Consulting

Crossroads Consulting Services offer institutional staff the chance to think through their antiracism organizing and systems change efforts alongside experienced Crossroads facilitators — applying our tools and frameworks to your institution’s specific context and challenges.

Consultation works best as part of a broader, ongoing engagement and is designed for people who are already familiar with Crossroads’ analysis and approach. We offer consultation in three forms:

  • Thought Partnership — ongoing support for leaders and practitioners navigating the complexities of antiracism work

  • Strategic Interventions — targeted guidance to help institutions address specific challenges or critical moments in their transformation work

  • Action Planning — collaborative development of concrete next steps to move your institution’s antiracism efforts forward with clarity and intention

Thought Partnership

Antiracism work can be lonely.  You’re navigating resistance, modeling values that others haven’t yet embraced, holding the vision when momentum stalls — all while trying to move an entire institution toward racial equity and justice. Thought Partnership is designed for exactly that moment. Crossroads offers Thought Partnership to people leading antiracism efforts within institutions. It is a space to think out loud, work through complexity, and be challenged and supported by someone who understands both the landscape and the stakes.

Crossroads Thought Partnership is not coaching in the conventional sense. It’s a sustained, conversation focused on helping you lead with greater clarity, integrity, and effectiveness — modeling antiracist ways of being, navigating the tensions that inevitably arise, and keeping the work moving even when the path forward isn’t clear. Because institutions transform when the people driving change inside them are resourced, supported, and not carrying it alone.

Strategic Interventions

Sometimes institutions hit a wall — a crisis, a conflict, a critical decision, or an unexpected opportunity. Crossroads offers strategic consulting to help you think clearly and act wisely in those moments. Whether you’re navigating a specific challenge, responding to an organizational crisis, or discerning how to move forward on a new opportunity, we bring experienced perspective and practical guidance to help you find a path forward.

    Action Planning

    Action planning is where analysis becomes movement. Working in close partnership with institutional leadership — typically following some form of diagnostic work — Crossroads helps you identify the most effective points of intervention: the specific practices, policies, and cultural norms that uphold inequity and need to change.

    This is distinct from traditional strategic planning. It’s not about setting broad organizational goals — it’s about getting concrete and targeted on what needs to be interrupted and how.