Award Winning Trainings for DEI & Team Building

My award-winning systems specialize in facilitating teams to co-design measurable outcomes for products, programs, and organizational cultures through design thinking, futurist visioning, collaboration, and experiential learning.

My diversity, equity, and inclusion work is known for being welcoming, vulnerageous, interactive, fun, and enlightening. Check out testimonials from alumni in the footer below.

DEI Specializations:

  • Curriculum Development

  • Organizational Change Management

  • Systems & Strategy Design

  • Leadership & Development

  • Team Building

  • User Experience

  • Customer Experience

  • Product Inclusion

  • Neuroarchitecture

  • Accessible Gamification

my work is rooted in a Four Step Process for dei futurist thinking:

2. Apply

Connect foundational knowledge to impact and gaps on current context, needs, and desires

1. Learn

Understand the historical context of the problem to solve

4. Act

Implement co-designed strategies and accountability

3. Design

Un-design & reimagine solutions aligned with futurist trends

I previously founded a product called, Unpacking, an online learning platform for gamified diversity, equity, & inclusion training. We served individuals, small businesses and Fortune 500 corporate workplaces with gamified user experiences across onboarding, collaborative learning modules, chatbots, digital white boards, interactive videos, and live sessions. We received VC funding from Techstars, Higher Ground Labs, SXSW Innovation Fund, Beyonce, NAACP, & SoGal. I founded Unpacking in 2020 and sunset the product in 2023. I currently consult using the same principles.

Scott Kinney (NovoEd), Hendrik Schriefer (Sharpist), Balraj Kalsi (Cengage), Tess Manning (Ethena), Kristina Williams (Unpacking), and Naomi Weber (Bain and Company) discuss Leveraging Technology to Improve Workplace Culture at the 2022 ASU+GSV Summit.

Cognitive bias in recruiting, harassment, unfair promotion structures, burnout - these are just a few of the challenges within workplace cultures. With Covid and the Great Resignation putting a greater emphasis on employee satisfaction and wellness, there has been significantly more investment in technologies that improve workplace culture. Join this panel of innovators and thought leaders discussing the power of workforce technology in transforming workplace culture.

Jasmine Roberts, Kristina Ashley Williams, Charity Everett, Siciliana Trevino, & A.M. Darke, discuss Afrofuturism and an imagined future that values Black lives and social justice through the creative power of Black culture, music, film, literature and science fiction at AWE USA 2019 - the World's #1 XR Conference.

Pre-service teachers student teachers reflect on personal experiences with inequities in the school systems - taught by Instructor Kristina Ashley Williams.

Black Lives, Gray Matter is a traveling symposium featuring the mothers of Tamir Rice, Oscar Grant, Eric Garner and more to share personal stories of police brutality and the need for justice reform created by Kristina Ashley Williams.

Elise Smith (Praxis Labs), Odessa Jenkins (Emtrain), Kristina Williams (Unpacking), Tiffany Taylor (GSV Ventures), and Neil Frye (Alto Pharmacy) on Doing the Work at Work: DEI In Action at the 2021 ASU+GSV Summit.

June 2020 saw companies take stands against racial and gender injustice in society and in the workplace, a watershed moment for corporate culture and responsibility. Now, over a year later, what progress has been made? Hear from start-ups focused on DEI education and from diversity and learning executives focused on driving real change. What is the difficult work that needs to be done beyond verbal commitment? Engage in assessing the steps taken and envision the path ahead.

Kristina Ashley Williams, Myra LalDin, Jenny Dorsey, Elise Smith, discussing using AR/VR/XR to create empathetic experiences. Moderated by Gordon Fuller at Tech Inclusion, San Francisco 2019.

Kristina Ashley Williams trains K-12 teachers on culturally competent teaching practices to build culturally sustaining learning environments at T4SJ - Teacher for Social Justice conference.

Students present their YPAR Youth Participatory Action Research Project on Food Deserts to the Menlo Park City Council, led by Teen Director Kristina Ashley Williams. The team was awarded Outstanding Service to Community Awards by Mayor Ray Mueller.

Kristina Ashley Williams, Esosa Ighodaro, Regina Gwynn, and Monica Wheaton discuss realities of Black womxn in tech moderate by Krystal Garner at the NAACP Her Idea Conference, Detroit 2019.

Kristina Ashley Williams debriefs M.I.A. documentary discussing racial discrimination at the Roxy Theater in San Francisco 2018.