EVERY PROBLEM HAS A SOLUTION
Relationships are everything! Relationships require authentic cultivation, and cultivation requires time.
PEOPLE FIRST
We provide human-based solutions in diversity, equity, and inclusion.
We embark on every partnership with a posture of seeking to understand, striving, and co-creating toward transformation with individuals and leaders.
CONSULTING
Informed recommendations for initiatives that focus on helping your company build a diverse and inclusive culture.
TRAINING
Provide instruction and resources for management and employees that will support the DEI initiatives and programs.
LEADERSHIP, PARTNERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT
Individualized leadership strategic partnership and development for maximum alignment to the organization's mission, vision, and values, and its people.
We are Setting the Standards in DEI
Global Engagement Consultants believes in the highest potential of individuals, employees, and leaders. Through our engaging approach that focuses on awareness and alignment, we help organizations achieve optimal growth and development.
Dr. Chanel F. DeGuzman
Founder & CEO
INCLUSIVE SOLUTIONS
THAT CREATE ACCOUNTABILITY
Our work revolves around three guiding principles: awareness, alignment, and accountability.
AWARENESS
To facilitate the introspective work that helps to bring about desired change, we encourage vulnerability and build upon it as a position of strength. Global Engagement operates in a spirit of openness, respect, and inclusion, with the highest standards of ethical integrity.
ALIGNMENT
When each member of an organization believes that they are valued for their unique contributions and individual attributes, this leads to more significant impact, profitability, and ultimately a better quality of life. In this partnership, we help organizations create approaches to DEI that align with their core values and the values of their employees and stakeholders.
ACCOUNTABILITY
What gets measured gets done. The DEI work in organizations is essential but often does not rise to the level of urgency until there is a pressing litigation issue at hand (e.g., discrimination or retaliation complaint, etc.). Having systems of accountability to move from a state of “in limbo” to taking action and following through advances your DEI vision and achieves your DEI strategic goals. GEC facilitates the clarity, co-planning, and follow-through to partner with Leaders and Executives who often do not have someone that can hold their “feet to the fire” when setting strategic DEI priorities. Our Consultants will firmly provide the accountability necessary to develop and execute your DEI strategy successfully.
WHO WE'VE WORKED WITH
“When we listen and celebrate what is both common and different, we become a wiser, more inclusive, and better organization.”
Pat Wadors
CONSULTING
To create effective change and provide a truly inclusive workspace, organizations must be aware of their biases in both practice and policy. Through Global Engagement Consultants’ Approach to Creating a Bias Conscious Culture and Inclusive Workspace we will help your organization develop, implement, and execute a diversity strategy that:
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Provides effective change management and strategic communication tools to have difficult conversations related to DEI.
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Improves organizational policies, practices, and behaviors to promote inclusion.
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Improves outreach to employees, stakeholders, and the community by Organizational Leaders becoming champions for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Can be measured quantitatively and qualitatively to show improvement in an organization’s bottom line.
“A diverse mix of voices leads to better discussions, decisions, and outcomes for everyone.”
Sundar Pichai
TRAINING
We leverage the diverse talent within your workplace to create customized diversity and inclusion training. Based on your company’s needs, we serve as trusted subject matter experts to provide categorical knowledge and techniques tailor-made to fit the goals of your organization.
What will your team learn?
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How to be better attuned to their biases and equipped with skills and tactics to address them.
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How to better understand what it means to be an inclusive leader.
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How to engage in meaningful conversations with their colleagues around multiple topics and learn about various perspectives in a safe, non-judgmental space.
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How to identify micro-aggressive behaviors in the workplace and be respectful of each other’s feelings, perspectives, abilities, and identities.
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How to develop allyship and advocacy.
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How to review and improve current policies, practices, and behaviors to promote inclusion.
“Inclusivity means not “just we’re allowed to be there,” but we are valued. I’ve always said: smart teams will do amazing things, but truly diverse teams will do impossible things.”
Claudia Brind-Woody
LEADERSHIP, PARTNERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT
Creating a Bias Conscious and Inclusive professional culture begins with top leaders demonstrating a commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with a sense of urgency. The Leader’s journey requires focusing inwards to honestly confront individual bias, and demonstrate empathy and advocacy for staff with less power and privilege. GEC Consultants helps to create space for Leaders to bravely assess their cultural and emotional intelligence and discuss strategies to promote a culture that welcomes and values diverse perspectives and unique contributions.
MEET YOUR DEI STRATEGIST & TRAINER
Dr. Chanel F. DeGuzman
CEO & Founder
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As the CEO & Founder of Global Engagement Consultant, Dr. Chanel F. DeGuzman combines her ten plus years of academic and corporate training experience to serve as your Chief Engagement Officer. She combines her extensive knowledge base and experience as a diversity, equity, and inclusion professional to determine objectives and customize content for schools and organizations that is meaningful and delivers agreed-upon outcomes.
Dr. DeGuzman’s primary focus is to create inclusive and inviting spaces where learners and employees increase their self-awareness and pursue expansion to their highest good.