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Making you stand out through your success.

We partner with clients to attract a diverse workforce, motivate and engage employees, and create cultures of belonging where everyone can do their best work. Our team of experts have partnered with hundreds of companies — higher education and k-12 schools, technology, non-profits, government agencies and religious organizations — to evaluate, design, and deliver strategies and training programs for organizational change. We have created DEI frameworks and methodologies through the latest research and evidenced-based practices by working with collaborative teams that bring expertise and a proven track record of success.

That new DEI framework is called Organizational Cultural Intelligence. The latest research on cultural intelligence shows that diverse teams with high cultural intelligence outperform homogeneous teams by over 300% over time due to increase trust, innovation and creativity.

We model Organizational Cultural Intelligence in our process and in our measurement.

We work with organizations throughout the United States and have offices in:

Denver, CO
Los Angeles, Ca
Chicago, IL
Philadelphia, PA
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Core Values

When we think about our core values, we are thinking about these four words:

I :: we :: everyone :: everything.

We want to ensure that each of these core values is something that every individual employee believes, experiences, and lives out for themselves. We also want to ensure that as our team members interact with each other, they embody the core values consistently. We mention the word everyone because we desire that these core values create a culture that lives out our mission. And lastly, we say the word “everything” because we are nothing without our external partners; those that align with our mission and experience our core values in our interactions and through our deliverables.

Chosen Family

Chosen family refers to a close-knit group of individuals not related by blood but have formed deep emotional connections and provide mutual support and care for one another. Chosen family is a concept rooted in the idea that individuals have the agency to create and cultivate meaningful relationships with people who affirm their identities, values, and experiences. These relationships are characterized by a high sense of trust, understanding, and love.

Brilliance

Brilliance encompasses the recognition and celebration of intellectual prowess, exceptional talent, and outstanding achievements. It highlights the importance of intellectual curiosity, creativity, and innovation within the workplace and in our products. Embracing brilliance as a cultural value fosters a culture that values and encourages intellectual growth, critical thinking, and the pursuit of knowledge.

Desarrollo (deh'-sah'-Roh'-yoh'; Development in Spanish)

Desarollo means a development in Spanish. Development refers to the belief and commitment to continuous growth, learning, and improvement at individual and collective levels. It emphasizes the importance of investing in employees' professional and personal development, fostering a culture of learning, and enabling individuals to reach their full potential.

DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion)

We live our work in our own house. DEI, which stands for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, represents the commitment to fostering a workplace culture that embraces and celebrates diversity, ensures equity for all, and fosters an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered. Additionally, we firmly believe (and research has proven!) that a highly culturally intelligent workforce consistently outperforms any other workplace culture (homogenous or diverse) because of employees' high sense of belonging, which produces innovation and creativity.

Laughter / Humor

We like to laugh - we want to joke around. When we say humor and laughter, we refer to the recognition and encouragement of a positive, lighthearted, and fun work environment where humor is embraced, and laughter is encouraged. It emphasizes the belief that humor can play a valuable role in fostering employee engagement, creativity, and overall well-being within the organization.

About the Founder

 
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Dr. Pablo Otaola is an Argentine LatinX immigrant, a USAF veteran, and part of the BIPOC community.

As a LatinX global citizen and immigrant to the USA, Dr. Pablo Otaola has developed the agility to quickly understand complex systems and provide on-ramps of learning and development for employees with expertise in developing equitable structures. Through diligent professional and academic study, Pablo has come to understand that organizational learning and change towards an inclusive and equitable organization that is highly culturally intelligent requires understanding individuals, groups, and systems of various contexts and cultural values. Pablo has built a career of efficiently implementing systematic change, leadership transformation, and models that have allowed diverse teams to thrive.

Pablo has leveraged this skill for systems change management and leadership development. Organizations are learning systems that require identity change to have all people thrive. Therefore, learning and organizational change towards DEI are the most strategic levers we can pull to expedite achieving the culture change needed of advancing organizations and preparing them for the future.

Over the years, Dr. Otaola has developed various programs that train on organizational change, racial minority and women retention practices, multi-ethnic and religious identity, cultural intelligence, inclusion and diversity, leadership development and gender equity. With a BA and an MA in leadership and organizational readiness towards diversity as well as certifications in Cultural Change, Cultural Intelligence, UB training, and multi-ethnic leadership, Dr. Otaola is poised to build upon organizational productive aspects while providing vision and leadership to align with DEI goals. 

As a life-long learner and someone who likes to improve organizational gaps, Dr. Otaola has earned a Doctor of Education in Leadership and Organizational Change, focusing on changes towards DEI from the University of Southern California. Dr. Otaola’s passion is to use this information to equip organizational leaders to change systems and create new ones allowing all constituents to THRIVE.

Additionally, Dr. Otaola has learned early on that to change a system and equip employees, there is a need to develop diverse training that would increase staff retention via increasing cultural leadership quotients.

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”

― Nelson Mandela