Our Services
The following list describes a variety of potential interventions and services we offer to organizations interested in improving their workplace dynamics, in becoming more diverse, inclusive, and equitable, and in learning more about the field of diversity, inclusion, and equity.
This list is not exhaustive – we will work with you to determine what service or combination of services will best help you meet your goals. We customize our work for every client and your particular needs.
Strategic DEI Integration
Embarking on a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative can feel daunting. Ferdman Consulting supports organizations in the design, planning, and implementation of these initiatives.
This might include supporting organizations to measure and assess their employees’ experience of inclusion, developing customized Board, leadership, or staff retreats/workshops to plan and examine DEI efforts, creating a DEI strategic plan alongside organization leadership, suggesting and implementing targeted actions to address DEI issues, and measuring & evaluating the success of these actions.
Ferdman Consulting is your partner in this work. If you are interested in learning more about how we can support your DEI efforts, contact us below.
Workshops & Learning
Ferdman Consulting provides a variety of workshops and learning sessions designed to support development of the mindsets and competencies for diversity and inclusion at both the individual and group levels, as well as the development of inclusive leadership and organizational culture.
Below are some example of sessions that can be customized and developed depending on your needs. (Session lengths vary.)
- Inclusive Leadership: Bringing Inclusion to Life for Yourself, Your Team, and Your Workplace
- Finding and Using YOUR Own Voice
- What Is Inclusion and Why Does It Matter?
- Enhancing Inclusion by Bringing One’s Whole Self to Work
- Attracting, Hiring, and Retaining a Diverse Workforce
- 21st Century Leadership: Inclusion and Performance
- Finding and Using One’s Own Voice in Managing Conflict and Pushback: Speaking Up and Pushing Back Effectively, Productively, and Authentically
- Working Collaboratively across Cultures
- Cultural Identity and Cultural Values at Work
- Latino and Latina Identity Orientations: Implications for Leaders and Organizations**
**Ferdman Consulting specializes in Latinx identity and leadership development. Our work on Latino and Latina leadership, grounded in a complex and multi-faceted model of Latino/a identity orientations, focuses on supporting Latinx individuals to be more effective and inclusive leaders, in ways that build on their strengths and reflect their cultural identities and values, while avoiding and resisting stereotypes and generalizations.
Speaking
Dr. Bernardo Ferdman has been a speaker, consultant, facilitator, and professor for 35+ years, sought out for his expertise and specialization in diversity, inclusion, and Latinx and multicultural leadership development. His warm, personable, and inclusive presentation style is both memorable and unique, and facilitates audience engagement and learning.
Examples of prior speaking engagements include:
- The Practice of Inclusion: Keynote Speech at the Forum on Workplace Inclusion
- The Dynamics and Dilemmas of Inclusion: Insights from Scholarship and Practice: Presentation at Teachers College, Columbia University
- Diversity in Business, Institutions, and Culture – Transatlantic Opportunities and Challenges: Featured Speaker at the 2016 International Conference of Amerikahus, The Bavarian Center for Transatlantic Relations, Munich, Germany
- Inclusive Leadership: Bringing Inclusion to Life for Yourself, Your Team, and Your Workplace: Keynote presentation at Leadership Week, City of Hope National Medical Center, Los Angeles
Inclusion@Work®
Inclusion@Work® is an online inclusion coaching platform designed in partnership with Cognician. This customizable program allows organizations to assess and address inclusion on their teams on a large scale. Learn more about Inclusion@Work here.
Workplace Inclusion Inventory™
The Workplace Inclusion Inventory™️ was developed using Ferdman Consulting’s inclusion framework, and allows organizations, DEI experts, and others to measure the experience of inclusion across the organization, gleaning real-time and actionable data as a result. Learn more about the Workplace Inclusion Inventory here.
Coaching & Conflict Intervention
We provide coaching to leverage and maximize talent in your organization.
At Ferdman Consulting, coaching is about maximizing YOU and your strengths– asking the questions and helping you find the answers that fit and support who you are and what you bring to the organization, and support you in discovering and realizing your maximum potential.
How can you rise to the next level in your current job, in your career, and as a professional? How can you develop your capacity for inclusive leadership and for bringing out the best in yourself and others?
Our approach brings a unique perspective to coaching, helping high-potentials in your organization to become more self-aware, to be more authentic and inclusive of themselves and others, and to become more effective and powerful leaders and organizational members.
Through the use of assessments and individual coaching sessions, we build a foundation of self-awareness and action for our clients, including:
- Customized programs for each individual
- Multiple assessments available
- One-on-one coaching
- E-coaching
- Specialized corporate packages
“I reached out to Ferdman Consulting for support during our CEO transition after our Board asked me to serve as interim CEO. Bernardo brought insights and practical solutions to help me “recalibrate” my existing relationships with Board and staff after a long tenure in one role. Those skills gave me a new perspective on leadership and communications, preparing me for a broader strategic role in the future.”
Discussion about the Inclusive Leadership Proram that Bernardo created and directed at UCLA Anderson School of Management Executive Education.
Bernardo worked with the leadership of Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest to design and implement their DEI strategy and to provide DEI workshops for leadership, staff, and Board. He and Kumea Shorter-Gooden facilitated a DEI retreat for Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s national board. And he worked with a number of Planned Parenthood affiliates and their boards to develop their DEI strategies and deepen DEI learning.
Ferdman Consulting facilitated and supported CalEPA’s Department of Toxic Substance Control’s Diversity and Inclusion Work Group.
Ferdman Consulting provided an educational webinar on Measuring Inclusion in Organizations in partnership with Limeade.