Maintaining an engaged workforce that will benefit organizations happens only by making everyone feel valued, respected, and belonging. It all starts with several decisions that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is about asset building, not the flavor of the month or a nice thing to do but a strategic business decision.
To take these decisions, that will benefit the organizations, their executive leadership has turned largely to Consultancy services. A Consultancy helps them not only take the right decisions at the right time but also assist them in executing them.
Helping organizations reach their goals, applying organizational audits and Diversity management policies is “Sahar Andrade, MB.BCh”. Her Consulting services has been helping organizations champion equitable work environments.
About Sahar Andrade-
Sahar Andrade, MB.BCh is a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion consultant and trainer. She assists many organizations in various business sectors to attain equitable work environments where everyone has a voice, is heard, and is included, so they can contribute their best to the workplace achieving higher productivity and higher revenues for their organization
She is also a Life and Personal Leadership coach that helps professionals that feel stagnating in their lives to achieve their dreams by overcoming their doubts and fears and finding their passion and purpose either in their careers or in their entrepreneurial journey.
Her unique methods helped her achieve many milestones in her pathway paving successful stature for her company
She believes in equity and equality as well as acceptance for everyone no matter who they are as they are, she believes in social justice that can start only through difficult conversations that are done through respectful dialogues to start building bridges between people no matter how different they are
What makes her stand out is marrying her education specially “neuroscience and psychiatry” with her life unique experiences being a third-culture child and an expat most of her life living in seven different countries and speaking five languages (English, French, Arabic, Spanish, and Hebrew)
She believes the only way to solve deep issues like Unconscious Bias, Stereotypes, and discrimination is to look for the roots of the problem on how brain works and increase self-awareness into the people, so they realize why they do what they do, to start to change. She believes that “you cannot change what you do not acknowledge”.
Most of her work is based on self-awareness rooted in Emotional Intelligence one of the main leadership principles.
She uses her voice for those who do not have one she is an avid advocate for women and was nominated a woman advocate in 2018.
Most Memorable Moments of Her Life-
Her most memorable and cherished milestone and moment in her life is the 21st wedding anniversary reached on March 21st of 2021
On a professional level the most memorable moments where when she was named a national authority on diversity and inclusion in the workplace by the LA Business Journal in 2018
The next memorable moment was when her business entrepreneurial coaching programs received congressional recognition in 2018
The next one being voted one of the 20 Most Successful Businesswoman in 2020 to Watch For.
The final one being nominated for the 2021 diversity and inclusion awards for businesses recognizing the work myself and my company undertake at the different organizations and workplaces.
The Company and the Road Ahead-
She sees her company already extending nationally but also internationally to share the message of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and acceptance all over the globe where we can start building bridges and where we can start conversations with no judgment in a safe environment
Sahar has different motivations to help do what she does in the two lanes of business that she has.
For “Sahar Consulting, LLC” her motivation is the impact that she can have on people changing their way of thinking about others that are different making them stop and rethink how they can treat other people that are different, bringing it to their consciousness to become self-aware; helping them rewire their brain bringing better interpersonal relationships in the workplace and in their personal life
For her coaching business “Reinvent Yourself to Greatness” her motivation is helping professionals that feel derailed from achieving their goals, finding their gift, their inner calling that achieves satisfaction and happiness in their life, helping them finding their “AHA” moment to turn around their life making it more fulfilling – that is what she does every single day and that is what gets her out of bed in a happy and grateful moment every single morning.
“Everything happens for a good reason even if we do not see it as this at the time. Believe in yourself root yourself in your authenticity, be vulnerable and resilient but never waver from the truth.”
Her Advice to the Newbies-
“The advice that I give younger women is to be a servant and inclusive leader being genuine and truthful to themselves and to others; to stand in their own truth to lead despite of their fear, to stand up for what is right and what just and not what is popular no matter how difficult it is
It is OK to be vulnerable. Your vulnerability is part of your self-confidence.”
