The Hypatia Group, Inc.
Maximizing Your Diversity Assets
Hypatia helps clients retool, rethink, and restructure to meet the challenges inherent in creating and maintaining successfully diverse and inclusive organizations and communities. We partner with governmental agencies, businesses, non-profits, religious and educational organizations and communities to provide an integrated approach to problem solving.
The Hypatia Group:
Develops culturally proficient leaders serving diverse organizations communities
Provides participants with culturally competent models, organization and personal analysis tools, problem solving and training skills
Develops culturally appropriate training and analysis resources for leaders
Provides follow-up coaching services for participants and the organizations they serve.
Teaches award winning, well-researched culturally authentic dialogue inter-group principles and skills that can go beyond talk to effective and sustained action in the corporation and in the community
Interfaces leaders from various sectors to solve knotty diversity problems.
Produces free and affordable materials, manuals, books, films for non-profits, schools, government agencies
Seeks materials from experts in the field
Serves as a clearing house for the best diversity materials in the field
Rates, reviews and annotates diversity materials and media
Our style is to provide forthright, honest assessment and counseling, and wherever possible transfer knowledge to internal leadership and communications staff.
Whether we directly intervene to help companies promptly and conclusively manage reputationally defining situations, provide guidance and advice, or coach for individual success or organizational leadership, our goal is to build the fundamental management strengths of the organizations we serve.
Our name honors Hypatia of Alexandria [pronounced hy-pay-sha]. "The last scientist who worked in the Library [of Alexandria] was a mathematician, astronomer, physicist and the head of the Neoplatonic school of philosophy--Her name was Hypatia. She was born in Alexandria in 370 BC. At a time when women had few options, and were treated as property, Hypatia moved freely and unselfconsciously through traditional male domains…she was a symbol of learning and science. …she continued to teach and publish, until, in the year 415, on her way to work she was set upon by a fanatical mob [and murdered]…" (Carl Sagan)