Cedar Pruitt, a Senior DEI Consultant on staff at IBIS Consulting Group since 2015, specializes in facilitation, strategic business development and executive coaching, and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion assessments, training and coaching, and has over two decades of expertise in developing innovative, meaningful and inclusive workplace culture. She holds a Master of Education from Harvard University and a B.A. in Media and Culture Studies from Hampshire College, and is founder of CharlesBank Consulting. She is also a children's book author with Capstone Editions and Beach Lane Books/Simon & Schuster, with her published work featured on Cedarpruitt.com. She is a Leadership Circle Profile™ Certified Coach, a Zappos Insights™ Certified Culture Revolutionary, a participant in the Coaches Training Institute (CTI) and graduate of the Interaction Associates Facilitative Leadership program.Cedar has developed in-house professional development strategy, created competency models for organizations large and small, facilitated immersive leadership development programming, designed educational curricula and written and implemented values, mission and visions that resonate and stick with employees.She also has experience founding and running corporate citizenship and integrated philanthropy programming as part of her work in helping employees make meaningful connections to organizational vision and mission statements. In addition to her consulting work, Cedar’s in-house experience includes cultural leadership at athenahealth, the Educational Development Center, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard and the Kennedy School of Government.Specialities:• Racial and gender equity consulting and facilitation• Executive coaching• Retreat facilitation• Company-wide competency model creation (expectations of all employees across cohorts)• Implementing performance assessment and variable compensation framework• Identifying and messaging core values, mission, and vision• Finding and developing physical space that embodies the culture • Producing an internal communication strategy and corporate planning rhythm• Creating and implementing on-boarding, leadership and management training• Developing corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives including sustainable practices and multi-tiered philanthropic investingSpecialties: Facilitation, training, coaching, teaching, writing, sustainability and organizational development, content strategy, communications, marketing