Diversity Center of Seattle
Creating workplaces that truly work.
We help organizations create diverse, equitable and inclusive (DEI) workplaces.
When everyone in the workplace feels empowered to thrive and contribute, good talent stays. New ideas emerge. Business is better equipped to compete in today's multicultural, rapidly changing, global economy.
The Diversity Center of Seattle supports organizations ready to build work environments that foster trust, respect and productivity that support both individual and corporate values. We're not about one-off workshops to demonstrate compliance. We're about real change.
If your organization is ready to build a DEI culture, we're ready to help.
Our mission: To eliminate discrimination & oppression in every institution and organization in the State of Washington.
Diversity is acknowledging our unique authenticity.
Equity is inviting those previously excluded to the tables of decision-making.
Inclusion is being mindful of our humanity and when all are engaged, respected, and valued.
Our Services
We offer a wide variety of services, from an initial assessment to staff organizational development projects to board retreats, targeted and effective consulting and trainings, on and off-site workshops.
Our approach starts, ideally, with a genuine assessment of your workplace culture and/or specific issues you'd like to address.
These may include:
Personnel interviews
Discussions with staff and leadership
Casual gatherings at lunch time
Professionally moderated Focus Groups
Other qualitative research methodologies
We'll meet you wherever you are and then design a proposal to take you to the next level.
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Let’s talk about how we can support you.
About Founder Jean Craciun
Founder Jean Craciun is a nationally recognized moderator/facilitator. She has decades of experience helping groups and individuals get to that next level in team building and group dynamics, emotional intelligence, social justice, and community engagement.
As a founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Craciun Research Group Inc. she consulted on full service market research projects internationally and nationally.
Jean is a sociologist and feminist. She spent 30 years as an activist mentored by renowned Gloria Steinem and Congresswoman Bella Abzug. Jean served as Vice President of The National Women’s Political Caucus in the 90s and noted in November 2018, “we could only dream of the election cycle we just witnessed with women starting to take their rightful place in the politics that impacts our daily lives.”
As Jean's company thrived on a world stage, she honed skills in Social Marketing Campaigns consulting with USAID to train sociologists on how to conduct quantitative and qualitative research. Working with Alaska Native Corporations' global businesses, she saw first-hand matriarchal leadership at its best.
Jean moved to Washington in 2006 and believes her life’s purpose is to help people take decisive action to facilitate greater works by employing DEI to their daily practice. After founding Diversity Center of Seattle in Spring of 2018, she endeavors to assist clients with understanding the people issues in corporate America today. She pushes for a focus on inclusion, pay equity (comparable worth) and, as part of our heritage of white privilege, to assist in the eradication of institutional racial injustice.
Highly ethical in all aspects of her work she lives-into the motto “do no harm” at all levels of interaction working with human participants.
Our Board
