DiversityWealth partners with organizations to design and implement initiatives that link training content with organizational objectives: creating environments in which individuals feel engaged, productive and included.  We answer real-world needs with real-world, real-time solutions.  We are known for our customized, flexible solutions and a careful eye on the bottom line.

DiversityWealth training and consulting style, interventions and executive briefings are valued for creating environments that build trust and communication across diverse populations.    We are skilled in communicating important ideas in practical, useful ways that encourage problem solving and consensus building to achieve common goals. We work with clients from every age group and every walk of life – from the board room to the loading docks -  and are proficient in working with a wide range of rhetorical styles and accents of spoken English.

Our flexible and highly effective consultation and facilitation style consistently earn top marks from clients and program participants alike.  Our content and delivery is top notch; our facilitators are among the most experienced and very best in the industry.   This ensures a learning environment that is highly professional, engaging and expertly facilitated.  Most importantly, it ensures that training time and commitment maximize learning and establish positive outcomes in communication and productivity -  an on-going return on the training investment.

Our Approach

DiversityWealth’s approach is straight forward.  We listen carefully and respond to the real-world needs of our clients.  Our training is never one-size fits all; it is always customized to meet client needs; it is engaging, interactive, “hands-on” and thoroughly enjoyable.  Our approach focuses on inclusion: Diversity matters to everyone; includes everyone.  Participants come away with a strong sense of “time well spent” and practical skills and tools for success that are effective, transferable and sustainable.

DiversityWealth’s approach is based upon these fundamental ideas:  

1.    People come to work with good intentions.  The misunderstandings and conflicts that occur are most often based upon mismatched assumptions or simple ignorance and not malice. 

2.    Misunderstanding, conflicts, and incivilities are inevitable – and must be addressed. Everyone has a vested interest in this process.  The impact on people and the cost to business is substantial.   It is in everyone’s best interest to be equipped with the right tools for building understanding and strategies for resolving issues at the lowest level possible.

3.    Trainers/Facilitators must create a safe environment for learning: No blame; no shame.  Our approach is not about broad sweeping changes, affixing blame, helping “us” fix “them” or checking one’s style at the door.  Our approach focuses on winning with everyone on board.

4.    Affirming diversity, preventing and addressing conflicts is everyone’s responsibility. Everyone shares responsibility for building healthy, productive work environments.  This shared responsibility is however, much greater for leadership, managers, and supervisors. 

5.    Focus on actions and behaviors, not changing attitudes or beliefs.  Using the organization’s corporate policies and values as a foundation, training emphasizes behaviors that support and advance diversity and inclusion – with the clear understanding that we don’t have to agree to be respectful.  i.e. Training commitment and strategies are focused on support for inclusion and behaviors that are respectful, appropriate and effective.  And, that “To understand and behave respectfully does not imply agreement.” 

Organizational Development ▪ Leadership Development ▪ Workforce Diversity

Cross-cultural Training & Facilitation ▪ Executive Coaching ▪ Talent Management

DiversityWealth specializes in consulting on culture, diversity, communication and related productivity issues to maximize business outcomes. We design and customize training for a wide variety of clients on a wide range of topics.  

Our approach focuses on building skills and strategies based on the premise that people do the best they can with what they have to work with (“No-fault Assumption”). Our training creates “safe environments” that encourage low–risk opportunities for specific, incremental changes that are comfortable and responsive to the needs of individual contributors as well as the specific needs of managers and supervisors managing a diverse workforce. 

Programs and Services

• Executive briefings and customized diversity training at all levels of an organization: from individual contributors to the senior leadership team – The Diversity Journey series

• Cross-cultural communication, skills and strategies for cultural competency and improving communication: Translating Diversity: Communication in Diverse, Multi-cultural Workplaces series

• Sensitivity and Harassment Interventions and Training:  Honoring Boundaries series

• Religion in the workplace:  We the People, Faith at Work series

• Conversations about Race and Religion:  Let’s Talk: series

• Micro-inequities and Micro-messages: Unpacking the Invisible Briefcase, Uncovering Micro-inequities

• Generational Diversity - Generational Diversity: Key insights, practical and useful skills

• Establishing and Building Trust:  A Matter of Trust workshops

• Identifying and Preventing Bullying:  Stopping Workplace Bullying workshops

• Cultural Audits and Focus Groups

• Diversity Councils- launch, development and consulting

• Employee Resource Councils – launch development and consulting

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