Equitable Coaching was founded by Claire Stewart-Hall to help leaders and organisations tackle inequality and diversity 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 acts as a process to create the future, faster: thinking with a group helps team members identify the limitations of their current cultures, while leaders and managers create deeper, more meaningful and productive change when they have time to reflect on what they are doing and how.
Claire helps leaders see how their values and beliefs affect organisational growth and how included people feel in the shared vision. This helps unlock inner agency to develop – and understand the impact of – internal systems and structures, enabling organisations and the people within them to diversify how they think about the future.
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 and change the way they think about them.
The power of transformational coaching deepens and strengthens confidence to take action to co-create positive, equitable cultures.
Before an organisation can start making real positive change around diversity, we first need to understand the difficulties people have talking about difference. This is often tricky to do without outside support because few organisations have robust structures in-place to enable these discussions.
Claire Stewart-Hall uses research to support teams to begin conversations about diversity, equity and inclusion.
Group coaching provides a safe and confidential environment in which these discussions can take place. She works with teams to share the challenges they are finding so she can start to bring the group, board or team into alignment. Only then can trust start to develop, along with a shared approach or vision of how to begin to change things.
Claire underpins this development by sharing the solid foundation of research that exists around equity. This helps people recognise problems that might exist within their teams or in the organisation as a whole.
Before founding Equitable Coaching, Claire Stewart-Hall served as a leader in UK schools for twenty years in urban areas of economic disadvantage and poverty. She has experience supporting staff to connect with their communities, encouraging creativity, positivity and self-organising systems to allow positive cultures to grow.
Claire believes that answers to our own development lie within us. She helps people ‘unlearn’ limiting assumptions and develop ways to challenge thoughts and ideas in a safe environment.
Claire enjoys networking and linking up with people, working strategically across different organisations. She is also a researcher and when not coaching, can usually be found with her head in a book.
Before founding Equitable Coaching, Claire Stewart-Hall served as a leader in UK schools for twenty years in urban areas of economic disadvantage and poverty. She has experience supporting staff to connect with their communities, encouraging creativity, positivity and self-organising systems to allow positive cultures to grow.
Claire believes that answers to our own development lie within us. She helps people ‘unlearn’ limiting assumptions and develop ways to challenge thoughts and ideas in a safe environment.
Claire enjoys networking and linking up with people, working strategically across different organisations. She is also a researcher and when not coaching, can usually be found with her head in a book.
Sharon provides coaching and mentoring for Early Career Teachers. She also coaches Middle Leaders and experienced educators in building confidence and improving their practice.
Sharon is an experienced educator and researcher with expertise in Research Methods and Professional Development. She has been a Specialist Leader in Education (SLE) and Lead Practitioner in inner city Bristol schools.
As a consultant, Sharon has extensive experience of entering unfamiliar organisations and working with clients from different backgrounds.
Consequently, she has honed the skill of quickly building rapport with clients. Through open communication, active listening and questioning, Sharon helps clients identify and set realistic targets to achieve their goals.
Katie works with leaders at all levels and is passionate about diversifying leadership of schools to ensure that children get the best education in their short time with us. She believes that everyone should have access to the magic of coaching and loves co-creating powerful coaching relationships which enable freedom and growth to be their whole selves.
Katie is visionary and strategic coach who loves ideas and innovation and has a healthy disrespect for comfort zones whether they belong to people, organisations or systems.
“I walk away from every coaching session with Katie feeling stronger and with a clearer path. This has definitely been the best CPD ever invested in me.” (Middle Leader, Cabot Learning Federation)
