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You deserve a cheerleader, accountability buddy, advocate, and supportive, discerning, outside perspective to support you on your leadership journey. We're your guide on the side.

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You get a cheerleader, accountability buddy, advocate, supportive, discerning, expert perspective to guide you through your presentation. You be the expert on your topic, we'll bring the speaking expertise!

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restorative justice pricing

I am committed to doing more than performative allyship. I walk the DEIJ-B walk in everything I do. My pricing can be adjusted to account for the pay inequities that continue to widen this year. I offer discounts to historically excluded & marginalized folx in an effort to correct the impact already experienced in our journey to become leaders. This might include women (especially Black, Latinx, & Indigenous women), BIPOC/POC, LGBTQIA2S+, folx living with a disability, and anyone at the intersection of of these identities.

ABOUT Kimberly A. MacLean

Kimberly has been at the forefront of thought leadership about how to combine the best practices of teaching with the benefits of interactive inquiry-based learning, agile thinking, diversity equity inclusion, belonging, and communication for over 20 years. She has impacted the culture at some of the world's most innovative companies around the world & supported dedicated leaders to step into their power. She specializes in creating safe spaces that encourage a growth mindset, good risk-taking, and listening with curiosity. Utilizing her M.Ed and background in social & restorative justice in education, she strives to make learning interactive, joyful, safe, and an opportunity for inquiry beyond the "classroom". In addition to her equity and social justice work, Kimberly has been a professional actor, singer, director, producer, and improv performer. She also sits on the Advisory Board of Dvergnt Ventures and was formerly the Director of Learning at Speechles/FLS+ (Freestyle Love Supreme)

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Collaborators & Co-Conspirators

With a wide connection to communities around the globe & in different fields - these are just some of the folx that have added their expertise to one or more of our events, workshop, roundtables, & more.

CAMILA ARRI-NUDO (She/Her/Ella)

Mindset Coaching,

Queer/Colombian/Immigrant perspective

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SUPPORT & RESOURCES

Whether you need to convince the powers that be of the importance of bringing someone like me in to support changing culture, policy, & systems or maybe you just want to do better now that you know better have I got some resources for you. I am constantly accumulating, reading, and listening - THIS WORK IS MY JAM - and love sharing resources with you. I've done the vetting and gathering so you don't have to. I have intentionally worked to find material that can be read by assistive devices & gathered videos with CC and/or transcripts. I have also done my due diligence to curate work by a diversity of voices & lived experiences to ensure we are amplifying the voices of those that have been historically excluded from these conversations though they are often the ones most impacted by the outcomes. Unless stated I do not own any of this content. I am not affiliated with or being compensated by any of the organizations listed.

• So, Your Organization Wants to DEI(JB); A Few Things to Consider Before You Dive In
  
• Hiring a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging Consultant | Or, Why You Really Need to Pay for DEIB Expertise
  
• ​Put your Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging Statement Into Action | Picking the Right DEIB Consultant You’ve made an equity statement — now what?
  
• 10 Changes You Can Make Now to be More Inclusive in Your Recruitment Practices
  
• Tips for Creating a More Inclusive Culture for Disabilities at Work What you don’t know about disabilities can hurt
  
• To Disclose or Not to Disclose — that is the question | Differences, Disabilities, and Disclosure
  
• Why You SHOULD Hire A Leadership Development Coach | Plus some tips on what/who to look for
  
• Pronouns, New Names, and Respecting Identity | A Case for Celebrating That We Already Know How To Do It
  
• Do Culture, Belonging, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Belong in HR? Spoiler alert — Nope
  
• Get Comfortable Saying These Things To Be More Equitable (including the anatomy of an apology)
  
• What to do when someone calls you out or calls you in | How to get better at hearing you are imperfect & still learning
  
• Why Are You Encouraging Risk And Then Punishing “Failure”? Creating space to experiment, learn, & fail forward
  
• Why not intentionally design practices and culture that will benefit a wider diversity of needs, personality, and true diversity​​
  
• WE DON’T NEED YOU TO “PAY YOUR DUES” | The fallacy of “I suffered to get where I am, so should you.”
  

MY FAVORITE DATA & SUPPORTING EVIDENCE LINKS...

DEI General Data & Resources

• Diversity wins: How inclusion matters
• How to Elevate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Work in Your Organization
• How Diversity Makes Us Smarter
• Women and Minorities Are Penalized for Promoting Diversity
• THE JOURNEY TO EQUITY AND INCLUSION Summer 2020
• Workplace Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Report: Understanding the DEI Landscape from Culture Amp
• Emotional Tax Research Series
• 2023 Diversity of Dates Calendar
• The Failure of the DEI-Industrial Complex
  

Women & Gender Specific Data & Resources

• LeanIn.org & McKinsey & Company:
• Women in the Workplace 2022
  
• Women in the Workplace 2021
  
• Women in the Workplace 2020 — Corporate America is at a critical crossroads
  
• TimesUp.org: From Pandemic to Possibility; A New World for Women at Work
• Pew Research Center: Gender pay gap in U.S. held steady in 2020
• Working Mother Media: Best Companies Lists
• Forbes: Gender Discrimination Is Still Alive And Well In The Workplace In 2021
• More Than Just #FOMO: How Hybrid Workplace Models Exacerbate Gender Inequality

Indigenous Peoples Specific Data & Resources

• Employment of First Nations men and women living off reserve (2019)
• ​​Indigenous peoples in a changing world of work: Exploring indigenous peoples’ economic and social rights through the Indigenous Navigator (International Labour Organization
• Indigenous Peoples - (The World Bank)
• The monthly jobs report ignores Native Americans. How are they faring economically? (2021)
• Honor Native American Employees During Native American Heritage Month (2022)

BIPOC-Specific Data & Resources

• Toward a Racially Just Workplace | Diversity efforts are failing black employees. Here’s a better approach.
  
• For black Americans, experiences of racial discrimination vary by education level, gender
  
• Emotional Tax: How Black Women and Men Pay More at Work and How Leaders Can Take Action (Report)
  
• People Suffer at Work When They Can’t Discuss the Racial Bias They Face Outside of It
  
• (Re) Defining Resilience: A perspective of ‘toughness’ in BIPOC communities
  
• Black women are worn out from discrimination in corporate America. They're leaving to launch their own businesses, creating a hole for talent across industries.
  

Disability-Specific Data & Resources

• Getting to Equal: The Disability Inclusion Advantage | Accenture
  
• Global report on health equity for persons with disabilities 2022​
  
• PERSONS WITH A DISABILITY: LABOR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS — 2020
  
• Disabled World
  
• A TO Z OF DISABILITIES AND ACCOMMODATIONS
  
• Ableism 101: What it is, what it looks like, and what we can do to fix it, by Ashley Eisenmenger
  

LGBTQIA+ Specific Data & Resources

• HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN | Workplace Understanding the Climate for LGBTQ Workers Nationwide
  
• How the LGBTQ+ community fares in the workplace
  

Accessibility & Inclusivity

• Federal Social Media Accessibility Toolkit Hackpad |Improving the Accessibility of Social Media for Public Service
  
• Accessible Meeting and Event Checklist
  
• Types of Discrimination and Discrimination Remedies
  
• Impact vs Intent.- Nyanga Uuka - quick video explainer ​
  

More Diverse & Inclusive Photo Links:

• Disability Inclusive Stock Photography
  
• Disabled And Here: free stock images (with attribution) I have used some of their photos on this website
  
• ​WOCinTech Chat photostream (with attribution) I have used some of their photos on this website
  
• Queer in Tech photostream (with attribution)
  

Readability

• Dyslexia Friendly Fonts
  
• Hemingway app gives you a bunch of stats on readability.
  
• Readability Analyzer gives you a variety of metrics
  
• Expresso app has readability and editing metrics
  
• Image Alt Text examples from Penn State
  

Contrast

• Lea Verou’s Contrast Ratio - gives you the contrast ratio and the pass or fail level for WCAG 2.0.
• Sim Daltonism app
  

Language

• Ableism/Language - Last updated 27 February 2021
• Ableism 101
• Anti-Ableism ​
• ​Gender Decoder
  
• Pronouns Matter​
• Glossary of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Terms - a curated list of words and their usage

Trauma-Informed Approaches - (Positive) Adverse Childhood Experiences

• Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) - CDC Explainer & resources
  
• ACEs Resources for Family Life Educators - National Council on Family Relations, explanations & resources
  
• Introduction to Adverse Childhood Experiences - Early Trauma Online Course
  

Intersectionality / Disability+

• Intersectionality & Disability, ft Keri Gray, the Keri Gray Group (2 min video)
  
• Alice Wong: Making Space For More Disabled Asians (https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/about/) (5 min video)
  
• CDC Adults with Disabilities: Ethnicity and Race
  
• FINANCIAL INEQUALITY: Disability, Race and Poverty in America
  
• RACE + DISABILITY Nothing About Us, Without Us Panel discussion + multiple connected/shared resources from panelists (14 min video)
  
• Refugees and migrants with disabilities United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | Disability (includes links to additional resources)
  
• Intersections of Disability Justice and Transformative Justice (4:20 min video)
  
• Black Babies More Likely to Survive When Treated By Black Doctors (USA Today Article)
  

LGBTQIA+:

• MyPronouns Matter - learn more about why pronouns matter, how to navigate, learn, and adapt
  
• The Trevor Project: A Guide to Being an Ally to Transgender and Nonbinary Youth​
  
• 50+ Resources For LGBTQIA Allies - a comprehensive list of resources and links
  
• How ‘allyship’ can make LGBT+ staff feel less excluded in the work place​​
  
• Most LGBTQ are Cyberbullied. Here's How to Stay Safe Online
  

Neurodiversity:

Please note that these simulations are intended to provide a glimpse into some of the experiences for the purpose of gaining insight, empathy, and considering accommodation that may be needed in emergency preparedness. A simulation cannot fully replicate the day to day and nuanced experiences of living within these realities. We hope this is a first step to exploration.

• Autism Virtual Reality Simulation
  
• Auditory Hallucination Simulation
  
• Neurodiversity in the Workplace (ideas can be applied beyond work)
  

Code Switching

• Code-Switching Excerpts from from documentary TALKING BLACK in AMERICA (5 min YouTube video)
• The Costs of Code-Switching Harvard Business Review (5 min read article)
• Key & Peele Phone Call (0:48 satire video) and Key & Peele on code-switching from 2016
• 3 ways to speak English | Jamila Lyiscott | TED Talk (4 min video spoken word)

Disability Education

• Things People With Disabilities Wish You Knew (video)
• How Ableist Federal Laws Allow Discrimination Against The Disabled Community | Disabled people can be paid less and forced into poverty.
• Stella Young’s TedTalk I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much
• Imani Barbarin AKA Crutches & Spice Podcast: Interalized Abelism
  
• Sinéad Burke TedTalk: Why design should include everyone
  
• Elise Roy TedTalk: When we design for disability, we all benefit
  
• The Horizontals | TEDxBrum Not all disabilities are visible. |
  
• Max Silverman at TEDxBatesCollege Talking About Invisible Illness - Mental Illness: ​

Health Equity

• Types of Discrimination and Discrimination Remedies
  
• Unconscious bias and the medical model: How the social model may hold the key to transformative thinking about disability discrimination
• Resources to Combat Adultification Bias and Other Empowerment Tools- Georgetown Law Center for Poverty & Inequality
• Unnatural Causes - is inequality making us sick- NAACHO - 7 Part Documentary
• Ten Essential Public Health Services and How They Can Include Addressing Social Determinants of Health Inequities
  
• Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication
• Peer Facilitated Community Inclusion Toolkit.- : Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion for Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities.

CRISIS HOTLINES

• https://checkpointorg.com/global/ - will tell you what crisis numbers are for your country/area.
  
• National Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-4-A-CHILD (1-800-422-4453)
  
• National Sexual Assault Hotline (RAINN): 1-800-656-HOPE (1-800-656-4673)
  
• National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233
  
• National Suicide Hotline: 1-800-SUICIDE (1-800-784-2433)
  
• National Alliance on Mental Illness: 1-800-950-NAMI (1-800-950-6264)
  
• SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration): 1-800-662-HELP (1-800-662-4357)
  
• SAMHSA Disaster Distress: 1-800-985-5990
  
• The Trevor Project - LGBTQIA young people ages 13-24 Text: 678-678 Call: 1- 866-488-7386
  
• Crisis Text Line: Text START to 741-741 (USA)
  
• The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender National Hotline: (888) 843-4564
  
• Trans Lifeline: (877) 565-8860
  
• Crisis Services Canada: 1-833-456-4566 toll free (In QC: 1-866-277-3553)
  
• Mental Health Mobile Crisis Telephone Line: 902-429-8167
  
• Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention / Association Candienne Pour la Prevention Du Suicide: 819-339-3356
  

Non-crisis support

• MENTAL HEALTH SCREENING TOOL – FREE & ANONYMOUS
  
• Therapy In Color
  
• Therapy for Black Girls
  
• Therapy for Black Men
  
• Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective (BEAM)
  
• Therapy for Latinx
  
• The National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network (NQTTCN)
  
• Inclusive Therapists
  
• Ayana
  
• Black Therapy Love
  
• The Safe Place
  

KAMACLEAN CONSULTING LLC 2023