Coaching

Learning how to lead is challenging in today’s rapid-change environment, especially as one gets closer to the top of an organization.Top of the list for leadership challenges: having the right mix of talent with varied lived and learned experiences to innovate and tap new markets. An award-winning and tenured DEI expert, Malia Lazu offers unique and supportive coaching that enables leaders to navigate DEI with confidence. Drawing on her own background, including as a senior executive in the financial services industry, Malia also offers support and insight to help executives of color and from underrepresented backgrounds to thrive.

Speaking

Malia Lazu’s background in DEI and business is unique any other. Her roots are in community organizing, ensuring that the voices of people closest to the problem are the ones that are heard. Today, she is an award-winning speaker and lecturer at MIT and, as an expert in DEI, works with leading organizations on their most urgent talent and culture needs. A compelling storyteller who has been on the front lines of struggle and change, Malia is a truth teller–even when it’s hard. Today, she speaks and educates organizations on the need for DEI that goes beyond lip service–and helps build a meaningful and inclusive community.

Consulting

The Urban Labs: Working with companies to develop bespoke solutions to DEI efforts. Innovating solutions and building DEI that has a lasting impact and measurable value can be a big ask, as organizations strive to “future-proof” themselves with the right mix of talent–while facing internal and external pressures, both economic and political. As consultants and trusted advisors, Malia Lazu and her team build and support DEI initiatives that foster an inclusive community for employees and create a workplace that values all employees and stakeholders.

Digital Toolkit

Times are changing–and so are the tools organizations need to navigate, understand, and communicate. This is especially important to reach, embrace, and align a diverse workforce with a rich variety of learned and lived experiences. The Lazu Group offers a Digital Toolkit that can help:

• CULTURL Calendar that offers education, insights, and communication tips on holidays, cultural heritage months, celebrations, and commemorations across multiple cultures–encouraging curiosity and respect.

• Video series provides a fast, but impactful immersion into some of the most pressing issues facing organizations today–including the need to move from “Bias to Belonging” to what it means to “Future-Proof” for tomorrow’s challenges and opportunities.