Description

Free for Members to Attend!

Understanding an organization’s culture is key to fostering inclusion and a genuine sense of belonging. Many organizations express commitments to inclusion and equity but face challenges such as unclear strategies, cultural resistance, or a lack of alignment between their values and practices. This workshop focuses on examining the culture of organizations to assess how inclusive they are and where belonging is felt—or absent—to create pathways for meaningful and sustainable progress.

Belonging is not just a goal but a journey that requires deliberate action and commitment. This workshop equips leaders and teams with the tools, frameworks, and insights needed to critically evaluate their organizational culture and ensure that inclusion becomes an authentic part of their mission and operations.

Participants Will Gain

• Cultural Awareness: Gain insights into the dynamics of your personal and organizational culture and how they foster cultural awareness and  influence inclusion and belonging.
• Frameworks for Inclusion: Learn actionable strategies to embed belonging at the heart of organizational practices.
• Leadership Tools: Explore how intentional actions and decisions drive cultural transformation.
• Roadmap Development: Identify actionable items to address gaps in inclusion and enhance belonging across the organization.

This workshop offers engaging discussions, hands-on activities, and practical takeaways to help participants move from intention to impactful action.

Who Should Attend

Ideal for organizational leaders, DEI practitioners, and teams dedicated to creating inclusive and equitable cultures, this workshop is designed for those who wish to better understand the nuances of belonging and how to foster it within their organizations.

Pricing:

Member - $0/person 

Non-Member* - $145/person

*Please contact events@azimpactforgood.org for inquiries about attending via scholarship.

Schedule: 

• Pre-Work (1 hour): On-demand videos as pre-work completed to attend live workshop to give you a basis of what will be covered. These will be sent to you a week in advance of the workshop.
• Virtual Workshop: This nearly all-day workshop will delve into organizational culture and how to foster an inclusive and equitable foundation.

CANCELATION, TRANSFER, & REFUND POLICIES 

• If you need to cancel for any reason, we advise attendees to find another person to take your spot before you request a refund.
  
  
  • We will not be able to accommodate refunds 2 weeks prior to the workshop date.
    
    
• Please notify events@zimpactforgood.org of any transfers or cancelations. 

The Equity Readiness Workshops are brought to you through the partnership of the AZ Impact for Good, Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust, BHHS Legacy Foundation, and VerveSimone Consulting.

Speaker: 

Teniqua Boughton, M.Ed., CNAP - Founder & CEO, VerveSimone Consulting

Teniqua has over 20 years of experience working in the nonprofit sector. She ignites creativity and challenge mediocrity to drive desired outcomes through public speaking, facilitating workshops that focus on nonprofit governance and programming, leadership, and equity readiness.

In 2014, Teniqua established her own consulting firm, VerveSimone Consulting as a means to build an organization where she could control the fruits of her labor. She wanted to expand her capacity and use her influence as a community leader to impact the issues and topics most dear to her heart, arts, and culture, women and girls, and underrepresented communities.  Today VerveSimone continues to lead for change by positively affecting partnerships within our community as displayed by my noted leadership in the nonprofit sector in nonprofit formation and building capacity structures from zero to scale.  Such work is evident in partnership with the State of Black Arizona, Arizona Impact for Good and the Arizona Opera: LOUD! (Living Opera, Understanding Diversity) and in organizing and facilitating a variety of leadership workshops focused on equity readiness, coaching, and assessments that result in organizational strategy recommendations.

Teniqua curated a space for seven statewide leadership development groups such as Valley Leadership to Greaer Tucson Leadership to commit to developing a shared curriculum on racial justice. Her vision is to empower leaders to have honest conversations about the communities we live, work, and play in, and how we as Arizonans can engage to make them stronger.

As the commissioner chair of the City of Phoenix Arts and Culture Commission Teniqua has led the change in equitable grant-making practices. She also executed the transition of leading and new curriculum for the SBAZ’s African American leadership institute from Valle de Sol and the launch of the inaugural institute in Southern Arizona. She currently serves as the chair of the Western States Arts Federation’s (WESTAF) Board of Trustees. A board member of Desert Botanical Garden Foundation and ASU Knowledge Exchange for Resilience (KER) council. 

Teniqua has been awarded Phoenix Titan 100 of Industry in 2022 and 2023. A titan is a person of exceptional importance and reputation. Albert Einstein of their industry.  Most recently, AZ Big Media’s 50 Business Leaders to Watch in 2024. 2023 NCBW’s Economic Empowerment Legend Recipient and Arizona Capitol Times Women Achievers of Arizona. In 2021, she was awarded the Arizona State University MLK Servant Leader- Leadership award and Phoenix Business Journal’s 2021 Most Admired Leader recipient. In 2017, she was selected by her peers as the recipient of the Arizona Champion Award for the Central Arizona region from the Flinn Foundation’s Arizona Center for Civic Leadership, for her significant contributions to civic leadership.

Teniqua has a master’s degree in education with a focus on Educational Administration and Supervision from Arizona State University, and a bachelor’s degree in educational psychology, with an emphasis on theater for youth from Arizona State University. She is a certified Nonprofit Accounting Professional (CNAP), with certificates in Nonprofit Leadership and Management from the University of Arizona and Boston College and in Equity and Inclusion from the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance.