Let’s create inclusive, welcoming work environments

centered on belonging

for

Businesses and Organizations

Upgrade any type of Montana organization by exploring our skill-building workshops and consulting services for forward-thinking leadership professionals.

This organization and their wonderful team of trainers have created an environment of cross-cultural understanding and respect within communities, institutions, and government agencies in Montana.
— JASON SMITH, STATE DIRECTOR OF INDIAN AFFAIRS

We offer our clients an opportunity to transform their organization by investing in sharpening their leadership skills.

Our style of comfortable yet practical skill-building workshops and consultative services represent an investment in long-term, positive growth.

Montana’s most experienced leadership consultancy evolved to meet a critical need regarding the human resources (HR) best practices that every company, regardless of size or resources, can take advantage of. Our diverse team’s broad service portfolio includes an SHRM Senior Certified Professional with forty years of experience. Creating a positive work environment enhances employee retention while optimizing productivity and harmony. Addressing issues related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) through customized training and discovery can improve the mitigation of potential personnel conflicts and subsequent liability-related impacts for any Montana business, organization, or learning environment. Our customized tools have proven to adapt to any small or large organization. Let’s discuss how, together, we can make your business the best it can be.

Our Toolbox is Deep: Offering a broad range of tools, we can formulate a custom solution to address your leadership development in critical areas. Let’s sit down and decide where to start. We will analyze your specific situation and demonstrate how our training can speak to every pertinent member of your organization. We can work within your budget. Whether we design an interactive workshop or we recommend consultative services, it’s up to you.

Workshops: Getting Comfortable with Conflict — A universal topic of every work environment, it’s one of our most popular workshops. Gaining a comfort level exploring emotional intelligence and physiological involvement in conflict management can benefit every team member. We can conduct essential training for every field, from law enforcement to customer service. Building an Inclusive Work and Service Environment — Practical skill-building exercises can lead to an environment where all colleagues feel valued and respected. We help do the heavy lifting on sensitive topics that often hinder your success and your team members’ productivity and satisfaction. Deepening Cross-Cultural Communication — Collaborative partnerships can only be formed when mutual respect is reached around perceptions of oppression, often identified only through discussion. Unique and custom-tailored skill-building activities are designed specifically for your business and your situation. Implicit Bias Awareness Skill Building — We offer workshops to help employees and managers examine their implicit biases. We discuss the unconscious and often unintended effect these processes impose upon those around them without shame or blame directed toward workshop participants.

Consult With Us: Racial Equity, Access, Diversity, and Inclusion (READI) Audits and Deep Dive Audit — Providing a data-based assessment from a third party can often provide a crucial lens on your operation to develop system-wide improvements and a baseline for documentation. Our audits encompass an intentional and tailored process to deepen internal, external, individual, and institutional fidelity to Racial Equity, Access, Diversity, and Inclusion as the foundation of your organization or business. Sit down with us to tailor a wealth of supportive consultative services on specific topics you may have wanted to address with your team. Having an outside party facilitate these explorations can meet your custom needs while taking the pressure away from your management and colleagues so that they can focus on their job. Some of the topics we can help with include the following:

Team Building • Leadership Coaching and Development • Strategic Planning Facilitation • Conflict Coaching • Mediation (family, workplace, organization to organization) • Intergroup Conflict Solutions • Coalition Building (and more)

If you are ever faced with the question, What do I do when I need to bring about significant change in the cultural competency of my organization?’ The answer is to call EmpowerMT.
— SONYA GERMANN, CHIEF OF FORESTRY, MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES

No Shame, No Blame: Our approach at EmpowerMT makes us different. Unlike so many of our academic social sciences colleagues, our working approach comes from an effective commitment to positivity in all manners of operation. Without judging or preaching to our client partners or their team members about preconceptions, we can affect realistic progress in a comfortable and open environment. Participants in our training get to enjoy their experience while deepening their understanding of each other’s perspectives, regardless of their background and experience.

Do This: Take on the challenges that face your organization now and into the future with EmpowerMT as your partner. For nearly 25 years, we have developed long-standing, ongoing client relationships on terms that are practical, professional, reasonable, and effective. We look forward to meeting you. Call us today.

Developing leaders across Montana since 1998.