Leadership Coaching & Advising
Personalized guidance to support your own learning journey
Whether you are an executive looking to improve leadership skills or a DEI lead who wants to catalyze behavioral and organizational change, our coaching packages are built to support your specific needs and provide actionable tools to help you on your journey. Our coaches have deep experience working one-on-one with executives and DEI leads. We cater our sessions to each leader’s unique leadership journey, providing guidance and actionable steps to immediately put into practice.
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Individual Inclusive Leadership Coaching
Our coaching clients are leaders who want to move through their fears of saying the wrong thing, build understanding and empathy, and know how to better lead diverse and inclusive teams and organizations. We also work with leaders who may have made a misstep and want to ensure they don’t make another. Everyone is on a unique learning path. We meet each person where they are at and provide guidance and actionable steps to immediately put into practice that are uniquely catered to their leadership journey.
DEI & ERG Lead Advising
DEI leaders and committees come to us looking to build strategies across global teams that develop empathy, cultivate allyship, reduce acts of exclusion, and foster psychological safety and belonging. If you’re newly established as a committe or just starting out in your DEI career, you might work with our advisors on understanding best practices, conducting assessments and data analysis, developing strategies, influencing leaders, creating committee charters and roles, and setting measurable and achievable short- and long-term goals. We also advise ERGs wanting to develop allyship programs and expand their programming to drive organizational change.
Group Coaching
Group inclusive leadership coaching is available as a standalone option or as part of our training packages.
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What Our Customers Say
Google began working with Empovia nearly a decade ago supporting our work in racial equity and justice…. Empovia have long been leaders in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging and Allyship, and each engagement with Melinda, Wayne and team becomes a learning experience. Engaging with Empovia fosters in people, communities and businesses greater awareness, empathy and advocacy skills. Google has, and I have, trusted Empovia with our DEI impact, and I am excited to see how Empovia will continue this legacy.
Chris Genteel
Trent Kusters
“I loved the workshop because I love this topic first and foremost, its so much a part of what we do… around hiring – which is the hardest thing I have to do, especially as we often have to hire fast, and time is always our enemy.”
Workshop Attendee
“I’ve had the pleasure of working with Melinda and the Empovia team over the last four years in my role at Reddit. She has been a great thought partner as the DEI ecosystem and conversation has evolved. She is an expert in her field, a kind and compassionate person, and thinks very progressively about changing the way organizations approach diversity, equity and inclusion.”
Katelin Holloway
“The Empovia team does a tremendous job curating relevant Diversity, Equity and Inclusion content for all sectors and stakeholders…. The sessions are insightful, impactful, and designed to inspire attendees to action.”
David Ortiz
Lionel Lee
Stephen Satchel
“Having worked with Melinda, I recommend her without hesitation. Melinda is creative, thinks strategically and can interact with and most importantly, engage across all levels of stakeholders, which is critical when dealing with the systemic issues inherent in diversity, inclusion, and belonging. As a consultant, she was able to create customized learnings and solutions for our company, and her co-leadership of Empovia has ensured that the group is positioned as a leader in this space.”
Sonja Gittens Ottley
“I had the pleasure of partnering with Melinda Briana Epler, CEO of Empovia who spoke with Figma to share her insights and reflections on what we can all do to be better allies at work. Our employees appreciated the discussion and opportunity to reflect on the roles of allies in the workplace. We have ordered 100 copies of her book, How to Be an Ally, to facilitate ongoing discussions sparked by Melinda’s talk. Thanks, Melinda!”
Amanda Hooper
Shelly Elliott
“I am grateful to have had the opportunity to work with Melinda and Empovia. Melinda is an expert in the DEIB space, and successfully facilitated multiple workshops on DEIB for my prior organization’s employees and managers. She is a true thought partner and crafted a presentation that was engaging, thought-provoking, and well received throughout the organization.”
Nicole (Jablon) Silverman
“Working with the Empovia Team for the past 12 months has been nothing short of an amazing experience! Melinda and Cory are well-versed as facilitators and take the time to understand their audience both personally and professionally to create the best environment for absorbing information. We’ve had three cohorts… — with a fourth starting soon — and we continue to receive phenomenal feedback regarding new insights and perspectives from our colleagues. We cherish our continued partnership with Melinda and the Empovia Team and thank them for being a part of our DE&I journey at BENlabs.”
