DEIA CONSULTING + RETREATS

Let’s Realize Your Vision for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accountability

Intentional, unifying DEIA consulting and retreats for forward-thinking organizations, schools, and DEIA practitioners.

Partners of Zinn

Educational workshops and trainings on the fundamental principles of DEIA

How We Can Work Together

By nature, DEIA work is collaborative and nuanced, guided by your unique needs as a school, organization, parent, or DEIA practitioner. However, here are a few of the most common ways we can partner to realize your goals.

Support for organizational DEIA practitioners through periods of burnout

Guided self-exploration of what your organization wants to accomplish with DEIA

Expansive, restorative retreats for DEIA practitioners that offer renewal and focus

Assessment of current organizational DEIA programs and initiatives

Strategic guidance for the rollout and adoption of critical DEIA programs

Catalyzing partners for new organizational DEIA programs and initiatives

Open-minded DEIA consulting and support for challenging circumstances

Collaborative DEIA support for proactive parents and school administrators 

The Impact and Importance of DEIA

Organizations with diverse teams are 87% better at making decisions. (People Management)

Groups formerly seen as “minorities” may reach majority status by 2045. (Pew Research)

Diverse organizations enjoy 2.5 times higher cash flow per employee. (Built In)

More diverse and inclusive corporations are 35% more likely to outperform competitors. (McKinsey)

Collaborative DEIA Consulting and Support

Whether you’re a proactive parent, school, employee, or leader, you know the complexities of the DEIA challenges and initiatives that lay before you require sensitivity, understanding, experience, and, most of all, humanity. As your partner, I will help you ground DEIA as an exploration of difference, not division, making it accessible to all.

Educational, Restorative DEIA Retreats

No matter where you are in your journey with DEIA — an organizational or school DEIA catalyst, an independent practitioner, a parent, or an individual who is curious about the role you can play in the work of DEIA — we invite you to attend one of our three-day retreats. We will work closely with you in advance to tailor retreat outcomes to your specific needs, goals, and challenges. Every attendee will leave with a personalized DEIA plan. Facilitated by The ONYX Movement.

How We Will Work Together

Introductory Conversation

First, we’ll discuss your current circumstances, what DEIA support you may need, and how my expertise can be of service to you. If we agree we are a fit to work together, will we move forward.

Assessment

Next, through guided self-exploration, we will identify together where you are in your DEIA journey, and how I can be of assistance in empowering you to get to your final destination.

The Work Begins

From there, our work begins. Whether we are solving an immediate challenge or executing a long-term vision for DEIA, our time together will be supportive of where you are in your journey.

  • "Zinn's exceptional expertise in delivering diversity, equity, and inclusion training, has been an absolute game-changer for our school. Collaborating with them has not only transformed our approach to education but has also paved the way for a more inclusive and enriching learning environment. With Zinn's guidance, we are confident that we are making significant strides in the right direction."

    Sherri Anderson, M.Ed.| Dir of Positive Culture, Granite Mountain Charter School

Collette Bowers Zinn, J.D., M.Ed.

DEIA Catalyst + Educator

Many may know me as a fourth-generation educator who made the choice as a trained litigator to transition into the educational and DEIA spaces. For more than 20 years, I have passionately served as an “educational support conduit” for schools, classroom educators, parents, administrators, and the students they serve. 

Today, as the founder of Zinn, The Onyx Movement, and Private School Axis, I seek to bring humanity, connection, and humility to the work of connecting children with learning, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accountability. Yes, there is work to be done, and I am excited to see what we can achieve together.