Are You Remaining Committed to Equity and Belonging Even as they are Attacked and Dismantled?
Our new Living and Leading with Equity and Belonging Coaching Series May be for You
BUILD
Newer to this work?
The BUILD series is designed to support your work to develop the understanding and skills to integrate an equity and belonging mindset into your leadership
SUSTAIN
Seasoned practitioner?
The SUSTAIN series is designed to provide support, inspiration, and restoration for folks continuing their equity and belonging work during this incredibly difficult time
Either of these series can be offered for a small-group.
If you are interested, reach out to discuss how we can personalize content and price for your participants.
Why do you call it coaching/consulting?
Traditional coaching consists of regular, one-on-one conversations where we work as equal partners to understand, name, and work towards your goals for professional and personal growth. It very rarely involves specific advice or technical assistance, focusing instead on supporting the person being coached to see their own strengths, agency, and abilities.
I believe in that asset-based approach and base my coaching on the co-active model, which means I believe in your inherent strengths and resourcefulness. At the same time, my coaching partners working on equity and belonging issues, are often facing situations I’ve faced myself. They have questions like, “I’ve heard people say that there are barriers to directly-impacted people sitting on my advisory board, but I’m not sure how to identify them or overcome them?” In those instances, with my coaching partner’s consent, I will take on a more traditional consultant’s hat to provide specific, actionable suggestions.
Through it all, my role is to support and challenge you to more fully discover and believe in your ability to decide, choose, and act. My goal is for you to develop your own skills and confidence to the point that I’m no longer needed.
How Does Coaching Work?
Together, through weekly or bi-weekly sessions, we’ll understand your strengths and challenges and develop a path we can travel towards your goals. You will have access to me via email and text for in-between session questions or pep-talks. Most coaching comes in 3-month blocks.
You can come into a coaching relationship with a very specific, time-limited issue you want to work through, or an overall desire to deepen your understanding of who you are and who you want to be professionally. Either works!
Contact me using the button on the top of the page, or by phone or email for a free initial conversation.
Workshops and Facilitation
Do you have an internal equity working group?
Is your board planning an annual retreat?
I provide facilitation for both ongoing and one-time meetings or gatherings. I will work with you to gather information, understand your goals, and design an agenda(s) specific to what you want to achieve.
My colleague, Ala Ochumare, and I often co-facilitate workshops and meetings. We have standard workshop elements we mix and match to customize for each group. I am a white, cis-het, woman and Ala is a Black, queer, non-binary person. We collaborate to expand the scope of people who can personally relate to our offerings and to provide a real-time model of what it looks like for folks to be in intentional, cross-identity community.
Learn more about workshops here.
You can learn more about Ala and her company, Liberation U here.
Contact me by clicking on the button at the top right of this page to learn more.
Equity Assessments and Recommendations
Every organization has documents that outline how it operates and communicates to internal and external audiences about its values. These are things like:
Bylaws
Employee handbooks
Job descriptions
Grant or Scholarship applications
Requests for Proposals
Annual Reports
I will review the materials you provide, point out things that don’t currently promote equity and belonging, and make recommendations around updates.
I will help you understand the “why” behind the recommendations so that you can apply those lessons to future policies and documents yourself.
Questions? Click on the button at the top right of this page and we’ll chat!