Current Offerings
As a neutral facilitator, Sharifa can guide discussions to ensure that all voices are heard and respected, even when dealing with sensitive or challenging topics. She has experience helping organizations navigate complex issues such as bias and systemic inequities, promoting empathy, active listening, and collaboration. Sharifa is committed to assisting you in creating meaningful change through constructive and inclusive conversations.
Facilitation
What does justice and liberation look like in your organization? The Justice Liberation Training provided by S. Rowe Consulting will challenge you to question the systems perpetuating inequality and equip you with the tools to disrupt them. Through interactive sessions, Sharifa will explore key topics like racial justice, privilege, allyship, and intersectionality, encouraging participants to reflect on their roles in creating lasting change. This training is not just about awareness—it’s about action.
Justice LiberationTraining
Are you ready to make lasting changes in your organization? Sharifa can help your organization build actionable, long-term plans for advancing equity while ensuring the process is enjoyable and engaging. She will work closely with you to assess your current state, identify key goals, and design a roadmap that aligns with your values and objectives. Her process is collaborative and data-driven, ensuring that every voice is considered as you develop strategies to address systemic inequities and foster inclusive cultures.
Strategic Planning
Core Values & Frameworks
Driven by a commitment to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion, S. Rowe Consulting upholds the following core values and frameworks in every aspect of its work and client relationships.
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Equity work requires a different way of thinking about problems. Adaptive leadership is an approach to leadership that emphasizes the importance of navigating change with flexibility and experimentation.
While many people try to promote equity with technical solutions such as changing hiring practices or policies, it ultimately requires shifts in mental models and the way people think about others and the system in which they operate. Adaptive leadership can help leaders understand themselvesbetter and build skills to manage change in a more effective way. text goes here
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Equity work requires a change in people’s thinking and the lens in which they see and operate within society. Changing mental models requires discomfort, difficult conversations, and vulnerability. Therefore, S. Rowe Consulting centers humanity in everything we do to create space to work through challenging emotions and reflections. When we can open up together as people, we can build trust and connection that ultimately leads to a more inclusive and collaborative environment. description
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This orientation centers the lives and experiences of those in each community who are most impacted by systemic issues. Often key stakeholders that experience the system are not fully represented when exploring solutions that are likely to impact them. Therefore, it is crucial to center those that will experience the system. S. Rowe Consulting holds the value that lived experience is a form of expertise that should be highlighted throughout the planning and implementation process. Centering the lived experience of those most impacted is necessary to co-create solutions and ultimately support behavior change.
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RBF is a facilitation style that puts community results and the wellbeing of people at the center of collective work. RBF is a skill used in moments of risk and opportunity when frustration and inaction hinder collective goals and outcomes. Through this process stakeholders align goals, systems, and metrics to clearly map their collaboration and progress.