It’s helped us be more thoughtful and more respectful of the works of art and our audiences.

This is the best place to start.

We’ll investigate the systems and practices in your museum, art, or cultural institution to give you a highly customized diversity, equity, and inclusion action plan.

We’ll read through your policies, guidelines, and hold focus groups with staff to uncover unspoken rules that are holding your organization back from leading the way.

Diversity audits are not essential, but are a great place to start, so we can recommend the best path for workshops and further action.

This is a great place to set benchmarks for personal and team growth.

The Intercultural Development Inventory® (IDI® )  allows you to see an individual’s or group’s progression along a continuum of cross-cultural competence. Because of this, the IDI provides in-depth insights into how individuals and groups make sense of cultural differences, and also how they respond to cultural differences.

The Intercultural Conflict Style Inventory® (ICS®) is an assessment that helps you understand your conflict and communication style, so you can better resolve conflicts and solve problems across cultural boundaries.

Both assessments come with additional tools. Click below to set a meeting with Dr. Crum to learn more.

Tired of navigating the complexities of inclusion and belonging with few resources and no support from leadership? Let me be your resource!

Learn more about my transformative 90-day course for DEI advocates like you. In this course, you'll:

☑️ Gain clarity and find power in your role.

☑️ Gain support and buy-in from leaders and colleagues.

☑️ Learn a data-based sustainable strategy.

☑️ Align work with your organization's needs.

Stop the confusion and burnout—feel confident in your inclusive leadership and create a workplace where everyone thrives!

This series of three workshops addresses the following big questions:

What does it mean to be anti-racist vs. non-racist? How do we combat personal bias? How can one create space for others experiences? 

Get ready for some critical thinking to unpack your belief systems, influences, and background

Goal: To identify behaviors that could be misinterpreted, build connection, and strengthen communication.

Included workshops (each one is 2 hours):

• Understanding Implicit Bias through Self-Reflection
• Critical Reflection with Peers
• How to be an Anti-Racist

Series 2: Race and Identity Definitions Toolkit

This series of seven workshops defines the complex concepts needed for productive conversations and purposeful action in museums and art spaces.

In breakout groups, we'll process and unpack terminology and discover how we can mindfully use our words. 

By equipping your team with powerful language and tools, they will be able to inspire change and critical thinking in others with more confidence.

*Note: Your organization can have fewer than seven sessions, but they must be taken in order. 

Goal: To have more accurate language around artwork, clear communication, and a shared vision for a more equitable future.

Workshops will look at the following terminology (each one is 2 hours):

• Session 1: “Normal," discrimination, prejudice, and privilege
• Session 2: White supremacy, race, systemic structural racism, and power
• Session 3: Anti-Blackness, racial battle fatigue, colorism
• Session 4: Ethnicity, latinx/e, BIPOC, gender, cis 
• Session 5: Microaggressions, microinequities, intersectionality
• Session 6: Diversity, equality, equity
• Session 7: Inclusion, belonging, liberation, allyship, accompliceship

Series 3:  Action and Application - Investigating Workplace Culture

This three-part series equips museums and cultural institutions with the best practices for collaboration, conflict resolution, and community building. 

Together, we investigate dominant culture norms’ and examine who holds power.

This workshop spans power hierarchies, helping each member of your team communicate their needs in a brave space.

Goal: To create radical growth through increased productivity, inclusivity, authentic communication, and robust and transparent policies.

Included workshop (each one is 2 hours):

• Best practices for collaboration, conflict, and community building
• Investigating dominant culture “norms” in your organization
• Taking risks in a growth mindset community

Designed to foster connection and community, this weekly one-hour club uniquely gathers colleagues, regardless of their title or position, into honest and critical conversation. 

By creating a space where authentic dialogue can occur, teams have the opportunity for greater productivity, empathy building, and higher retention rates. 

This action-oriented club meets for eight weeks, focusing first on discussion and then on applying DEI concepts specifically to your team.

Participants leave with the tools and courage needed to create change from wherever they are.

Potential books include:

Multiculturalism in Art Museums Today by Joni Boyd Acuff and Laura Evans

Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts by Brené Brown

The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations by Robert Livingston

Subtle Acts of Exclusion: How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggression by Michael Baran and Tiffany Jana

We Can’t Talk About That at Work: How to Talk About Race, Religion, Politics and other Polarizing Topics by Mary-Francis Winters

We all walked away with practical tools to move our dialogue forward as a team.

Our process works best with organizations with fewer than 250 staff. We work with all types of museums, arts, and cultural institutions. 

Only the customizable workshops can be longer or shorter than 2 hours

We have a maximum capacity of 50 people to keep the sessions intimate and interactive.

For musuems, art, or cultural centers with more than 50 people we can hold multiple identical workshops. 

The three series of workshops have been designed to go through consecutively.

Series 1 is the place to start so you can start with understanding implicit bias and self-reflection. Then you can work through series 2 to build up your language toolkit, and finally series 3 which is where we look at systems, practices, and power in the organization.

If I am available, yes! If not, I have a fantastic team that I have trained who can deliver these workshops with the same results. 

How do we decide who should be in which workshops?

It’s important to have a real mix of all staff in each workshop - it’s important not to separate people based on their position in the organization. Mixing up hierarchy is key.

Yes. I have traveled across the States and have held workshops in Ohio, California, South Carolina, to name a few. I’ve also held plenty on Zoom.

Do you help with registration?

Sometimes, when organizations register large groups and need to repeat workshops (because there are more than 50 people), we are asked to register participants in different sessions. There is an extra fee for this, but it’s no problem to do.

Hmmm, none of your proposed workshops meet our objectives. Will you create a customized workshop?

Yes, absolutely. Just get in touch and we can have a chat to put together a proposal.

Dr. Crum has an efficient and effective way of taking the concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion and breaking them down in a way that anyone can understand.