Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging Consulting
When your organization truly embraces DEI practices, you experience the freedom of belonging.
At Culture Work Studios, we bring out your curiosity and wisdom through strategy sessions, coaching, and training, so you make grounded decisions to change and achieve your vision.
Integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) into your strategy, programming, and staffing is complex. It can become mired down alongside an othering that devalues the complexity of people's experiences.
That’s why our DEI consulting centers around the idea of belonging, which embraces whole people - body, mind, and spirit.
What People Are Saying
Kaytee Ray-Riek, Founder
Tend Consulting
“Matthew is brilliant at understanding what’s happening with a group, connecting to people across identity and power differences, and helping support the group to move forward in a way that values diverse experiences and stays anchored in a shared mission.
They bring creativity and care to their facilitation, leading to deeper connection and stronger work.”
Rev. Rhetta Morgan, Interfaith Minister
“Matthew is a wonderful blend of artist, facilitator, and healer, to name a few of their gifts and talents.
They speak a truth that resounds elegantly in the air, seeps into your bones and propels you into a stretch that will grow you if you’re willing and sometimes, will grow you in spite of yourself!”
Photo by Benjamin Marcum Photography
Chris Hartman, Executive Director
Fairness Campaign
“Matthew approached the work of racial equity with our board and staff in an incredibly warm and welcoming way.
Several folks admitted they were nervous and uncomfortable confronting and discussing these topics, but they shared Matthew created an environment that made them feel safe to explore these topics honestly and openly.”
What Can You Expect?
Culture Work Studios will come to your organization to customize our approach for you, bringing collaborators to meet your needs. Together we’ll help you clarify your picture of what belonging looks like, develop your team’s skills to reach that vision, and zoom out to view your progress.
We provide each consultant for this service at $250 per hour.
OUR PROCESS
Paint a picture of your needs and growth goals through interviews, group conversations, and surveys.
Provide a frame and facilitate your conversations to acknowledge the complex picture. The frame’s boundaries guide action planning with a shared analysis, vocabulary, and toolbox gained through a customized curriculum.
Put together structures and new practices with individual coaching, facilitated strategy sessions, and conflict support.
Pause and get perspective to notice how your organization changed so your team feels belonging. You have new skills and tools to continue making adjustments on your own, and we’re available to support if you need a hand.
YOUR RESULTS
You remove structural barriers and social conditioning that impede work.
Your team navigates power dynamics with increasing ease.
New leaders know they belong despite organizational history or imposter syndrome.
Together, you leverage your differences to co-create better strategies.
You and your team feel empowered to be your full selves.
When things aren’t perfect, you’ll be better equipped to handle it.