Results You Can Expect

We believe that real solutions come from a deep understanding of our clients’ needs and from the personalized collaborations we build together. Our approach focuses on leadership development through a diversity lens.  

We help foster courageous leaders who can:

  • Fully engage the organization to build business competitiveness
  • Improve communication, negotiation and work effectiveness
  • Tap the huge bottom-line value to recruitment, retention, and innovation that real diversity and inclusion offers
  • Create partnerships that empower new levels of innovation and productivity
  • Address hidden obstacles that keep the organization from achieving its potential

We help you build an organization where every individual feels valued and where diversity is revered as a corporate strength.

Learn more about our clients' real successes.

  • Call 503-281-5585 to explore the solutions you need.
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I came here curious about what I was getting into. Was it another flavor-of-the-month idea? Was it one more initiative that I have to squeeze into an already booked schedule? I left with a more open, objective and humble mind that will only make me a better employee, leader-manager and person. 

Executive

Rockwell Automation

What's New
  • Save the Date: Women of Different Tribes Caucus

    We've set the date for the 2012 offering of the Women of Different Tribe's Caucus. At the Caucus, you will gain new awareness, build skills to forge meaningful cross-cultural partnership and create a Leader's Action Plan to help apply learning. Mark your calendars for September 24-27, 2012. More information will follow. Download a Caucus flyer.

  • Bill Proudman to present at DRI's Diversity for Success Seminar

    Advancing Diversity: The Critical Role of Non-Diverse, White Male Partners
    Bill Proudman, cofounder of White Men as Full Diversity Partnerswill discuss the importance of diversity, the reasons why non-diverse attorneys need to be onboard and engaged in diversity initiatives, and how these joint efforts not only promote diversity but also the bottom line. Learn more about this seminar sponsored by DRI: The Voice of the Defense Bar.

  • A Leader's Investment

    "It's never easy to give up the better part of a work week, but this event is well worth it. More than any other training or discussions I have previously participated in, I left this event with a deeper personal understanding of diversity and inclusion issues on both an intellectual and emotional level. More importantly, I left with an improved understanding of how I can be a better leader in a diverse environment. I recommend this for all senior leaders. If you choose to attend, bring an open mind and a willingness to fully participate."

    Ted D. Crandall, Senior Vice President & CFO for Rockwell Automation

  • Diversity Matters: You Are Kidding Right?

    This article was published in the March 2009 Linkage Leader eNewsletter - a free, monthly eNewsletter that offers industry leaders' viewpoints, best practices, and relevant information. "The response to the suggestion to create a white men's affinity group is often some laughter, a rolling of the eyes accompanied by a statement like, "What the heck do the white guys need a network for, when everyday at work is already a white men's group?..." Read full article

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