Services

Learning Journeys to develop strong Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEI&B) foundations.

Customized DEI&B workshops, Learning Journey Sessions, & individualized plans

Customized workshops, Learning Journeys, and individual plans will be created to ignite understanding, awareness, and proactive engagement around DEI&B, both personally and professionally. These services are meticulously tailored to address the unique needs and aspirations of individuals, teams, groups, and organizations. Examples of ESTEP Consulting, LLC proprietary Learning Journey sessions offered include:

• Brave Spaces
• Our Ancestor’s Wildest Dreams
• Standing in Our Truth and Power
• How Did We Get Here?
• The DEI&B Spectrum
• BEING Your Authentic Self
• What’s in a Name? Defining DEI&B
• DEI&B and Human Resources: Why it matters to equity
• Health Disparities is a Public Health Crisis: Changing the Narrative
• Raising Future Leaders through a DEI&B-focused Lens
  • Children (ages 2 to 8)
  • Youth (ages 9 – 12)
  • Teens (ages 13 – 18)
  • Young Adults (19 – 24)
  • Educators
• Navigating Bystander Syndrome through a DEI&B-focused Lens

DEI&B Speaker Engagements, Presentations, Community Engagement Workshops, and Resources

Speaker Engagements and Presentations: In her role, Ms. Jacquie exudes boundless enthusiasm and fervor as she endeavors to revolutionize the narrative surrounding DEI&B. Through the art of compelling storytelling and engaging presentations, she adeptly tailors her approach to resonate with individuals at any point along the DEI&B Spectrum. Whether crafting a bespoke presentation based on the aforementioned sessions or entrusting her with a topic to explore, she unfailingly leaves her audiences invigorated, uplifted, and equipped with a deeper appreciation of DEI&B in our contemporary and complex world, and its profound significance in fostering unified partnerships, cooperative ventures, and collective endeavors.

Community Engagement Workshops: Immerse yourself in intensive half-day or full day DEI&B educational experiences tailored for community members. Embrace the opportunity to join forces, share knowledge, develop skills, collaborate, innovate, and expand your network through engaging sessions and coverage of key concepts. Together, we will deepen our understanding of our roles as community members or change agents for DEI&B, creating valuable opportunities to foster a profound Learning Journey experience.

Resources: Dive into a diverse pool of educational materials, articles, guides, and tools meticulously crafted to fuel relentless learning and advancement in DEI&B. The majority of these resources are tailor-made to suit your specific requirements. Our handpicked selection delivers invaluable perspectives and potent tactics to embolden individuals, teams, groups, and organizations on their path of enlightenment with unwavering genuineness and conviction.

DEI&B Coaching and Consulting

Individual Mindset Coaching: Embrace the transformative journey of personalized coaching sessions as the gateway to unlock a boundless growth mindset, liberate yourself from constraining beliefs, and unleash your unparalleled potential! Our seasoned coach provides steadfast guidance, sincere support, unwavering transparency, and unyielding accountability to empower you in overcoming obstacles, shaping purposeful aspirations, and thriving in both your personal and professional pursuits.

Group Consulting: Engaging in meaningful and vibrant discussions with a group, leading to the creation of a tailor-made plan or strategy, complemented by expert guidance for seamless implementation. This involves a deeply personalized and comprehensive approach towards achieving a specific team-related objective, often centering on strategic planning, organizational development, and effective problem-solving.

DEI&B Strategic Plans

Collaboratively develops strategic vision and mission statements that clearly articulate your organization’s commitment, actions, and sustainability plans for DEI&B. These plans will serve as the guiding principles for driving purposeful action and aligning efforts across the organization.

Allocating organizational resources in meaningful ways conveys the value organizations place on creating a culture of belonging for all. By operationalizing and imbedding this work into the foundational structure, you will see how it will assist in retaining top talent, reducing grievances and establishing your organization as a place where DEI&B is the norm, and not the exception.

While Human Resources (HR) is a crucial collaborator within your organization, it is essential that this sensitive work be located outside the HR structure to maximize transparency and connectivity. A Learning Journey session provides further insight into this strategic approach.

DEI&B Organizational Assessments and Roadmaps

Assessments: Conducts comprehensive assessments to confidently evaluate the past and current states of DEI&B within your organization, to plan for the future. By performing surveys and interviews with key stakeholders, All Staff and/or a combination of both, and by conducting our data analysis through a DEI&B-focused lens, we assertively identify strengths, challenges (weaknesses and threats), and opportunities for improvement. Our aim is to confidently guide strategic decision-making and implement targeted interventions with respectful truth.

Roadmaps: Constructs collaborative and extensive DEI&B roadmaps that delineate actionable steps and initiatives to drive DEI&B progress throughout your organization. These roadmaps establish a robust framework for execution, monitoring progress, and cultivating accountability and transparency toward DEI&B objectives, and community engagement.

DEI&B Listening Sessions and Focus Groups

These are facilitated group discussions and dialogues to gather diverse perspectives, insights, and feedback on DEI&B initiatives within your organization. By fostering open communication, collaboration, and co-creation of solutions, driving meaningful engagement and ownership from stakeholders, these courageous conversations will assist in uncovering what the core issues are and how to address them as part of the overall strategic plan.

DEI&B: Structure, Governance and Best Practices

Our focus is on:

• Board of Directors
• Senior/Executive Leadership Teams
• Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
• Business Resource Groups (BRG)
• Affinity Groups (AG)
• DEI&B Councils and Commissions

These oftentimes volunteer-led groups are the foundation of the organization’s DEI&B efforts. It is crucial to establish a strong structure, defined processes, clear guidelines, and utilize organizational change management tools to implement best practices. These groups will play a pivotal role in the organization’s DEI&B initiatives and will emerge as the indispensable Champions of Change you require.

Establishing sustainable change for an organization will require buy-in, transparency, and a genuine commitment from leaders and personnel working within Continuous Improvement, Human Resources and Organizational Health Groups. These groups can be difficult to navigate, as the go-to is usually falling back on outdated and/or misguided policies and procedures that prevent the changes needed to occur. We are here to assist with unpacking those archaic practices to help them build a culture of belonging that people will be proud of.