Start Your Equity Journey With A Clear, Powerful Foundation
Before you can build an equitable organization, you must know why you’re doing it. "Build Your Equity Why" helps leaders clarify their purpose and create the momentum needed for lasting change.
Perfect for nonprofits, philanthropies, and businesses beginning or refreshing their equity work.
Without a Clear Why, Equity Efforts Stuggle
Most organizations jump straight into training, audits, or strategy sessions, but without a shared vision or purpose, these efforts fall flat. Confusion, resistance, and burnout follow. A clear "Equity Why" grounds your team’s efforts in meaning, direction, and commitment. It moves your why from clear to unclear.
Clarify Your Commitment.
Align Your Team.
Build Momentum.
"Build Your Equity Why" is a guided discovery process that helps leaders and teams articulate a compelling reason for doing equity work. You’ll walk away with a shared language, clear priorities, and a foundation that makes all future equity efforts stronger and more effective.
Identify your organization's authentic motivation for equity work
Align leadership, staff, and partners
Set a powerful tone for action, not just intentions
Is This Right For You?
This offering is ideal for organizations that are:
Beginning their equity journey and want to start strong
Feeling stuck after past DEI efforts lost momentum
Seeking to create authentic, actionable equity commitments
Preparing for deeper organizational change work, but need a foundation first
Refocusing activities because of the current anti-DEI climate
What You Can Expect
Discovery Session: One-on-one consultation to understand your organization's unique context.
Guided Exercises: Work through prompts, reflection questions, and strategic conversations (guided by workbook and Dr. Scott).
Draft Your Equity Why: With support, you'll create a strong Equity Why statement tailored to your mission and people.
Action Planning: Get clear next steps to begin embedding your Equity Why into policies, communications, and operations.
Real Organizations, Real Results
Working on our Equity Why helped me understand that [in our organization] it is presumed that we are all in the same place in our equity journey.
-A Student, Create Your Equity Why [online course]
Let’s start the right way. Book your "Build Your Equity Why" session today and lay the groundwork for meaningful, sustainable change in your organization.