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Julia Hobday

Julia Hobday believes that community is at its best when its rich layers of difference are noticed, named, and uplifted.

About Julia

She loves working with people from across the beautifully variegated spectrum of culture and considers her work “bridge-building”: connecting diverse perspectives in a variety of environments. She is a Certified Professional Diversity Coach with Coach Diversity Institute, a Qualified Administrator for the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) and Intercultural Conflict Styles (ICS), and a trained Racial Justice Facilitator. She holds an Advanced Certificate in Equity and Diversity from the University of Minnesota, and is proficient in Spanish.

Julia has applied her intercultural skills both in a professional capacity as a facilitator and coach and also as a volunteer in many community organizations, including FREC (Facilitating Racial Equity Collaborative,) YWCA MN Racial Justice program, Sierra Club Northwest Chapter; St Joan of Arc Anti-Racism Core Group; Saint Paul Public Schools; and Project TRUST (Training for Resiliency in Urban Students and Teachers).

Julia is truly grateful to work with the fiercely dedicated and compassionate group at BetterWorld Partners, which shares values and workspace. Her primary goal in life has always been to be a force for good in the world, and the mission at BetterWorld Partners fits that aspiration perfectly.

Coaching

Work with Julia

Specialties:
  • 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.
  • Antiracism
    Coaching focused on learning and understanding principles of antiracism provides personalized guidance and support to individuals committed to understanding and dismantling racism. Through education, self-reflection, and actionable strategies, antiracism coaches help clients develop the awareness, skills, and courage to challenge biases, advocate for equity, and contribute to creating a more just and inclusive society. Antiracism coaching empowers individuals to actively engage in antiracist work and become agents of positive change within their communities and organizations by fostering accountability, empathy, and allyship.
  • Leadership
    Leadership coaching is a personalized development service empowering individuals to maximize their leadership potential. Whether you are a seasoned executive or an emerging leader, coaches provide tailored support, feedback, and strategies to enhance your leadership skills, inspire your team, navigate challenges, and achieve professional goals confidently and effectively.
  • 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.
  • Personal Development
    Personal development coaching is a transformative journey focused on empowering individuals to reach their full potential in all areas of life. Through personalized guidance, goal setting, and accountability, coaches help clients identify strengths, overcome obstacles, and create meaningful change in careers, relationships, health, and mindset. By fostering self-awareness, resilience, and a growth mindset, personal development coaching enables individuals to live with greater purpose, fulfillment, and success.
  • 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.

Julia’s purpose is to create an environment in which clients, colleagues, and partners feel held and seen even as they challenge themselves to do hard things. Most of us are not used to taking time with each other to practice being the humans we want to be, and that may make us feel vulnerable and uncomfortable. As the adage goes, there is no growth in the comfort zone and no comfort in the growth zone. This idea is central to clients’ work with Julia, growing into our best selves.

As an intercultural coach, Julia is committed to offering fertile ground, sharing a brave space to help clients discover who they are culturally and embrace their unique blend of identities. With Julia, you will build self and other-awareness to better understand, appreciate, and bridge differences toward effective communication and deeper, meaningful relationships. Julia’s role as a coach is to accompany you as you explore both what is holding you back and the inner strengths that will propel you forward. With her, you will feel supported, challenged, and empowered. By the end of your work, you will have built your skills to navigate the complexities of our interconnected world with confidence and sensitivity.

Julia uses three main frameworks to guide her coaching:

  • Mitch Hammer’s Intercultural Development Continuum (IDC): Offering a map and tools to navigate personal growth.
  • The Intercultural Conflict Style Inventory (ICS): Exploring preferred approaches or styles for communicating, solving problems, and resolving conflict situations
  • Coach Diversity Institute (CDI): Preparing individuals, communities, and organizations to thrive in diverse environments by combining the transformational power of coaching with diversity and leadership training.

 

Why seek intercultural coaching?

Each of us approaches the world in ways that reflect our unique experiences.  Coaching can be a powerful tool to gain insight into your personal approach to communicating across differences. This new self-awareness can improve how you work, individually and as a part of a team. It provides a foundation upon which curiosity rather than judgment steps forward first, increasing your ability to understand others and increasing your willingness and ability to meet others where they are in service of a goal. Change is hard. A coach can help you process your experience and illuminate biases and cultural differences that are otherwise in your blind spots so that change feels more manageable and sustainable.

In her practice, Julia has worked with individuals and groups from organizations across the US, including:

  • Foundation DEI leadership
  • Non-profit leadership and staff
  • Church leadership and staff
  • High school administrators
  • College leadership and staff 
  • State University DEI administration, deans, chairs, faculty and staff
  • Ivy League University leadership and staff

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