About
Diamond Strategies is a premier, award-winning (2022 Best of Tempe Consultant Award), Better Business Bureau A+ rated, NSDMC certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE), a trend-setting Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI), community relations firm, employee learning, and executive leadership training provider to Fortune 500 companies, non-profits, government, and educational institutions in the United States, Europe, Africa, Canada, and China.
We provide JEDI, cultural humility, ally building, and anti-racism facilitation and training, in addition to leadership in community relations, and interpersonal and intercultural communication to our clients through a combination of strategic planning, presentations, robust and thematic listening sessions, workshops, trainings, one-on-one coaching, and other activities designed to provide the knowledge, skills, sensitivity, and resources that organizations need to engender healthy and effective cultures of collaboration and inclusion. Our specialties include Facilitation and Training, including industry Training-of-Trainers, (TOT), Interest-Based-Resolution (IBR), Transformative Community Relations, and Thought Leadership. Our skilled leadership, combined with first-rate analytics and data-driven technology, will help your organization move the needle in the areas of JEDI and community relations.
Our Team is keenly aware of, and have deep interests in, many aspects of our culture. We are outspoken, resourceful, authentic, and enterprising JEDI gurus, who are uniquely suited to help you and your institution. We are professional and collegial, and we do whatever it takes—putting in countless hours—to produce the best work possible. Not surprisingly, we are devoted to issues that affect the everyday lives of people, particularly those who have been rendered marginal by virtue of their race, class, and gender. Our team has coached and mentored executive leadership, administrators, and emerging leaders within 6 K-12 school districts, 13 community colleges, 11 universities, over 20 non-profits, and more than 30 businesses and large corporations.
“Dr. Matthew Whitaker partnered with the Cartwright School District #83 to support our 8th grade college and career ready innovation. He was an outstanding speaker and mentor for or students, parents and staff. He and Diamond Strategies are passionate and skillful in supporting students and community from diverse backgrounds as they seek to fulfill their college and career dreams!
— Dr. LeeAnn A Lawlor, Superintendent, Cartwright School District, Phoenix, AZ
Mission and Vision
Our mission is to be the catalyst our clients are looking for to assist them in creating inclusive, collegial, and successful environments, by providing innovative and effective strategies and tactics, that are tethered to their business plan and mission, to increase synergy, performance, productivity, profitability, brand optimization, and competitiveness.
Our vision is to answer the persistent call for a more inclusive and productive world, by deploying our experts to increase cultural competency and leverage difference to create innovative office and educational environments. Our goal is to be your diversity and inclusion partner in a larger effort to maximize our human and institutional potential. The great sociologist, W.E.B. DuBois, wrote “there can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race or poverty, but with all we accomplish all.” We at Diamond Strategies believe that “with all we accomplish all”.
Sustainability
Diamond Strategies is committed to playing an active role in forging a sustainable planet, where social responsibility, environmental protections, and climate considerations, intersect with diversity, equity, inclusion, transformational leadership, and equitable policies and practices. This includes not only responding to critical issues in real-time, but also understanding and promoting behaviors that eliminate waste, pollution, and environmental injustice for future generations. We accomplish this by:
Using sustainable products
Being energy efficient
Using clean energy sources
Recycle everywhere possible
Partnering with green companies
