What is DEI?

What is DEI consulting? Simply put, we at Construct The Present use our lived experiences and professional expertise to help organizations become stronger and more resilient using Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion strategy:

Diversity: A diverse team strengthens your organization through the power of their combined backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

Equity: When your workplace systems and processes are impartial, every team member has an equal opportunity for growth, advancement, and success.

Inclusion: An authentic sense of belonging and value gives everyone the freedom necessary to participate, lead, and act with agency.

Diversity is no longer just a buzzword in the workplace—it’s part of a bigger, more complex movement that involves active engagement and commitment.

Focusing effort on understanding and implementing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices in your everyday business operations is a way of showing up for those who feel unheard and unseen. This may require changes in how you do business and how you support employees, so it’s not an easy task.

Our approach acknowledges that diversity exists naturally in the world and operationalizing the removal of barriers allows for this natural diversity to flourish. We can walk alongside you to create systems to support an organizational culture that honors diversity and results in belonging and inclusion.

Oftentimes, businesses will hire a DEI consultant to walk with them through that process—that’s where we come in.

Elevate Voices

Here at Construct the Present, we provide a variety of personal and professional development opportunities to boost organizational culture and cohesion. We do this by creating honest, internal dialogue that promotes reflection, active listening, and accessible education. Our training will help you and your team unpack common definitions, systems, and frameworks while building core values that can be applied to your regular operations. We will help you examine your internal biases about race, gender, sexual orientation, and other identities in a safe, trusted environment. Our strategy involves breaking down barriers by inspiring empathetic and diverse perspectives from you and your team. After completing DEI education, we assist you in adopting practices that promote more inclusive business practices to set you on the right path for the future.

Build a Healthier Business

Recognizing diversity and systemizing inclusion within your organization will better prepare you to reach out and support diverse communities around you. We will help formulate a systemic strategy to address inequities so you may better improve your organization’s equity and investment in committed leadership. This may include the revision or establishment of an equity policy, development of more inclusive hiring practices, establishing best practices for community engagement, and techniques to create a safer space for engaged employee contribution.

Who we are:

We’re collaborators.

We’re your trusted advisor on DEI solutions. You’re the expert on your own organization. Our collaboration makes long-term success possible.

We’re lifelong learners.

We’re education experts, and we never stop learning ourselves. We bring our deep love of learning to help motivate, coach and inspire others.

We’re advocates for liberation.

We know liberation is interconnected, interdependent, and collective. When we advocate for others, we’re also advocating for ourselves.

Our approach

We understand that real, lasting change is easier said than done. As education experts, we use learning principles to guide our DEI strategy, leading and inspiring participants to engage in the work and self-reflection necessary to recognize the root causes of inequity.

Creating an environment where people are ready to learn

When people feel forced, attacked, or rushed, they start to protect themselves and learning grinds to a halt. We don’t give lectures, force conversations, or judge. Our facilitation practices are designed to help people feel comfortable and socially connected enough to learn and grow.

The educational strategy that resonates with your team

We draw on adult learning theory to facilitate our workshops. By taking into account the ways adults respond best to education, such as finding internal motivation for learning or applying new ideas to real-life situations, our experiences have a more meaningful impact.

Designing communities that work for everyone

We design systems with intention based on the needs of all involved. We practice organizational development as a path to building strong teams, fostering great leadership, improving processes, and, ultimately, changing company culture.