What our clients are saying

  • Pamela Anderson, Director of Board Development & Strategy at Public Justice

    “[My coach] was so helpful in coaching me with a new hire, fine tuning my vision for my division and standardizing board processes. Her board experience, wealth of resources, and commitment to support me in some difficult situations, was very much appreciated. She has an uncanny ability to zone in on the real issues while building a safe and trusting relationship to connect personal power with change.”

  • Elizabeth Bowman, Chief Academic Officer Briya Public Charter School

    “[My coach] was expectational at keeping our sessions focused on the overall objectives while also pivoting to address time-sensitive issues. She shared a plethora of tools and facilitated me working with them so that I left my sessions with already drafted materials… [My coach’s] active listening and prompting questions are exceptional. Her provocations and compassion create a safe learning space.”

  • Dr. Vivian Robledo, Executive Director at The Next Step Public Charter School

    “I had no clue what I needed (just knew it was a lot!) and didn't know where to go! [My coach] has been patient in guiding me through the process. I appreciate the work she has done with me so far. The connections to different community members has been extremely helpful to me!”

  • Anna Gallagher, Executive Director of Catholic Legal Immigration Network

    “[My coach] helps me clear my mind and focus strategically on what matters. After deeply listening to challenges and opportunities that I share with her, she always provides clear insight and works with me to reach solutions.”

  • Myron Long, Founder and CEO at The Social Justice School

    She “…is a dope coach who listens with both heart and mind. She cares deeply about her clients and is always willing to create space for them to slow down, and be still with their thoughts.”

  • Michael Cuellar, Co-Principal at Next Step Public Charter School

    “Meetings were always structured well, and I also felt like I had my questions answered. There was a clear timeline created that helped me identify critical milestones. This was an overall great experience and I would highly recommend it to anyone!”

Leadership Development

We provide coaching and transformational leadership tools to better equip staff, managers, and executives in their day-to-day implementation of equity goals.

Through individual and team coaching we help organizations facilitate hard conversations, enhance cross-cultural communication, and incorporate new DEI and racial equity measures of success.

change management

We survey your organization’s strengths, goals, and talent to support managers with new programs or growth and expansion. Using Equity by Design principles, we optimize your investments in equity.

Through meaningful engagement with your leaders and teams we translate values, data, trends, and key challenges into a blueprint for success.

Community and Organizational Integration

DEI work is transformational for leaders and their teams but becomes sustainable when the work informs all organizational policies and practices.

Working closely with your teams we align your equity goals and practices with long-term directional documents, project design, day-to-day systems, and human resource policies.

Community Impact
and Sector Analysis

We ensure you have the scaffolding to translate your equity values into meaningful programmatic impact inside and outside your organization.

We review qualitative and quantitative data to conduct equity mapping at the local and state level, providing organizations with a clear view of the ecosystem in which they are designing solutions.

We work with you to design comprehensive planning models that engage key stakeholders in meaningful responses and investments to emergent challenges and crises.

“in community, our potential is truly realized. what we have to offer to each other is not merely critique, anger, commentary, ownership and false power. we have the capacity to hold each other, serve each other, heal each other, create for and with each other, forgive each other, and liberate ourselves and each other.”

Adrienne Maree Brown, Emergent Strategy

See - engage - Act

Equity by Design is an approach to addressing equity challenges and change efforts in communities and complex systems. The goal is to combine what we know about effective design with what we know about social change.  The desired outcome is to not only disrupt systems of inequity and oppression, but to create and reimagine our communities. 

  • Create designs that help interrupt inequity and increase opportunity for those most impacted by oppression

  • Transform power by shifting the relationships between those who hold power to design and those impacted by these designs

  • Generate critical learning and increased agency for those involved in the design work  

See and understand the landscape you’re working in.

Engage to make meaning of your current reality.

Take action to address your equity challenge and learn continuously from action taken.