"Transforming Local Government through Equity-Centered Coaching" will focus on the ways the Department of Race & Equity at the City of San Diego has implemented an equity-centered coaching program. A portion of this session will be dedicated to sharing the system that was created to shift the organization’s thinking about equity in departmental decisions on policy, budget, and programming.
Participants will then be broken out into small groups to engage in an experiential activity that will help demonstrate the importance of coaching and the skills needed to effectively coach department leaders. Lastly, session attendees will walk away with ideas on how they might begin to set up a coaching program in their organization or government entity. This will include some tools that can be replicated in their own institution.