Ray Pifferrer

Ray is a credentialed professional leadership coach who specializes in helping BiPOC and LGBTQ leaders spring into new leadership and social impact challenges. Since 2016, he's coached -- and facilitated team discussions for -- many SEIU leaders, across many locals and the IU. Ray brings a 30+ year deep and broad background in coaching leaders of multicultural and global teams to:

• Identify and build upon their unique leadership strengths and assets

• Redefine team leadership to allow for broader ways of displaying leadership competencies

• Craft, execute and measure an individual leadership development plan in a concentrated time period

• Increase positive social impact across differences in distance, culture and perspective

Ray was also the executive producer of ThinqTanq, a series of video conversations between leaders of color where we discussed common leadership challenges and solutions. He's led many interdisciplinary training teams (both US-based and international) for a variety of organizations. Ray brings his lived experience as a multiracial, multiethnic Latino gay man from an immigrant background to all of his coaching and consulting work. He holds a B.A. in Sociology from Clark University; an M.Ed. in Adult Learning / Instructional Design from UMASS Boston; and holds the PCC coaching credential. He is a certified coach for the Leadership Circle Profile.