DEI Speaker
Speaker on Diversity and inclusion in San francisco, CA
Is your professional team ready to take their understanding of diversity to the next level?
Maybe there’s been rising tensions amongst team members related to diversity issues, or perhaps team member(s) have specifically requested a diversity training in order to grow personally and professionally. Your teammates may be feeling disjointed around how or where to start in their diversity and inclusion learning journey, or simply not have enough bandwidth to take the role on themselves to teach the team. Perhaps you’re feeling a bit lost with all the information available and need a place to start with a clear place to land.
Whatever it is that you’re experiencing, you’re beginning to notice the impact on the culture in your workplace:
Morale or retention is declining because team members avoid difficult conversations creating lack of transparency around issues
Team dynamics and work efficiency are being impacted or slowed due to lack of shared understanding among members
Leadership feels stressed or under resourced in facilitating learning and repair conversations among team members ultimately driving focus away from other role priorities
Hiring a Diversity Speaker can help.
You may not be able to see it now, but your team can learn and grow into a shared understanding around diversity issues. Your team can apply learned skills to facilitate challenging conversations regarding sensitive topics between themselves. They can feel like a cohesive team again. And I can help you get there.
A Diversity Speaker helps you do 3 things:
Give historical context around diversity and inclusion to create shared understanding and language across team members
Equip teams with tangible skills for grappling with sensitive issues within oneself and between each other
Leverage key understandings to support long term, ongoing understanding of diversity work, so you go beyond just ticking the DEI box and into implementing a real cultural shift in your workplace
I’ll help through this process, tailoring each step to your unique needs and circumstances. My approach to being Diversity Speaker comes from a place of embodied curiosity, compassion, and learning to tolerate healthy tension: unearthing topics that are charged can create divisions amongst people. I provide tools for people to come together across differences, not a blanket approach so everyone leaves believing the same thing. A true celebration of diversity and inclusion.