Generative, creative, energetic, thoughtful, intelligent, passionate and insightful are some of the many qualities we bring to our work. Our range of skills enable us to support extremely diverse groups across many different contexts.
“Rachel is the collaborator of dreams! Rachel is, among other things: rigorous, generative, creative, flexible, energetic, and insightful. I approached Rachel with an in-progress proposal to tackle a major learning effort at a 1000+ person public health non-profit, and tasked the team with tackling an element of social justice development that we had not directly approached before.
The response to my initial RFP was honest, direct, and thoughtful (so different from the other potential trainers/ firms). Together, we customized and executed a program that touched over 700 employees (and had to be adapted to accommodate a global pandemic) and created lasting and sustainable change within our organization.
Our employees gave high praise to Rachel and Tanya for speaking to REAL systemic issues we face as an organization, and addressing the issues that create pervasive systems of oppression for our clients and community. The workshops were clear, accessible, challenging, thought-provoking, practical, and spoke directly to the needs of our team. For such an ambitious project, it felt like easy work collaborating with Rachel and Tanya. 10/10 would work with them again, and would highly recommend other large organizations to look beyond some of the more traditional D+I consulting firms and instead have Rachel come in to your organization and help create change.”
Maria Salas-Fofanah, SHRM CP, Director of Training and Employee Experience at Housing Works
“Rachel is an incredibly intelligent consultant who can make complex topics such as SES or inequity easy to comprehend. Most importantly, there’s a humanity about her that inspires her audiences to move to action. It has been a pleasure to work with Rachel, she is generous with her knowledge, insightful in her analysis, and a positive agent of change. I highly recommend Rachel and look forward to working with her again in the near future.”
Valeria Piaggio, Senior Vice President, Head of Identity and Inclusion Insights at Kantar
“We reached out to Rachel asking her to be on a panel on class and socioeconomic status, as part of our employee-led D&I group’s work. We hadn’t hosted a panel before, and Rachel’s experience and organization were invaluable in helping us think through how the event should be structured and how to make it successful. She’s a great speaker – knowledgeable, passionate, and able to encourage meaningful participation – even over zoom. It’s clear that she has the skill to drive individuals and companies towards serious engagement with class privilege, both by teaching fundamental concepts and by making it clear what concrete steps towards remediation would look like. I’d highly recommend reaching out to Rachel if you have any inkling that your company would be ready to have meaningful discussions about issues of class and social justice.”
Alla Hoffman, Sr Software Engineer
“I wanted to relate to you what an absolutely fantastic job of training, interacting and discussing a difficult topic Rachel did with our FB Management team yesterday. We are moving forward with an action plan which involves staff which is exciting for most and a bit scary for others, but Rachel’s calming approach and depth of knowledge were the perfect tenor for the group.”
Richard Watkins, Human Resources Director, Food Bank of Western Mass
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