Emerging Coach Series

The One Humanity Emerging Coach Series

Building a One Humanity
Leadership Coaching Community

The One Humanity Emerging Coach Series is focused on supporting the new coach in their journey of learning, growing, and community building. The series features sessions with our coaching program alumni who bring in a question that the community will co-explore and work with. The space is also open to those curious about coaching who might want to explore and learn more about this path.

Featured Speakers and Topics
The program is moderated by Ina Gjikondi, PCC, Director of the  One Humanity Leadership Coaching Program

 

Events
Our upcoming leadership and coaching events.

Cultivating Embodied Resilience for Leadership: Tools for Coaches for Stabilization in Challenging Times

As leadership coaches, it’s essential to not only guide clients through challenging situations but also to cultivate our own resilience, stabilization and self-regulation in the face of stress, emotional triggers, and complexity. This session invites coaches to explore their own embodied resilience through the use of real-time somatic tools that help settle over responses and foster emotional balance. Drawing on neuroscience and somatic practices, we will explore how stress, burnout, and overwhelm manifest in the body, and how to develop strategies to support coaches to stay present and in connection with their clients.

Date and Time
October 23, 2025 @ 12:00pm - 12:45pm EST

Registration Link
https://gwu-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/esyOhUtwRiGpkWQLK7zZLA

Speaker Bio

Gia Mariam Hasan is a regenerative and transformational leadership coach and a graduate of George Washington University’s Center for Excellence in Public Leadership. Informed by a relational systems-thinking framework, Gia empowers executives to cultivate inclusive and liberative visions at both micro and meso levels. Gia served as a coach for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS) Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Antiracism (EDIA) Initiative, where she supported leaders in the strategic design and long-term development of sustainable equity, diversity, inclusion, and antiracism practices across various facilities. She has co-designed and facilitated curriculum for EDIA workshops delivered to DHS staff, as well as schools and organizations in the Washington, D.C. area. Additionally, she has facilitated capacity-building initiatives with the Los Angeles Department of Public Health’s trauma-informed program. As a founding member and officer of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for a nonprofit theater, Gia advanced racial equity initiatives for youth and amplified diverse narratives both within the organization and on stage. Using a multifaceted lens, grounded in principles of embodied trauma-informed care, she invites leaders to engage with emergent and responsive practices that foster coherence in their organizations. Her continuing education and training enhances her capacity to facilitate emergent dialogues and strengthen relational networks needed for necessary transformation.

Before embarking on her journey in integrative coaching and facilitation, Gia distinguished herself as a reporter traveling through Egypt, and advocating for refugees in Lebanon. Her commitment extends to strategically underserved communities, youth advocacy, and support for survivors and refugees. Gia holds a Master’s degree in Clinical and Integrative Nutrition and is an advanced Certified Facilitator of the Resilience Toolkit. She maps the impacts of stress and trauma through the human body and organizational bodies, identifying root causes and creating comprehensive and integrative pathways to healing and change. This is further informed by her background and training as an engaged mindfulness meditation teacher, yoga instructor, and clinical somatics. Her skills in nonviolent communication, coupled with her international experience across the Middle East, US and UK, allow her to facilitate and coach effectively across cultures. Gia has also collaborated with organizations such as the University of Colorado, United Healthcare, and Accenture. Gia lives in Alexandria VA with her husband, two teenage children, and sweet and sassy dog.

Coaching and Beginner’s Mind

There is a tension in coaching and leadership work between external valuation of the coach’s “expertise” and the necessity of the coach to be a “learner” rather than a “knower” in the coaching conversation.

The session explores this tension and discusses ways for coaches to stay centered in “beginner’s mind” in each coaching session. We will also discuss how centering oneself in beginner’s mind provides a useful framework for coaching clients.

Date and Time
November 20, 2025 @ 12:00pm - 12:45pm EST

Registration Link
https://gwu-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/rys8xxS7R0SycGCueeGaRA

Speaker Bio

Kari Moe, Phd is an accomplished senior leader and teacher across roles in public service, academia, consulting and coaching. Her public service career includes Deputy Mayor for Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, and over twenty years as a Chief of Staff to members of Congress. In academia, she was the Director of Executive Education at the George Washington Center for Excellence in Public Leadership. She has been a teacher in several top universities on the topics of public leadership, public policy analysis, project management, strategic planning, political savvy for leaders, how to understand the Congress and the transition from campaigning to governing. As a certified leadership coach, she is providing coaching to senior managers in local government, Congress, small businesses and non-profit organizations.

She has a BA from Carleton College, a Masters of City Planning and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a PhD in Public Leadership from George Washington University. She has completed executive leadership training at the Harvard, Kennedy School of Government, Leadership Greater Chicago, the Shannon Leadership Institute, and the Stennis Congressional Fellows Program. She earned an ICF certified leadership coaching certificate from the One Humanity Leadership Coaching Program at the GW Center for Excellence in Public Leadership.

Facing Major Life Change from a Growth Mindset

This session will highlight how we respond to change and its impact on the way we show up in our relationships at home, work and in the larger community.  I will be engaging the group in dialogue around how our perceptions of life changes can drive decisions resulting in us growing and thriving or remaining in a state of stuckness and survival. We will explore opportunities where we can support our coachees to reframe and renew their perspectives when facing major life change.  Coaches will walk away having a clear definition of a growth mindset, strategies of navigating change and resources to support someone facing a major life event.

Date and Time
January 15, 2026 @ 12:00pm EST

Registration Link
https://gwu-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/Wmm-UhaARGSP-kqmNJfH7Q

Speaker Bio

Regina Robinson is currently the Director of Career Support services at A Wider Circle in Silver Spring Maryland where she has served for nearly 5 years. She proudly holds a Master of Education in Counseling & Guidance from Howard University and a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work from California State University, Northridge.  In October 2023, she successfully completed the  e-Co LeadershipCoaching training at the George Washington University Center For Excellence in Public Leadership. She has also maintained certification through the National Association of Workforce Development Professionals (NAWDP) since 2017.

Regina has coached leaders in both the educational and public administration arena. Her coaching clients have navigated spaces of higher education at prestigious institutions such as Howard University in Washington DC and the University of Southern California.  Many of her clients are game changers at the C-Suite level and lead human resource consulting firms. Most recently she has expanded her coaching practice to support impacted federal government employees.

Her niche in coaching is supporting clients who find themselves ‘stuck’, experiencing difficulty with adapting, self-identifying and thriving during major work - life transitions.   She offers a judgment-free and supportive space to work through the process of self discovery, exploration and experimentation leading to greater clarity and direction. Our guiding principles are rooted in building trust, giving the client full agency to find solutions to their dilemmas through powerful inquiry, reflection, imagery and reframing self-defeating thought patterns.

Prior to joining the team at A Wider Circle in 2021, Regina served over 8 years as Program Manager at the  D.C. Department of Employment Service managing their State Initiative and Workforce Innovation & Opportunity Act (WIOA) programs, 10 years as the Assistant Director of a WorkSource Center at the Los Angeles Urban League and an Adjunct Counselor at Rio Hondo College and LA Trade Technical Colleges in Southern California.

The most gratifying part of this passion work is building collaborative partnerships with the client and witnessing them uncover their inner resources, gain new and healthier perspectives and envision a life that best serves self, their family and community.

Regina’s primary life assignments are balancing motherhood of 2 adult children in college and one teenager, nurturing life long friendships and serving people through her faith based community. She’s an avid walker, dog mom and music enthusiast. 

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