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A consulting firm unabashedly invested in listening to the voices of the people, and using data and academic research to transform organizations.
We help organizations build belonging and parity with their people.
Embrace Equity
Invest here for transformational change
We help identify or clarify your organization’s purpose, so people deepen their connection with your organization. It’s the foundation for DEI work.
We analyze your organization’s policies to reveal unintentional bias. No blame here. What’s important is creating parity and a culture of trust.
We take a look at how you get work done to illuminate any counter-productive bias.
How you allocate your resources – or don’t – can send signals about how much you invest in your people. (Think actions not words.) Intentional, people-focused programs are critical to making people feel like they belong.
Need help implementing these solutions?
Then meet our founder, Priya. She's known for finding the right solutions.
Priya Singh brings 20+ years of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion experience to organizations – Fortune 500s, nonprofits, government – she’s done it all. Her specialty is bringing leaders and their people together to create more equitable communities.
Priya earned her Master’s of Education from the University of Washington, has lived most of her life in Seattle, where she also raised her two half-Black, half-Guyanese, adults, and on top of everything, really, really loves Korean dramas.
Her career journey
Read: She’s been doing this for a long time.
Joined the Equity & Social Justice group at her children’s school.
Joined the Washington State Assessment of Student Learning and began a two-year process to evaluate and eliminate bias from statewide, standardized k-12 tests.
Secured $120M in levy dollars as leader of a parent advocacy group to fund capital projects for Seattle Public Schools in low-income neighborhoods.
Led research teams at Seattle University that partnered graduate students with neighborhood organizations to create quantitative and qualitative evaluations of community programs, the results of which steered decisions and funding for the next decade and more.
Led a collaboration between the City of Seattle and local businesses and nonprofits to create a strategy and programs to close the digital divide.
Built and executed the internal DEI management training curriculum while at Deloitte, which is still in effect today for its 150,000 managers.
Get exactly what you need
Treatment plans
A mix of prescriptive and co-created plans to improve your organization’s DEI health. Strategically prioritized to meet your capacity and needs, and built within a best-practice change management framework.
DEI health checkups
Current state assessments – data-driven, people-guided, systems-based snapshots that reveal your organization’s DEI health.
Speaking engagements
Appearances with content crafted for your audience.
ER visits
DEI crisis management consulting.
We're here.
Equity – belonging and parity – doesn’t happen by chance. It takes investment and expertise. And your people are worth it. We’d love to hear more about where you’re at and how we can help.