The infrastructure that
makes belonging possible.
For every student. By design.
Professional learning built on
research, not guesswork.
Every offering in this catalog is grounded in doctoral research and designed for the real conditions of schools, campuses, and organizations. Whether you're looking for a single session to spark a conversation or a sustained series to shift your culture — this is where belonging becomes practice.
SIGNATURE SERIES
Multi-session programs for sustained, lasting change.
These series are designed for teams and organizations ready to go beyond a single workshop. Each builds on the last — moving from awareness to understanding to action.
⭐ Flagship Series
Beyond Fitting In: A Belonging Development Series
A foundational multi-session series that moves educators, leaders, and teams from surface-level inclusion toward genuine belonging. Rooted in Critical Consciousness development, this series builds the internal capacity to recognize and dismantle the conditions that make people feel they have to change who they are just to be accepted.
What Is Belonging — And What It Isn't
Distinguishing belonging from fitting in; unpacking how systems inadvertently signal who does and doesn't belong.
Seeing the System: Historical & Current Context
Developing Critical Consciousness around the historical and structural roots of exclusion in education and the workplace.
Hearing Each Other: Lived Experiences & Storytelling
Building empathy and understanding through structured dialogue and the sharing of lived experiences across difference.
Asset-Based Approaches to People & Culture
Shifting from deficit thinking to community cultural wealth — recognizing and building on what people bring, not what they lack.
From Awareness to Action: Building Belonging Intentionally
Translating learning into concrete next steps — humanizing practices, policy review, and belonging-centered design.
Series
The BOND Framework: Transition & Connection for New Members
Based on Dr. Page's BOND New Student Transition Program — now adapted for any onboarding context — this series helps institutions and organizations design transition experiences that build genuine social connection and belonging from day one. Ideal for first-year student programming, new employee onboarding, and cohort-based initiatives.
Higher Education
K-12 Schools
Coporate & Industry
Series
Identity, Agency & Future Readiness
A student-facing series that connects belonging to future orientation. Participants explore their strengths, interests, and values — and build the self-knowledge and confidence to navigate next steps on their own terms. Designed to complement MyCAP and career-connected learning frameworks in grades 6–12.
Middle School
High School
Higher Education
Series
Critical Consciousness for Educator Teams
A facilitated conversation series designed specifically for K–20 educator teams. Participants build shared understanding of systemic educational racism, explore their own positionality, and develop the critical lens needed to recognize how classroom and campus cultures can inadvertently marginalize students. Grounded in Dr. DiPilato's dissertation research.
K-12 Schools
Higher Education
Educator Teams
WORKSHOPS
Single-session offerings to spark conversation and build capacity
Each workshop stands alone as a complete learning experience and can also serve as an entry point into a deeper series. Available for professional development days, leadership retreats, conferences, and team meetings.
Workshops
Belonging vs. Fitting In: Understanding the Difference
An accessible, engaging introduction to the core distinction at the heart of our work. Participants leave with a clear, research-grounded understanding of what belonging actually means — and why the difference matters for outcomes, retention, and culture. A powerful opening session for any team or community.
All Audiences
Leadership Teams
Staff & Faculty
Workshops
Community Cultural Wealth: Seeing What People Bring
Grounded in Yosso's framework, this workshop helps educators and leaders recognize the rich cultural assets students and employees bring to institutions — and learn to build on those assets rather than treating difference as a gap to be filled. A mindset-shifting session with immediate practical applications.
K-12 Schools
Higher Education
Nonprofit & Industry
Workshops
Belonging by Design: Building Inclusive Onboarding & Transition
Whether you're welcoming new students, new employees, or new community members — the first weeks matter most. This workshop guides teams through the research on transition and belonging, and helps them redesign onboarding experiences with social connection and belonging at the center.
K-12 Schools
Higher Education
Corporate & Industry
Workshops
Humanizing Practices in the Classroom & Workplace
What does it look like to treat every person as fully human — with history, complexity, and assets — rather than as a deficit to be managed? This workshop introduces humanizing pedagogies and practices, helping participants identify concrete ways to shift the culture of their classrooms, teams, and institutions.
K-12 Educators
Higher Education Faculty
HR & People Leaders
Workshops
Campus & Classroom Climate: What the Data Tells Us
Using research on BIPOC student experiences at predominantly white institutions, this workshop builds understanding of how climate shapes belonging — and what institutions can do about it. Facilitates honest, evidence-grounded dialogue about the gap between institutional intention and student experience.
Higher Education
Student Affairs
Institutional Leaders
Workshops
Belonging & Career Identity for Students
Designed for students in grades 6–16, this workshop connects the experience of belonging to the process of exploring who you are and what you want your future to look like. Students reflect on their strengths, interests, and values — and build the agency to pursue futures that feel genuinely theirs.
Middle School
High School
College Students
BELONGING ASSESSMENTS
Understand where you are before deciding where to go
Before designing interventions, effective organizations listen. Our belonging assessments are informed by doctoral research and give leaders an honest, evidence-grounded picture of how belonging — or its absence — is being experienced in their institution.
Assessment
Student Belonging Survey & Analysis
A research-aligned survey instrument that measures students' sense of belonging, social connectedness, and perception of campus or classroom climate. Disaggregated data reveals where belonging gaps exist by identity, grade level, or program — giving leaders specific, actionable findings rather than averages that obscure inequity.
Higher Education
K-12 Schools
Districts
Assessment
Organizational Belonging Audit
A comprehensive review of policies, practices, onboarding structures, communication norms, and cultural signals to identify where your organization's systems support belonging — and where they inadvertently undermine it. Delivered as a written findings report with prioritized recommendations for next steps.
Higher Ed
Corporate & Industry
Nonprofits
Assessment
Educator & Staff Belonging Climate Assessment
Belonging isn't only a student issue — educators and staff need to feel it too. This assessment measures how faculty, staff, and administrators experience their institution's climate, culture, and sense of community. Results inform professional development priorities and organizational culture strategy.
K-12 Schools
Higher Education
Corporate & Industry
📋
Not sure where to start? Start with a Belonging Conversation.
Many of our engagements begin with a 60-minute discovery session — a facilitated conversation with your leadership team to surface what's working, what's not, and what your community is telling you. From there, we help you identify the right assessment or professional learning pathway for where you are right now.
KEYNOTES &. CONSULTING
Custom engagements for conferences, leadership teams & strategic planning
Not every need fits a catalog. Dr. DiPilato and Dr. Page are available for keynote presentations, conference sessions, leadership retreats, and ongoing consulting partnerships — tailored to your context, your data, and your goals.
Keynote
The Belonging Imperative
A personal and professional narrative keynote that brings the research to life through lived experience — exploring what it truly means to belong, and what institutions and organizations can do to build cultures where no one has to change who they are just to be accepted. Accessible, moving, and grounded in doctoral research.
Conferences
Leadership Summits
All Audiences
Consulting
Strategic Belonging Partnership
An ongoing consulting relationship for organizations ready to make belonging a strategic priority. We work alongside your leadership team over a sustained period to assess current conditions, design professional learning pathways, develop policy recommendations, and build internal capacity for long-term, self-sustaining belonging culture.
Districts & Systems
Organizations
Colleges & Universities
Keynote
Beyond Fitting In: A Story About Belonging
A personal and professional narrative keynote that brings the research to life through lived experience — exploring what it truly means to belong, and what institutions and organizations can do to build cultures where no one has to change who they are just to be accepted. Accessible, moving, and grounded in doctoral research.
All Audiences
Student Audiences
Opening Sessions
Every engagement starts with a conversation.
Tell us where you are, what you're noticing, and what you're hoping for. We'll help you figure out the right place to start — and build from there.