Beyond DEI:
Decolonizing Strategy

When DEI becomes another strategy maintaining the status quo, what does liberation work look like?

This four-week cohort guides you to lead and make decisions through an decolonized lens - transforming how your organization and movement operates from within.

2026 Workshop Dates

April 30 - May 21
August 6 - 27
Sept 24 - October 15

*Sessions will be held Thursdays of each week from 11:30 am - 1 pm CT

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Learning Objectives

This workshop series helps participants

Unpack how liberal, colonial and capitalist logics maintain systems of domination

Develop strategic thinking rooted in decolonized principles
Build decolonized practices and approaches.

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About This Workshop

A four-week cohort on power, strategy, and transformation

Beyond DEI is a four-week cohort for people who already know that standard DEI frameworks do not explain the political realities they are navigating at work. This cohort is not about improving DEI - it is about understanding why DEI functions as a colonial strategy and what that means for your approach to strategic transformation.

We provide definitions, frameworks for analysis and methodologies that continue pushing us toward building liberatory strategy, plans and visions.

- Power - How colonial power operates in organizational structures and decision making
- Institutional constraints - The colonial-capitalist systems that limit genuine change
- Strategy under contradiction - How to build transformative strategies within oppressive systems
- Material analysis - What equity work actually costs under colonial-capitalist conditions
- Personal values exploration
- Consensus-building as a primary approach
- Healing or processing spaces (though these may emerge organically)
- Entry-level equity education
- Navigating board pressure or donor constraints
- Working inside institutions that demand “equity” without disruption
- Responsible for strategy, evaluation, or learning that is being asked to stay safe
- Tired of language that avoids material questions
- Seeking to move beyond reformist approaches toward transformation
- You already care about justice and are committed to decolonizing strategy
- You are not new to this work and understand its political complexities
- You are willing to examine tradeoffs and consequences
- You understand that liberation requires confronting uncomfortable truths about our complicity
- Four weekly sessions (90 minutes each)
- Live, facilitated with small group discussions
- Case-based discussion and analysis of real-world scenarios
- Focus on building collective analysis and strategic clarity
- Registration remains open until cohorts are full.
- Movement builders
- Program managers
- Consultants
- Intermediaries
- Nonprofit and philanthropic professionals
- Equity and DEI practitioners
- Individuals interested in applying decolonized and anti-colonial frameworks
- Those seeking to align their strategy with values, justice, and systemic change

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Registration remains open until cohorts are full.

“I thought the training did a great job explaining a heady concept in a very practical way, covering historical background, looping in current applications, and walking through some strategies around change. It also was a cool little community to be in for the experience. The content does move decently quickly but you get a lot out of it if you are ready for the pace.”

- Cohort Participant
“HIGHLY recommend this opportunity to learn together. Naaima Khan has prepared a rich set of content and frames for engaging with and moving principles into practice. A genuinely valuable offering!”

- Melissa
“A space for deep conversation and learning together!”

- Antonia
“Learning and practicing anticolonial principles is an essential step toward the future we all want and deserve. But where to begin, right? It can be daunting if you’re unsure of the terrain or worrying about doing it wrong or even where to begin. Naaima is a thoughtful and generous guide to well-sourced research and practice that helps ground and provide multiple pathways into this work. And it’s relevant for wherever you might sit in the sector (in my case as a consultant). The four-part series left me both informed and inspired to continue this learning journey alongside colleagues and clients. I feel like I’ve come away from this workshop with a set of keys that can help me unlock all kinds of ways of thinking and doing differently."

- Melissa
“I am very grateful you are creating this space and opening these channels for conversation, which I don't know where else I would have a space to think about and here about these ideas and ways of framing/considering the conversation around anticolonialism specifically. I think there is so much value here.”

-Amanda
"One of the most valuable aspects of this workshop series was the focus on language and framing- defining terms, understanding how they fit together, becoming more aware of how commonly used words in the non-profit and evaluation sectors can perpetuate colonial ideals, and exploring alternatives to build a future that centers solidarity."

- Melanie

How it works

This workshop is structured as four modules over a five-week period, allowing space for learning, reflection, and application between sessions.

Module 1: Heartset

Unmasking Underlying Assumptions
Module 2: Mindset

Deconstructing Colonial Logic
Module 3: Skillset

Learning Decolonized Methodologies
Module 4: Reset

Building Decolonized Futures

This workshop is designed for movement builders, program managers, consultants, intermediaries, nonprofit and philanthropic professionals, equity and DEI practitioners, and anyone interested in applying decolonized, anti-colonial frameworks to better align strategy with values, justice, and systemic change.

Pricing & How to Join

We recognize that colonial-capitalist systems create economic barriers that prevent many from accessing transformative work. In solidarity with movements for economic justice, we offer a solidarity pricing model that centers accessibility while valuing the labor that makes this work possible.

This four-week cohort represents a significant investment in decolonial transformation. We invite you to choose from three solidarity tiers that reflect your current economic capacity while honoring the collective effort required for this work.

This model affirms that:

Economic access should not be determined by individual wealth under colonial systems
The cost of transformation must be distributed equitably among those who benefit
We must move beyond "accessibility" language to build economic justice

If none of these tiers work for your circumstances, please reach out—we are committed to finding solutions that honor economic justice principles.

Refund and Satisfaction Policy