ISSUES WE CAN ADDRESS
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Identity & Values-Based Conflicts
Discrimination complaint
Are you a party to a discrimination complaint or lawsuit and want a third-party neutral to help you and the opposing party to settle the case without a judge making the decision?
Religious divisions
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Are you a member or leader of a faith group or organization who wants to resolve differences or improve your relationship with another faith group or organization?
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Have you been losing your morale authority, losing followers, or feel like your organizations/factions would be stronger together?
Workplace or other systemic conflict
You need a mediator or ombuds to resolve
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a cross-cultural conflict (e.g., amongst individuals of different races or religions),
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amongst multiple stakeholders,
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affecting many parts of an organization, and
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is a long-standing or long-term conflict
Geopolitical conflicts
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What do you do when an external, geopolitical conflict spills over into your organization?
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These longstanding conflicts have spilled over into the company and impacted teamwork or morale.
Navigating Adversity
Leading through Adversity
Does your company wait until its issues become explosive or the environment toxic before dealing with them? Are you afraid to deal with sensitive social issues, such as those related to discrimination, politics, or other potentially controversial issues? Are your leaders and stakeholders prepared and equipped to navigate difficult and scary people issues?
Medical diagnosis
Have you been having a hard time adapting and managing a (new) medical diagnosis or condition? Maybe you, your family, and your loved ones are overwhelmed with how significantly life has changed with your diagnosis (health, finances, physical and mental limitations that were not previously there, relationships) and would like to find a way to a new normal.
Disasters & emergencies
Is your company or team trying to regroup after a disaster or emergency?
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Is your organization trying to figure out how to make decisions related to emergencies and disasters that could affect vulnerable populations?
How to deal with social movements & culture wars
Social movements, such as BLM, Me Too, and the DEI backlash, have happened. Now what? As an organization, you want to figure out what you want, can, or need to change in light of those movements. As a leader or other individual, figure out how to respond to and interact with those across the divide.
Building Relationships
Team Cohesiveness
Build cohesive and productive teams.
Workplace culture
Create healthy workplace cultures where your employees feel safe to innovate and thrive. Breakdown cross-functional and cross-border silos.
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Deal with the root cause of issues so you don't have to keep solving the same issues repeatedly in a reactive, patchwork way.
Couples and Family Relationships
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Do you want to improve the strength and way you and your significant other or family relate to each other?
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Have you and your significant other or family members had communication and other conflicts that you want to resolve?
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Have you and your ex split up but now are trying to find a new way to co-parent?
Aligning Values & Vision with Actions
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Accessibility (DEIA)
Discrimination Risk Management
Move past box-checking performative diversity. Effect real lasting change. Manage your organization's discrimination risk.
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Have you tried but you still are not reaching your DEI or discrimination prevention goals? Do you need help figuring out how to transform organizational culture into a place where employees want to be, feel supported, and remain engaged?
Inclusive products & services
Do all of your products and services qualify as inclusive in today's world?
Systemic reform
System-wide review to ensure that all policies, practices, processes, and structures support organizational DEIA efforts.
Consider the risks of AI your company uses or purchases, and develop a responsible usage policy. Eliminate bias in AI that your company develops.
DEIA 2.0
Has your organization taken the training and hired the DEIA staff, but you are not seeing the results that you want?
Synchronized team effort
Is everyone on the same page for DEIA? How do we improve organizational effectiveness and morale?
Disability access
Want to improve and address disability access across your organization for all stakeholders (employees and customers alike)?
CSR/ESG and social governance
Want to improve your company's corporate social and governance ratings and its approach to handling these issues?
Change Readiness
Before setting yourself up for failure, discover whether you and/or your organization are ready, able, and willing to implement change around DEIA or anti-discrimination efforts and what needs to happen to make sure you are ready for such transformation.
Find out if you and your company are prepared to make changes related to inclusion, accessibility, anti-discrimination, or culture change, and learn what steps you need to take to be ready
Eliminating pay gaps
Want to figure out how to eliminate pay gaps across your whole organization and all of its stakeholders?
Subject matter experts can't do it all
You are a DEIA manager, HR, or lawyer who is overwhelmed.
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You need someone to bring together cross-functional teams.
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You can't do it all alone.
Intersectionality
Want to see how your policies and practices affect multiple minorities (e.g., women of color, pregnant women, racial minorities with disabilities, etc.)?
Achieving Grand Social Objectives
Leveling up impact
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Your company has been a leader in social good and governance
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Now you want to take it to the next level and have a social justice lens throughout your entire organization (internal and external stakeholders).
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You are not sure where to start or focus, need help to action, and actualize our vision.
Social entrepreneurship & leadership
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Your company has an active social justice stance to eliminate inequality
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You feel overwhelmed or outnumbered when your competitors don’t care about inequality.
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You want to make a difference but want to be sustainable and make a profit with limited resources.
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You want to figure out how to incorporate social values into the whole company (internal and external stakeholders).
Social justice teamwork & collective action
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Various groups want to come together to figure out a collective strategy to combat a specific civil rights or other social justice matter and want to coordinate their resources and strategy.
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They want someone to help them think through how they should allocate their resources, strategy, and jointly work together to divide and conquer or company together.
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They may need help putting aside or dealing with long-standing tensions or conflicts.
Growing Companies
Growth spurt bust
Is your company feeling the negative impacts of growing too fast (e.g., many discrimination complaints, burnout) without doing so sustainably?
Founders conflicts
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Disagreements about how the company should move forward
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Pending decisions about the company's identity
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Co-founders with conflicting values
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Are the conflicts getting so bad that it is affecting the company and its future?
Values alignment
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Does your company need help discovering its identity/values or living out our corporate values?
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Are you doing what your advertise in recruiting or state in our corporate values?
Coaching for Individuals
Practicing what your preach and the Golden Rule
Are you someone who believes in the Golden Rule or Platinum Rule but wants to integrate that into your life? Do you want to practice what you preach?
Inclusive leadership
Are you someone who wants to become an inclusive leader or cultivate inclusive leadership in your organization?
Defining allyship
Are you a member of a privileged group who wants to figure out how to use your privilege for good? You want to figure out what it means, how to do it, and how to treat others.
How to respond when faced with injustice & inequality
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Are you a member of a vulnerable population?
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Do you want to be coached so that you can figure out for yourself how to deal gracefully with injustice and inequality you are or have faced due to your protected class (e.g., gender, race, disability)?
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Have you recently become disabled and want to figure out how to thrive in your new normal?
Improving conflict management skills
Are you an executive who wants to be coached on improving your conflict management skills and skills to ensure that you don't retaliate against employees who bring complaints?
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Do you have a specific conflict in mind that you want to think through how to respond?
Coaching for conflict resolution practitioners
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Are you a peacebuilding or ADR practitioner who needs a coach to plan how you want to run a mediation or to plan a dispute resolution process?
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Do you want to integrate inclusivity in your dispute resolution processes?
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Do you want to address your own biases as a third-party neutral?