OUR CONSULTING SERVICES

Bridging Equity Gaps offers in-person and virtual professional development and training services. Specific content areas are customized to meet our clients’ varying needs, and services are provided through multiple mediums. Our primary focus is to help individuals and organizations understand how to create opportunities for all customers to be successful. We help individuals understand and develop strategies to address equity issues and their root causes. We also provide special focus training topics on deep equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging matters. Bridging Equity Gaps services propel forward-thinking and equip individuals, teams, and organizations with new skills, concepts, and the tools to promote equitable communities and organizations..

EQUITY PRESENTATIONS

Bridging Equity Gaps works with your leadership team, staff, the board, and collaborative partners, providing structured guidance on strategies for leveraging resources and creating an equitable culture within your organization.

Available Training Settings:

Workshops
Trainings
Conferences
Individual/Group Sessions

The training topics provide insights into understanding equity and consider the root causes impacting equity, such as the social determinants or factors impacting equity. The training topic areas address becoming a culturally competent organization/school/business from the workforce equity lens.

Equity Presentations are customized to address the topics listed below or other areas identified by the requesting organization.

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The trainings provide organizations/schools with tools to understand the big picture of the organization and tools to support and develop the leadership team to be strong equity leaders. Organizational Equity Presentations is customized to address the topics listed below or other areas identified by the requesting organization:

• Creating an Organizational Culture Equity Assessment and Developing an Equity Team
• Understanding the Organizational Equity Audit
• Infusing Equity into Project Management
• Designing, Facilitating Meetings with an Equity Lens
• Organizational Equity Strategic Planning
• Incorporating Equity into Quality Management & Procurement
• Equity Team Development
• Creating an Equitable Hiring, Retention, & Promotion Plan, Onboarding Plan
• Organizational Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity
• Understanding Equity Tools to Engage partners (ex: Health Impact Assessment, Education Equity)
• Creating Equitable Boards Policy & Practices
• Creating an Equitable Work or School Settings 101
• Level setting Culture, Cultural Competence, Cultural Humility
• Organizational Cultural Assessment
• Understanding Stereotyping Impact on Organizations and Individuals
• Understanding Bias, Implicit, Unconscious, and Confirmation
• Micro-Aggressions & Tools Necessary to Address the Not so Hidden Barriers to Communication
• Education and White Supremacy Lens Impacting Equity
• Communication Methods – Styles for Long-term Conflict Resolution
• Optimizing Gender Equity
• Leading with Equity Lens to Eliminate Bias in Policy and Practices

MENTORING/COACHING

Bridging Equity Gaps team of innovative and seasoned thought leaders provide mentoring, coaching, and technical assistance for designated staff and leadership that need structured support. We help your team navigate their work roadmap, conduct skill assessments, gap analysis, and provide detailed, actionable feedback.

Mentoring and Coaching areas are customized to meet the unique needs of organizations/schools, and communities. You may request our equity expertise to assist in the following sampling of topic areas.

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Mentoring and Coaching Areas Include:

Human Development:
• Leadership
• Teams

Trainings
• Equity & Related topics
• Short and Long-Term

Planning
• Strategic planning
• Organizational Equity Audits
• Operations
• Quality
• Procurement
• Policy & Programs

Grant Consultation
• Concept Review
• Proposal Review
• Technical Assistance

Educational Equity Development
• Institutional Practices impact on Equitable Education
• Educators Role in Educational Equity
• Cultural Responsiveness and Anti-Bias in Education
• Equity Inside & Outside Classroom

Environmental Equity
• Introduction to Environmental Equity
• Environmental Equity and Policy
• Equity and Engaging Leaders

EQUITY CERTIFICATES

Bridging Equity Gaps equity certificate of completion process provides organizations/schools with resources to understand the organization’s big picture and tools to support and develop the leadership team to be strong equity leaders. Organizational Equity Training is customized to address the topics listed below or other areas identified by the requesting organization:

Organizational Equity Training is customized to address the topics listed below or other areas identified by the requesting organization:

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Equity Skill Building – Certificates
• Train the Trainer
• Equity & Community Engagement
• Collaborative Partnership Management
• Youth Leadership
• Educational Equity
• Environmental Equity
• Collaborative Partnership