I can say unequivocally that Mr. King’s training is the absolute best that I have experienced in terms of its depth, comprehensiveness, and effectiveness.
Dante D. King is the founder and principal of King of Kings Consulting. He is a nationally recognized organizational development consultant, change management strategist, expert legal witness, and MCLE provider. His career spans more than two decades across corporate banking, government, public health, medical institutions, and education.
He served as Deputy Director of the Office of Health Equity at the San Francisco Department of Public Health, leading equity strategy for an organization of 8,000 employees. He was Director of Race, Equity, and Inclusion at the SFMTA (6,000 employees), and the inaugural SFMTA Ombudsperson. As a senior HR Manager at the City and County of San Francisco, he designed and delivered citywide implicit bias training to 20,000+ employees, including the SFPD. He has delivered guest lectures at Stanford Medicine, Johns Hopkins, and UCSF, and is currently Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medical Education at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, where he co-directed an accredited 15.0-hour CME/CE course on anti-racism leadership in healthcare — the flagship course, part of 22.5 accredited hours at Mayo.
He served as expert witness in People v. Finley (2023), helping codify new California law under the Racial Justice Act.
He has received the NADOHE Higher Education Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leadership Award (2024) and the NAME Carter G. Woodson Service Award (2023).
He directs the Leadership Fellowship and authors the Diagnosis Series. He lives in Oakland.
The career that built the practice.
More than two decades. Four senior institutional roles.
Institutional anti-racism, leadership development, organizational transformation. Multi-year engagements across healthcare, education, government, and corporate.
Equity strategy across an 8,000-employee organization. Established the first targeted recruitment program.
First-ever Racial Equity Action Plan for an agency of 6,000 employees.
Designed and delivered citywide implicit bias training to 20,000+ employees including the SFPD.
Recognition.
Awards, appointments, teaching, and accreditation across institutional anti-racism work.
- NADOHE Higher Education
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Leadership Award (2024) - NAME Carter G. Woodson
Service Award (2023)
- Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medical Education
Current appointment - Stanford Medicine
Guest lectures - Johns Hopkins University
Guest lectures - University of California, San Francisco
Guest lectures - BMC Public Health (2023)
Co-author, “Addressing Anti-Black Racism in an Academic Preterm Birth Initiative”
- UCSF School of Medicine
Accredited CME/CE Provider, 2021–2025
Understanding the Roots of Racism and Bias - Mayo Clinic School of Continuous Professional Development
Accredited CME/CE Provider
Developing Anti-Racism Leadership Competencies - San Francisco Police Commission
presentations - California Racial Justice Act
People v. Finley (2023)
legal precedent established
Dante King — books, essays, and public engagement.
For Dante’s books, essays, and public engagements outside the consulting practice, visit his personal site.
Visit danteking.com (opens in a new tab)Latest writing.
Notes on the practice. Read more at /blog.
Accredited anti-racism CME and MCLE: what actually counts.
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.
What a defensible organizational equity assessment includes.
An 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.
De-risking equity work in the anti-DEI era: what a defensible program looks like in 2026.
How to structure equity and culture work so it survives False Claims Act, debarment, and procurement scrutiny in the 2026 federal climate.
Work with Dante.
Multi-year institutional engagements, expert witness work under the California Racial Justice Act, and MCLE-accredited continuing education for legal and government clients. We work with a small number of institutions per year.