CULTURE CONSULTING

About Culture Consulting

Culture-making is about how we create, nurture, and repair our relationships to one another inside the collective purpose of why folks come together.

Richael’s ten years of culture consulting work has spanned these areas and more. As a culturalist, their approach emphasizes:

1) individual and group self-reflection;
2) exploring complexities toward precise clarity; and
3) practice and the characteristics that allow for regular practice to take place.

Recent culture-related publications:

Restorative Compensation: Moving from Theory to Practice - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly.

“Create Cultures of Care to Transform Philanthropy From the Inside Out,” PEAK Grantmaking.

This work includes a range of cultural dimensions, like:

  • Articulating clear beliefs and values;

  • Adopting and establishing practices that align with articulated beliefs and values;

  • Navigating and/or skilling up around conflict and repair;

  • Creating or reinforcing accountability or feedback norms;

  • Understanding complex histories and un-layering present realities to identify what feels unbalanced within an ecosystem.

Consulting Inquiries

Richael maintains a very full consulting practice, which means they’re only able to take on a very limited number of new commitments. 

Richael is excited about culture work, which:

  • Lives at the edges of building healthier conflict and accountability cultures, including skill-building/practicing together, infrastructure and process development before/outside a crisis, and movement ecosystem conversations that observe harmful patterns and inspire interventions and experiments.

  • Integrates healing justice strategies and practices grounded in knowledge and study of healing justice’s lineages and draws on the particulars of histories and existing practices of a place and communities.

  • Contributes to radical equitable compensation work that critically engages with organizational trauma, class politics, and “windows of transformation.” 

  • Focuses on intentional growth of deep culture over months or years;

  • Involves 1-1 work and/or organization/group work with strong leaders with authority to do culture work.

  • Consists of a sustainable pace, creates room for more advisement and less facilitation, and invites creativity and/or spiritual/philosophical elements to be interwoven in the work.


If you feel your work is aligned or open to Richael sharing your opportunity with like-minded and spirited practitioners, you’re welcome to make an inquiry to rf@richaelfaithful.com or use the contact form below.

CONSULTING PORTFOLIO

Richael is privileged to work alongside a range of movement and adjacent groups. In the spirit of radical transparency, below is list of groups with which Richael has consulted.

Note: This list only includes consulting work; it does not include any community solidarity work, conflict work that cannot be publicly shared, and folk healing projects with groups/organizations.

Updated October 2024

  • 4 Da Soil

  • Accokeek Foundation

  • ACLU of DC

  • Acres of Ancestry/Black Agrarian Fund

  • All Souls Unitarian Church, DC

  • American Dance Therapy Association

  • American Herbal Guild

  • B’more Clubhouse, MD

  • Black and Indigenous-Led Movement Fund with The Wild Gifting Project

  • Black Dirt Farm Collective

  • Black Swan Academy

  • Black Lives Matter, DC

  • Black Youth Project 100

  • Black Youth Project 100, DC

  • Bread for the City

  • Bronx Defenders

  • Chesapeake UU Minsters Association (CUUMA)

  • Chestnut Herbal School

  • Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador

  • Collaborative Action and Dispute Resolution Office

  • Collective Action for Safe Spaces

  • Council on Foundations

  • DC Fiscal Policy Institute

  • DC Greens

  • DeKalb County District Attorney

  • Desis for Progress

  • Dreaming Out Loud

  • Donors of Color Network

  • Duke University

  • East Coast Solidarity Summer

  • Eaton DC

  • EducationCounsel LLC

  • Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (EPIP) - National

  • Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (EPIP) - Boston Chapter

  • Equal Justice Society

  • Everyday Canvassing

  • Faith Matters Network

  • Farm-Based Education Network

  • Farm School NYC

  • FLOX Studios

  • Freedom Community School - DC

  • Freedom Community School - Philadelphia

  • Highlander Research and Education Center

  • If foundation (formerly Consumer Health Foundation)

  • InsightLA

  • Jobs with Justice

  • Justice in Aging

  • La Colectiva, VA

  • Latino Economic Development Center

  • Lawyering Project

  • Leadership Reimagined

  • Meyer Foundation

  • Mid-Atlantic Bioregional Convergence

  • Mothering Justice

  • Movement 4 Black Lives, DC

  • Ms. Foundation for Women

  • National Alliance of State & Territorial AIDS Directors

  • National Wildlife Foundation

  • National Young Farmers Coalition

  • No New Jails Coalition

  • Not in Our House, DC

  • Nuns and Nones

  • Office of Collaborative Action & Dispute Resolution (CADR)

  • Open Society Foundation, DC Office

  • Open Society Foundation, New York Office

  • Organizing Neighborhood Equity (ONE DC)

  • Omidyar Network

  • Partners for Collaborative Change

  • Philanthropy DMV (formerly Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers)

  • Potomac Vegetable Farms

  • Potter’s House, DC

  • Power Shift Network

  • QLaw Foundation

  • Reframe Health and Justice

  • Resourcing Radical Justice

  • School Justice Project

  • Selfcarefully

  • Service 2 Justice

  • SPARC, Baltimore MD

  • Split This Rock

  • STORY VA

  • Stop the Pipeline

  • Sundance Institute

  • Teach for America, San Antonio

  • Thrive Under 25 Coalition

  • Transgender Education Association

  • Transgender Law Center

  • Transformational Acupuncture

  • University of Austin

  • United Philanthropy Forum

  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, International Affairs Program

  • Unitarian Universalist Association

  • Vera Institute

  • Washington Area Women’s Foundation

  • Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers

  • Washington Peace Center

  • Weissberg Foundation

  • Wild Ginger Herbal Center

  • Woolly Mammoth Theater Company