Race, Social Location & Power in Coaching – Imani Romney-Rosa Chapman

What if coaches were being sent out into the field without knowing who they are and how they are seen, from a social identity lens? What if as they were trying to guide and work with clients they were doing harm, unwittingly—through assumptions, communication that landed badly, disempowerment?

This workshop will help coaching teachers and coaches to start identifying the ways in which we move through and experience ourselves and the ways in which others may experience differently and how to leverage the power at hand to shed light on how to better navigate collaboratively.

Imani Chapman is a founding trainer with Romney Associates with more than 20 years of experience working as a school teacher and administrator. Mrs. Chapman’s focus is creating safe and inclusive learning environments. She serves on her Brooklyn synagogue’s Race Working Group and the board of the Roger L Wallace Excellence in Teaching Foundation. She holds an MA in Spanish Philology.

She works for a world in which her children and the young people in your lives can live wholly and safely into their full humanity and where race is not a major determinant in health, wealth, legal, and educational outcomes.