ABOUT US

To help businesses activate the leadership skills necessary to improve and enhance the diversity of your workforce.  Harkness Consulting Solutions is on a mission to set a new tone for business, and the world, to create a more inclusive reality for generations to come by helping organizations create the type of workplace where people no longer feel pressured to downplay aspects of their identity in order to feel accepted. 

OUR VISION

To  bring innovative ideas and visions to fruition with a solutions-oriented plan.  Our goal is to equip groups with the skills, resources, expertise, and motivation to identify areas of improvement and work collectively to pursue organizational growth.

OUR METHOD

We are here to assess your current business practices, policies, and procedures, engage with your stakeholders, develop an informed plan to provide the guidance necessary for progress.

OUR WHY

When it comes to choosing the right business consultant, we know there are plenty of options available. What makes Harkness Consulting Solutions stand out, is our reason why we do what we do. We identify as Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) who have lived and/or witnessed experiences of unlawful harassment, workplace discrimination, police misconduct, institutional and structural racism and have broken glass ceilings advocating against injustice in our respective industries. We have turned pain and trauma into educational workshops, thorough audits, and informative fact-based, engaging programming. 

OUR PRIORITIES

 Outsourcing assistance for personnel matters, best hiring, recruitment and retention practices,  incorporating diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, developing special projects and performing research and strategic planning services in-house can be time consuming and outside the wheelhouse of your team. 

Harkness Consulting Solutions is your one-stop-shop for your solutions-oriented needs. We are here to lighten the load and provide guidance, solid expertise and solutions to your project(s), agency, firm or organizational needs.

Whether Harkness Consulting Solutions is developing trainings on cultural humility, developing diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, creating a business marketing plan, developing an innovative, grant administered project, launching a best hiring practices presentation, facilitating community workshops or providing an organizational assessments, everything is customized to provide a resolution for each client’s unique challenges tailored by industry and informed by each client and their stakeholders.

We have experience working with executive management, Human Resources leaders, DEI Committees, Board of Directors, Employee Resource Groups, Collaborative Community Groups and teams on change management efforts. We understand how important it is to empower leaders to drive positive organizational change by providing thorough assessments and expert recommendations to move goals forward.