Organizational Training and Consulting
Create spaces where people can participate, make choices, and be heard.
What happens when someone asks for access, sets a boundary, or challenges the way things are done? That is where organizational culture shows up. We can work on what happens next.
Hire me for: Staff workshops, leadership coaching, consent culture assessments, and reviews of everyday organizational practice.
An organization’s culture shows up in everyday interactions: who gets included, whose concerns are taken seriously, how assistance is offered, and whether people can decline without pressure or retaliation.
I draw on public health, sociology, and sexual health education to help organizations understand how ableism, power, consent, and accessibility shape those experiences. Together, we can identify barriers and develop practical ways to support participation, autonomy, and belonging.
Sexual health training for educators & teams
I train the people whose everyday responses shape whether someone can ask a sexual health question, access information, or make a choice about their body. This includes teachers, blindness and rehabilitation professionals, public health educators, and community organizations.
We can examine what a curriculum leaves out, how to explain anatomy without relying on pictures, and how to discuss pleasure, safer sex, gender, relationships, and sexual autonomy without shame. We can also practice responding to questions, setting professional boundaries, and recognizing when a referral is needed.
My professional education experience includes a Planned Parenthood Northern California train-the-trainers session using disability humility, university teaching for future blindness professionals, and conference workshops on sex positive education, ableism, and consent. Cultural humility and attention to internalized ableism help connect the material with the people your team serves.
Who I work with
I work with schools, nonprofits, community organizations, professional teams, educators, and service providers. Support can help you begin a conversation, respond to concerns, or strengthen practices your organization already values.
Training and workshops
Let’s Talk About Ableism explores assumptions, microaggressions, internalized messages, and barriers in organizational life.
Building a Culture of Consent addresses communication, boundaries, autonomy, and respect in everyday interactions.
Consent for Leadership examines how power affects choice, trust, supervision, accountability, and decision-making. Leadership and executive coaching can support continued reflection and practice.
Accessible Interaction and Blind Inclusion covers respectful communication, access needs, offering assistance, and common assumptions about blindness.
Custom sessions can address workplace boundaries, LGBTQ+ inclusion, sexual health, disability justice, and power. For blindness professionals and educators, this can include consent in independent living skills and orientation and mobility instruction.
From learning to everyday practice
We can examine how your team:
- Organizes meetings, programs, learning activities, and communication.
- Asks about access and shares responsibility for meeting access needs.
- Responds when someone raises a concern or sets a boundary.
- Handles power differences among leaders, staff, participants, and families.
- Talks about disability, sexuality, relationships, and autonomy.
- Supports choices without taking over.
Consent culture is an ongoing practice involving leadership, supervision, feedback, and accountability. Disability justice asks whose needs and knowledge shape the organization and how access can become a shared responsibility.
Cultural humility matters when people have different experiences, identities, languages, and expectations. We can practice listening and checking assumptions while examining who has power to define the problem and its response.
Support beyond a workshop
I offer consent culture assessments, leadership strategy sessions, facilitated team conversations, and reviews of program materials and everyday practices. We can develop educational resources, sample language, curriculum feedback, implementation steps, and ways to review progress.
Workshops are typically 90 minutes, and Consent 101 is a one-hour workshop. Other formats include half-day or full-day training, multi-session series, guest lectures, conference presentations, and tailored conversations. Facilitation pays attention to choice, pacing, access, and the pressure people can feel to disclose personal experiences.
Formal policy development and research advising are also available through Policy & Systems Change.
This work connects to creating supportive environments.
See my work in action
Ableism & everyday practice
Listen to Beyond Disability Etiquette on KPFA. In this conversation with Bobbi Pompey, we explore assumptions, stereotypes, assistance, and power in everyday interactions.
Building consent culture
Listen to Do You Consent with Bobbi Pompey. We discuss consent and everyday boundaries in this Hands On Safety podcast.
Consent, power & autonomy
Read Why Consent Is So Radical. The article includes a short video and transcript connecting childism, power, and everyday autonomy.
More work samples & experience
Explore articles, recordings, and educational resources alongside related experience. My full CV includes additional roles, presentations, and professional credits.
Teaching & speaking
- February 2026 | San Francisco State University. Co-taught anti-ableism and inclusive practice for teachers of blind students and orientation and mobility students.
- 2021 | National Federation of the Blind of Maryland. Co-facilitated Consent for Leadership with Bobbi Pompey.
- 2019 | Planned Parenthood Northern California. Train-the-trainers education using a disability humility approach.
Interviews & recorded conversations
- Beyond Disability Etiquette: Pushing Limits, KPFA. April 2021 radio conversation with Bobbi Pompey.
- Do You Consent: SafetyCast 10, Hands On Safety. February 2021 conversation with Bobbi Pompey about consent and everyday boundaries. A direct audio link follows. Listen to the MP3.
Writing & public comments
- 2026, July 27. Stop Touching Blind People. A blind public health professional is done being gentle about it.
- 2026, February 8. Why Consent Is So Radical: Childism, Power, and Everyday Autonomy.
- The Need for Consent in Orientation & Mobility. June 2021 article in the Braille Monitor.
Further recordings & public resources
- Consent, childism & everyday autonomy: short video. Short fellowship conversation about consent, childism, and autonomy.
Pricing and next steps
For for-profit organizations, a 90-minute workshop on an existing topic starts at $500. This includes a one-hour planning conversation and preparation time for the workshop. New or substantially adapted workshops, consulting, and ongoing work receive a custom quote. Any travel costs are agreed separately.
For nonprofits, introductory consent sessions are $150 per teaching hour, or you can contact me to discuss other arrangements. Other nonprofit and community workshops and trainings are quoted separately.
Ask about sponsored consent classes, coaching gifts, or funding partnerships.