I’m honored to be a co-organizer and speaker at an upcoming conversation that feels deeply necessary: "Untangling Coaching from Colonialism & Genocide"
In this 60-minute interactive session, together with Zoe Cohen, Heather Luna, and Katerina Kanelidou, we will explore how coaching - often seen as a tool for growth - has at times been used to reinforce performance within oppressive systems.
We will invite participants to reflect and dialogue with us about how coaching can instead become a practice rooted in liberation, justice, and genuine transformation.
🔸 Date: October 3, 2025
🔸 Time: 9 - 10 am USA Eastern Time / 3 - 4pm CEST
🔸 Register here FREE ➡️ CLICK TO REGISTER ⬅️
This isn’t a “tick-the-box” DEI conversation — it’s a space to reflect on, imagine, and begin to reshape the role of coaching in the systems we inhabit.
We'd love for you to join us. Let’s re-imagine what coaching can be - together.
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My position
My name is Chris Musei-Sequeira, and I use he/him pronouns. My mother was born in Trinidad and Tobago as a descendant of African slaves brought to the islands during the time of European colonization. She came to the United States of America (USA) at the age of 10. My father is Goan and was born in India, in Mumbai, and raised Catholic and English-speaking. He came to the USA for his graduate studies, where he met my mother.
My sister and I were born in the USA and lived a middle-class life in the suburbs of multiple American cities. I studied aeronautical engineering and technology policy in university, then worked at the Federal Aviation Administration and as an aviation consultant. I've lived in cities up and down the USA East Coast since the age of 18; I now reside in Queens, New York with my wife.
I thank Heather Luna and Lavinia Muth for showing me the importance of publicly expressing our positions. Because of our positions, all of us are very familiar with some aspects of the world while having no idea of other aspects. Positionality expresses how our individual positions affect our relationships with other people and with the world as a whole.