THE WORK

CREATING '“JEDI” WORKERS

Justice, equity, diversity and inclusion have become buzzwords post the rise in protests against police brutality and historically racist institutions in America. Isaac Sanders Consulting takes JEDI a step further by incorporating actionable steps to transform organizations and the staff within them. We strive to help organizations become safe havens for historically disenfranchised and marginalized. We ensure radical change within your organization utilizing these multiple methods to help you become a JEDI warrior:

  • Most Current Equity Research

  • Organization multi-level analysis

  • Policy auditing

  • Trainings and simulations

IDENTIFYING AND FILLING GAPS

Isaac Sanders Consulting is driven by love as a tool to get everyone to liberation and freedom. A large part of our love ethic is driven by honesty and trust. We will build rapport with your team so we can have generative conversations that will illuminate clear gaps within your workplace culture, service providing, and/or mission alignment. With a JEDI lens we want to make sure that there are clear goals for you moving forward that you can continually iterate to improve. We ensure a culture shift towards growth and community utilizing these methods:

  • Continuous Quality Improvement framework

  • Strategic organizational surveying and analysis

  • Department and 1:1 coaching

what I can do for you

    1. Identify training needs by meeting with leadership

    2. Work with leadership to collect surveys from staff and clients to create specific goals for agency training

    3. Conduct our own research and create deliverables that we will bring to leadership until we come to a consensus that this is what will be most effective.

    4. Conduct first training with staff

    5. Provide technical assistance and train the trainer opportunities so training can be iterated by the agency internally or externally

    1. Work with leadership to identify what specific needs are wanted from audit

    2. Utilizing our justice, equity, diversity, inclusion (JEDI) organizational assessment tools, we will conduct a large scale audit of requested materials

    3. Provide a official report of our findings with recommendations and what we can provide if continued consulting is requested

  • We can provide catered coaching to leadership teams, specialized committees, and individual members of your agency in content areas including, but not limited to:

    Equity

    Retention of diverse staff

    Organizational culture shifting

    Anti- oppressive Leadership

    Restructuring organizational power

    Community Based Participatory Action Research

    Continuous Quality Improvement frameworks

    Outreach/Engagement

  • As a PhD student, Isaac and the Isaac Sanders Consulting team prioritize research to inform their work. The way that we define research is not confined to the academy but working with folks in community, utilizing mixed methodology, to conduct small research studies that can provide information to you. This includes but is not limited to:

    Data collection on products or services

    Staff feedback on specific topics

    Community feedback on work impact

    Historically disenfranchised staff feedback on cultural competency in workplace culture

  • Isaac Sanders Consulting specializes in strategic design and development of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion programming along with any community lead programming that involves hiring lived experience. As we expand we will add more options to our menu of options. We will be able to:

    1. Support the construction of JEDI based foundational frameworks within program design

    2. Work with leadership to construct goals, visions, and the mission of the department

    3. Support construction of equitable hiring materials and build personalized templates for job descriptions

    4. Coach leadership on supervision of department so that it can be the most successful

    5. Continue technical assistance upon request from director of program and/or leadership

Work with me

  • "This work requires deep collaboration and trust building. As a Black and queer individual, this work is deeply personal to them. It is their identities and personal passions that is driving them to specifically focus on the intersections of youth who are systems involved while holding the multiple identities of youth disproportionately affected by systems of care, LGBTQ+ and BIPOC youth. Isaac’s focus on intersectionality has made them the go-to person in their agency to create and implement programs to support both community leaders and youth with lived experience. Their life’s work and a couple of the multi-media projects they have done are deeply personal to them"

    Paula Carvalho, MIT - Program Officer Youth Porgrams @ the Raikes Foundation

  • I am so impressed by all you’re doing, so thankful for your willingness to share it, and so honored to get to know you. I told my kids about you, and my youngest daughter got online right away to learn about the organization, as youth homelessness is a particular passion of hers, too. Thank you for shining so brightly in the world; I found myself thinking, “I don’t even know all the policy levers Isaac is using to catalyze these fantastic outcomes” and it gave me a profound sense of gratitude and admiration.

    Former Professor