How are you coaching and motivating your employees now that they are back so they remain, respond, and realize their potential?

DEIAB Consulting and Training Services
What Do We Do?
We believe that your employees and managers have the ability to connect with themselves and their coworkers.
Our Assessment Services
- We analyze and understand employees’ perceptions of the organization.
- Our seasoned and credentialed professionals use a plan of techniques that will assess the bias occurring.
- Identify disparities hindering employees to build authentic relationships.
- Leading to strong recommendations that will impact the entire organization.
Our Assessment Services
- Our expertly trained DEIAB manager supports your organization with recommendations through this journey as a constant resource to support you and your organization.
- On-demand DEIAB training modules and micro learnings are designed for how workforces learn today – with bite-sized episodes, broadcast-quality videos depicting real-world situations, and knowledge checks to drive learning retention.
- Diversity and Inclusion Certification is one more step in a company’s willingness to make a commitment to a prescribed set of policies, processes, and goals defined by the certifier, Circle Strategies.
DEIAB Helps Employees
Feel Safe, Respected, and Connected
It’s so important for businesses to encourage their employees to bring their whole selves to work and celebrate them for all that they are. Promoting and highlighting DEIAB efforts helps employees feel safe, respected, and more connected, which can lead to a stronger sense of community and increased productivity.
It’s a reality: Companies that value DEI are stronger than those that don’t.
DEIAB programs are an essential aspect of building engaged and happy employees. Organizations with strong DEIAB initiatives are more likely to have employees with increased job satisfaction, higher levels of trust, and engagement. But it’s not just morale that lifts when DEIAB programs are made a priority, it’s company profitability.
- Teams are 158% more likely to understand target customers when they have at least one member who represents their target’s gender, race, age, sexual orientation, or culture.
- Companies with higher diversity in management earned, on average, 38% more revenue than companies with lower diversity. Diversity of gender, country of origin, career path, and industry background are highly correlated to innovation.
- Organizations in the top 25% when it comes to gender diversity among executive leadership teams are 21% more likely to be profitable and 27% better at creating value.
Sundiatu Dixon-Fyle, Kevin Dolan, Vivian Hunt, and Sara Prince, Diversity Wins: How Inclusion Matters (McKinsey & Company, May 19, 2020).
What Do We Do?
- Executive Coaching
- Career Coaching
- Leadership Coaching
- Team Coaching
Why Do Individualized Coaching?
Do you have a Leader Buddy?
As you are building your company’s culture and infrastructure, it is important to identify talented people within the organization that can provide support. Peer mentorship and coaching is the most preferred way to learn the required skills for a new position. Establishing a connection between employees from the beginning will garner a favorable and productive working environment. Also, celebrating success with a new hire and a buddy together is motivating for the rest of your team. Have you considered expanding this mentorship to provide a Leader Buddy?
Leader Buddies provide:
- Support whether you are remote or in-person so you have another leader to turn to.
- An environment fostering a culture of innovation.
- Companies’ greater efficiency and productivity.
Imagine someone leading you out of your comfort zone, helping you to set goals, develop an action plan for moving ahead, and anticipate and overcome potential obstacles. Someone who can recommend you sources of learning and help you to be focused to gain clarity and identify barriers. One of our seasoned professionals can be that person, that’s our mental coach and can accompany you on the way. Thus, you will improve overall performance touching every aspect of your life, transforming your energy, and impacting other’s people’s life.
Some of Our Assessment Tools
- Positive Intelligence PI assessment of our mind saboteurs to unlock the muscles of mental fitness in order to enable your teams to maximize both performance and well-being simultaneously by focusing on the root-level mental muscles that impact both.
- Gallup Strengths Finder to learn how to use your strengths to succeed at work and live your best possible life or for managers and teams to discover how to create and sustain exceptional team performance.
Predictive Index DiSC Assessment to predict candidate success. hire high performers. and build winning teams.
What Do We Do?
We know what it is like being a new hire. We understand the newly positioned manager. We feel empathetic to the HR Manager who is burned out of work and needs to improve the performance of all employees. We have a variety of courses and trainers to contribute to or help to create your learning programs. A sampling of course offerings includes:
- Communicating across cultures and strategies to overcome language barriers
- Using simulation learning for leadership growth strategies and innovation
- Supporting mental health
- Building rapport in customer relationships
- Contributing as a virtual team member or becoming a successful collaborator
- Anti-harassment training
- Introduction to supervisor or manager, and many others.
Why Do Employee and Manager Business Training?
Employee development refers to training and related opportunities for employees to gain new skills and competencies. While many employers view development as a shared responsibility with employees, training for both employees and managers is almost universally recognized as a strategic tool for an organization’s continuing growth, productivity, and ability to attract and retain valuable employees. Training and development opportunities also increase the likelihood that employees will develop not only expertise in the skills needed for their current job, but for other positions in the future.
Driving and improving the performance of all employees and managers in your organization is the core topic. Nothing more and nothing less. Our professionals will implement the most effective tools to build their leadership capabilities using emotional intelligence development, healthy feedback assessments, executive coaching, and leader-to-leader development. Our clients’ feedback identifies this as being one of the best programs and processes they have ever experienced.

Circle Strategies Lead Program offers training and services in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Consulting and Training, Coaching, Leadership Development, and Employee Business Training & Management Training.
DEI Helps Employees Feel Safe, Respected, and Connected
It’s so important for your businesses to encourage your employees to bring their whole selves to work and celebrate them for all that they are. Promoting and highlighting DEI efforts helps your employees feel safe, respected, and more connected, which can lead to a stronger sense of community and increased productivity.
It’s a reality: Companies that value DEI is stronger than those that don’t.
DEI programs are an essential aspect of building engaged and happy employees. Organizations like yours with strong DEI initiatives are more likely to have employees with increased job satisfaction, higher levels of trust, and greater engagement. Morale is not the only aspect that is lifted when DEI programs are made a priority, company profitability typically skyrockets as well.
- Teams are 158% more likely to understand target customers when they have at least one member who represents their target’s gender, race, age, sexual orientation, or culture.
- Companies with higher diversity in management earned, on average, 38% more revenue than companies with lower diversity. Diversity of gender, country of origin, career path, and industry background are highly correlated to innovation.
- The top 25% of organizations with gender-diversified executive leadership teams are 21% more likely to be profitable and 27% more successful at creating value.
We believe that your employees and managers have the ability to connect with each other. We analyze and understand their perception of the organization, leading to strong recommendations that will impact your entire organization. Our seasoned and credentialed professionals use a plan of techniques that will manage the bias in your employees and reduce disparities, allowing your employees to build authentic relationships.
As you are building your company’s culture and infrastructure, it is important for you to identify talented people within your organization that can provide support and leadership. Peer mentorship and coaching is the most preferred way to learn the required skills for any new position. Establishing employee connections within your organization will garner a favorable and productive working environment. Celebrating success with a new hire/buddy team is motivating and exciting for your other employees as well. Have you considered expanding mentorship to provide your employees with a Leader Buddy?
- Support, whether you are remote or in-person, so you have another leader to turn to with questions and ideas.
- An environment within your firm that fosters an organizational culture of innovation.
- Greater efficiency and productivity within your company.
Driving and improving the performance of all employees and managers in your organization is the core topic. Nothing more and nothing less. Our professionals will implement the most effective tools to build their leadership capabilities using emotional intelligence development, healthy feedback assessments, executive coaching, and leader-to-leader development. Our clients’ feedback identifies this as being one of the best programs and processes they have ever experienced.
We know what it is to be a new hire. We understand the challenges of the newly positioned Manager. We feel empathetic to the HR Manager who is burned out, yet needs to improve the performance of all their employees. Those are just a few aspects of our capacity to put ourselves in your shoes. Your employees and managers need to be deeply engaged in your company goals. Thus, we have a variety of courses and trainers to contribute to or create your learning programs.
A sampling of course offerings includes: communicating across cultures, strategies to overcome language barriers, impact on mental health, building rapport in your customer relationships, contributing as a virtual team member, becoming a successful collaborator, anti-harassment training, introduction to supervisor or manager skills, and many others.
CS LEAD Team

Ilhiana Rojas Saldana
I spent over two decades supporting companies domestically and abroad, leading and coaching professionals, teams, and businesses to success. With my strategies and contributions, I helped produce double-digit growth and returned businesses to profitability after years of net losses working for Fortune 500 companies. Then, I realized that returning shareholders’ value cannot match my value to individuals, companies, and organizations reaching for growth. Working for a paycheck was no longer enough; I wanted to work for culture change. After years of building a deep bench of experience and knowledge, I knew it was time to bring my consumer understanding, breakthrough business strategies, and effectiveness at building engaging cultures to serve my clients.
Driven by a deeper purpose and motivated by my core values, I developed a proprietary process that enables professionals to reconnect with who they are, re-engage with their work and achieve their personal and professional dreams. To date, I have empowered thousands of professionals through my coaching programs, and workshops. I support my clients in fostering new skills and attitudes and transforming behaviors that move them closer to reaching their goals and achieving their dreams.
I provide leaders with the professional development strategies essential to accelerating their career paths and maximizing their impact in the workplace. In addition to coaching, I deliver empowering keynote addresses, facilitate workshops, and design leadership development programs.
I’m incredibly passionate about connecting back to my heritage by using my coaching expertise to support the Latino community. I’m actively involved in various diversity and inclusion initiatives through organizations that support my community.
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Specialties:
•Leadership, Coaching & Team Development
•ICF and DISC+ Certified Coach.
•Change Management
•Diversity & Inclusion; Cultural Intelligence
•Strategic Business Planning & Development
•Hispanic Marketing
•Brand Strategy & Marketing

Michael Fenton
CONSULTING & COACHING HIGHLIGHTS: Progressive HR Leader Known for Creativity & Practical Solutions • Extensive Global Experience Working Across Multiple Business Units • Global & US Regional • Consulting with Organizations at All Levels of Leadership • Global Executive Coaching & Change Management • Leadership Development & Succession • Workforce Strategy & Organization Development • DEI & Employee Engagement • Global Mobility & Culture • Compensation Consulting

Liz Tracy
Through career, leadership, and transition coaching plus powerful leadership and style assessment tools and frameworks, I help clients become self-aware and shift their patterns to get the results they want.
Before becoming a coach, I spent many years in corporate America, partnering with senior leaders on strategic projects, leading teams, coaching team members and building compelling onboarding and skill-building programs.
People grow the most when they have the desire and support to do it. Performance improvement isn’t about training—it happens through experience, feedback, and coaching. How can I help you get unstuck?

Jamie Resker

Kara Lund
As an accomplished public speaking coach, Kara has a talent for bringing out the best in clients. By capitalizing on their strengths, she empowers them to lead with confidence and credibility. Kara is especially skilled at helping international leaders to communicate and compete effectively in an English speaking world.
Kara has worked extensively throughout the United States, France and in Shanghai with clients from over 20 different countries to develop their personal presence and leadership capabilities to work, compete, and communicate with confidence.
