Equitable Coaching was founded by Dr. Claire Stewart-Hall to help leaders tackle racial inequity in their workforce.
Identity is everything. If organisations seek better outcomes, they must create opportunities to nurture people and diversity of approach in their teams.
Coaching is a method to reimagine the future, faster: thinking with a group helps team members identify the limitations of current cultures. Leaders create more sustainable and productive change when they reflect on what they are doing.
Claire helps leaders see how values and beliefs affect organisational growth and shared vision. This helps unlock inner agency to develop – and understand the impact of – internal systems and structures, enabling organisations to do business without doing harm.
We offer a blend of transformational and psycho-dynamic coaching informed by research into transactional theory and adult-learning within organisations.
Creative tools such as images, words and narratives are used for building rapport and creating trust. This gives people time to reflect on their current situations.
Transformational coaching strengthens confidence to take action.
Before an organisation can start making real positive change around equity, we first need to understand the problem. This is often tricky to do without outside support because few organisations have robust structures in-place to enable these discussions.
We use research to support teams to begin conversations about current cultures.
Group coaching provides a safer environment to share challenges teams face and experienced facilitation helps bring the group into alignment. Only then can trust develop.
We use research about equity to help people recognise problems that might exist within their organisation
Before founding Equitable Coaching, Dr. Claire Stewart-Hall served as a Principal and leader in English schools. She has served as a non-executive Trust member, Chair of Board of Trustees and is a former Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. She is a qualified ILM Level 7 Coach with experience of supporting teams to connect with their values and communities.
Claire researches whiteness in institutions and hosts the podcast Whiteness at work.
Claire Stewart-Hall is an LGBTQIA and anti-racism influencer, founder of Equitable Coaching and a qualitative researcher. Claire featured in a video from BBC Question Time in 2023 in which she lambasted the English government for its neglect of young people and impacting budgetary cuts to public services.
Her succinct, passionate two-minute tirade went viral globally, resonating with people who felt she voiced what many people feel about the gap between governments and people they purport to serve.
Her PhD focuses on white gatekeeping in majoritised white senior leadership teams and how white spaces reinforce white comfort and supremacy. She began her career as an educator and Head Teacher serving fantastic communities in Bristol.
Claire’s academic research is widely published in international journals and books. A qualified coach, she specialises in developing anti-racist leadership.
Claire Stewart-Hall
Twitter: @Clairerising and @EquitableCoach1
Insta: @EquitableCoaching @DrClaireRising
