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Speaking
I can deliver keynotes, moderate panels, and facilitate workshops or retreats. See below for the topics I focus on.
Grief and Mortality
Navigating a Death-Phobic Workplace & World
Find Your Grief Home, with griefsense
Fear to Freedom: Changing the Narrative on Death
Well-Being & Mental Health
Beats, Breath, & Balance Workshop for Teams
When the Setback becomes the Comeback
Gen Z Inclusion
Keeping Up with Gen Z: Revamping Your Organizational Retention Playbook
Bridging Communication for Intergenerational Teams
Personal Branding & Career
Personal Branding for Students/ Early Career Talent
Do you have a brand or do you have a purpose?
Expert Resume, Cover Letter, Interview Prep Tips
Intersectionality & Anti-Oppression
The Roots of Intersectionality: Intersectionality & Community Care Immersive Experience
Language Matters Workshop: The Importance of Anti-Oppressive and Inclusive Copy
Content Creation
So you want to start a podcast..
How to Leverage LinkedIn for your career, business, or creator journey
Social Media / Brand Collaborations
I am available for collaboration with brands in creating engaging content or leading marketing initiatives.
Sponsor My Podcast, griefsense
Engage & Impact: Connect your brand with a thoughtful audience (many of which are Gen Z 😉) deeply invested in dialogues about life and resilience, while aligning with a podcast that's reshaping vital conversations on death, grief, and mental health through the lens of pop culture.
Customized Sponsorship: Showcase your brand's commitment to social issues alongside meaningful, impactful content. Whether it's through live-read ads, sponsored episodes, or social media promotions, we work with you to create impactful, integrated marketing that aligns with our shared values and messages.
LinkedIn Content
LinkedIn Post: A key aspect of my social media collaborations involves crafting concise, engaging sponsored posts for LinkedIn. These posts are designed to align with an organization's campaign goals, offering insights or highlights in a professional yet relatable tone to my audience of 10k+ followers. Once posted, I actively engage with the audience for a day, responding to comments and fostering meaningful dialogue around the content.
Newsletter Spotlight: Feature your brand in my newsletter, reaching 2,500 engaged subscribers. Tailored to an audience interested in social justice and personal growth, each edition includes a focused highlight on your initiatives, tracking and reporting audience engagement post-release.
Tailored Campaigns:
Customized Engagement: Collaborate with me for tailored campaigns that include article contributions, engaging video and photo shoots, and dynamic carousel or infographic content.
Brand Ambassador Partnerships: Through this retainer service, I offer long-term partnership with brands whose values mirror my commitment to social justice, Gen Z inclusion, and community building. This collaboration extends across various platforms for authentic, dynamic representation.
Examples include:
Monthly Social Media Engagement: Showcasing your brand in regular social media posts.
Event Representation: Amplifying your brand at relevant events and conferences.
Collaborative Content: Creating engaging, brand-integrated blog posts, videos, or podcasts
Consulting
Delivering comprehensive consulting solutions in four strategic areas.
Inclusive Language Audits
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Short-term engagements or retainer engagement
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This service provides a comprehensive review of existing communications for identity and cultural inclusivity. I audit a wide array of content — from website text and social media posts to internal communications and marketing materials — ensuring they uphold principles of responsible storytelling and cultural awareness. This feedback aims to support organizations in maintaining a respectful and inclusive tone in all forms of communication. Available on a retainer basis, this service offers continued assurance of content alignment with inclusive best practices.
Integrated Loss Experience Consulting (a modernized approach to Bereavement)
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Depends on organizational need.
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Rethinking Bereavement Policies: Support for organizations to modernize and humanize their bereavement policies, ensuring they reflect the needs of today's workforce.
Customized Grief Retreats: Designing tailored retreat packages for groups of employees or students who have experienced loss, focusing on healing, support, and community building. Retreats vary in duration and content, catering to specific group needs and preferences.
Key Benefits:
Flexible EAP and University Program Integration: Services can be integrated into existing Employee Assistance Programs and university wellness initiatives, enhancing the existing support framework.
Focus on Early Career Development: Special attention is given to the unique challenges faced by early career talent and students in navigating grief and loss, supporting their development and well-being.
Strategy Sessions & Team Retreat Facilitation
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One time engagements and dependent on organizational need
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Expert Design Thinking Facilitation: As a trained facilitator, I bring extensive experience in leading diverse teams through city-wide and enterprise-wide brainstorming and strategy sessions. My approach blends design thinking with organizational development, guiding stakeholders at all levels through creative, collaborative problem-solving processes. This ensures that ideas are not only innovative but also actionable and sustainable, driving impactful and long-lasting solutions.
Proven Track Record of Success: My facilitation has led to diverse and impactful initiatives, such as a multi-stakeholder HBCU college student case competition, a comprehensive post-mortem and strategy planning for a nonprofit event, the development of a DE&I strategy for a Fortune 500 company, and a cross-collaborative youth engagement racial equity program for Black and Latine students in various educational stages.
Gen Z Engagement & Strategy
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Depends on organizational need, but these are usually longer term engagements up to 3 months to a year.
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Gen Z-Inclusive Event Consulting: I advise on planning and implementing events that actively include the Gen Z perspective. This encompasses mentorship programs, events during cultural heritage months, career fairs, conferences, pitch competitions, and service projects with community nonprofits...etc. My expertise ensures these events are not only inclusive but also deeply resonate with Gen Z values and interests.
Building Gen Z Advisory Councils: Assisting in the creation of Gen Z Advisory Councils, providing organizations with direct insights into Gen Z trends and preferences, essential for staying relevant and progressive in today's market.
Gen Z-Focused Retention Strategy: Utilizing my unique C4 framework, I work with organizations to refresh their retention approaches, making them more attractive and effective for Gen Z employees. This method focuses on both attracting and keeping the vibrant, innovative spirit of Gen Z in the workplace.
Coaching
Join the Visionary Lounge Today!
I offer a hybrid approach to life and career coaching by focusing on impactful transitions in life whether that’s starting a business, navigating personal loss, career moves, and more.
“Working with Mimi Gonzalez in the Visionary Lounge Intensive package has transformed my career trajectory. Since commencing on September 29,2023, I've gained profound clarity on how I need to move forward with my career. Mimi's unique blend of using times lines, setting goals, affirmations, and creating accountability has been pivotal in my development. Mimi and I connected and I felt confident in her guidance and taking me to the next level. I wholeheartedly recommend Mimi Gonzalez to individuals seeking to elevate both their personal and professional life. Thank you, Mimi, for your profound impact on my journey.”
- C. Maxwell
Testimonials
“Mimi, thank you so much for speaking with my team here at Hub Recruiting for our December 2023 end-of-the-year speaker session. My team loved it! In the world of recruiting, which is quite stressful, it is so great that we took time to breathe and took time out to remind ourselves about affirmations and how music can provide such inspiration in our lives. Words like unique, excellent, inspiring, and much needed were just some of the words we received as feedback. Thank you again for taking the time; I believe it was invaluable and will start our holidays and New Year off in a great way. I would recommend this workshop to any leader looking to give their team some balance in the crazy world of work and give them a moment to recenter.” (referencing the Beats, Breath, & Balance workshop. )
— D. Goldey, Hub Recruiting
Mimi was one of the keynote speakers at the RISE conference that was created by the Harvest Development Group for the nonprofit community. Mimi gave an inspirational TED style talk that celebrated her personal journey that lead to founding a nonprofit and highlighted the individuals and experiences that empowered her along the way. Her talk was one of the highlights of the conference and the audience rated her talk among the highest of the over 20 presentations of the day. I highly recommend Mimi as a speaker and know she will engage and motivate her audience.
—S. Selig, Harvest Development Group
“I had the privilege of working with Mimi on several community based initiatives over that last several years. She is a leader, bringing groups together for meaningful discussions, while driving action based goals. Mimi has many strengths. She is a creator, planner, story-teller and facilitator of healthy discussion. Her ability to execute programs while also helping the group identify, learn and solve problems is exceptional. She is driven and motivated to be an agent of change. Her strong attention to detail, timely follow up and problem solving skills have made collaborating with her a seamless process. Mimi shows up with a positive attitude and outlook. Mimi has a passion, drive and optimism that inspires. She is a valuable asset and someone I would highly recommend.”
—J. Dolan, Boys & Girls Clubs of Hartford
I worked with Mimi for just over 3 years in her capacity as Chief of Staff to the Chief Diversity Officer of Stanley Black & Decker as well as her position as a Human Resource Partner within the organization within that timeframe. Among other strategic initiatives, Mimi and I worked hand in hand with a small team to build a groundbreaking program inside of that timeframe that served almost 40 young people within the Hartford, CT area - supporting them in both their academic pursuits and career exploration. Mimi was not only a visionary in bringing that program to life, but personally curated a comprehensive 12-month program working within an ecosystem of academic institutions, entrepreneurs, internal subject matter experts and community organizations. In addition to that, Mimi directly managed a number of philanthropic partnerships almost entirely independently as they navigated the inaugural experience. The program was a tremendous success.
Mimi is one of the most committed and passionate professionals in the area of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. Beyond the bounds of the work she did within the organization, Mimi could just as frequently be found out in the community bringing awareness to matters of equity, mobilizing individuals to have a voice on social matters and demanding change where there had been injustice.
Not only is Mimi extremely capable and respected, but her diligence is unmatched and her ability to bring empathy, joy and inclusion into any space is palpable. I am confident that she will be an immediate and invaluable addition to any team or organization.
—A. Lawrence, Stanley Black & Decker
I love working with HR leaders with an I/O psychology background, and Mimi is the perfect example of why these leaders are so valuable. She is a dynamic, engaging organizational problem-solver. We collaborated on an employee retention strategy, and I was impressed with her ability to weave DEI perspectives into it while also contributing to the broader program goals. She is a fantastic leader, and I would happily work with her again in the future.
— L. Price, Stanley Black & Decker
