We provide clients with fully customized strategic insight, guidance, and support that is essential to fostering the cultures, futures, and legacies they envision.
About Us
Our global consultancy is focused on strategic Diversity and Inclusion and Intercultural Competency strategy, research, learning and professional development. For more than 25 years, we have led Inclusion and Belonging efforts in hundreds of organizations around the world to deepen content knowledge; enhance organizational inclusion and engagement; attract, hire, and retain the best talent; and design strategies to maximize business and education goals. Leaders call Dr. Gay when they are ready to invest in meaningful and sustainable efforts to foster inclusive and productive organizations.
Meet Dr. Gay
Dr. Derrick Gay is a globally recognized Belonging and Intercultural Strategist, dedicated to fostering cultures of dignity and respect. With multifaceted expertise as an international speaker, author, researcher, educator, and university lecturer, Dr. Gay empowers individuals and organizations to deepen belonging and empathy by cultivating shared language, raising awareness, and fostering inclusive personal behaviors and organizational practices and policies.
Drawing from his extensive international experience, Dr. Gay designs meaningful strategies that resonate across a broad range of industries and cultures. His approach, informed by research and practitioner experiences in over 50 countries, facilitates meaningful connections and promotes belonging on a global scale.
Fluent in five languages, Dr. Gay has supported a broad clientele spanning the globe, including over 800 organizations in education, financial services, beauty and fashion, non-profits, and the arts.
Dr. Gay has supported a broad clientele spanning the globe, including over 800 organizations in education, financial services, beauty and fashion, non-profits, and the arts. Beyond international independent schools his clients range from Yale to Oberlin Conservatory, Phantom of the Opera to Tom Ford, The Guggenheim Museum to Barilla — and Sesame Street. Dr Gay is a proud graduate of Oberlin College, where he studied Romance Languages; Oberlin Conservatory, where he studied Opera; Columbia University, where he studied Educational Leadership, and The University of Pennsylvania, where he earned his doctorate in Education.
A lifelong educator, Dr. Gay has served as adjunct faculty/lecturer at University of Pennsylvania, Columbia Business School, International Fashion Academy, Parsons Paris, and Teachers College at Columbia University. He also currently serves on the board of MERIT Music School, having previously served on the boards of the National Guild for Community Arts Education, Caedmon School, and Greens Farms Academy.
Board Service and Distinctions
Dr. Gay is the 2020 recipient of the Dr. Maria Montessori Ambassador Award.
Dr. Gay has been a senior content and curriculum advisor for the Sesame Street Workshop since 2016.
Dr. Gay has been a Board Member at the Merit School of Music, his alma mater, since 2023.
Past board service includes the National Guild for Community Arts Education, Greens Farms Academy, and Caedmon School.
Our Values
We looking forward to working with your school, business, or non-profit to help you achieve your Diversity and Inclusion goals. Just as your core values are critical to your work, we believe our values are essential to how we will partner together.
Global Empathy
Meeting People Where They Are
Authentic Relationships
Centering Non-Judgment
Data-Driven, Collaborative Design
Growth Oriented
Meet the Team
Hans Mundahl — Chief Operating Officer
Hans has been an educator since 1995 when he first stepped into the classroom as a Fulbright exchange teacher in the former East Germany. Since then, Hans has served in just about every role in an independent school, including teacher, admissions, marketing, head of school, and trustee. Most recently, Hans served as the Senior Director of Professional Development at the Enrollment Management Association. Hans holds a Bachelor of Arts in German from the University of Maine, Orono.
In his free time Hans can be found hiking in the New Hampshire mountains.
Hayley deJong — Executive Assistant
Hayley has been with Dr. Gay since October of 2020 helping to project manage his growing client base and transition his work from 100% online back to onsite. Her previous roles span industries including venture capital, entertainment, media, real estate, and consumer brands. Hayley holds a Bachelors in Interdisciplinary Studies with concentrations in Justice Studies and Communication.
Passionate about animal welfare, she serves on the board of directors for Alone No More Dog Rescue, an Arizona nonprofit dedicated to saving dogs at the highest risk of euthanasia. When she’s not working or saving animals, she enjoys the peace and quiet of the outdoors.
