The Diversity Consultant Cookbook: Preparing for the Challenge

Written to advise how to get started in, and develop a career as, diversity consultants. This succinct cookbook provides the guidance to get you going and succeed.

The cookbook metaphor reflects the delicate nature of diversity consulting where the little things can make a significant difference in the final outcome. As with cooking where a dash of seasoning, the choice of temperature, or cooking time, impact the final dish, so the wrong balance in creating an environment that is welcoming and constructive while addressing issues that may be disorienting for the audience can ruin a presentation before it gets started.

Like a cookbook, this book is set out in small chunks. It covers the need to audit and enhance your skills and knowledge, establish your brand and what you distinctively bring to the table, develop your outreach and contacts, and learn to listen to clients to determine what interventions will achieve their long-term goals.

It addresses developing your strategic plan with a clear sense of mission, vision, and values; moves on to topics such as financial planning, pricing, contracts, scheduling, and considerations about presentation styles and handouts; and gets down to the specifics of marketing, with ideas on business cards, websites, networking, and even how to dress.

For anyone contemplating embarking on a career as a diversity consultant – either part-time while holding an existing position or as a full-time endeavor, this is an invaluable guide for getting started, and for keeping at your side as you develop your practice.

Eddie Moore, Jr. founded America & Moore LLC (eddiemoorejr.com) in 1996. Dr. Moore is recognized as one of the nation's top motivational speakers/educators especially for his work with K-16 students. Recent challenges in the country have found Dr. Moore being in demand for work with law enforcement, higher education, city employees, and businesses searching to improve the inclusive environments of their workplace. Dr. Moore is also the founder and program director for the White Privilege Conference (WPC). Under the direction of Dr. Moore and his inclusive relationship model, the WPC has become one of the top national and international conferences for participants who want to move beyond dialogue and into action around issues of diversity, power, privilege, and leadership. In 2014 Dr. Moore founded The Privilege Institute, a not-for-profit organization which engages people in research, education, action, and leadership through workshops, conferences, publications, and strategic partnerships and relationships. Dr. Moore is co-founder of the online journal Understanding and Dismantling Privilege and co-editor of Everyday White People Confront Racial and Social Injustice: 15 Stories, as well as The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys.

Art Munin has served as a diversity educator and consultant for institutions across the United States for 15 years through his company Art Munin Consulting (artmunin.com). He currently serves as Associate Vice Chancellor and Dean of Students at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Munin has coauthored chapters in the books Closing the Opportunity Gap: Identity-Conscious Strategies for Retention and Student Success and Handbook for Student Leadership Development. His first book is Color by Number: Understanding Racism Through Facts and Stats on Children. As a complement to this work, he has served in several capacities through NASPA, including the chair of the AVP Steering Committee, AVP Institute faculty, associate editor for Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, the Civic Learning and DemocraticEngagement Initiative, and the regional conference planning committee.

Marguerite W. Penick-Parks prepares pre-service teachers in the area of multicultural education, culturally responsive pedagogy and social justice. Her work centers on issues of power, privilege, and oppression in relationship to issues of curriculum with a special emphasis on the incorporation of quality literature. She appears in the movie Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible by the World Trust Organization. Her most recent work is a joint article on creating safe spaces for discussing White privilege with pre-service teachers, and she is a co-editor of Everyday White People Confronting Racial and Social Injustice:15 Stories and The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys.

Rev. Dr. Jamie Washington, President, Washington Consulting Group (WCG); President & Co-Founder, Social Justice Training Institute (SJTI); President (2019), ACPA – College Student Educators International.

JoeyIazzetto has pioneered and grown over 100 successful startups andestablished businesses over his 30 year career. His work with globalenterprise organizations including Verizon, GE, Motorola and Mercedes Benz hasreceived national recognition and earned multiple industry awards. Afterco-founding UniCom Marketing Group in 1995, Joey served as National Chairman ofMENG and lead the integration to create the American Marketing AssociationExecutive Circle. Joey is a featured speakerat Northwestern University/Kellogg School of Management, University ofChicago/Booth School of Business and numerous television and radio programs. Joey is currently the Chief Growth Officer of ICG Marketing, helping companies Identifyprofitable opportunities, Create measurable solutions and Growrevenue and profitability.