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Coaching Success Stories | Leading From the Inside Out: Reclaiming Authority, Resilience, and Confidence With Margaret Williams

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Margaret Williams says her workplace told her she would not break through its glass ceiling during her first week.

1. She Coaches Coaches features Kandi Motsek interviewing Margaret Williams about coaching marginalized leaders and reclaiming authority.\n2. Margaret Williams is a certified executive leadership coach and systemic team coach with a master's degree in industrial and organizational psychology.\n3. The episode asks how capable marginalized leaders can move forward when barriers exist both inside themselves and within organizations.\n4. Williams connects her coaching path to a 39-year career with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.\n5. Williams says she moved eight times during her career without breaking through the glass ceiling.\n6. Williams describes workplaces where white men formed the majority and where she saw others receive bonuses, promotions, and recognition.\n7. Kandi Motsek recalls that women represented 2% of engineering students at the University of British Columbia during her degree.\n8. Motsek says she later realized she had been the only woman of color throughout her five-year engineering degree.\n9. Williams and Motsek distinguish imposter syndrome as either an internal habit or a valid response to being visibly different in an organization.\n10. Williams says marginalized clients may bring past trauma into coaching even though therapy and coaching serve different purposes.\n11. Williams argues that marginalized people are often told to heal and improve their emotional intelligence before receiving opportunities.\n12. Williams says coaching begins with baby steps, accountability, responsibility, and alignment with personal values.\n13. Motsek and Williams describe rapport, safety, and genuine care as foundations for people who need to feel that someone has their back.\n14. Williams compares coaching to cultivating a garden through care, repeated habits, courage, and confidence.\n15. Williams says recognizing her worth made it possible to walk away from an organization that kept pushing her down.\n16. Williams identifies racism and sexism as connected sources of division and describes internal fighting as a waste of energy.\n17. Williams says her client work is holistic and realistic because she refuses to sugarcoat difficult circumstances.\n18. Williams explains that team coaching addresses strengths, weaknesses, conflict, empathy, trust, and sensitive issues through individual conversations when necessary.\n19. Coaches facing systemic barriers may value Williams's practical leadership framework.\n20. Listeners seeking entertainment rather than workplace coaching may skip this interview.

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