Topic: Mindset, Community, and Resources: Doing the Work on YOU as a Tool for Teaching DEIB Free registration, CCE pending.
Presenter: Jim Smith, PCC
Date: May 28, 2025, 8:00 US PT, 11:00 US ET, 17:00 CET, 20:30 IST (90 minutes)
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When in the conversation of DEIB, we usually talk about how we need to treat others but we rarely consider how to create in ourselves a mindset of openness and acceptance of other people, cultures, and lifestyles. In this session, Jim will offer four core ideas for expanding self as a tool for coaching and teaching in an increasingly diverse space. Working from those core ideas, we will share resources to grow our collective “library” of resources and ideas.
Participants can expect to challenge their personal practices and expand their toolkit for how they experience and see the world. All this will be in service to helping them be better coach trainers.
Jim Smith is The Executive Happiness Coach®, a global executive coach, speaker, author, and troublemaker. His passion is to create a Happier world and workplace, one Leader at a time.
Cultural bio: Skinny white kid who grew up in an economically-challenged Catholic and Irish-German ethnic suburban community with eight siblings, where hand-me-downs was the norm and parents struggled to keep food on the table. Wrestled with depression and sexual identity. Survived suicide, a heart attack at 28, the death of a child. First in his family to graduate university, he built a multi-hued and international family through birth and adoption, learning along the way how to advocate for those with differing abilities. Proud that he has championed gender equity with his sons/daughters. Situational vegan. Loves to dance, garden, and curate dark beers. Owns 17 ways to make coffee and loves to talk to strangers.
Business stuff: Co-founder of Cleveland ICF chapter, holds certifications in ICF coaching, health & wellness coaching, team coaching, transformational movement, mentor coaching, and beekeeping. Over 27 years, has coached leaders in 42 countries and on six continents with a special focus on executive presence. Joined LinkedIn in Year 1. Strives to read 50 books every year.