Our Services

We use proven methods to build awareness, empathy, and strategies for change in whatever work you do.  Our tailored, comprehensive services include all you need to assess, plan, implement and grow organizational culture.  Packages include:

• Equity and inclusion audit to assess your organization and identify growth areas.
• Strategy sessions and sprints that plan for change.
• Group and individual coaching for leaders and change agents.
• Development of learning curriculum.
• Support for change implementation.

Interactive events plant the seeds for what a flourishing place to work, live, or play might be like. Popular topics can be tailored and layered to produce 90-minute to full-day workshops.:

• Shamelessly Undoing Bias with Communication & Connection.
• Apologize: the lost art and secret power of mending relationships.
• Leaky pipelines: moving from surviving to thriving.
• Cultivating kindness where we work, live and play.
• Affinity caucusing and focus groups.
• Microaggression and unconscious bias.

Jo Burkholder is a subject matter expert on culture change, gender, and communication, and human behavioral science. She has addressed audiences large and small on multiple continents. Favorite topics include:

• The Only One in the Room: lessons learned from being a perpetual outsider.  
• Apologize! Why we need to regain the lost art of mending relationships.
• Growing Allies in the Leaky Pipelines: what it will take to make real change.
• Shamelessly Undoing Bias and the Power of Intimacy at Work.

Are you tired of the “golden handcuffs,” “itinerant adjunct-ship,” or just trying to get a foot in the door of your "passion profession"?

Then this workshop is designed just for you. 

In it we will will guide you through  unpacking and untangling your most pressing questions and help you lay out a plan for life you will love.

We will

• Discern direction
• Find purpose
• Name skills
• Root out self-sabotage
• Set goals & get moving
• Face our finances

These experiences focus our attention on our creative impulse and give us a chance to engage our hearts and bodies while temporarily turning off our anxious minds.  We come away with greater:

• Awareness of self and of others
• Abundance mindset and
• Accountability for being the change we want to see in our lives and in the world around us

You can join workshops individually, or reach out to us about scheduling a expressive experience for yourself or your group

 Schedule a workshop or find out more 

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.