Our team employs multidisciplinary approach to build inclusive work environment
FOUNDER
Dr. Hamdi Mohamed is the Principal at Kaafi Consulting. She brings intellectual wisdom and a wide range of leadership experiences in public and private sectors to her work on organizational change and development, leadership coaching, and research.
Dr. Mohamed has decades of experience as a trailblazer in designing innovative antiracism, equity, and inclusion solutions, leveraging her wealth of experiences and knowledge to provide strategic guidance to organizations and help them meet organizational and leadership challenges. Her professional life has been dedicated to designing methodologies for transformative conversations, creating organizational and community spaces that respect and learn from differences, and imagining new ways of being and working to maximize potential.
Before launching Kaafi Consulting, Dr. Mohamed served in leadership, teaching, and consultancy positions within the social and private sectors, higher education institutions, international organizations, and government. Her work is driven by the KAAFI notion that people have been created with unique gifts and the passionate belief that it takes intentionality and strategic investments to harness these contributions for organizational and social transformations. Key contributions in her over 20+ career include driving organizational change processes through effective execution strategies, shifting organizational cultures to create more inclusive and respectful workplaces, developing transformative approaches that inspire employee creativity and engagement, designing and delivering institutional reform initiatives, and leading large-scale applied research and evaluation projects.
Dr. Mohamed has received several leadership awards recognizing her community service and professional achievements. Some of the awards include being named a Community Builder by the Black History Ottawa and being recognized as one of the Top 10 People to Watch in Ottawa in 2010. She holds a Ph.D. in Women’s History specializing in Gender and State in Africa and the Middle East, an MA in International Diplomacy, and a Bachelor of Arts in African History and English Literature from the Somali National University.
OUR TEAM
We strongly believe that embedding inclusive principles into organizational systems and processes is a critically important factor in organizational success in our world today. Our consultants have decades of experience in delivering meaningful organizational change
and development outcomes, designing antiracist and equity programs, delivering leadership coaching services, and engaging in community development and research. We are passionate about disrupting biases in the workplace and our communities, finding practical solutions for structural inequities, and building more inclusive organizational
cultures.
Our team’s deep academic knowledge and practical skills in conceptualizing and implementing equity, diversity, and inclusion strategic initiatives provide a deep understanding of how systemic racism affects organizational dynamics and workplace culture. These strengths, intersectional social identities, and lived experiences place our consultants in a unique position to generate new and innovative ways of thinking – expanding the range of possibilities in finding solutions to complex social and organizational challenges and fostering a culture of excellence and innovation.
OUR APPROACH
Creating change within organizations and communities to address the complex challenge of addressing inequities requires a new way of thinking and working. Kaafi consultants are forward-thinking and particularly interested in contributing to the greater good. Our approach is driven by a vision of improving lives and communities through learning, working, and developing mutually transformative relationships. We use research and practical, experiential methodologies to help organizations and communities identify existing structural barriers, eliminate bias and inequities, and create antiracist systems and processes.
Our team employs strength-based organizational development processes to tap into the creative powers that diversity brings and create better outcomes for organizations and communities. We promote antiracist and equity principles to help find solutions to critical organizational and social problems through our work. We firmly believe that our evidence-based methodology, combined with our unique intersectional identities and perspectives, emerging promising practices, and lived experiences, translates into successful change projects and powerful organizational and community outcomes – leading to transformational impacts.
OUR TEAM
We strongly believe that embedding inclusive principles into organizational systems and processes is a critically important factor in organizational success in our world today. Our consultants have decades of experience in delivering meaningful organizational change and development outcomes, designing antiracist and equity programs, delivering leadership coaching services, and engaging in community development and research. We are passionate about disrupting biases in the workplace and our communities, finding practical solutions for structural inequities, and building more inclusive organizational cultures.
Our team’s deep academic knowledge and practical skills in conceptualizing and
implementing equity, diversity, and inclusion strategic initiatives provide a deep understanding of how systemic racism affects organizational dynamics and workplace culture. These strengths, intersectional social identities, and lived experiences place our consultants in a unique position to generate new and innovative ways of thinking – expanding the range of possibilities in finding solutions to complex social and organizational challenges and fostering a culture of excellence and innovation.
OUR APPROACH
Creating change within organizations and communities to address the complex challenge of addressing inequities requires a new way of thinking and working. Kaafi consultants are forward-thinking and particularly interested in contributing to the greater good. Our approach is driven by a vision of improving lives and communities through learning, working, and developing mutually transformative relationships. We use research and practical, experiential methodologies to help organizations and communities identify existing structural barriers, eliminate bias and inequities, and create antiracist systems and processes.
Our team employs strength-based organizational development processes to tap into the creative powers that diversity brings and create better outcomes for organizations and communities. We promote antiracist and equity principles to help find solutions to critical organizational and social problems through our work. We firmly believe that our evidence-based methodology, combined with our unique intersectional identities and perspectives, emerging promising practices, and lived experiences, translates into successful change projects and powerful organizational and community outcomes – leading to transformational impacts.