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EMPOWERING OUR DIFFERENCES
A Learning Designs LLC Program
Transforming organizations through evidence-based diversity, equity, and inclusion training and consulting.
What Is Empowering Our Differences?
Empowering Our Differences (EOD) is Learning Designs LLC's flagship organizational training and consulting program, designed to help enterprises build genuinely inclusive workplaces through rigorous, evidence-based education and strategic advisory services.
Founded by Amy J. Hauenstein, PhD, EOD has been delivered to Fortune 500 companies, major healthcare systems, and large-scale enterprises seeking sustainable cultural transformation. The program is grounded in critical race theory, inclusive leadership theory, and narrative identity theory, translated into practical strategies that leaders and employees can apply immediately.
Consulting & Advisory
Learning Designs LLC provides expert consulting services to enterprises and organizational leaders through the Empowering Our Differences framework, including:
• Business consulting for enterprises seeking to build equitable organizational cultures
• Education leadership development consulting for institutions and executives
• Business management consulting and organizational strategy advisement
• Consulting services for higher education administration on DEI integration
Our consulting engagements begin with a thorough organizational assessment and result in a customized, actionable strategy built around your specific goals, culture, and workforce.
Training & Education
The Empowering Our Differences training program is a comprehensive, customizable enterprise training system that has been implemented organization-wide at major corporations and institutions. Our training offerings include:
Enterprise-Wide Training — Full organizational rollout of the EOD curriculum, customized to your industry and workforce.
Train the Trainer (T3) Certification — A rigorous facilitation training program that certifies your internal staff to deliver EOD training to employee-colleagues, including a formal certificate upon completion.
Executive Leadership Training — Intensive sessions for senior leadership teams focused on inclusive leadership strategy and organizational accountability.
Continuing Professional Education — Live and online continuing education seminars in organizational development for professionals in business, legal, medical, accounting, and real estate fields.
Executive Coaching — Leadership development coaching for individuals and teams.
All programs are developed through a partnership process tailored to your organization's specific needs, goals, and culture.
How We Work
Our methods recognize the balance between the urgency of our times and the careful pace that personal and cultural change requires, while centering those who are unsafe rather than those who are merely uncomfortable.
Every Empowering Our Differences engagement is custom built and meticulously tailored to your organization. We combine knowledge building, skill development, live-action simulation, personal and institutional case studies, and strategic planning into a cohesive learning experience grounded in empirical research and designed for immediate practice.
Recognized Results
The Empowering Our Differences program has been recognized by leading industry organizations for its impact on enterprise-wide cultural transformation. Client organizations delivering EOD training have been recognized by Training magazine and the Association for Talent Development for outstanding achievement in workplace learning and development.
Bring Empowering Our Differences to Your Organization
We work with enterprises, healthcare systems, higher education institutions, and nonprofit organizations. To inquire about consulting, training, or speaking engagements:
Amy J. Hauenstein, PhD
Founder & Principal Consultant, Learning Designs LLC
amy@learningdesignsllc.com
learningdesignsllc.com