The Consultancy
Positive-sum practice to lift us all.
We are on a mission to transform the public sector to a space where collaboration and innovation can thrive. We work with public agencies from the local to federal level and any value aligned organization that does social impact work.
The public sector has done a good job in diversifying its workforce. Gender, ethnic and racial diversity here outpaces that in the rest of the workforce and better reflects the communities in which these agencies serve. There is also enormous opportunity to do better in fostering collaborative cultures within and between these agencies and their communities. Opportunities where innovation can thrive and employees and the communities they serve can feel valued. Effective and ethical collaboration also ensures equity in the use of resources, and saves time and money.
The successes of collaboration on even the smallest scale act as fractals of change. Change can happen from the ground up and from the inside out. While policy catches up, we work with change-agents embeded in bureaucracies to reshape and refine systems to be ethical, accountable and innovative. In communities from the hyper local to the global scale, we share big problems that need solving soon. Climate change, pandemics and conflict affect us all. We convene the spaces where the folks who are the experts via their experiences and their knowledge can get together to discover the solutions.
The Collective Consultancy is a boutique consulting firm that is BIPOC owned and operated. We coordinate services and collaborate with other value aligned firms who offer complementary subject matter expertise to provide exceptional service to our clients and community. We provide bespoke training and facilitation, peer coaching, and communities of learning and care.
this is our recipe for change
RELATIONSHIP BUILDING
A global perspective of the networks and communities of stakeholders your work resides in. Mindful attention to that social capital and treating it as the valuable resource that it is. Deep understanding and respect of community perspectives, needs and interests.
REAL TALK ABOUT POWER
Developing a shared understanding of the dynamics of power. Restorative accountability to use that power to heal, not harm. Diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives without mindfully embeding equity practices into each cell of an organization are doomed to fail and are actually harmful to the communities they purport to serve.
PROCESS FACILITATION
Facilitation of deep dialogue and collaborative process. Guides by the side whose expertise is in the design of interactive and engaging experiences grounded in the equity principles. Process facilitation can help diverse teams create the safe spaces to get creative and find consensus.
CENTERING WELLNESS
Many who are called to this work are empathetic and finely tuned to the needs of others. We often find ourselves centering the wellbeing of those we serve before our own. We must flip this script. In order to sustain lasting change, we need to heal ourselves.
