The difference between an accredited CME or MCLE course and a keynote that carries no credit — and the five things to verify before you buy either.
A keynote and an accredited course can cover the same material and mean entirely different things on a transcript. One is a talk.
Read essayAn organizational equity assessment is usually specified by its length and its price. This is what a defensible one contains — baseline, method, findings, and recommendations tied to accountability.
An organizational equity assessment is one of the most routinely commissioned institutional documents and one of the least specified.
How to structure equity and culture work so it survives False Claims Act, debarment, and procurement scrutiny in the 2026 federal climate.
The question institutions bring to us in 2026 is no longer whether equity work is worth doing.
A criminal-sentencing statute, read for what its evidentiary standard now means to employers and public institutions weighing their own exposure.
The California Racial Justice Act is a criminal statute.
Climate assessments are routinely commissioned without the structural rigor that makes the findings actionable. Here are the five questions that change that.
A board commissioning an organizational climate assessment usually inherits the assignment from a regulatory finding, a public incident, or a leadership transition.
A reflection on the cornerstone engagement that defined the practice — what worked, what was hard, and what is built to outlast the engagement.
The engagement at the San Francisco Department of Public Health, Behavioral Health Services spanned three years — 2023 through 2026.
A reflection on serving as expert witness in a precedent-setting California Racial Justice Act case, and what the precedent has and has not changed.
In 2023 I served as expert witness in a California Racial Justice Act case, *People v.
A reader's guide for boards, general counsels, and institutional leaders evaluating a racial equity action plan that has been drafted by their own staff or a prior consultant.
Racial equity action plans are now standard institutional documents.
Sustained institutional change begins with a real conversation about scope, fit, and timing. We work with a small number of institutions per year.
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