Advising boards and executives in leading change for the greater good

Our values and promises

Optimize Leadership & Team Performance

Curates personalized engagement with leaders to help leaders BE and DO better

  • Counsels the CEO and managers to optimize Board leadership and strengthen leadership team performance and engagement with key stakeholders

  • Uses proprietary frameworks to achieve more diversity/equity/inclusion, power sharing, productivity, excellence

  • Provides coaching to leaders to accelerate sustainable community impact for ALL

Advance Diversity, Equity, Inclusion

Collaborates with leadership teams to make lasting change

  • Assesses organizational readiness, analyzes the ecosystem, builds consensus among leaders

  • Focuses on action tied realistically to business and stakeholder needs

  • Designs and conducts learning sessions for team leaders, contributors, stakeholders

Grow influence with policy makers

Increases organizational capacity to educate leaders about critical issues

  • Introduces methodologies to drive advocacy

  • Strengthens speaker and media capabilities to communicate the impact of policies

  • Develops fundraising strategies tied to advocacy

"The world should know that Gloria was an architect for the Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and the work that's been done - that we are experiencing here.”

El pagnier Hudson: SVP, Human Resources & Vice Provost, Diversity/Equity/Inclusion
Florida International University
Fourth largest public university in the U.S./Serving the largest population of Hispanics 

Supporting businesses and institutions committed to increasing performance and innovation.

  • Collaborates with client leaders to design and facilitate specialized services to meet human resource and community needs

  • Offers DEI tools featuring insights from her co-authored book, “Growing the Elephant: Increasing earned advantage for all”, stimulating readers to examine their own life experiences, beliefs, and assumptions to deal with the difficult topics of “equity” and “privilege”

  • Uses storytelling to compel action


Growing the Elephant

Gloria is co-author of Growing the Elephant - Increasing earned advantage for all. Published by Practical Inspiration and available wherever you buy books. Learn more at: www.growingtheelephant.com.

“the journey that we can take together to better understand each other”

—Gail J. McGovern, President & CEO, American Red Cross

"[The book is] the convergence of mindfulness and DEI concepts, intricately put together."

El pagnier Hudson
Senior Vice President, Human Resources & Vice Provost, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Florida International University
Fourth largest public university in the U.S./serving the largest population of Hispanics

“Deeply insightful and most relevant to today’s DEI challenges and opportunities”

—Bettina Deynes, SHRM-SCP, SVP & CHRO, Carnival Cruise Line

“This book advances the conversation on DEI to make it more approachable and applicable for everyone to understand. The authors offer a new perspective for readers to consider earned and unearned advantages: We all have them, but they move the conversation forward by encouraging the growth of earned advantages.”

Bloomberg Best Books of 2022 in the category “Model for Success”

“a thought-provoking prescription for advancing DE&I”

— Michael Goettler, CEO Viatris, Inc.