Advising boards and executives in leading change for the greater good

Optimize Leadership & Team Performance

Curates personalized engagement with leaders to help leaders BE and DO better

  • Counsels the CEO and managers to optimize Board leadership and strengthen leadership team performance and engagement with key stakeholders

  • Uses proprietary frameworks to achieve more diversity/equity/inclusion, power sharing, productivity, excellence

  • Provides coaching to leaders to accelerate sustainable community impact for ALL

Advance Diversity, Equity, Inclusion

Collaborates with leadership teams to make lasting change

  • Assesses organizational readiness, analyzes the ecosystem, builds consensus among leaders

  • Focuses on action tied realistically to business and stakeholder needs

  • Designs and conducts learning sessions for team leaders, contributors, stakeholders

Grow influence with policy makers

Increases organizational capacity to educate leaders about critical issues

  • Introduces methodologies to drive advocacy

  • Strengthens speaker and media capabilities to communicate the impact of policies

  • Develops fundraising strategies tied to advocacy

Our values and promises


"The world should know that Gloria was an architect for the Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and the work that's been done - that we are experiencing here.”

El pagnier Hudson: SVP, Human Resources & Vice Provost, Diversity/Equity/Inclusion
Florida International University
Fourth largest public university in the U.S./Serving the largest population of Hispanics 

Supporting businesses and institutions committed to increasing performance and innovation.

  • Collaborates with client leaders to design and facilitate specialized services to meet human resource and community needs

  • Offers DEI tools featuring insights from her co-authored book, “Growing the Elephant: Increasing earned advantage for all”, stimulating readers to examine their own life experiences, beliefs, and assumptions to deal with the difficult topics of “equity” and “privilege”

  • Uses storytelling to compel action


Growing the Elephant

Gloria is co-author of Growing the Elephant - Increasing earned advantage for all. Published by Practical Inspiration and available wherever you buy books. Learn more at: www.growingtheelephant.com.

“the journey that we can take together to better understand each other”

—Gail J. McGovern, President & CEO, American Red Cross

"[The book is] the convergence of mindfulness and DEI concepts, intricately put together."

El pagnier Hudson
Senior Vice President, Human Resources & Vice Provost, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Florida International University
Fourth largest public university in the U.S./serving the largest population of Hispanics

“Deeply insightful and most relevant to today’s DEI challenges and opportunities”

—Bettina Deynes, SHRM-SCP, SVP & CHRO, Carnival Cruise Line

“This book advances the conversation on DEI to make it more approachable and applicable for everyone to understand. The authors offer a new perspective for readers to consider earned and unearned advantages: We all have them, but they move the conversation forward by encouraging the growth of earned advantages.”

Bloomberg Best Books of 2022 in the category “Model for Success”

“a thought-provoking prescription for advancing DE&I”

— Michael Goettler, CEO Viatris, Inc.