DEIB Volunteer Opportunities with ICF

ICF is passionate about and committed to placing diversity, inclusion and belonging at the forefront of every decision we make within our organization. To do this, we have and will continue to create unique and engaging opportunities for individuals to contribute to ICF’s DEIB efforts. At this time there are no current open Volunteer Opportunities.

Councils and Committees

Global Diversity Council

ICF is creating the Global Diversity Council to help oversee our internal and external diversity initiatives and goals. The Diversity Council will consist of leaders from across the the ICF Ecosystem, including an ICF Global Board Director, four stakeholders and three ICF staff members. The Diversity Council will represent different countries, ages, races, stakeholders, and ICF Family Organizations and/or departments.

Meet the Council

ICF is happy to announce the 2022-2024 Global Diversity Council. In conjunction with the Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice (a staff role), these global leaders will help oversee and manage ICF’s internal DEIJB initiatives and goals.

Angie Carter, ACC is an assistant professor and program coordinator of the Master of Human Resource Development (MHRD) program in Clemson University’s College of Education and is passionate about facilitating leader development and cultural competency workshops and providing organization-wide engagement and learning opportunities. Her research spans the areas of leadership development, coaching, mentoring, and critical human resource development. Before a switch to academia, Angie spent a great deal of her working life in various learning function and leadership roles in property management, high-tech, and manufacturing industries.

Jimena Andino Dorato, PCC is originally from Argentina, but is Canadian by adoption and a nomad at heart. After practicing as a lawyer, mediator, researcher and lecturer, she became a professional coach in Brazil. She was part of the leadership team of ICF France and now (in Montreal), she is a member of ICF Quebec, as well as a member of the Ethics Committee at ACTO. Jimena adds to her coaching practice intercultural communication and equity, diversity and inclusion, working closely with SIETAR and sitting on the board of directors for an association of LGBTQ+ migrants and refugees. Always passionate about building bridges, she designed, delivered and managed several EDI and intercultural training programs for young and senior leaders and coaches. Jimena also co-wrote with Ghislaine Tamisier and Veronica de la Fuente the book ” L’intelligence interculturelle au service des coachs ” published in France in 2022 by InterÉditions.

Tonya Echols, PCC, is an award-winning international Executive Coach, Leadership Consultant, facilitator, speaker, and writer. She is the Managing Principal, and Founder of Vigere, a WOSB and MBE certified coaching and leadership development company.

She is a coach for the TED Fellows Program, a member of the Forbes Coaches Council, and was selected by LinkedIn as Best of 2016 and 2017 in Executive Coaching. She combines her over 25 years of extensive experience in corporate management, digital media/technology, and finance with my coaching and leadership development background to help individuals, teams, and organizations create high-performing, human-centric, and inclusive work environments.

Robert Garcia, SHRM, SCP is the Vice President of ICF Coaching in Organizations. Robert is responsible for organizational membership growth and leading operations that enable global organizations to build coaching capabilities and develop a strong coaching culture. He has held senior-level positions at Randstad, SHRM, Baptist Health, Florida International University (FIU), LHH, ADP and United Healthcare. He is an adjunct professor in business and human resource management at FIU. Robert has an MBA from FIU, a bachelor’s in Management from Nova Southeastern University, as well as HR certifications from SHRM and HCI. He is also an executive coach and frequent keynote speaker at global conferences.

Oxana Mozgovaya, PCC is a professional life and career coach specializing in leadership development and career growth. Oxana is trained in conscious business coaching and certified in emotional-centered and positive intelligence coaching. She has been an ICF volunteer since 2018, and is also part of a world business executive coaching summit facilitators team. Oxana was born in Ukraine and raised in Russia. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in economy of Japan and has been living and working in Sapporo for nine years. She is now a proud Canadian citizen living in beautiful British Columbia.

Charles Sue-Wah-Sing, PCC is a certified professional Co-Active coach (CPCC). He’s been an executive coach serving a variety of industries for over 5 years. He’s been shifting his focus to serving emerging BIPOC leaders and entrepreneurs. Recently he launched a virtual group coaching program serving Men of Color. Charles is a faculty member at the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI), where we assisted in the initiation of their DEIW strategic plan. Charles is certified in Imago Theory and serves as a Chairperson for Imago Relationships North America where he also spearheaded numerous DEI education programs and initiatives. Charles has also facilitated numerous workshops and study groups around DEI and anti-black racism. He identifies as a man of color, born in Canada of Guyanese parents with a mix of African, Indian, Chinese and European

DEIB Holiday & Cultural Committee

This group of global leaders will spearhead inclusive holidays and cultural awareness activities across the ICF Ecosystem. This committee partners with the director of DEIB at ICF to select cultural holidays that ICF will recognize and celebrate monthly. It is also the responsibility of this committee to determine how ICF will recognize and celebrate these selected holidays and events.

Meet the Committee

Gauri Deshpande, PCC is the Founder & Director of the Global Coaches Collective (H.Q. -Singapore). She holds professional coaching credentials from the ICF (PCC). She leads C-Suite Executive Coaching engagements in 6 countries and has coached clients of 11 nationalities.

Gauri is an active member at her local chapter ICF-Singapore where she is a Committee Member of the Team Coaching Practice. She is a champion for social impact through coaching and works towards building equity, inclusion, and representation through her pro-bono projects in Asia and the Middle East. She is a volunteer for ICF Ignite and ICF Singapore-NTU’ Coaching for Community’.

Gauri holds a Master’s degree in Business and speaks four languages, including German and her mother tongue Marathi. Her trailblazing, international career of 15 years spans Germany, the U.S., Singapore, and her home country India.

She began her career with the French multinational Capgemini Consulting in their H.R. Leadership Program in India in 2007. In 2011 she joined the Global Executive Assistants Program at Allianz SE, Germany. She led the Talent & Diversity portfolio of the Board Office, spanning 11 countries of Europe & South America. In her full-time roles based out of India and Germany, Gauri has spearheaded Leadership Development and Talent Management programs.

Jamie Gelbtuch, PCC is the Founder of Cultural Mixology, a certified WBE, and is always looking for new and innovative ways to help people manage the complexity, uncertainty, and personal challenges of living or working in an international environment. She leads the strategic thinking process through coaching, training, mentoring, and consulting to support individuals and organizations that want to thrive across cultures.

She is a graduate of Thunderbird School of Global Management (MBA), Georgetown University (B.S.), and NYU (certificate in Executive and Organizational Coaching). As an ICF-PCC coach, her interest in neuroscience led her to become a provider of the BrainStates ManagementTM assessment, which she uses to help clients harness the brain’s ability to achieve higher outcomes.

A cosmopolitan globetrotter, she is fluent in English, Spanish, and French, with a working knowledge of Portuguese and basic Arabic. She has lived abroad and pursued her wanderlust throughout five continents.

Dana Poklepovic, Ph.D. is a certified ontological coach, certified C-IQ coach and diversity professional, and ICF member.

As a DEI consultant, she develops inclusive leadership programs to help businesses and schools embrace an authentically equitable and inclusive culture. She helps teams discover their emotional barriers and transform them into neurodiverse and disabled talent opportunities. As a coach, she helps her clients identify what makes them unique and confidently brings their talent to the table.

She also coaches parents of neurodiverse children and children with disabilities. She has proven that these children grow self-confident and the parents emotionally strong by working with the families. Dana believes that coaching is the tool that will help create an inclusive and equitable society.

Eric Toh is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) based in Malaysia, working across the Asia Pacific and internationally. He has an MBA from the USA and a BSc (Honours) from Australia and spent much of his career with KPMG Consulting in Melbourne, Australia, and London, UK.

Eric has lived and worked in four continents: Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas. He is passionate about Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI), Emotional Intelligence, and the Future of Work.

Eric went to Australia as a teenager for further studies. Having spent time living and working in Australia, Hong Kong, and London, Eric has returned to Malaysia to spend time with his family and share his international work experience with other professionals in the Asia Pacific region.

Linda Zay, PCC, Ph.D. is a leadership development coach passionate about coaching and working with international clientele from 5 continents and many different countries. In addition to individual coaching, she works as an intercultural and DEI trainer and team coach and as a project coordinator for a non-profit Erasmus Transnational Strategic Partnership Consortium. They support the digital transformation of trainers and coaches through innovative intellectual outputs.

She holds degrees in Intercultural Communication (Ph.D.), Diplomacy (M.A.), Literature and Linguistics (M.A.), American Studies (B.A.).

She considers herself an interculturalist and a DEI advocate, and the values that she derives from these fields are very close to her heart. By cultures, she does mean national cultures and gender, generational, social, linguistic, professional, geographical, etc., identities. As a member of the Committee, she hopes that by learning more about exciting traditions, national heritage, and cultural values, we can nurture intercultural curiosity, develop cultural competence, and promote diversity, inclusion, and belonging in our global community.