Be informed.
Be empowered.
Be your own catalyst for change.

Helping you to co-create an Inclusive workplace culture.

Working to create transformational
culture change.

Shakti Training partners with organizations across industries to to help create a culture of inclusion and belonging for today's increasingly diverse and globalized workplaces.

Shakti Training is a boutique consulting firm offering custom designed professional development experiences and solutions that promote inclusion, equity, and intercultural intelligence. Our work is focused on elevating emotional and cultural intelligence, and building the DEI capacities of employees at all levels of an organization to develop catalysts of inclusion and agents of change who are prepared to co-lead transformational culture change. With 20 years of experience, we have a demonstrated track record of creating and facilitating impactful learning experiences and solutions that equip our clients with knowledge and skills that guide them in solving retention challenges and cultivating a culture of inclusion and belonging.  

Shakti Training Services

Workshops

Shakti workshops deliver an engaging, impactful, applicable, and intellectually stimulating learning experience. Shakti workshops are designed to equip employees at all levels of an organization with the knowledge and skills needed to collectively create transformative change within the individual and the organization.

 

Executive Coaching

We work one on one with leaders to foster personal and professional growth and offer strategic DEI coaching for teams designed to unlock potential and achieve new levels of inclusion success.

Keynote Speaking

Shakti speaking engagements captivate and engage a wide range of audiences. Cindu brings twenty years of teaching public speaking in Higher Education combined with vulnerability, authenticity, humor, and courageous story-telling to spark transformation.

Lunch & Learns

Shakti Lunch & Learns offer impactful learning experiences tailored for organizations seeking to enhance DEI awareness among employees. These sessions are designed to last 1.5-2 hours, making them ideal for integration into team-building events, company retreats, or board retreats.

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Finding Your Strength

Through engaging and dynamic lessons, Cindu empowers employees at all levels to become catalysts of inclusion and agents of change who can co-lead transformational culture change. Explore these impactful learning experiences to gain the knowledge and skills needed to solve retention challenges and cultivate a culture of inclusion and belonging.

TESTIMONIALS

Testimonials
Chip Bouchard- CEO- Kinship Company

Cindu dug deep into our organization to tailor a program that felt consistent with who we are, the work we do, and who we want to be. She is a dynamic force that brings infectious passion and real bravery to navigate the hard conversations with an audience of completely new faces. We are better for it.

Rachna Velamati- Chief Diversity Officer- Heitman

Working with Cindu has been fantastic. She creates an environment where everyone feels safe and comfortable sharing. Cindu takes the time to understand your organization and will work with you to customize content that works for your company. I look forward to partnering with her again in the future.

Arshia Sultan- Executive Vice President of DEIB & Culture- CCS Fundraising

Cindu has led several DEI trainings for our organization, and the impact has been consistently impressive. Her focus on facilitation style is both engaging and insightful, with a keen attention to detail that ensures every session is tailored to our specific needs. If you're looking for someone who can deliver meaningful, lasting results, Cindu is the perfect partner.

Marco – Director of Equity & Transformational Change- Madison College

Cindu was an exceptional partner for our college employee professional development week. She made an effort to individualize the content to our college community, provide theoretical frameworks, and actionable strategies for folks to walk away with. Cindu is a true partner!

ABOUT CINDU

INCLUSION AND BELONGING AND STRATEGIST.

INTERCULTURAL INTELLIGENCE EXPERT.

TENURED PROFESSOR.

Cindu Thomas- George is a cultivator of inclusion and a disrupter of injustice. For the last twenty years she has designed and led professional development experiences that promote inclusion, equity, intercultural intelligence, and antiracism. Cindu is also an award winning tenured professor of Communication Studies at the College of Lake County specializing in Intercultural Communication and Public Speaking and is currently partnering with Northwestern University’s Kellogg School for Nonprofit Management, teaching and coaching on the topic of inclusive leadership. Cindu is a recognized public speaker and a member of the Comadres Speakers Collaborative. Her passion and commitment for cultivating inclusion extends beyond her career. Cindu is a co-founder of the Chicago Women’s Leadership Accelerator, a leadership development conference dedicated to increasing representation of women in leadership roles. and the founder of the South Asian Solidarity Movement.

Earn an Inclusive Leadership Certification 

Shakti Training's Inclusive Leadership Academy (ILA) is a workshop series crafted to develop inclusive leaders within organizations. ILA graduates earn a CEU certification, acknowledging their DEI competency and commitment to fostering inclusion and organizational change. Shakti clients across various industries have been able to use The Inclusive Leadership Academy’s CEU”s to maintain required professional memberships, certification or licensing.

Details:
4 Workshops over the course of 7-12 Months
14 Hours of hands-on, interactive training
Earn Continuing Education Units (CEUs) after Completion

"Diversity is being invited to the party. Inclusion is not just being asked to dance, but being asked to help choreograph that dance."

-Cindu Thomas-George