Building inclusive cultures
where diversity thrives.
Building inclusive cultures
where diversity thrives.
KSG Collective can help you transform the way you work. With our focus on learning and practice change, we help you build more inclusive teams, transparent workplaces - and better systems that benefit the whole organization.
Developing inclusive spaces takes time and commitment. It requires an openness to change; from your recruitment and retention practices, to meeting management and communications, to the services you provide in the world. Your new practices then need time to be adopted and refined so that they may take root and transform - from something that you're implementing - into simply the way that you work. KSG Collective can help you get there.
Services
We offer 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 build relationships for a more positive workplace culture. We provide:
~ Education. Interactive training sessions that build staff capacity and help everyone gain practical knowledge. Sessions are designed with educational content and reflective discussion time that helps build cultural humility, active allyship and healthy approaches to workplace differences and growth.
~ Workgroups & Coaching. Facilitation and planning for workgroups, employee resource groups (ERGs) and leadership teams seeking to engage purposefully around practices that increase belonging and strengthen the workplace. These meetings help you build your culture and plan activities that increase staff satisfaction and retention.
~ Insights & Assessment. Data collection and review of findings to help you understand your community's experience. Through surveys and listening sessions and a review of current outcomes, we help you identify where your culture stands and make recommendations on how to move forward.
~ Strategic Planning. Translating intentions into action for that more inclusive culture. We work with you to develop a detailed and operational inclusion plan.
Behind KSG Collective
Kavita Singh Gilchrist
Kavita Singh Gilchrist
I help organizations build better practices that help individuals, teams and the community thrive. After 15 years of leading community impact initiatives and 8 years of consulting with organizations to reduce harm and advance equity and inclusion, I have seen how organizations can grow and do better. Working collaboratively with my client teams, I have helped ~40 organizations create more inclusive communities. Doing this work with my clients and partners, helps me stay hopeful that: a better world is possible.
In my local community, I founded and operate Made for Me Books— a nonprofit that works to build more diverse home librariers, providing free, new books to young people, with a primary focus on BIPOC stories and authorse. I work to expand BIPOC representation where I can, and a greater understanding of the diversity of people and experiences among us. 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. And mostly, I learn everyday from my family and my community.
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 that we move toward. 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 progress, that progress always needs protecting and renewed, while we continue the necessary work that keeps us moving toward that north 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 us. We must continue working to implement what we know benefits everyone in our communities - and especially those most vulnerable among us.
Working as a collective - in our families, in our communities and in our workplaces, we will move forward more effectively for the greater good. 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 continues.