Our Areas of Work

COACHING

Career Coaching for Racialized Employees

We know that organizations that are serious about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI or EDI) work need to tackle structural changes. And this will take time.

While we applaud and work with them to achieve the desired changes, we strongly believe that racialized employees shouldn’t pay the price while organizations figure it out. We have designed this coaching employees’ program to address just that.

Thru our coaching program, “7 Steps From Racialization To Wonders in Your Career”, we help racialized employees thrive in their careers despite systemic barriers.

I enlisted Jephtée's coaching services as I needed to figure out what was next in my career. I was stuck and unhappy but unsure of what my next move should be. Through a series of conversations and exercises, we came up with a plan. Within weeks, I was putting myself out there and interviewing for new opportunities and landed a new position that excites me and renews my passion. What a way to start the new year! I couldn't be happier with the outcome.

Stephanie

DEI Practitioner

DEI Practitioners Coaching

The challenge for organizations

Organizations are struggling with the retention of DEI practitioners. The average chief diversity officer lasts less than two years in the role, according to executive recruiter Russell Reynolds Associates, and 60% of those who had such titles in 2018 have left — the majority for other fields. The average Chief Diversity Officer tenure is under two years. (Companies Face a Trust Gap on Efforts to Fight Racism – Bloomberg).

With this rate of turnover, it is impossible to keep the momentum required for systemic change to happen.

The challenges for practitioners

If you have a big, long title with the words Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in it, chances are you know that:

The expectations are often unrealistic.
You are often expected to create and hold space for people to share their pain, frustration and to have difficult conversations… while dealing with it yourself.
You are fighting an uphill battle to gain trust. A study found that “just 18% of workers trust their diversity chief to tell truth”.
The expression “lonely at the top” takes a whole new meaning. You hear and are exposed to a lot but virtually no one to confide in at work.

Our solution

Truth is, you know how emotionally taxing and isolating DEI work can be. We know! We have been there, and we hear it everyday from our clients, often on the verge of burnout.

The good news is it does not have to be this way. Let us be your DEI practitioners sounding board and coach them through it. We create a safe space where we listen to issues that they are facing, and through a series of coaching exercise, guide them to find the best solutions. It is a place to unpack the pressure, the emotional toll and to know that they are not alone in this.

Our ultimate goal with each coaching session, is for the DEI practitioner to leave feeling heard, seen, rejuvenated and pumped to continue their meaningful contribution to the DEI space.

Coaching is provided by a Certified Executive Coach, experienced executive, and DEI practitioner who led a diverse team of 12+ DEI practitioners in the public sector.

We believe that this is a small investment that every organization should make in their DEI practitioners.

If they don’t, invest in yourself.

Jephtee is a storyteller. I was instantly captivated by her story. She has a special quality to make people around her feel safe and create an open dialog. I remember my first interaction with Jephtee as I felt connected, and started to talk about my experience, and passion for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion work. I was fortunate to have her facilitate our internal team’s discussions regarding DE&I. The guided facilitation was organic, authentic and engaging. I highly recommend Jephtee for her profound knowledge in the DE&I space, leadership and facilitation skills.

Yoko Cooper

Director, Human Resources, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Culture, Invest Ottawa

Career and Leadership Coaching

We coach stars and rising stars from any walk of life who are feeling stuck to come up with a plan to maximize their potential and achieve career fulfillment. We coach leaders to achieve their full leadership potential.

Jephtée was highly recommended by a trusted friend. I reached out to her for objective support as I work towards launching my private counselling practice. During our first meeting, she helped me crystallize my goals and why they're important to me and the professional life I envision. I'm happy to report I'm currently working on my business plan with a goal of launching in 6 months. I'm energized and filled with gratitude!

Kristina

Business Owner

Life Coaching

Many of our clients come to us for life coaching, which addresses many different areas in a client’s life, including work, finances, health, relationships, education, and recreation. Life coaching can be used to help with tackling short-term or long-term goals or projects. Thru life coaching, clients are able to set better goals and achieve those goals.

In life coaching, you are not just listened to. We take an action-oriented and solution-based approach where we come up with a process to unlock your potential and help you develop effective solutions to reach your goals. Through coaching conversations, exercises, various tools and techniques, reflection, powerful questioning, and inquiry, you develop the confidence and trust in yourself to create the life that you desire.

You can expect to:

1. Get clearer on your goal

2. Create a 3-stage plan for achieving your goal

3. Uncover any challenges that could be slowing you down or sabotaging you

4. Have more energy and motivation to really make this happen.

I've always struggled to connect with new people and make small talk, skills that are key to my success as a business owner. I uncovered my challenges and had a clear action plan to overcome them in just one session. Less than one month later, I was able to strike up conversations at the many end-of-the-year parties that I attended. My confidence is high, and I see the results in all my interactions. I would strongly recommend Jephtée to anyone looking for coaching. The process is easy and comfortable, and the result speaks for itself.

Dalf T Pierre

CEO - Pierre Venture Group

I've dreamed of resuming artwork for years. I felt there were internal barriers that came in the way. Working with Jephtée has enabled me to identify the internal barriers and come up with a concrete plan to start my journey. Less than a month after starting coaching, I produced my first art piece and kept the momentum going. I feel that many people struggling to reconnect with their creative and productive selves can benefit a lot from her coaching.

Sawsan

Artist

CONSULTING

Stakeholders’ Engagement / Consultation

We develop custom solutions for your engagement needs as part of our stakeholder consultation. This could include focus groups, interviews, assessments, and surveys, to help understand deep-rooted systemic barriers, uncover areas of challenges, and identify opportunities for your organization to take concrete actions.

Jephtée's capacity to engage the team is excellent. In a very short period, she has encouraged the team to take on various issues not yet addressed by an organization that had grown significantly in the last year. Under her leadership, different committees have been set up to address different aspects of the functioning of the organization such as health and well-being, and human resources just to name a few. Together with those teams, she is engaging in a huge project of modernizing the organization. Jephtée’s contribution is very valuable and very much appreciated.

Saint-Phard Désir

Executive Director, CESOC

Custom Facilitation / Training

As organizations are at different stages of the journey and moving at different paces, we collaborate with you to identify your challenges and intended outcomes to provide you with custom solutions. Examples include facilitating your workshops, developing advisory tables, and developing and launching a train the trainers’ program etc. In short, our customs reform and trade facilitation consultant program can help you identify your pace and make the necessary changes.

Jephtée is a skilled facilitator and session leader, and she has received excellent responses from the participants of the Mindtrust Leadership programs. Her approach to the EDI (Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) module is well developed and very engaging. This has led to robust conversations and improved understanding of this important topic for all participants.

Claude Haw

President and Founder, Mindtrust

Policy Review

Our team will collaborate with you to review your organization’s policies, practices, and procedures to identify and address diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) barriers.

Strategies/Action Plan

We come alongside you to address your challenges. We do so by first uncovering and understanding what your challenges are, and then we co-create with you and your stakeholders’ strategies and action plans to begin addressing them.

FOR BUSINESSES

There are many ways that we support organizations. We invite you to:

Invest in your organization thru our consulting services;
Invest in your racialized staff (DEI Practitioners Coaching, Career Coaching for Racialized Employees);
Invest in your leaders, thanks to our Career and Leadership Coaching.

FOR INDIVIDUALS

We provide solutions that enable everyone we choose to work with to maximize their potential and achieve career fulfillment Career. Check out our coaching suites:

Coaching for Racialized Employees;
DEI Practitioners Coaching;
Career and Leadership Coaching;
Life Coaching.