EQ·UI·TY/ˈekwədē/
“Proactively creating policies, practices, and attitudes that increase access, opportunities, and positive outcomes for all people, particularly those impacted by systemic disadvantage, marginalization, and exclusion.”
CONSULTING
WORKSHOPS
Workplace Trainings
Improving People Skills for Organizational Health
Interactive, useful, evidence-based workplace trainings focused on improving the skills of people managers and employees toward effective teamwork, mission-driven outcomes, and organizational health grounded in equity & inclusion.
Inclusive Leadership
Equitable Performance Management
Mitigating Workplace Bias
Effective Conflict Resolution
Consulting
Strategic Planning, Executive Coaching, Employee Relations
Paula’s mixed-methods behavioral science/organizational behavior background, coupled with extensive strategic implementation experience, situates Paula as a uniquely astute, data-driven consultant in the following areas:
Organizational Assessments & Strategic Planning
Executive Coaching for C-suite, Executive, Senior Leaders
Employee Relations (HR business parter assisting with administration, coordination, documentation and resolutions for complex workplace issues)
The Emotional Politics of Racism: How Feelings Trump Facts in an Era of Colorblindness
(Stanford University Press)
With this book, Paula Ioanide examines how emotion has prominently figured into contemporary expressions of racial discrimination and violence… But Ioanide also argues that there is opportunity for new mobilizations, for ethical witnessing.
"The Emotional Politics of Racism is a sustained act of ethical witnessing. Paula Ioanide offers fresh insights into the relationship between social order and alienation, showing the interrelation of explanatory and affective modes that perpetuate gendered racial hierarchy.”
—RUTH WILSON GILMORE, author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globlizing California
ABOUT PAULA
Paula has over 15 years of consulting and facilitation experience on building equitable and effective organizations, systems, and policies. She is the founder and CEO of Rise to Equity Excellence, LLC. Her unique consulting approach translates complex data-driven solutions into accessible, easy-to-use tools, and implementation strategies.
Paula utilizes applied qualitative and quantitate methods to conduct SWOT analyses for strategic planning and implementation; executive coaching; and employee relations. Using the most up-to-date research in organizational behavioral science and psychology, Paula advises clients on strategic visions and implementation strategies, learning & development, executive coaching, and complex employee relations that tether equity and inclusion with key organizational goals and outcomes.
She earned her PhD in History of Consciousness from UC Santa Cruz in 2008. She has spent her career working in applied research and equitable organizational strategy and implementation. More recently, she has had the opportunity to bring her varied expertise to organizations, systems, and policy change in the fields of criminal justice, clean energy, and health care.
Dr. Paula Ioanide, Founder & CEO of Rise to Equity Excellence, LLC
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