Alumni Career Programs Workshop: "Leadership Coaching as an Investment in Your Work, Life, and Organization" (Washington, DC)
Location
Cloyd Heck Marvin Center
The George Washington University
800 21st Street NW, Room 310
Washington, DC 20052
Event Description
Why great leaders like Bill Gates, Eileen Fisher, Colin Powell have embraced coaching to accelerate their vision? High-performing executives know the power of coaching and great values it can provide. Join us for a career networking workshop to learn more about what leadership coaching can do for your life and work. Leave with questions that may spark your interest and curiosity. This Alumni Career Programs workshop will be led by alumna Ina Gjikondi (GSPM MPS '09 and GSEHD MA '15), Director of Executive Education & Coaching and Founder Director of the e-Co Leadership Coaching Program at the George Washington University's Center for Excellence in Public Leadership.
Coaching is a growing industry. Membership of the International Coach Federation has more than tripled in the last 10 years. A report by the market research firm IBISWorld at the end of 2014 said coaching is a $1 billion industry in the U.S. alone. The high demand for coaches is due to increased complexity and uncertainty and a sense of meaning seeking. We are constantly striving towards success, for better performance and getting things done, and yet we are dealing with so much burnout less satisfaction and lower engagement. According to the most recent Gallup Survey on the State of the American Workplace, only 33% of U.S. employees are engaged at work compared to 70%, which we find in the world’s best organizations. Leadership development and learning are not new and while coaching may be one of the elements, it has proven to be the multiplier for greater presence and action in the world.
Coaching offers a unique opportunity for the leader and the organization to bring more focus and attention to the areas of our life and work that we need to grow or let go. Simply put, what might we do to examine our actions in the light of our intentions and vision? Is there alignment? Further, how do we do it to inspire greater leadership, increased awareness, better outcomes?
In this workshop you will:
- learn about Leadership Coaching as an industry, trends, and opportunities
- what Leadership Coaching can open up for your life and work
- get introduced to a few coaching principles you can use immediately
Following the workshop, there will be a networking reception where food and soft drinks will be served. Registration is $15 and includes the workshop and light food and beer/wine/soft drinks at the reception.
Presenter
Ina Gjikondi, GSPM MPS '09 and GSEHD MA '15, is a teacher, speaker, mother, alchemist, innovator, poet, modern mystic and co-curator of creative learning experiences that expand consciousness with the goal of One Shared Humanity. Ina serves as the Director of Executive Education & Coaching and as the Founder & e-Co Leadership Coaching Program Director at the George Washington University's Center for Excellence in Public Leadership. Ina works with people across the globe to awaken the leadership and creative capacity for active imagination, resilience and joy. Her focus is in cultivating capacities that support people and organizations to think from a whole person and whole systems perspective in a way that gets us deeply in touch with our own humanity and helps us heal our connection within systems, from the cellular level of our being to the cellular level of our humanity. Prior to moving to the US, Ina was an active UN advocate, political campaign professional and founder of several nonprofit organization in her native home of Albania. She is inspired by her son Hadrian, who teaches her to slow down and show up for life with genuine curiosity. To develop this creative dialogue, she founded Hadrian Series, a learning hub to support families through embodied conversations, celebrating the wonders of life everyday.