Recently, I was invited to be a guest panellist on the AoEC (Academy of Executive Coaching) podcast episode Coaching for Social Impact: The Handprint of Benefit. Talking alongside the host George Warren and guest panellist Tracy Sinclair, we explored the intersection of social change and coaching.
Coaching for Social Impact is a form of coaching that focuses on helping individuals, organisations, and communities create positive and lasting social change. It combines traditional coaching techniques in the context of social issues, fostering personal and collective growth, and achieving impactful outcomes.
Coaching has traditionally focused on individual change, and targeted to the privileged few, who are able to invest in it. But, thankfully, this perception is changing and coaching is also being recognised as a tool to support systemic and societal changes, in communities and organisations. There is growing evidence about the benefit of coaching in a variety of settings, such as health, social care, education, to name just a few, and more effort needs to be put into fully resourcing and evaluating such programmes.
In this podcast, we dive deep into the topic, discussing: What does social change mean in today’s world?, How does it relate to individual development through coaching?, and How can coaches act as agents of social and systemic change?
Join in the conversation and let us know your thoughts.
