Coaching
BIPOC Leader Lab
From Survive to Thrive
Six-Month-Long Weekly Coaching Lab
Next Cohort Starts January 2024
APPLY NOW FOR 2024
- Are you tired of continually being underestimated in your leadership role?
- Do you yearn for the freedom to be “yourself” in your work?
- Do you want to more easefully guide change within white dominant systems?
- Do you crave engagement with like-minded peers who understand the challenges you face?
This is a moment in which BIPOC leadership is desperately needed. In order to address urgent issues and transform our systems to survive the twenty-first century we need more diverse viewpoints at the table, yet too often BIPOC leaders are put in the position of stewarding crucial initiatives with inadequate resources, skill training or support.
The BIPOC Leader Lab is a bespoke coaching cohort that leverages the power of collaborative learning to help participants solidify concepts, share strategies and develop practical skills.
The program is designed to uphold and uplift racialized leaders, in management to executive-level roles, who are looking to be more sustainable and impactful in their work. By integrating group coaching and peer learning principles, the BIPOC Leader Lab supports leaders shepherding change against the current with frameworks, resources, guidance and community so they can stay energized, strategic and effective.
Month One: Being Non-White in a Leadership Role
- Week 1: You’re Not the Problem–Jan. 10th
- Week 2: White Supremacy Culture and You–Jan. 17th
- Week 3: It’s All in the Micro–Jan. 24th
- Week 4: Peer Group Discussion–Jan. 31st
Month Two: The Kind of Leader I Am Meant to Be
- Week 1: Finding Purpose, Inhabiting Power– Feb. 7th
- Week 2: Are You in the Right Role?– Feb. 14th
- Week 3: Setting Boundaries and Curating Energy– Feb. 21st
- Week 4: Peer Group Discussion– Feb. 28th
Month Three: Navigating Organizational Barriers and Opportunities
- Week 1: Learning the Ropes of Organizational Planning– Mar. 6th
- Week 2: Creating Team Cohesion– Mar. 13th
- Week 3: Personal Support Strategies– Mar. 20th
- Week 4: Peer Group Discussion– Mar. 27th
Month Four: Communicating Your Best Self
- Week 1: Self-Regulation and Managing Triggers– April 3rd
- Week 2: The Art of Engaging Others– April 10th
- Week 3: Feedback and the Brave Conversation– April 17th
- Week 4: Peer Group Discussion– April 24th
Month Five: Confidently Inhabiting Authority
- Week 1: Healing and Dealing with Racial Trauma– May 1st
- Week 2: Joy Rituals at Work– May 8th
- Week 3: The Conscious Use of Power– May 15th
- Week 4: Peer Group Discussion– May 22nd
Month Six: Harnessing the Courage to Lead
- Re-Imagining Power: Collective Healing– May 29th
- Finding Faith When Things Get Hard– June 5th
- Harvesting Learning and Next Steps– June 12th
Details
Dates: Wednesdays, from January 10, 2024 to June 12, 2024
Time: 1-2pm EST
Program includes:
- Weekly virtual cteaching and coaching session
- Monthly peer group discussion sessions
- Customized weekly readings and reflection questions
- Individual coaching worksheets
- Online group chat
Cost: $5,000 USD/ $5,000 CDN. (+tax)
Reserve your spot for the next session! Applications for our 2024 cohort are now open.
Looking for more options to build your equity literacy? Browse courses and coaching from Anima Leadership.
*This course is limited to those who hold leadership and/ or management positions in their organizations, and is open to Black, Brown, mixed-race and Indigenous folks. Subsidized spots are available to support Indigenous leaders—please indicate your interest in your application. We recognize and honour the complexity of intersectional identities.
Testimonials
“This was an incredibly affirming and gentle growth promoting program. The combination of guided reflection and peer experience and insight was soul-building. I feel more confident now as a leader.”
~BIPOC leader lab participant
“The BIPOC Leaders Lab is great for anyone who wants to learn a combination of management, leadership, and personal power frameworks! Annahid and her team are empathetic, good facilitators, incredibly knowledgeable, and well resourced.”
~BIPOC leader lab participant
“The BIPOC Leader lab is a MUST for any BIPOC leader who wants to bring their authentic self to their leadership role and utilize all their innate SUPER POWERS (extensive network, institutional memory, empathy, collaborative skills etc) to be visionary and lead the change their team or organization would benefit from.”
~BIPOC leader lab participant
It’s been soul affirming to be in the BIPOC leader lab. I found the opportunity to witness and be witnessed by such inspiring peers to be profound. The readings and discussions have been powerful guides for us to hone in on specific challenges and affirmations to pay attention to, as leaders, and as leaders who are POC.
It is rare to have the opportunity to be in spaces where others understand the unique challenges of BIPOC leaders, and I have treasured this experience. Annahid leads with both heart and deep expertise of strategic and organizational change. I have already recommended this program to many colleagues.
This BIPOC Leader Lab showed up at the right time for me. The realities of sitting in middle or senior leadership positions is significantly different for those of us from historically marginalized communities. It has been so beneficial to push self-reflection to a deeper level, to validate thoughts and feelings and to receive beneficial feedback and strategies on how to move forward.
This is the first time in my career when there was a communication shorthand with a group of other racialized professionals. As I unpacked my feelings with the group, my BIPOC leadership cohort understood immediately. I deeply looked forward to my week dose of solace with this group.
