Proven DEI Consulting Tailored to the Needs of Healthcare Professionals.
DEI training for healthcare professionals plays a crucial role in fostering a care environment where equity, inclusion, and collaboration are prioritized. When clinicians and administrators are equipped to identify bias, implement equitable processes, and advocate for equitable practices, it supports better outcomes across all departments. This work isn’t about performative change. It requires examining internal decision-making structures, performance evaluations, hiring practices, team dynamics, and other factors to ensure that your facility’s culture aligns with its values. Construct the Present partners with healthcare institutions to align DEI principles with internal operations. Explore how our custom training, organizational equity assessments, long-term strategies, and more can lead your healthcare team to real, sustainable change
DEI Training for Executives: Our Team
Alexis Braly James
Founder/CEO
A longtime educator and innovator, Alexis has collaborated with organizations such as the Smithsonian Institution, the City of Portland, the Metro Regional Government, and the Multnomah County Library. Born and raised primarily in Oregon, she earned her master’s degree from Lewis & Clark College and is pursuing her MBA from Cornell University. Outside of work, you’re likely to find her dancing to Beyoncé.
DEI Consulting for Healthcare Professionals: The Client’s Perspective
Janus Youth Programs
Construct the Present led a comprehensive equity audit that helped us identify and address gaps in our HR policies and practices. As a result, we revised our compensation philosophy, updated job descriptions with inclusive language, and improved our hiring and onboarding processes. Alexis and her team delivered clear, actionable recommendations and created a supportive environment for honest reflection and growth. Their work gave us a roadmap to build a more equitable and accountable organization.
OnPoint Community Credit Union
Construct the Present designed and delivered a year-long custom training series that brought our equity and inclusion goals to life. Each quarter, Alexis and her team facilitated engaging, virtual sessions for 20–30 staff members, creating space for honest dialogue and practical learning. The content was tailored to our culture and industry, and the consistency over the year helped build internal momentum and confidence. Participants left each session with tools they could immediately apply, and the series helped strengthen alignment across teams. Construct the Present was a trusted and thoughtful partner throughout.
Elevate Oregon
Multnomah County
ARQ
What’s Blocking Your Healthcare Team’s DEI Progress?
Psychological Safety
Healthcare settings often prioritize efficiency and the status quo over emotional safety.
Some administrators or healthcare leaders may view DEI efforts as threats to established norms or lowering standards. Upholding these two ideals can result in pushback in creating fairer practices of hiring, promotion, and policy design and discourage staff from speaking up, admitting mistakes, or discussing race-related concerns.
Implicit Bias
Hidden biases can shape recruitment, affect performance assessments, team development, assignments, and even clinical decisions like pain assessment and diagnostic impression. Often, bias occurs without conscious intent. Continuing to ignore the impact of implicit bias based on the absence of intent will only erode employee and patient confidence and eventually company culture.
Hierarchical Power Dynamics
Healthcare teams often operate under rigid hierarchies that can trap staff in support positions. Particularly, people of the global majority (formerly BIPOC or POC) frequently experience hidden challenges like emotional labor, fear of retaliation, and limited avenues to address discrimination that contribute to such power dynamic struggles. Without the right knowledge or language to address such situations, it can become difficult to effect change.
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Our DEI Training for Healthcare Professionals Liberates Teams Through:
Workplace Equity Audits
We provide equity audits measuring 10 domains that span organizational needs from assessing performance to best practices and policy design. Our DEI training for healthcare professionals’ auditing process will deliver a snapshot of the DEI data that informs your hiring and onboarding processes.
As a certified B-Corp company, our equity audits follow B-Corp standards, utilizing one-on-one interviews, staff surveys, leadership surveys, and more, with a follow-up audit every two years to measure progress.
White Allyship in the Workplace Program
We provide a variety of DEI workshops depending on the needs of your company, including “White Allyship in the Workplace,” a program that helps teams acknowledge differences and practice having productive discussions about identity and race. We’ll engage your team in conversations about the different identities in your group and learn how to talk about lived experiences in ways that are accepting and free of judgment.
Keynote Speakers
Our gifted keynote speakers bring deep expertise in navigating conversations around justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion with audiences nationwide. Recognizing that everyone holds a unique lived experience, our sessions are thoughtfully designed to meet people where they are. By facilitating a respectful and engaging environment, we help even the most hesitant participants feel comfortable exploring DEI concepts, examining personal biases, and gaining a clearer understanding of the systemic inequities that continue to exist in healthcare.
Discover Our DEI Training for Healthcare Professionals Services:
Social Impact Programs
Social Impact Programs are 90-minute sessions designed for smaller organizations seeking to promote inclusion and drive social change. Each session comes with 40 Constructing Perspectives Reflection Journals, with more available after a discovery call. We collaborate to identify internal facilitators and equip them with evidence-based strategies and engaging educational tools. Participants gain ongoing access to our Facilitator Guides and journals, providing a consistent and accessible framework for continued reflection, connection, and team-wide growth.
DEI Workshops
Our DEI workshops include three 90-minute sessions, delivered in one day or spread over time. Each session provides a thoughtful space for honest dialogue, personal reflection, and practical skill-building. Together, we explore how identity influences leadership, communication, and collaboration. Developed to foster shared understanding and empower teams to work more cohesively, our workshops inspire real, lasting change.
Custom Experiences
Impactful DEI training will reflect the unique context and needs of your healthcare team.
Our customized experiences are developed in close collaboration with you, ensuring they align with your current goals and organizational priorities. Whether you’re experiencing internal culture shifts, strengthening inclusive onboarding practices, or refining hiring strategies to reach a broader, more diverse talent pool, we’re here to support the journey. Together, we’ll create meaningful sessions with clear, practical outcomes your team can apply immediately.
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DEI Training for Healthcare Professionals To Make a Difference That Lasts
Our DEI consultants partner with healthcare professionals to transform values into meaningful action through customized strategies, targeted workshops, and long-term culture evolution. Our team collaborates closely with yours to uncover barriers, design inclusive systems, and drive lasting impact at every level of the organization.
Frequently Asked Questions About Our DEI Consulting for Healthcare Professionals
How do you customize DEI training for healthcare settings?
At Construct the Present, we use our 30 years of combined educational experience to be your partners in DEI education and implementation. We begin by learning more about your organization, the goals you’re hoping to achieve, and your current pain points. We tailor content to address healthcare-specific challenges like implicit bias in clinical decision-making, communication across cultures, and inclusive leadership in multidisciplinary teams. We’ll then audit your policies and engagement data, creating a strategy that fits for you.
Why is DEI training important, specifically in healthcare?
DEI is especially critical in healthcare because it directly impacts both patient care and workplace culture. Healthcare professionals serve diverse populations with varying cultural backgrounds, beliefs, and health needs. When DEI principles are integrated effectively, healthcare providers can offer more culturally competent care, leading to improved patient communication, trust, and health outcomes.
DEI training can help reduce health disparities that disproportionately affect marginalized groups, such as racial and ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ individuals, and people with disabilities. DEI training fosters an inclusive environment that also supports healthcare staff by creating psychological safety, increasing job satisfaction, and reducing burnout.
How much does DEI training cost?
We offer a range of training programs and customized experiences, from targeted workshops that can be completed in a few weeks to comprehensive multi-year partnerships featuring organizational audits and on-site training. Pricing varies based on your organization’s size, the number of workshops needed, and the overall scope of services.
To help us better understand your needs, we invite you to fill out our contact form. If you’re unsure which program is the best fit, schedule a discovery call with Alexis, who will walk you through our offerings and discuss how we can tailor workshops specifically for your organization.
How do you address resistance to DEI initiatives among healthcare staff?
Our approach to DEI consulting includes creating psychologically safe spaces for dialogue, emphasizing data-driven benefits, and engaging leaders as champions to model inclusive behaviors.
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