Diversity Consulting with Appreciative Inquiry and allyship at the core
Diversity, equity and inclusion consulting
Organizational development
Cohort and individual
What kind of organization do you want to grow?
Do you...
- want to work someplace where everyone flourishes?
- desire deeper connectedness and community?
- want to fuel innovation and inspiration?
- know the value of diversity and inclusion?
- crave all of the above, but hesitate to move forward because you don't know how or think you lack the resources?
RELAX, we've got you covered.
Growing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion for your Business, IS our business
Growing diversity, equity, and inclusion is a lot like cultivating a beautiful garden. It takes work and care to ensure that everything and everyone thrives, but amazing things can blossom if you have a gardener to help you cultivate connections and grow relationships.
That's what we do. With tailored equity and inclusion programs, organizational development consulting, and individual and group coaching with an anti-racist lens, we help diverse talent blossom.
Our Signature Programs...
Plant trust and grow relationships apply appreciative inquiry and allyship principles three growth areas:
- Awareness; working with people wherever they are to go deeper into their cultural knowledge
- Abundance: nurturing a mindset for growth and dealing with the anxieties that come with change
- Accountable action: where individuals act to effect structural change where they work, live a
Scientific studies tell us..
No matter where you are on the journey to a diverse and vibrant culture and a life that you love, our tested strategies grow cultures of community, connection, and creativity through appreciative inquiry. It takes more than just careful recruitment to build a flourishing culture. It takes more than skills to build a life you love. Like a gardener, Terra Firma Cultural works with you to create individual growth and positive cultural change that helps everything and everyone thrive.
Organizations are like gardens...
There is no, single right size or right style, but there is always space to allow great things to flourish. Therefore...
- Every organization deserves quality programs to nourish diverse talent. Deeper communication and broad allyship cultivate the connections that allow that to happen
- Everyone should have the support they need to thrive. When we practice awareness, abundance, and accountable action, that is what people find
What we offer
Our Signature Programs
Our best value with enduring results for allyship training, diversity consulting, and organizational development
Showing Up Better
This 10-week allyship training program brings together people who want to show up better in the struggle for racial justice. Participants meet weekly for 90-minute sessions where they build
- Awareness of racism and its effects
- An abundance mindset so that they can find courage and grace to make change
- Accountability for action in the communities where they work, live and play.
A great way to build your allyship game before bringing a larger diversity consulting package to your organization.
Allies Everywhere
Our tailored diversity consulting and organizational development program serves you and your employees, volunteers or members for 6 to 12 months as you grow organically towards your organization's cultural goals. A combination of monthly meet-ups and 1:1 coaching engages people with proven social science methods that build awareness, empathy, and actionable strategies for change in the whatever work you do.
Schedule a consultation to find out more about what we can do for you
1:1 Coaching/Consulting
Dr. Jo Burkholder, PhD. has more than 20 years experience supporting people who want to find courage, find their place, and leave a legacy by making the world better. If group allyship training programs are not the right fit for you, 1:1 coaching and strategy consulting is available on an hourly or project basis. Want to make a change to your personal life? Jo can apply her diversity consulting principals to help you on your journey.
Schedule a consultation to find out more.
Consultations, Workshops, Keynote Talks
Bring Principals of Allyship Training and Diversity Consulting to Your Business or Organization and Plant Seeds of Transformation
Book a FREE 30-minute consultation with Jo and explore how her approach to diversity consulting and allyship training can help you transform the places you work live and play. If you have been wishing for a more vibrant garden of colleagues, family, and friends, stop wishing and lets find a way to plant the seeds of the change you want to see. Book your appointment here
Workshops
Whether a single community-growing activity or something larger, we develop workshops to fit your business or organization. Options range from 45-90 minute mini-workshop, half-day and full-day workshops, multi-day retreats, or a "series of fortunate events" (workshop series). We apply tested principles to help you break down communication barriers, deepen personal connections, create intentional workplaces, and reinvigorating your mission, vision, and values.
Keynote Talks
Let me inspire and inform your organization about effective allyship, gender and racial equity, and how to break barriers, deepen connection, and strengthen community.
OR, let's explore how my story can bring something exciting to your group. I am happy to share how my personal journey through Anthropology and Archaeology led to my work in diversity consulting and allyship training, and my mission to create beautiful, well-nourished talent gardens everywhere.
Want allyship training or diversity consulting for yourself or your organization and worried about pricing? Schedule a free consultation and we can talk about educational, non-profit, and my "friends and allies" referral rates.
So glad you discovered us!
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