A Coaching Model Created by Beatriz Peña
(Diversity and Inclusion Coach, Leadership Coach, MEXICO)
A new mindset for Women, Men, and Organizations.
Introduction
SPARK is a light that must be turned on to detonate the power of women.
It is a model focused on helping women overcome the barriers that limit their professional and personal development.
It is also a model to help men overcome unconscious bias and limiting beliefs that stop them to support women on their growth or express behaviors that are against equality.
It is a model designed to raise awareness, cooperation, and growth among men and women, to create more diverse and inclusive companies, relationships, and finally society.
Without this partnership, the reality of an equal society is not possible.
A model to empower women must empower men as well, to make them feel capable of sustaining a successful woman.
SPARK® supports a holistic perspective of leadership, a woman can be a leader at her home, community, or work, but above all, a woman must be a leader of herself.
SPARK® is intended to help women, men, and companies to adopt a diverse mindset and new behaviors that will make it possible to create a more equal and diverse culture.
Self-awareness
Self-awareness
Research has established that one of the main obstacles to creating more diverse and inclusive mindsets have to do with unconscious biases and limiting beliefs.
Many people think about themselves as more inclusive of what they are.
Self-awareness is the main step to accept their own unconscious bias a take and create personal responsibility around them.
Shift the mindset
Shift the mindset
Shift the mindset, from a bias one to a conscious one.
Once the right mindset is established, and this is very much connected to understand the value that diversity brings, then it’s possible to embrace change.
Compelling purpose
Powerful purpose
Once the unconscious bias are identified and a conscious mindset is established, the most important thing is to define a compelling purpose.
A value-based purpose is energy that persons and organizations need to embrace to feel inspired, aligned, and driven.
SPARK helps clients to bring their values to design a purpose.
Adopting new behaviors
Adopting new behaviors
Change can just be expressed and measured by adopting new behaviors and instigate clients to challenge their status quo.
Adopting new behaviors will ensure a change in time and will allow clients to discover the power of creating a more diverse and inclusive culture.
New Way
Reset
This step is about shaping a new way of thinking and behaving.
Commit to leave all patterns and build a structure that will support the client or the organization to have a sustainable change.
Kick start
kick start
This step is about making it happen!
It is about discovering how you can be a channel for others, share your SPARK®, by transforming yourself into a diversity and inclusion leader, mentor, coach, or advocate.
This step is designed to kick start, initiatives and project initiatives that will make a possible change for women, man, and organizations
Is about kickstart a multiplier effect?
The story behind the model
Mexico´s reality
In Mexico 9 out of 10 women want to become executives. Only 3 out of 10 succeed.
Better prepared
Today women are every time better prepared.
- 50% PHD degrees
- 57% Master degrees
- +50% of university degrees
Little participation
But they still have little participation in the work environment.
- In Mexico, only 4 out of 10 women participate in the labor market.
- Although they make up 46% of college graduates, they only hold 37% of entry-level positions.
- Only 10% of executive committee positions.
The glass ceiling is still present
Men:
Odds of moving up from one level to the next only drops from 23% at entry-level to 18% at the senior vice president level.
Women:
Odds drop dramatically
from 21% at entry-level to 3% at senior vice president level.
The self-confidence Trap
The story behind the model
My experience coaching women
Two Stories
What I Heard while giving women therapy and coaching
Being a psychologist and a coach, I have had the opportunity to know the most intimate stories of women, to hear them when they suffer, when they celebrate, when they wish, when they accomplish what they want.
- Listening to many women a pattern came to my observation: A lot of them where expressing themselves using a language of competing commitments: “this OR that” my career or my family”, being lonely or having a relationship”.
- There where a lot of women telling one story to the world, and to others, but sometimes, a completely different one to themselves
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I realize that a lot of women didn’t felt entitled to enjoy a life with all the things they wanted, without feeling guilty or divided. That they had “two stories”: one that they desired to have and one that they were living, one in their minds and one in their actual life's.
THEN I REALIZED THAT THE REASON I WAS AWARE OT these TWO stories WAS BECAUSE I WAS ALSO EXPERIENCING MY OWN TWO STORIES.
As a coach, my observations raised my curiosity…
And my curiosity was transformed into a purpose…
I made the conscious choice of integrating my self in just “one story”
One in which I could desire to be successful at work, a great mother, and enjoy a fulfilling and supportive relationship.
Then I committed myself to support women to integrate their two stories into a harmonious symphony.
To empower men to listen carefully to the “two stories” and overcome the unconscious bias that limits them to speak up and develop a more inclusive mindset.
And to uplift organizations to make diversity and inclusion a strategic priority, and embrace a path to achieve it.
To ignite the SPARK !!!
… And you
Do you have S-SPARK® already?