The Practice

Institutions don’t fail at strategy. They fail at the integration between assessment, leadership, policy, and accountability.

SFDPHUCSFMayo ClinicSFMTACity and County of San FranciscoOUSDEvanston TownshipWikimedia Foundation

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Three engagement shapes.

Most engagements take one of three forms. The shape determines the timeline, the scope, and the services pulled in.

0118–36 MONTHS

The cornerstone transformation.

Multi-year, multi-service, deep institutional change.

The cornerstone shape is the deepest engagement KOK delivers. It pulls together every service family — assessment, leadership development, coaching, policy, strategic planning, and a sustained fellowship cohort. Reserved for institutions ready for transformation rather than intervention. Typical scope: large public-sector and health-system organizations facing structural cultural challenges that require multi-year discipline to resolve.

Services typically involved
DIAGNOSE · BUILD · SUSTAIN — ALL FAMILIES
Example engagementSFDPH Behavioral Health Services (2023–2026)
026–12 MONTHS

The crisis response.

After a regulatory finding, a board mandate, a public incident, or a leadership transition.

The crisis-response shape is for institutions facing acute exposure — regulatory findings, board mandates, public incidents, or executive turnover that has surfaced cultural failures requiring documented action. Pulls heavily from DIAGNOSE and BUILD: rapid organizational equity assessment, targeted capacity building, executive coaching for the leaders accountable, and policy work to harden the institutional response. The emphasis is defensibility — work that will hold up under regulator, board, and litigation review.

Services typically involved
DIAGNOSE · BUILD
Example engagementUCSF Alliance Health Project (post-2020 organizational response)
0360–90 DAYS

The single-issue intervention.

Focused work on one specific institutional question.

The single-issue shape is for institutions testing the practice or addressing a specific problem in isolation. A leadership retreat paired with executive coaching for a cabinet team facing a single high-stakes decision. A policy review paired with strategic planning around a specific regulatory requirement. A keynote paired with a half-day workshop to shift institutional understanding before deeper work begins. The shortest shape — but not the smallest in impact.

Services typically involved
BUILD — SELECTED COMPONENTS
Example engagementOffice of the City Auditor, City of Portland (RFP-selected deep dive)

Consulting & Coaching for Safer, More Accountable Workplaces

I’m Dante King — an executive leadership, organizational development, and risk management consultant. For more than two decades, across some of the country’s largest institutions and public agencies, I’ve been the person organizations trust with their people. As a former Vice President, human resources leader, and cabinet-level executive — and an expert legal witness — I’ve seen how workplace harm begins, and I know how to help you prevent it. Now, through King of Kings Consulting, I bring that experience directly to you.

My work rests on one belief: people matter. Not as a slogan — as a starting point. When people are safe, respected, and supported, organizations perform. My mission is to equip, prepare, and propel organizations to perform at their best — by preventing discrimination and harassment, strengthening civil-rights compliance, and building cultures of accountability that reduce risk and bring out people’s best work.

Here’s how we can work together — from a single coaching conversation to a full organizational engagement.

Coaching. Personal, developmental work that builds capability at the individual and team level.

Executive Coaching

An ongoing partnership for senior leaders — combining executive coaching, strategic advising, leadership consultation, and priority access. For executives who carry the weight of culture, risk, and reputation, and want a trusted thought partner in their corner.

Starting at $3,500 / month

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Team Coaching

Facilitated work that brings a leadership team into alignment — surfacing patterns honestly, strengthening how they make decisions and hold one another accountable, and building a healthier, higher-performing culture together.

Starting at $2,500, customized by team size, objectives, duration, and virtual or in-person delivery

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Consulting. Expert-led strategy and implementation that changes the organization at the system level.

Organizational Consulting

Full-scope engagements for organizations ready to transform how they operate — executive team coaching, organizational strategy, culture transformation, leadership development, and equity implementation, designed and delivered end to end.

Custom proposal

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Evidence by sector.

The institutions that have retained the practice.

01HEALTHCARE & ACADEMIC MEDICINE4 ENGAGEMENTS · 2019–2026

SFDPH Behavioral Health Services.

2023–2026 · CHIEF RACIAL EQUITY CONSULTANT

Three-year cornerstone engagement inside a division of an 8,000-employee health department. Organizational equity assessment, anti-racism leaders fellowship, and findings report. The engagement received the California Medical Association's Cultural and Linguistic Competency & Implicit Bias Innovation Award, Overall Program (2025).

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Also retained in Healthcare
02EDUCATION2 ENGAGEMENTS · 2017–2025

Evanston Township High School District 202

2023–24, 2024–25 · DISTRICT-WIDE PARTNERSHIP

District-wide partnership covering 360-degree feedback, monthly leadership coaching, and antiracism recruitment and hiring policy across an Illinois public high-school system.

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Also retained in Education
03GOVERNMENT2 ENGAGEMENTS · 2020–2025

Office of the City Auditor, City of Portland

2020–2021 · RFP-SELECTED LEAD-OFF PRESENTER

Selected through a competitive RFP as lead-off presenter for the Office of the City Auditor. Two-session deep-dive on racial equity and anti-Blackness for the office leadership and staff.

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Also retained in Government
Senior in-house record — not a client engagement
04LEGAL2023 + ONGOING PRACTICE

State of California (People v. Finley)

2023 · EXPERT WITNESS, CALIFORNIA RACIAL JUSTICE ACT

Sentencing relief granted; precedent set in California Racial Justice Act case law. Expert witness work that helped codify how racial bias is established under California state law.

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Also retained in Legal
  1. Expert Witness & MCLE PracticeONGOING · LEGAL SECTOR PRACTICECourt-qualified expert witness on institutional and structural racial bias. MCLE-credentialed continuing education for legal professionals.
05NONPROFIT1 ENGAGEMENT · 2020–2021

Wikimedia Foundation

2020–2021 · EQUITY ASSESSMENT + BOARD ADVISING

Confidential equity assessment and board advising for the nonprofit operating Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects.

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Three movements. One integrated practice.

Diagnose, build, sustain. Click any movement for the full detail.

The full practice, at a glance.

For procurement and stakeholder review.

Service
Family
Typical length
Sectors
DIAGNOSE
4–8 weeks
All sectors
DIAGNOSE
8–16 weeks
All sectors
BUILD
Half-day to multi-session
All sectors
BUILD
60-min sessions to multi-month
All sectors
BUILD
6–18 months
Healthcare, Education, Government
BUILD
3–9 months
All sectors
BUILD
Half-day to two-day
All sectors
BUILD
Single engagement
All sectors
SUSTAIN
10–16 weeks
All sectors

K–12 EducationHigher EducationPublic HealthPublic SafetyMedical InstitutionsGovernment AgenciesCorporateNonprofit

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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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