UnifyingSolutions assists the positive transformation of your organization’s culture so that it matches and supports organizational goals. The results can include: greater success for the business as a whole, coherence between the values and needs of individuals and groups, and mutual motivation and inspiration among managers and teams.
We work with you to design trainings that meet your needs.
Contact us about custom trainingOrganizational cultures are prime to bring greater awareness and understanding about the reality and impact of how a dominant social system keeps racism alive and effects marginalized communities. Bringing a Safe Conversation About Race to an organization and Executives makes sense to support a shift in building healthy cultural diversity and social equity. There is a need to increase multi-cultural competency in order to ensure that implicit bias and unconsciousness does not limit leadership potential and/or the vibrancy of any organizational culture.
The Safe Conversation About Race will include a unrehearsed conversation between Jim and Suzanne with a moderator on the agreed upon topics. The vulnerable, honest, and meaningful dialogue provides a living example how people can talk across difference to bridge understanding and increase our capacity to stay with discomfort for positive change . Included is a brief historical overview about how we got here, how slavery played a role in the economic gain of our country while dehumanizing and harming a group of people, and how that is replicated today in our organizational structures. We provide an experience for participants to have a chance to dialogue with each other, after having a living example of seeing Jim and Suzanne dialogue safely about a very difficult and uncomfortable topic: racism.
We provide a business size card that provides steps for how to have a safe conversation about race. We believe having these conversations promotes humanizing across difference, and helps build safe multi-cultural organizations where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
Unifying Solutions builds the capacity of an organization to effectively diversify. It is crucial to sufficiently diversify leadership at all levels within an organization. To only hire diversely at entry-level positions reflects negative societal norms and continues to limit human and social potential. It is necessary to shift that norm to create the changes that are needed to make this world a better place.
UnifyingSolutions prepares leaders and managers to supervise people whose identities and shaping are different than their own life experience; whether it be through race, class, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual preference, etc. Through the groundwork necessary by challenging implicit bias, leaders are able to identify talent and develop leadership potential so all stakeholders become greater contributors to the success of the organization.
Unifying Solutions designs trainings that will meet your organizational needs through education, awareness and new innovative practices. We strive to create a safe environment that supports the individual needs of every person involved, while helping make your organization more powerful.
Organizational culture is made up of a diverse set of the values and beliefs defined by the leadership and work force of that organization. An embodied leader orchestrates his or her vision with others to foster a collaborative effort toward a unified goal.
While an organization has an explicit vision and mission, often teams that support the success of the organization do not have a mission and value statement for the team that aligns with the organization.
UnifyingSolutions helps develop the mission for the team and links each employee to the multi-layered missions, which increases engagement and fulfillment for the individual and the organization.
Timely Relevant Feedback is an interactive training course vital for those in leadership positions in businesses and organizations and all arenas of life. Feedback is a critical skill in building trust, accountability, and the future success of any team or organization. Gaining aptitude to respond vs. react effectively is key. Learn how to set the stage for meeting – and exceeding – your goals, and building cooperative capacities with others as you offer and receive feedback using specific techniques and skills.
Learn how to use pressure, challenges, and change as a resource to help you strengthen and invigorate your core values, your dignified stand, and your meaningful contribution into action. You will learn how to recover and respond productively rather than react from your survival strategies which are overused, ineffective habits.
“Suzanne Roberts assisted me in my personal and professional development by working with me and my organization on understanding thought provoking communications skills, trust relationships, and discovering the potency we all possess. I have achieved great success with Suzanne’s warm and sensitive approach to coaching and compassionate listening to fully appreciate all points of view when making key decisions.”
Trace, LTD.
“the tough conversations are easier…I am better prepared for giving feedback and it is better received….I am communicating more effectively”
Zengenius Visual Merchants Business Owner
"In my work with Suzanne I have experienced an increased self-awareness which has allowed me to be more informed of my own actions and reactions and their impact on myself and others. Through this self-awareness, I was also able to become a more authentic leader as I had a clear understanding of what I stood for. I align my work and leadership to my principles. I also experienced a heightened physical awareness and learned how I respond physically, specifically to stress, and gained tools and practices to address this for greater centeredness and overall well-being."
Aisha Allen
“Suzanne’s training gave us practical and insightful tools for relating effectively both professionally and personally”
Program Director for COAAA
“Suzanne’s Women’s Leadership Learning Group and Embodied Leadership Coaching was a great experience which enabled me to get more in touch with how I present myself both as a leader and personally. We are so much more than words – we are embodied leaders, friends, mothers . . .people. Suzanne’s coaching was also insightful and encouraging during my career transition. Thanks Suzanne!”
Kimberly Jones, Manager of IT Security and Access at NiSource
