Building Workplaces Where People Of Color Can Thrive
We specialize in coaching and consulting solutions for mid-sized companies invested in the success of their leaders and employees of color.
Past Clients Include:
Across industries, employees are quitting at record rates.
Companies have dozens of vacant positions at any given time. Recruiters are turning away searches because they’re inundated. New hires are giving notice before they even start—leaving for other, more desirable offers.
Leaders of organizations face an immense challenge in building and maintaining workplace environments that people of color want to work in.
The attrition of leaders and employees of color comes at a high cost:
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Loss Of Labor And Knowledge
Losing employees means losing their labor, institutional knowledge, and their ongoing contribution to your bottom line
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High Cost Of Replacement
The cost of vacant positions (many roles go unfilled for months) adds up, not to mention the increasing costs of recruiting, onboarding, and training a replacement
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Long-Term Ripple Effects
High turnover rates impact supply chain and operations, hurt company morale, and jeopardize profit margins, market share, and brand reputation
Companies partner with us to build an equitable and inclusive workplace culture for everyone—while supporting the retention and advancement of their BIPOC staff.
At Embrace Change, we deeply understand the needs, goals, and lived experience of BIPOC employees. We also know the practicalities of leading, scaling, and sustaining an organization in a rapidly evolving world.
That’s why we work closely with our clients to create real change in the day-to-day operations of their companies through our two-directional approach. We provide high-touch career and executive coaching to support BIPOC employees while training, coaching, and advising the leadership team.
Our Impact
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A More Efficient Workplace
Employees we have worked with report improved communications with colleagues and managers, increased confidence, and higher productivity.
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Equity And Inclusion
Our clients build stronger and healthier workplace cultures, which motivates team members and drives the work forward.
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A Safer Environment
Employees also report increased psychological safety, decreased conflict, and higher job satisfaction.
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Better Supported Leadership
We pride ourselves on providing robust and comprehensive support to leadership teams. As a result, they report decreased stress, increased efficiency, and are able to lead to their highest potential.
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Brand Recognition
Through our work with them, company employees gain increased visibility in the industry through speaking engagements and press features, which bolsters company and brand reputation.
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Additional Funding
Employees were also able to secure significant amounts of funding for their companies.
Our Team
Our all-BIPOC team of career and executive coaches has worked with startups, tech companies, nonprofits, government entities, academic institutions, and multi-nationals.
Our clients often remark on the unique skill set that we bring, including a supportive and powerful ability to listen deeply, a wide range of expertise, and our ability to provide psychological safety for our clients to open up, explore free of judgment, and dig deeper.
We also pride ourselves on reflecting the diversity of our clients when it comes to race and ethnicity, class, gender identity, and more.
Our specialty areas include:
Leadership and management
Communication
Change management
Team building
Managing up
DEI
Our team is trained/certified in:
ICF
iPEC
SHRM
DiSC
MBTI
Mediation
Co-Active Training Institute
Management consulting
Financial wealth coaching
Emotional healing and wellness
Domestic violence counseling
Interaction Institute for Social Change
Case Study #1
When a leading global tech company (one of the Highest-Rated Cloud Companies to Work For) was in a period of rapid scaling and simultaneous reorganization, they reached out to Embrace Change.
Through our leadership training, data collection and analysis, as well as internal marketing and comms consulting and ongoing strategic support, we helped this organization:
train their global ERG leaders
gather data to benchmark and measure the success and impact
propel the ERG leaders into a position of strength and capability in driving the company toward larger KPIs
Case Study #2
When a globally recognized law firm that consistently ranks in the top 20 first approached Embrace Change, they were at a loss as to how to support and retain their Black attorneys. They knew they had a problem. And they sensed that they needed to do something in our post-Floyd working world. But they had no idea what or how.
Through consistent work with them over several months, we helped this firm:
understand where trust was completely lacking between Black Associates and the firm
gain valuable insights into the working conditions and treatment of Black Associates across offices and practice areas
identify 4 strategic areas to target first in order to increase retention and engagement of Black Associates
