DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION
Equity & Belonging Consulting
In addition to general leadership coaching, Longbridge offers targeted Equity & Belonging coaching for leaders.
Our coaches leverage their deep experience in the social justice field to design and facilitate individual development plans that support leaders in centering equity, belonging, and diversity in their leadership.
Customized Equity & Belonging Training
Longbridge designs custom equity & belonging training programs that equip leaders, managers, and staff with the skills they need to enhance their awareness of equity issues, take constructive action, and hold one another accountable.
We begin our engagements by getting to know you and your organization through qualitative and quantitative data collection, which gives us insight into your specific needs and empowers us to develop interactive experiences that are grounded in the realities of your organization. We leverage a wealth of content and 25+ years of experience in our work, but always strive to meet clients where they are and stay responsive to their context.
In Longbridge consulting engagements, we partner with you to develop your equity & belonging strategic roadmap, complete with vision, success factors, goals, growth areas, strengths, and a multi-year action plan.
Testimonials about our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Services
Longbridge Collective has holistically assisted our Department in assessing our needs to enhance inclusivity and belonging among all faculty and staff.
Through their guidance, we have developed a strategic roadmap, mission, vision and playbook to achieve our DEIB goals for the next several years.
The consultative support and coaching provided by Longbridge Collective has been essential to our early successes.
— Vice Chair of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; academic health institution
We’ve been working with the Longbridge team for many years to advance diversity, equity and inclusion across our organization. Following their comprehensive data collection process that included meaningful interviews, focus groups and a DEIB survey for all employees, they have customized solutions to meet our specific needs. As a partner, they take the time to listen, learn and discover our strengths as well as our opportunity areas in the DEIB area. We now have a DEIB strategic roadmap and high impact training programs that guide our work. We view their team as trusted advisors who not only act as facilitators and trainers, they are also our deeply knowledgeable thought partners. The Longbridge team has thoughtfully led us as an organization on our DEIB journey — challenging us to examine how we lead, how we become catalysts for substantive change and how we live in alignment with our values.
— Senior Director of DEI; global bio-tech organization
The Longbridge Collective has been a stellar partner in our efforts to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in our organization. We have embarked on a multiyear journey that is supporting us in becoming more self aware, clear in our vision and goals and aligned on a roadmap to realize them. Longbridge has a very collaborative and facilitative style that has centered understanding our culture, needs and aspirations. Though they bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise, they do not push it on us; rather, they facilitate us in the journey as we chart our own way.
With their partnership, we have taken tremendous strides forward to advance DEI in our organization.
— CEO, national non-profit organization