TRAINING, CONSULTING AND COACHING OF WORKPLACE AND CUSTOMER DIVERSITY

Mariza Vazquez & Associates are committed to creating organizational environments that value and welcome all people. Whether through training, consulting, or coaching, our work with organizations foster mutual respect, dignity, and opportunities for growth.

  • Our approach, is not about "shame and blame". It always begins by valuing the diversity that each and every person brings to the table.
  • Through experiential exercises and exploring emotional intelligence, we learn to create bridges of communication with each other, understanding how diversity brings different communication styles which can be misunderstood as confrontational or passive.
  • We realize that we are socialized to think and behave in certain ways, and explore how socialization may have influenced our present stereotypes, biases and discomfort.
  • We understand how we find comfort and trust in likeness. There is a tendency to seek the company of those most similar to us, and react to those most different from us.
  • Diversity awareness provides us the opportunity to examine these belief systems, and consider an alternative means of embracing our new interdependence among employees and with their customers.
  • While the training begins with experiential intra-personal awareness as a necessary starting point, the connection to the real world of employees and consumers is always applied.

    • About Mariza Vazquez:

    Mariza Vazquez is Latina, bilingual, bicultural and has extensive experience advocating the value of multicultural diversity. At Boulder Valley School District she provided design, facilitation and co-facilitation through numerous trainings for adults and high school students on the issues diversity and multicultural education. Her clients have also included Regional and Central Offices of the Federal Government.

    She has presented multiple professional development trainings addressing issues of racial, ethnic, gender, age, sexual orientation, class, religion, poverty and other diversity topics. As a lawyer, she coordinated alternative conflict resolution presentations, advocating the value of mediation and arbitration over litigation. Her background as a lawyer with a Juris Doctor degree has provided added credibility and prestige to her diversity services. The 12 years she practiced law granted her the opportunity to refine the organizational, research, conflict resolution, creative, writing and communication skills needed for an effective Diversity Trainer.

    Although she chose to leave the litigious legal environment for more rewarding diversity work, the experience she has acquired as a lawyer would be very valuable to your organization. She has developed the ability to work with diverse and at times conflicting populations with different interests, and has mastered diplomacy to achieve an equitable outcome.

    ~ PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND TRAININGS ~

  • Train the Trainer, Anti Defamation League
  • Polarity Management Training
  • Train the Trainer, Frameworks of Poverty
  • National Association of Multicultural Educators
  • Latina Women's League Mentorship Program
  • Train the Trainer, National Coalition for Equity in Education (NCEE)
  • Train the Trainer, Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) Diversity Cohort Groups
  • American Management Association Supervisor's Training
  • Transitions for Children Training
  • Multi-Ethnic Action Committee
  • Certified Mediator
  • Florida Lawyer's Bar
  • Massachusetts Lawyer's Bar
    • ~ EDUCATION ~
    BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL
  • Juris Doctor Degree, May 1986

    BOSTON UNIVERSITY
  • BA in Political Science & Sociology, College of Liberal Arts, May 1983
    • ~ LANGUAGE & CULTURE ~
  • Can fluently speak, read and write Spanish. Multiculturally competent in Latino & Hispanic community issues.
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