Combine Thinking, Feeling, and Doing
to Create Change in Your Organization
We are a network of consultants, clinicians, data and research experts, communications strategists, and creatives here to help you keep relationships at the heart of DEI.
Join our Relational DEI Community to learn through innovations that transform professional spaces.
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A good diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy tells you what to do differently; a better one tells you how to do it.
3 Road Blocks to Meaningful Change
Leaders and Employees Disagree on Progress
97% of HR leaders say their organization has made changes that improved DEI. Unfortunately, just 37% of employees strongly agree that their workplace has made changes to improve DEI. (Source: Harvard Business Review)
Leaders Aren’t Equipped for Deeper Conversations
41% of managers who reported that they were prepared for these conversations. Only 8% of HR leaders said they felt their managers were prepared for these conversations. (Source: Harvard Business Review)
Businesses Are Avoiding Accountability
80% of companies are just going through the motions and not holding themselves accountable. (Source: Elevating Equity: The Real Story of Diversity and Inclusion)
GROWTH THAT PRIORITIZES RELATIONSHIPS
Move beyond traditional methods that scratch the surface.
We engage in experience and reflection, so people can develop a shared understanding of their needs and learn through feeling and practice. And we empower people and organizations to embrace discomfort and bring a unified vision to change systems and behaviors at the root of inequity.
People Learning & (Un/Re)learning
Bridge the gap between theory (what you learn) and practice (what you do), so you have more confidence in your ability to apply what you learn and improve your ability to integrate new behaviors.
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Expand your capacity to face challenges and discomfort with confidence. We encourage you and your employees to openly discuss topics so everyone can better understand challenging situations, improve collaboration, and strengthen relationships.
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Promote inclusion, understanding and positive action by creating mutual awareness of employees’ experiences and perspectives related to diverse identities, backgrounds, experiences, or viewpoints. We support your organization with topics ranging from all-staff conversations that help process complex emotions to more tailored sessions with key individuals to engage in DEI journey mapping, and everything in between.
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Create transformative and lasting change by bridging the gap between theory (what you learn) and practice (what you put into action). We provide experiences that engage you and your teams in a unique self-explorative approach to understanding yourselves and how you relate to each other.
Inclusive DEI Strategy & Evaluation
Increase confidence across your organization throughout your DEI journey with strategic implementation that support real culture change.
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Use a data-driven process that helps your organization identify where it currently stands in its DEI journey and the opportunities for continued learning, growth, and change. We approach assessment and evaluation with inclusion to ensure your goals will truly meet the needs of your organization.
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Keep your organization informed and engaged with a highly visual experience that maintains a shared vision and accountability measures across positions. We guide you through a phased model process to create a map that accounts for the need to flow with change and outline measurable outcomes with actionable steps to reach your goals.
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Minimize reliance on outside consultants for more sustainable change. Build a group of experts within your organization to steward the DEI process through implementation and evolution. We do this by strengthening facilitation skills with an emphasis on sitting with discomfort and engaging your employees in the thinking and feeling parts of DEI work.
Self-Driven Development Opportunities
Access tools and resources to meet your specific growth goals. We carefully curate practical opportunities to strengthen relationships that improve DEI within your organization. You decide what feels right for you!
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Be guided through exercises, specific activities, and recommended actions to help you build and exercise the leadership skills needed to create safe, equitable, and welcoming workplaces for the many intersectional identities of today's employees. Essential reading for organizational leaders written by Charmaine Utz, LCSW.
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Learn from authentic, unscripted conversations with experts about the situations and experiences that are left unaddressed in workplaces and other professional settings. The series is a development tool to learn practical ways to engage in the complex work of DEI.
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Pour into yourself, interact on a deeper level with people in your networks, and strengthen a shared connection to each other as a community that understands relationships are essential to positive change. Our online store is made for professionals in the social impact industry to engage with themselves and each other in spaces that feel safe and healthy.
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Choose from a variety of methods to address your pain points when doing deep introspective and relational work. Use tip sheets, infographics, meditation with music, guides, and more to take you through your learning journey.
Real Partner Experience
We understand authentic partner experiences can go a long way to help paint a picture of what it’s like to work with us. Check out this feedback shared by Sharon Chun Wetterau, LCSW, LISW. She’s participated in our experiential training and individual connections and describes what it’s like to be in our style of deeper learning.
Our Impact
Our Experiences Change Practice
92% of experiential coaching and training participants strongly agree that the experience was impactful in changing their practice.
94% of service recipients (includes all service types) say we are responsive to their unique needs.
90% of organizations have similar ratings/sentiments between leaders and employees about the effectiveness of our services.
We Are Responsive to Partner Needs
We Are Consistently Effective
How it works:
We invest in developing people without gatekeeping.
We’re also here to help when you can use that guiding light on your growth journey.
Are you ready to approach your growth journey by strengthening your working relationships?
Step 1: Book your consult session
Schedule your initial consult session to discuss what you’re looking for and explore a partnership with us. This is the starting point for individual and/or organizational services.
Step 2: We’ll handle all the details
We will guide you through a streamlined flow that sets up our partnership and your onboarding experience with ease.
Step 3: Partner through your growth journey
Our work together begins. We will celebrate your successes and hold space for moments that translate to lessons. We’ll have your back with full commitment to helping you reach your destination.
We’ve done a lot of soul searching and chose not to subscribe to the practice of listing the logos of our largest clients. We feel it’s important to honor how we feel about modeling equity. All of our clients, every aspect of our work is valuable and purposeful. Our biggest clients aren’t our most significant ones. We don’t want to reinforce messages of less than-ness by showcasing big businesses. If you’d like proof that we can provide the scope of services you’re looking for, we are absolutely open to sharing that with you via references of past clients. Just ask!
