leadership coaching for diverse populations, the corporation can benefit from a positive employee experience, both within and outside of the corporation, leading to a desire from diverse employment candidates to work for the company.
Fully incorporated diversity & inclusion initiatives create an environment where employees feel valued, and aid in the overall opportunity for enhanced profitability, by the value employees bring. The benefits of executive and leadership coaching for the individual and the corporation are well documented. When extended to diverse populations, they can be fully engaged in the opportunity for development of self, through the skill of executive coaches who focus on client insight through explorative questions.