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Coaching with BetterWorld

We are driven by our purpose to clear and clarify the path you have been called to.

We believe that while each of us is unique, everyone is a whole and complete person doing the best they can. Our work is to guide you through self-discovery that will inform your growth. Our expertise lies in simplifying a path that can be complex and multilayered, just like the human experience.

Read on to learn more about our coaches – BetterWorld Partners consultants Athena, Jennifer, Julia, and Tene – and each of their coaching ethos. Together we bring decades of experience, perspectives, identities, and expertise. We meet you where you are and guide you to where you need to be.

Julia Hobday

Specializes in:
  • Conflict
    Coaching focused on conflict equips individuals with the tools and strategies to navigate and resolve conflicts effectively in various settings. Whether addressing interpersonal tensions, managing team dynamics, or mitigating workplace disputes, this coaching provides support, guidance, and practical techniques to foster constructive communication, find mutually beneficial solutions, and promote positive relationships.
  • Equity
    Equity coaching focuses on fostering equitable practices and outcomes within organizations by addressing systemic biases and promoting inclusion. Through tailored guidance and support, coaches help leaders and teams identify and dismantle barriers to equity, develop inclusive policies and practices, and cultivate a culture of belonging where all individuals can thrive and contribute to their full potential.
  • Intercultural Development
    Intercultural coaching offers personalized support and guidance to individuals navigating diverse cultural contexts. By fostering cultural humility, awareness, and communication skills, coaches help clients navigate cultural differences,* build inclusive communities, and succeed in multicultural environments. Through practical strategies, cultural insights, and empathy, intercultural coaching enables individuals to thrive in a globalized world by embracing diversity and leveraging one's own cultural strengths. *Differences come in many categories, including, but not limited to, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age/generation, socioeconomic status, geography, education level, positionality/power differential, caretaking status, and any difference that affects how you experience your life.
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Deb Foster

Specializes in:
  • Life Direction Mapping
    Life direction mapping is personalized guidance and support for individuals seeking clarity, purpose, and fulfillment. Through introspection, goal-setting, and action planning, coaches help clients identify their values, passions, and goals and create a roadmap for achieving them. By fostering self-awareness, confidence, and resilience, life direction mapping empowers individuals to navigate life transitions, overcome obstacles, and live authentically in alignment with their true aspirations and values.
  • Performance Improvement
    Performance improvement coaching provides targeted support and guidance to individuals seeking to enhance their performance in specific areas, such as work or personal goals. Through personalized feedback, goal-setting, and skill development, coaches help clients identify strengths, overcome challenges, and achieve their full potential. By implementing strategies for growth, accountability, and continuous improvement, performance improvement coaching enables individuals to excel and reach new levels of success in their chosen endeavors.
  • Trauma-informed
    Trauma-informed coaching considers the impact of trauma on a client's life and how it may be affecting their current experiences. The goal is to create a safe, non-judgmental environment where clients can grow and move forward and to help them use their resilience to achieve solution-focused growth. *Trauma Informed Coaching is the practice of understanding the presence of past trauma in a client’s present-day experience, and how to use it as a guide for resilience and solution-forward coaching strategies. It is not therapy. Therapists operate under a medical model of care and treat trauma.
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Athena Adkins

Specializes in:
  • Conflict
    Coaching focused on conflict equips individuals with the tools and strategies to navigate and resolve conflicts effectively in various settings. Whether addressing interpersonal tensions, managing team dynamics, or mitigating workplace disputes, this coaching provides support, guidance, and practical techniques to foster constructive communication, find mutually beneficial solutions, and promote positive relationships.
  • Equity
    Equity coaching focuses on fostering equitable practices and outcomes within organizations by addressing systemic biases and promoting inclusion. Through tailored guidance and support, coaches help leaders and teams identify and dismantle barriers to equity, develop inclusive policies and practices, and cultivate a culture of belonging where all individuals can thrive and contribute to their full potential.
  • Intercultural Development
    Intercultural coaching offers personalized support and guidance to individuals navigating diverse cultural contexts. By fostering cultural humility, awareness, and communication skills, coaches help clients navigate cultural differences,* build inclusive communities, and succeed in multicultural environments. Through practical strategies, cultural insights, and empathy, intercultural coaching enables individuals to thrive in a globalized world by embracing diversity and leveraging one's own cultural strengths. *Differences come in many categories, including, but not limited to, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age/generation, socioeconomic status, geography, education level, positionality/power differential, caretaking status, and any difference that affects how you experience your life.
Work with Athena →

Tené Wells

Specializes in:
  • BIPOC Leadership
    BIPOC Leadership Coaching offers tailored guidance and support for individuals from Black, Indigenous, and communities of color navigating the challenges of leadership. Empowering BIPOC professionals to unlock their full potential, coaches with this specialty address unique racialized experiences, foster authenticity and cultivate essential skills for success in inclusive and equitable leadership roles.
  • Emerging Leaders
    Coaching for emerging leaders offers tailored support and guidance to emerging leaders as they navigate their leadership journey. Focusing on developing essential leadership skills, building confidence, and overcoming challenges unique to young professionals, this coaching empowers early-career individuals to unlock their leadership potential and positively impact their organizations and communities.
  • Small Business / Nonprofit Entrepreneurship
    Business-focused coaching provides personalized guidance and strategies to help entrepreneurs and professionals achieve their business goals. Whether you're seeking to start a new venture, grow an existing business, or overcome challenges, a coach offers support, accountability, and expertise to maximize your success and fulfillment.
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Coaching & More

Authentic Leadership through Coaching

Everyone is a leader and a follower. Everyone is a teacher and a learner. At BWP, we are invested in supporting your leadership journey. Our coaches believe that to be an effective leader, having clarity about your values and perspective is essential. We are adept at guiding you through discovery, exploring how your story has shaped you, your values, and what is most important as you move forward. 

Individually, we each focus on different aspects of leading including, leading through transitions (yours and others), new leaders, leaders focused on their equity journey, and aligning the work with purpose and values.

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