Executive Coaching

Discrete and personalized executive coaching for high-profile leaders ready to better serve equity-seeking groups.

Executive Coaching

The Challenges

For high-profile leaders like public representatives, elected officials, and C-suite executives, the job description always includes decision-making that will have a direct and significant impact on others. As inequity continues to be an issue in both public and private organizations, these leaders often find themselves tasked with addressing the concerns of marginalized groups who feel they are not being heard or served.

From corporate executives challenged to address discriminatory hiring practices to public institution directors faced with accusations of oppressive tactics and policies, these leaders are under a significant amount of pressure to address these concerns before they spiral out of control and make decisions that will correct these issues in the long-run.

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For these high-profile leaders, making the right choice is rarely ever simple. In many cases, they are not sufficiently well-versed in the issues being presented to them and may not fully understand the claims being made by equity seeking groups. Without the proper context, knowledge, and history of the problem at hand, these leaders find themselves uncertain of how to proceed. Of course, while many trainings and courses on the frameworks for equity exist, it is difficult for high-profile leaders to participate without public scrutiny.

Executive Coaching

Our Solutions

At KOJO Institute, we coach executives and other high-profile leaders to acknowledge and address the claims and concerns of equity-seeking groups among their staff and clients. We work one-on-one with leaders to understand the issues they are currently facing and strategize customized solutions that are specific to their organizations and responsive to their needs. Discrete and secure, our honest but accessible coaching provides executives, officials, and public representatives with the ongoing and on-call decision-making support they require as issues arise.

In our coaching, we adopt an equity lens, giving our clients the context and knowledge necessary to properly understand the concerns they must address and gain clarity on their organization’s mission and vision as they relate to marginalized people. As a result, our clients produce more equitable outcomes, and equity-seeking groups feel heard, understood and satisfied by the decisions these leaders make. Further, leaders become figures that people trust to represent them fairly and exemplify equity for their organizations and communities.

8 Levers To Organizational, Institutional and Systems Change

  • Engaging the Board of Directors
  • Impacting Staffing Strategies
  • Examining the Accountability Framework
  • Maximizing the Use of Data
  • Implementing Fresh Training and Learning
  • Amplifying Communications Strategies
  • Widening Community and Stakeholder Relations
  • Revisting Service or Business Models

What We Do Well

  • Equity
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Anti-Racism & Anti-Oppression
  • Anti-Black Racism
  • Organizational Culture Change

How We Prepare You

  • Training
  • Executive Coaching
  • Community Consultations
  • Content & Research Development
  • Keynotes & Guest Lectures
  • Conferences
  • Multi-Session Programs

Building Transformation Skills

KOJO Institute leads executives, managers and organizations through an innovative approach that reconstructs their paradigms and systems connected to equity, diversity and inclusion. We amplify the vision for change through deep-dive explorations that identify the scope, segment competencies and quantify resources required to birth social innovation.

With a clear focus on client expectations, we aim to produce actionable frameworks and solutions that ultimately better the lives your people and organization. Contact us.

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What Our Clients Say

Joanne Adair
Development Manager, House of Friendship
Game Changing and Empowering

Kike visited House of Friendship for a Leadership/Management training session last June. It was incredible and life-changing for many of us. Kike’s gift to the world is to be able to openly name and allow us to sit in the discomfort of this work, holding us accountable, but also not judging anyone. She created a…

Javeed Sukhera
Chair, London Police Services Board
Profound and Actionable

The London Police Services Board asked Ms. Ojo-Thompson from the KOJO Institute to start off a day-long strategy session devoted to anti-racism in policing. Her presentation hit on all the right notes. In addition to challenging the Board to question long standing assumptions that are built upon racist legacies, she guided Board members towards actionable… read more

Janine Manning
Granting Committee Chair, Laidlaw Foundation
Conscious and Skillful

Laidlaw Foundation had the privilege and pleasure of having Kike Ojo-Thompson support our collective staff and board anti-oppression training. Our individual levels of awareness and competency on the issue was from ‘none’ to ‘well versed’. Regardless of where we were on the spectrum of knowing, she supported all of us, with patience and enthusiasm. Miigwetch… read more

Chris Robert
Co-President, BOLDforce for Salesforce Canada
Business-Critical Training

Kike exceeded our expectations at Salesforce.  She dynamically navigated audience demographics to provide extremely relevant Equity Training that stimulated immense conversation and insight. Her teachings should be at the centre of every organization’s strategy moving forward. I can’t wait to work with her again!

Graeme Young
President, Eva’s Initiatives for Homeless Youth
Enlightening and Effective

We thought we already had a pretty good handle on equity, diversity, inclusion and Anti-Black Racism, but Kike’s presentation was enlightening.  I have used her concepts several times since. Her style is energetic and engaging and she has a very positive manner. Our thirteen board members were engrossed by her work. Extremely effective.

Yasmin Razack, M.Ed.
Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Inclusion
Global Mind Innovator

Kike Ojo has the depth, knowledge and experience to engage participants of diverse backgrounds with highly complex subject matters that are relevant to all organizations. The sheer brilliance of her mind and ability to connect ideas is masterful, which allows everyone in the room to powerful moments of learning.

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