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Equipping Leaders & Advocates with Culturally responsive leadership and strategy while working in gender-based violence spaces.

Three Steps to Culturally Responsive Systems Change

Step 1: Identify Cultural Gaps in Practice

​We examine how culture, identity, and institutional norms are shaping your organization’s response to gender-based violence. This step surfaces blind spots that often go unaddressed in traditional training models.

Step 2: Reframe Leadership & Response Strategy

We shift how leaders think about responsibility, survivor engagement, and systems accountability. This is where we dismantle outdated approaches and rebuild more culturally responsive frameworks.

Step 3: Implement Sustainable Cultural Change 

We translate insight into actionable leadership and organizational practices that can be sustained over time. The focus is on long-term transformation, not one-time compliance fixes.

Ways We Can Work Together

Strategy Sessions

One-time or short-term intensive sessions focused on diagnosing specific organizational challenges in gender-based violence work.

 

We identify gaps in culturally responsive practice, analyze current response systems, and develop clear, actionable recommendations tailored to your organization’s context.

 

You leave with direction, priorities, and next steps you can immediately implement.

Coaching & Leadership Development

Ongoing or structured coaching support for leaders responsible for shaping organizational culture, policy, and response systems.

 

This service focuses on strengthening leadership capacity, improving decision-making through a culturally responsive lens, and building confidence in navigating complex cases and systems.

 

It is designed to support both individual leaders and leadership teams.

Premium Speaking Engagements

Keynotes and presentations for conferences, agencies, universities, and organizations focused on gender-based violence, cultural responsiveness, and systems change.

 

These sessions challenge dominant frameworks, highlight disparities in survivor outcomes, and offer a clear call to action for building more culturally responsive response systems.

 

Content can be tailored to audience needs.

©2025-2026 by Leah M. Forney is a passionate advocate, dedicated consultant, and influential speaker specializing in sexual health and assault prevention education within marginalized communities. All rights reserved.

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