Advising boards and executives in leading change for the greater good

Supporting foundations and institutions committed to advancing education, financial security, and health

Advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in any complex organization is all about Change Leadership: from preparing the Board and Executives to lead change to defining the desired state to equipping key managers.

We tailor our approach to help clients take action that is near-term, sustainable, and tied realistically to the business model and needs of stakeholders.

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●      Is expert regarding diversity/equity/inclusion, change leadership, governance, and strategic planning for resource development and advocacy.

●      Is a speaker, lecturer, and consultant providing consulting services to leadership teams and boards of public and private foundations and other institutions committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in education, financial security, and health.

●      Been an executive in the White House and other government entities, higher education, national nonprofits, and global business.

●      Served as Board chair of a national nonprofit and a public foundation based in Silicon Valley to support community led systems change in Africa.

●      Is Certified Practitioner, Myers and Briggs Training Institute - For organizational performance, leadership, coaching, conflict management

Meet Gloria

Optimize Leadership & Team Performance

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

  • Uses proprietary frameworks to strengthen the ability of leaders to understand how transformation to achieve more diversity/equity/inclusion requires increasing degrees of power sharing to strengthen organizational culture and accelerate productivity.

  • Collaborates with the CEO to assess organizational readiness, analyze the ecosystem, build consensus, and take action.

  • Counsels CEO to optimize Board leadership, cultivate a culture of belonging, refine strategies, and strengthen leadership team performance

  • Designs and facilitates board and team sessions to increase awareness of self and others, including about unconscious bias and leadership challenges unique to the organization

  • Provides coaching to leaders to help them focus on practical, near-term innovations that accelerate sustainable community impact for ALL

Advance Diversity, Equity, Inclusion

  • Advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in any complex organization is all about Change Leadership: from preparing the Board and Executives to lead change to defining the desired state to equipping key managers.

  • We tailor our approach to help clients take action that is near-term, sustainable, and tied realistically to the business model and needs of stakeholders.

  • Designs and conducts group trainings for staff leaders and consultants focused on surfacing insights among individual employees and breakthroughs for their organizations

  • Provides tools and resources to focus on positive approaches and solutions to support everyone, regardless of advantage, instead of focusing on the damages resulting in inequality

Grow influence with policy makers

●      Advises boards and leadership teams on methodologies to integrate strong brand positioning, strategy development, and authentic community engagement to power advocacy on issues critical to organizations and communities

●      Conducts speaker and media training to support boards and staff leaders when communicating about their efforts to help people in their organization and community partners work well together across the lines of real and perceived differences

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Gloria helps organizations to…

Growing the Elephant - the book

Gloria is coauthor of Growing the Elephant - increasing earned advantage for all. Published by Practical Inspiration Publishing, it comes out September 27 and is available wherever you buy books. Learn more at www.growingtheelephant.com.