Is attrition harming your bottom line and your organizational culture?

Are leaders at your organization clueless about how to authentically connect with your employees and customers, causing reputational risk and costly litigation?

Looking for a better way to retain and develop talent and build a culture where everyone feels valued and contributes their best work?

Hi, I'm a white woman named Karen, and I'd like to speak to your managers. 🤣

Because I grew up in an almost entirely white community, when I began leading diverse teams, I had no experience relating and communicating across difference. I made many mistakes similar to the ones your company's leaders are making.

Fortunately, I worked for remarkable leaders - women of color who provided specific feedback on my strengths and growth areas. By emulating their practices, implementing their feedback, and listening to my team, I transformed my leadership and my teams thrived.

The lesson? A better way exists.

If you're a Chief Diversity Officer who is:

❌ Exhausted by marginalized people expressing grievances and feeling powerless to effect change
❌ Tired of pleading with your company's leaders to change
❌ Seeking an external consultant, coach, and workshop facilitator who can command respect and attention

I’ve got something for you.

It’s called “Racy Conversations”

Together we can

✅ Stop the revolving door
✅ Emerge as an attractive employer for a diverse workforce, including people of the global majority, women, LGBTQIAA+ people, and differently-abled people
✅ Realize your dream culture - a place where everyone thrives, contributes their best work, and collaboratively creates outstanding products and services that captivate customers

Ready to take action? Book a complimentary call to determine how we can help transform your company's culture: https://calendly.com/karen-racyconversations/chat-with-karen

Don't take my word for it. Here's what a few clients have to say:

“Karen’s strengths are her abilities to find common ground with everyone around her, no matter their background, and to explain uncomfortable and triggering concepts to people of differing viewpoints in a way that makes them want to listen and engage.”- Amanda Townsend, Canaan

“Karen’s warmth stands out. Her compassion and kindness made me immediately comfortable with her. It's very genuine and may take some people aback because you don't run into people like her that often.” - Chanté Mitchell, ELGL 

“Karen is brave, unapologetic, and convicted to say the things and drive action that the world so desperately needs... where others rest on their privilege or succumb to the fear and don't hop in the ring.”- Carrie Majewski, Women in Leadership Nexus

“Karen is fully aware of who she is and the lived experience that has shaped her. She is very knowledgeable about the racial/historical events that have shaped our country and continue to impact our lived experiences. Karen has a powerful yet compassionate way of being that allows people to be comfortable in their own discomfort of exploring their learning edges, including those unspeakable areas around race, gender, and power.  She invites you into an exploration of self that feels natural and relational.”- Bart Bailey, Courage2Care 

“Karen’s expertise comes from not only personal experience (being a woman), but by intentionally becoming an activist and advocate for social and racial justice, I felt our team would benefit from her authenticity and credibility in these areas. In other words, she’s earned it.” - Loraine Koury, Johnson & Johnson

“Karen is authentic and consistently shows up and is 100% present in all that she does. That’s rare in general much less super rare in a business environment. Also, she is willing to be vulnerable from a place of strength.

She is a “compassionate witness” willing to walk the walk with herself and others.”

- Melanie Freeberg, ASG

 “Karen has the courage as a white woman, to take on the issues, challenges, wins, highs and lows of a community of people (POC) that are fundamentally different from her (physically, experientially) and weave that into her life’s mission.

 That is straight-up courage and I admire her for that.”

- Turquoise Peart, Guaranteed Rate

 “One of Karen’s superpowers is creating clear through lines in history to help people contextualize the connection between racialized and gendered oppression. She is absolutely masterful at holding difficult conversations, especially across difference, and she builds long-lasting relationships.”

- Jen Nguyen, Evolve Coaching and Consulting

 Karen does a great job of creating a safe space for white people and others in the workplace who hold institutional power to consider how their behavior impacts others. Because she herself is a white woman among other privileged identities, white people receive her message well. Karen creates safety for people who are not in dominant groups to express their feelings, an all too rare experience for us. She is fully present, a great listener who can pivot and redirect workshop participants to build self-awareness. Karen offers tangible actions and scripts and space for participants to practice what they will do and say in situations. People leave the workshop prepared to recognize and intervene when they see harm occur, and to put their best selves forward in interactions across difference.

-Kerina Koch, Wetherby

The level of vulnerability and authenticity Karen brings to coaching makes her unique. She provided me guidance based on her experience but also willingly shared her mistakes and learnings from her own anti-racism work. It felt like we were practicing together. - Sarah Corlett, Design Impact

As an anti-racism educator, Karen brings her unique lived experiences, perspectives and passion to inspire the first antiracist generation in the U.S. She is a fierce advocate and accomplice who practices humility, accepts accountability and responsibility and is willing to make mistakes. She is a great listener and problem-solver and a trained lawyer and a longstanding activist who brings the right level of positivity and optimism to this work! It feels rare to see a white woman use her privilege, power and position the way she does. She isn’t scared to use her platform to call in and call out the powers that be as well as other white folks who need to do the work. Speaking from my experience, Karen is also ruthlessly generous and caring when it comes to Black and Brown women, which I appreciate so much.

-Ivellisse Morales, bombilla

 Karen has a unique way of tying all the pieces together and being able to deliver them in such a powerful way. During her bias workshop I loved how she brought in the history and how it contributes to the here and now. 

 On the personal side, she has a heart that is passionate for humanity and for those that are hurting. This makes her a strong advocate in a unique way where she abandons what is comfortable to go into a space that some aren't willing to go for the work she is doing. She also has this amazing way of showing up to where people don't know what to expect - even if they assume or have an idea. That is extremely powerful for the brain to receive new information or information shared in a different way. - Charisse Fontes, Culture Circle