Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity is offering individual and group career coaching opportunities for Senior Fellows to further support their leadership journey.
What is career coaching?
Coaching is founded on the belief that individuals have the ability to find solutions to their challenges and implement actionable steps towards their goals. Career coaching, in particular, helps people navigate their professional paths. With the support of a career coach, you can explore new career goals, strengths, and areas for improvement.
Career coaches can help you:
- Clarify your goals and objectives.
- Create a realistic plan to achieve your goals.
- Leverage your talents, expertise, and experience to build a career that aligns with who you are.
- Identify strategies to overcome obstacles.
- Develop the skills and mindset to advance your career.
- Reconnect with your life mission and purpose.
- Combat stress and burnout.
Who is it available for?
Career coaching is available to Senior Fellows who are exploring new career paths and seeking professional guidance. Fellows can take advantage of this opportunity for one cycle, as we aim to extend it to as many fellows as possible. The program can accommodate up to 20 fellows per year.
Group coaching
Group coaching offers an opportunity to bond with peers, share insights, and explore solutions together. It is open to fellows with shared interests who self-organize in a group of 6-10. Once your group is formed, please reach out for further details.
What to expect
The number and duration of coaching sessions will be tailored to your goals and determined in collaboration with your coach, up to a maximum limit. This could involve just a few sessions for a quick resolution or more sessions if you’re working on a more complex challenge. You can opt for executive coaching, receive assistance in clarifying your vision and career goals, explore strategies to address burnout and focus on wellness, or refresh your knowledge around community organizing and teambuilding. Coaching sessions will be customized to meet your specific needs. It’s important to note that coaching is not therapy and should not be viewed as a substitute for it when therapy is needed.
How to apply
Please complete this form to express your interest in receiving career coaching. We will indicate if there are no more spaces available for the year.
Meet the Coaches:
Career Coaching
Obenewa Amponsah
Learn moreObenewa Amponsah is a certified coach, speaker, and facilitator whose work specializes in leading courageous conversations; the ones that aren’t always easy but are necessary to move forward personally, professionally, and as a society. Whether these conversations are in the form of one-on-one coaching, group trainings and workshops, or keynote addresses, Obenewa and her dynamic team of associates create the conditions for learning, collaboration, and growth.
Dr. Jummy Okoya
Learn MoreDr. Jummy Okoya is an international consultant and speaker on organisational & leadership development, career development, diversity & inclusion, positive psychology coaching and resilience & wellbeing. Dr. Okoya is a highly experienced educator, trainer and researcher within the public and private sectors for more than two decades. She decided to pursue coaching due to her experience and background in Human resources and programme management which involved helping people with career decisions and supporting them on their professional and academic journey.
Dr. Joedrecka S. Brown Speights
Learn MoreDr. Joedrecka S. Brown Speights is a professor and chair in the Rural Medical Education Program at the Florida State University College of Medicine, fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians and fellowship trained in maternal child health (MCH). She is the 2018 recipient of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Distinguished Service Award, Florida State University. Her experience includes serving as medical director of the National Community Center of Excellence in Women’s Health, Office of Women’s Health, Department of Health and Human Services at Turley Family Health Center (USF Morton Plant Mease Family Medicine Residency), where she practiced full scope family medicine including operative obstetrics, and global health.
Campaign and Narrative Coaching
Abel Cano
Learn moreAs the founder of The Arc of Change, Abel R. Cano is a leadership expert and trainer on a mission to ignite transformational breakthroughs that empower leaders at all levels to drive social change. With over 15 years of experience organizing and building people power, he masterfully trains leaders in the craft of public narrative, a storytelling-based leadership practice, mindful leadership, and community organizing to catalyze change on a global scale
Kate Hilton
Learn moreIn addition to leading the AFHE Leadership In-Person Training and Online Curriculum, Kate Hilton is Leadership Faculty at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and the American Health Care Association (ACHA). For over a decade, Kate has taught and coached people around the globe to build individual and organizational capability to address the adaptive, human-side of change.
Rawan Zeine
Learn moreSince 2012, Rawan has been a community organizing trainer/coach, supporting activists to develop their leadership and organizing skills in the Arab world, UK and the US. Recently, Rawan was the Director of Teaching and Learning at Ahel, a community organizing social enterprise based in Amman, Jordan, Rawan has been coaching a community organizing campaign in Lebanon against child marriage with Syrian refugees. She also has designed, facilitated and taught a Training of Coaches certification program to support others in learning how to coach campaigns.