Learning & Development Trainings

Creating spaces that are non-judgmental yet honest,

Paula offers practical skills and data-driven best practices for building more equitable, inclusive, diverse, and affirming workplace cultures . Using the most updated data to inform her trainings, Paula makes her workshops interactive, accessible and practical. She is known for her impeccable balance of

• real-world, industry expertise

• inclusive, considerate facilitation

• data-driven expertise translated into accessible, useful tools

Explore current learning & development trainings below, or request a custom training.

Building Inclusive Cultures

Using interactive scenarios, participants gain greater self-awareness of the harms caused by non-inclusive behaviors and learn how to adopt best practices that create affirming and inclusive workplace cultures.

Inclusive & Equitable Hiring

Using customized interactive scenarios, participants learn effective, data-proven inclusive hiring strategies, from establishing review criteria, resume review, candidate selection, and interviewing processes. The training presents best practices for minimizing the adverse effects of unconscious bias in hiring.

Equitable Performance Management

Participants learn how to make data-informed adjustments to performance management evaluation processes to increase equitable outcomes, talent retention, professional development, and a sense of fairness in career advancement.

Inclusive People Management

This training introduces people managers to inclusive best practices for improving team dynamics and outputs, negotiating interpersonal conflict, managing team differences, leveraging diverse perspectives, and offering solutions-oriented feedback.

Navigating Workplace Conflict

Participants are introduce to effective steps they can take to prevent, mitigate and resolve workplace conflict. Interactive scenarios offering realistic and customized examples of interpersonal, team or org-wide conflicts help participants strategize on applying best practices within their unique organizational cultures.

Systemic Racism & Poverty

This interactive workshop focuses on the ways housing discrimination and residential segregation shape opportunities and disadvantages. Participants walk away with a personalized understanding of the links between systemic racism and poverty that can be used to launch discussions about integrating equity into organizational practices, social responsibilities, and systemic remedies.

Beyond ‘Banning the Box’

Over 100 million Americans carry the stigma of past criminal records when applying for jobs. Although they are some of the most committed and reliable employees, people with criminal records face significant barriers to securing employment and therefore to successful integration into communities. This training introduces HR and business partners to fair Second Chance practices that organizations can adopt to tap into new labor pools and reduce discrimination in hiring.