You’re a leader in the industry. Make your workplace an active part of a liberated future.
Create radical transformation in the workplace and the world by taking a stance rooted in your values and adopting an internal culture, systems and practices that complement them.
Is your organization suffering from an identity crisis?
In justice and liberation work, things move fast. We get it. But how much is this fast-paced culture causing your organization to sacrifice the mission it set out to achieve? How often do you find yourself more focused on putting out fires or getting through your next meeting than you are on ensuring your team has the tools they need to feel supported? Does your internal culture reflect the liberated future you’re working toward?
Cultivate an internal culture that matches your external beliefs.
Just because burnout city is where your peers set up camp doesn’t mean it has to be where you follow suit. As an organization that set out to create a real impact, you can still do what you came to do and not lose your way, despite the demands of your particular movement.
Using our consulting services, you can leverage our extensive experience and expertise to guide you through creating change in the workplace that maintains your organization’s momentum while advancing inclusivity and building liberatory power.
With our support, you’ll experiment with the practices and systems that help you cultivate a culture that matches the values and beliefs you hold sacred as you fight for collective liberation.
“I am a better leader because of the information and insights that Stephanie offered, and our staff team reported feeling more confident in their abilities to contribute to our mission.”
Do more than just “say the thing.” Do the thing, too.
Conditioning from systems of oppression is built into the very fabric of our being and institutions, so it can be hard to know the steps to take in order to divest from them and create something new. It can also be hard to practice what you preach.
That’s why at Cultivated Sense, we follow a unique 4-step framework that helps us identify root challenges and co-create roadmaps and experiments that accelerate transformation as you work to build a freer future.
STEP #1: ASSESS + NAME
We identify where the organization is, and spend time explicitly naming internal patterns and systems that don’t align with your organization’s external commitments.
STEP #2: DREAM + BUILD
Together we’ll imagine liberatory ways of being and doing, and co-design pathways that will help you move forward together, as an organization, despite knowing everyone is at different places on their journeys.
STEP #3: EXPERIMENT + ALIGN
This is where things get a little messy! In this phase, we’ll implement transformative experiments that spark changes on a small scale as we begin to cultivate a pattern for the larger system. And as we experiment, we’ll find ways to align those shifts across the organization, growing its original impact.
Step #4: REDEFINE + REPEAT
Learning from the mess, we’ll integrate feedback from the experiments and continue adapting and refining your processes as your internal culture becomes part of the liberated future you advocate for.
We provide support with:
AFFINITY OR EMPLOYEE RESOURCE GROUPS
EQUITABLE PREHIRE TO PROMOTION PROCESS
SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT AND INTEGRATION
HEALING, REPAIR AND HARM REDUCTION WORK
EXECUTIVE AND LEADERSHIP COACHING
CULTURE ASSESSMENTS AND GROWTH REPORTS
Meet Your Consultant
WHAT UP, PARTY PEOPLE! I’M STEPHANIE GHOSTON PAUL
As an internationally recognized speaker, racial justice facilitator, life coach, and recovering lawyer, I bring a wealth of knowledge to clients looking for guidance on creating transformative liberation in the workplace. I know the frustration of seeing a goal and not knowing the steps to take to get yourself there. Especially when there are challenges, blocks, and fires to put out along the way.
But as an organizational development consultant, making the messy middle less overwhelming has become one (just one) of my superpowers. By teaching you, your team, and your organization as a whole how to embrace the change you’re seeking to create, you’ll understand how to switch out of a reactive stance and step into a proactive one. One where you’re confident in your identity and your culture is an active part of a transformed future.
