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). We are a trend-setting inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA), community relations firm, employee learning, conflict resolution, and executive leadership coaching provider, to Fortune 500 companies, non-profits, government, and educational institutions in the United States, African, Canada, China, Europe, and Africa.
In addition, we provide tream and ally building training and facilitation, in addition to leadership in interpersonal and intercultural communication, through a combination of organizational one-on-one coaching, audits, strategic planning, interactive presentations, training, robust and thematic listening sessions, workshops, retreats, symposia, and other activities designed to provide the knowledge, skills, sensitivity, and resources organizations need to forge and maintain 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 team, combined with first-rate analytics and data-driven technology, will help your organization close gaps and move the cohesion, innovation, productivity, community relations, and succession planning, needle across your organizational ecosystem.
Our Team is keenly aware of, and have deep interests in, many aspects of our culture. We are outspoken, resourceful, and enterprising IDEA 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, gender, identity, sexual orientation, immigration status, faith, and learning and thinking styles. Our team has coached and mentored executive leadership, administrators, and emerging leaders within 6 K-12 school districts, 14 community colleges, 12 universities, over 18 non-profits, and more than 33 businesses and large corporations.
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”.
Diamond Strategies utilizes approaches to IDES that include “Integrated Global Strategic” and “Targeted Universalism” practices. "The Integrated Global Strategic Approach emphasizes conducting various engaged and applied learning activities. Targeted Universalism “means setting universal goals pursued by targeted processes to achieve those goals. Within a targeted universalism framework, universal goals are established for all groups concerned. The strategies developed to achieve those goals are targeted, based upon how different groups are situated within structures, culture, and across geographies to obtain the universal goal. Targeted universalism is goal oriented, and the processes are directed in service of the explicit, universal goal.”
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 inclusion, diversity, equity, accessibility (IDEA), 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
“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
