Areas of Practice
Workshops
The workshops I offer range from history lessons which focus on the policies and practices that have cemented inequity in our society, to practicing how to dialogue across difference, to personal enrichment work designed to help each participant begin the work of becoming an antiracist. All of my workshops rely on a mix of powerpoint presentation, videos, and small and large group conversation. My goal in each workshop is to create a space where participants feel brave enough to be vulnerable and open to change.
Strategic Visioning
Guiding leadership teams and boards of directors is a particular passion of mine. I partner with organizational leaders in thinking critically about their organizations culture. By doing so I help guide leaders through realigning their organization’s goals, vision, and mission to better reflect the values of racial equity, diversity, and inclusion. Together with leadership teams and boards of directors I create a roadmap that outlines concrete steps and policy changes that will begin to shift their organization’s culture and infuse it with cultural humility.
Guiding Cultural Change
Together with leadership teams, boards of directors, and staff at every level of the organization I create a roadmap that outlines concrete steps and policy changes that will begin to shift their organization’s culture and infuse it with cultural humility. I begin by taking the time to engage as many stakeholders as possible and inviting as many voices as are available into the conversation. Cultural change is not work that begins in a leadership team meeting and is rolled out to staff. Everyone must be an active participant in this work.
Curriculum Development
As a professor I create curriculums for my classes on a regular basis. This practice has provided me with the skills to work with organizations to create training curriculum that they can continue to use long after I am gone. I am also able to help organizations analyze existing curricula for gaps with regard to racial equity, diversity, and inclusion.
“In his professional capacity as an educator, Jared has proven experience facilitating community conversations and workshop trainings in diversity and inclusion. As part of the Museum’s D&I work, Jared was selected to participate in a training series that was sponsored by Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC) and their Cultural Competency Learning Institute (CCLI). Upon completion of the program, Jared co-designed and co-led an 8 session Unconscious Bias training series. In the series, Jared and his co-facilitator led staff through assessing their own biases and an exploration of bias origins and the social systemic structures in which they are rooted, including how those systems influence our work at the museum. Jared demonstrated expertise of contemporary diversity, equity, inclusion and multiculturalism concepts and anti-racism issues, a strong ability to facilitate dialogue across multiple business units and to articulate thought leadership and a clear point of view. Thanks to Jared’s work we continue to hold conversations within our internal employee community and build on new topics as our organization pushes on the path toward equity in policy and practice.”
— Liz Davis, Director of Programs, and Nicole Lucero-Holub, Director of Human Resources, Denver Museum of Nature and Science