Our Services

Master-class facilitated learning and workshops to provide basic and advanced concepts to promote equity in the workplace. Customized workshops include:

• Foundations in Equity

  The session is designed to create a common language and framework from which to engage in equity work. This session is designed to deeply educate all participants on the horrific and insidious racial history and how the ghosts of the past are foundational to, and still exist in, present-day policies, practices and procedures. The goal is that participants leave any training knowing how to implement equity, not just “understand” it.

• Advanced Equity & Microaggresions

  This is a more in-depth session on racial equity and is less content driven than the Foundations session. It utilizes the content knowledge of Foundations to address participants discussing their own equity work, its challenges, and opportunities. Intersectionality will also be discussed in greater degree than in Foundations, and a scenario will be used for a deeper understanding and application of the implementation of equity. This session will also cover microaggressions and macro-microaggressions, understand micro-aggressions and their impact on the climate and culture of the workplace, understand macro-microaggressions and how the organizational culture or climate may be detrimentally impacting staff and customer/stakeholder engagement, understand overall impacts of microaggressions, and understand considerations of how and when to respond to microaggressions.

• Power and Privilege

  This session will review the meaning of power, the six types of power, and how they manifest in organizations and in relation to client/community engagement. It will specifically address how leadership and staff should consider their power and privilege when engaging with other staff, clients, and communities in general.

• Anti-Blackness

  This is designed to help participants understand how anti-Blackness is different from “regular” racism. It explores how anti-Blackness manifests, not only in White dominant culture, but also in other cultures or races, e.g., Latino, Asian, etc. Discussions of articles and opinions from authors about how anti-Blackness manifests in their different races or cultures are designed to encourage participants to consider their role, or their cultures role, in anti-Blackness. Numerous examples within different sectors of society are presented, e.g., medicine, legal, education, cinema, etc. to further drive the point home about the insidiousness of anti-Blackness.

A document review will provide an opportunity to see how the concept of equity is currently operationalized within the organization. TGG will review and make recommendations on internal policy documents such as:

• Employee Handbook

• Hiring data

• Sample job announcements

• Sample interviewing procedures and logistics

• Orientation and on-boarding materials

• Exit interview data/information

• Formal or informal mentoring/professional development processes

• External recruitment documents and approaches

• Resignation/termination/layoff data

• Code of Conduct policy

• Current Training Content

• Sample performance evaluations

• Employee demographic data (Note: It is not uncommon for an organization to have little to no existing employee demographic data. We will work with ... to determine what data points need to be captured moving forward. From this new data collection, we can then create a baseline to inform where the organization needs to move and aid in determining its success in outcomes.)

• Demographics of members/public who regularly engage with the organization

• List of grantors and/or grantees (as applicable)

• Grant criteria (as applicable)

• Any information on concerns/complaints received from the public

• Programmatic materials, language, and content

TGG is uniquely qualified to provide guidance and process for the development and implementation of equity tools. The Co-Founders have created and led city agencies, non-profit organizations, and university and federal agency equity offices. Additionally, they have provided technical assistance and training to state and city leadership, Boards of Directors, and CEO’s.

TGG has developed tools and policies to institutionalize and implement equity practices.

Examples of these tools are:

• Budget Equity Tool

• Implicit Bias Tool for Hiring Panels

• Community Engagement Strategies

TGG can build tailored internal assessment (staff) and/or external assessment (client/stakeholder/community/etc.) to understand where your largest opportunities lie.

An initial assessment will be done via electronic survey as well as through focus groups to include staff and clients/stakeholders/community and will be used to gather information on the organization’s current culture and climate surrounding equity and equitable outcomes.

The assessment will be developed in conjunction with leadership to ensure appropriate and relevant information-gathering. TGG will work with leadership on the best approach and manner for which to inform staff, and the purpose of the assessment and training to ensure the best possible outcome for real and open engagement with staff.

Examples of assessments include:

-Internal culture and climate assessments

-External equity assessments

-Leadership 360 assessments

-Employee engagement surveys

Expert technical skills are different from the skills needed to manage and lead people and organizations. TGG can provide and facilitate regular coaching sessions for leadership or staff involved in Equity work. These sessions can be as regular as desired. The coaching can be one-on-one or held with multiple staff. These can be used to consider relevant issues, communications, language, or staff concerns.

Building policies and practices is only the beginning of equity work. TGG can help on-going institutionalization of your organization’s equity work through:

Continued Engagement and Policy Review

The Gemini Group would continue to monitor and assess staff, stakeholders, documents as well as provide coaching and technical support.

Data

In order to track progress and improvement, disaggregated data must be collected. TGG will assist in identifying the important data points for collection and regular requests for data will be made and reviewed.

One-Year or Multi-year Racial Equity Strategic Plan

TGG can facilitate the process of engaging staff in the development of an Equity Strategic Plan. This would be the living document that can be reviewed and assessed to determine success internally and externally.

TGG has a cadre of certified mediators and facilitators of color who can provide these services with the knowledge that race has in the difficult conversations that will arise during the course of any organization’s equity journey.

CliftonStrengths® is an evidence-based assessment designed to identify your innate talents so that you can work to build and manifest them into strengths, lifting not only your individual engagement and productivity, but also your team and organization’s success. In as easy as 3 steps, you can learn what successful leaders around the world have learned, to harness their talents and strengths to build successful and impactful missions and organizations.

Step 1 - Take the CliftonStrengths Assessment with The Gemini Group

Step 2 - Learn how your talents form your lens of the world

Step 3 - Learn how to apply your talents intentionally for exponential productivity and success

TGG offers this tool to assist organizations in using its team’s individual and collective strengths as it begins and moves through their equity journey and beyond.

Christina and her team provide a unique style of holistic leadership coaching for women where both the personal and professional aspects of the individual are considered when creating the clients plan. We collectively work on those things you wish to improve as well as those strengths you should be capitalizing on as we build our coach-coachee relationship and the plan for your future success both at their current position and in your future positions. We also specialize in working with women of color as the intersection of identities add a unique yet very important part of navigating any career.

The Gemini Group helps boards reimagine what their structure and function can look like and how they can best meet their own needs and the needs of the organization and communities/public/clients they serve.

We offer support in board creation and development, revamping/revitalization, training, long-term strategy and implementation of goals and objectives with timelines and metrics. At the core of TGG’s work is our unique Equity/DEI-based approach. Our expertise in board development and sustainability is both in applying a values-based 360-degree lens for a holistic approach to reflection, evaluation and results and operationalizing equitable outcomes for creating a healthy, high functioning, and reimagined 21st century board.

Our services include:

• Assisting boards to gain clarity around the type of board they are founding board, working board, governing board, etc.  TGG starts with this evaluation in helping shape the board into its most effective, efficient, and equitable form. We help boards eliminate confusion, create clarity, better define their relationship to the organization’s mission, vision, values, and infuse this all into the organization’s growth strategy.

• Assist in understanding their fiduciary responsibility, how it should be performed, and by what lens.

• Support board members in having productive conversations around challenging topics such as race and other Equity/DEI topics.

• Provide training/learning facilitation in Equity/DEI.

• Provide training/learning facilitation in microaggressions.

• Support Board member sourcing, onboarding and offboarding.

• Conduct Board Assessments such as:

- 360 organization assessments

- ED/CEO/President assessments

- Board self-assessments and follow-up

- Board retreats/action planning including:

**Annual self-assessments for new and existing boards that include opportunities to describe a commitment to Equity/DEI-focused work that supports the organization’s mission, vision, and values, and

**Design and delivery of ED/CEO/President assessments to staff and follow-up reporting to the board (along with recommended actions for ED/CEO/President).