Building inclusive cultures
where diversity thrives.
Building inclusive cultures
where diversity thrives.
KSG Collective can help you transform the way you work. We focus on education and practice change to help you build more inclusive teams, transparent workplaces and better systems that benefit the whole organization.
Reframing and building inclusive spaces takes time and commitment. It's a process that requires an openness to changing your practices from recruitment and retention, to communications, to the services you provide in the world. These practices then need time to be refined so that they may take root and transform - from something that you're implementing into simply the way that you work. If you are seeking to build a more inclusive and welcoming organization, KSG Collective can help you get there.
Services
KSG Collective offers services that help your team move beyond the theory of diversity and belonging. We focus on what is needed to develop better ways of working together that value differences and help build relationships for a more positive workplace culture. We provide:
~ Interactive Learning Sessions. We provide trainings designed for participants to gain practical knowledge on a variety of topics. The curriculum is designed with educational content and reflective discussion time to help build cultural humility, active allyship and healthy approaches to workplace differences.
~ Facilitated Workgroups & Coaching. We facilitate meetings for workgroups, employee resource groups (ERGs) and leadership teams seeking to engage regularly to consider and implement practices that increase belonging. These meetings help you build your culture and plan activities to increase staff satisfaction and retention.
~ Insights & Assessment. We collect and use data (surveys, interviews, etc.) to write a report that helps you understand your community's experience. Through surveys and listening sessions, we help you identify where your culture stands, with recommendations on how to move forward.
~ Strategic Planning. Translate your intentions into action. We help you outline a detailed plan for inclusion that can help you transform your culture - so that everyone can thrive.
Behind KSG Collective
Kavita Singh Gilchrist
Kavita Singh Gilchrist
I help organizations build better practices that serve all of their people so that collectively, we build a more just society. After 20 years of leading community impact initiatives including 6 years of consulting on racial equity, I have helped over 40 different organizations create more inclusive communities.
My goal is to help people connect, learn and focus on "how" we will make progress and improve systems. Doing this work with my clients, helps me stay hopeful that a better world is possible.
In the spirit of the collective, I work collaboratively with my client teams. I also tap into a wonderful team of experienced consultants, partnering when needed to deliver more targeted client services.
I am also the Founder and Director of Made for Me Books— a nonprofit that provides free books to young people, with a primary focus on BIPOC stories and voices for representation and greater understanding of multicultural American identities. I work from and live in Harlem, New York with my family.
My formal education includes a Bachelor of Science from Drexel University, a Master of Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Certificate in Diversity and Inclusion in Human Resources from Cornell University.
True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together.
Working as a Collective
Equal opportunity, equal treatment and respect for all people - will always be a north star. We have a long history of discrimination in America, with race and class created and used to exclude people from participating. Layer on our other identities: gender, age, sexuality, ability and the impact of the exclusion is compounded. While we have made some progress, that progress always needs protecting, while we continue the unfinished and necessary work that keeps us moving toward that star.
How we treat people in society carries over into the workplace. The systems around us are long-standing and we have to keep working to build better ones that serve all of our people. We must continue working to implement what we know benefits everyone in our communities.
Working collectively, we can find hope when things are dark and the support we need to resist what we know is wrong. And it is with this hope and support that our work, our collective work will continue.