episode 249 | Jul 18, 2025 | 49min

Coaching as Social Activism

In this conversation with Kyle Dietrich we dive into the initiative he co-founded after the enormous wave of federal lay-offs in early 2025, helping displaced public servants and social sector professionals find their way forward, and coaching as a critical intervention.
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In this podcast we talk about:

02:30 Introducing the Coaching Collaborative
05:00 Creating a movement within the coaching industry
09:30 Working with fresh collective trauma
12:30 Assessing purpose post-displacement
19:30 The thawing of collective trauma
26:00 From emergency response to regenerative development
31:00 Expanding possibility mindsets
36:00 Coaching as a critical intervention
41:30 Fostering public service

Resources Mentioned:
Thomas Huebl
Amy Elizabeth Fox
Otto Scharmer
Jennifer Garvey Berger
Maslow’s hierarchy
Coaching Collaborative

About the Guest

Kyle Dietrich

Kyle Dietrich is the founder of Grounded Idealist and co-organizer of the Coaching Collaborative, a powerful global initiative mobilizing thousands of credentialed coaches to support tens of thousands of public servants navigating job displacement and transition. Kyle is also a certified Empowerment Facilitator and Trauma-Informed Leadership Coach. Kyle has more than 25 years of experience leading large-scale peacebuilding and humanitarian assistance programs in complex contexts including Haiti, Niger, Turkmenistan, and Burundi and served as Training and Learning Director in USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance until early 2025. Rooted in the belief that investments in our inner and social soil are critical for outer development, Kyle is passionate about cultivating community, healing, and transformative social change in moments of transition.

WEBSITE
https://www.groundedidealist.co

About the Host

Joel Monk

Joel Monk is a leadership coach, educator and entrepreneur. He co-founded Coaches Rising, a company on the cutting edge of online coach training with a community of over 65,000 coaches. Coaches Rising programs regularly include participants from every continent on the planet and they have collaborated with some of the leading minds in the field of human development and coaching. Joel is also a leadership coach, coaching at companies such as THNK, Booking.com, Siemens and Naspers. Joel has designed and led several entrepreneurial and leadership development programs, at places such as Socionext, THNK and The Impact Hub Amsterdam.

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